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| - We went last night for restaurant week, and I found this place to be just above average.
THE LOCATION AND DECOR (ONE STAR): From the pictures I'd seen online, I was expecting more of a sports bar. The decor is attempting a more rustic interior, but everything looks too manufactured to be authentic. The layout is nice, but there is this odd extra room in the back, I assume to expand the amount of seating, but we were sitting near the entrance to it and it was out of place. I think the room is there and everything seems so fake because the location is TERRIBLE. It's in the back of the first floor of one of those "luxury" apartment buildings where everything is immaculate but it makes you feel really unsettled. One member of our party also stepped in the poop of one of the spoiled, sorority-sweatshirt-wearing resident's fake dogs on the way out. So that was awesome...
THE FOOD (FOUR STARS): So, I'm from out of town and not familiar with the food trucks other reviewers mentioned. What struck me as soon as we walked in was all the advertisements for all the other restaurants in the chain. There were multiple advertisements for their "passport" and all the other restaurants you should go to. Tacky. I wanted to eat the food here, not wonder if the chef/owner/whatever sold out (now I'm rethinking the decor...). Anyway. The food was really good. It was four stars, maybe five, but the rest of the elements of the restaurant bring it down. My boyfriend ordered off the menu, the rest of us had restaurant week meals. The restaurant week meals were fantastic. My boyfriend was disappointed by his short ribs. The tater tots and sauce were great. The cornbread was really cakey. Like, really cakey. I wouldn't be surprised if the cornbread was actually made with a box of yellow cake mix and a box of that cornbread Jiffy mix. The drinks were great, I love the consideration of using a giant ice cube so it doesn't water down the drink.
THE SERVICE (TWO STARS): There was a ten-minute wait despite a reservation. The hostess seemed a little confused overall. A couple of us went to the bar after a couple minutes to order a drink and the bartenders (yes, more than one) practically ignored us. We waited for almost five minutes and didn't order a drink. At that point the hostess walked over and stared at us until we got up and followed her to our table. The whole thing was awkward. The bar wasn't busy, so I was pretty unimpressed before we even sat down to eat. Our waiter was really good. He was there when needed, but didn't interrupt the flow of the meal. There were a couple off moments where the service kind of fell apart, like, our table didn't have pepper, and he didn't offer us pepper for our salads (does the chef have something against pepper?). He wasn't on the ball with refills, etc. Nothing major.
OVERALL: I would love to eat that food again, but I'm not really interested in spending time, and a bunch of money, at a place that seems so corporate. If I liked that kind of vibe, I'd save a ton of money and just go to Cheesecake Factory.
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