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| - Often times, when you walk into a restaurant at this price range, you are partially paying for the privilege of "feeling like a boss". Many places like this justify the mediocreness of their food with the fancy furniture and light fixtures, and the fancy feeling you get when you hold a thick bottom glassware.
This place is the best restaurant I have been, in terms of food and service and cleanness, and in terms of drinks and in terms of price.
I started with a drink named "Crashed Basil". It was very nicely done. The drink has a well balanced floral flavor, with the crashed basil and added the prefect amount of freshness. It was like a fresh floral summer breeze that gently relaxes you with the liquor, which you can't taste, but you know that they didn't cheap you out on it.
Then I had hush puppies. What is special about this item is the sauce they have along with it. Of course, having the hush puppies fried the right amount of crispness is expected of such a place. But the sauce is a bacon&blue cheese rouille sauce, instead of you generic honey mustard.
I had a pork shoulder for entree. The meat was juicy, perfectly sauced with a hint of lemon if I recall. What it makes it amazing is when you eat it with the side - a perfectly sautéed vegetable dish with slight hint of spiciness and the right amount of crunchiness.
This place is inside of a building which is a bit hard to locate. However, if you do go, you would truly understand the term "hidden gem".
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