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| - I just got home from dining at Renegade Canteen, and I've gotta say...not worth it, at all. I'm a big Roaring Fork fan, which is why I agreed to eat here, but this place didn't live up to RF's standards as far as I could tell.
To be fair, the service was lovely. Perfectly timed everything, not overbearing, happy to answer every question, took special orders without sighing as most servers do, and what was most noticeable was every server appeared to be at least 30 years old. They were very professional.
To begin, I browsed the cocktail menu and didn't see a drink that jumped out to me, but I did notice they had a prickly pear mojito, so I asked if it would be possible to have a prickly pear martini. They were happy to oblige, and it was delicious. This was probably the highlight of the evening.
The bread they brought out was decent, and there were two butter options, one plain and one herbed. Another really cool thing was our table-we had a large party and the table was huge and round, and there was a separate round top piece of the table that rotated around, making it easy to pass items between people.
For apps, most of my party ordered salads. I decided to branch out and ordered the crab meat "enchiladas", which tasted like old fishy canned tuna, served wrapped in lettuce. It advertised a "mango vinaigrette", which was seen only as a teeeeeny tiny drop on the plate. It should be noted that this bite tasted neither mango-y or like a vinaigrette. I had a bite of bf's plain side salad, which was alright, but that's pretty hard to screw up.
Entrees: I ordered the spinach crepes, which sounded awesome on the menu. Unfortunately, they were REALLY bland, and just didn't taste good at all. They were basically sauteed spinach and chopped pumpkin wrapped in a spinach "crepe"...but the crepe was incredibly dry and not good at all. It's served with two crepes, and I could barely make myself finish one.
I had a bite of the pot roast, which was pretty solid, and much tastier than my crepes, but as for the rest of the entrees ordered (chicken, tagliatelle with truffle sauce, chicken flatbread), no one seemed wow-ed enough to finish. The burger that was ordered was reminiscent of Roaring Fork's "Big Ass Burger", but was not reported to be as good as their version.
For a party of 7 people, you'd think if you ordered only 2 desserts, they'd be gobbled up with no problem. Not for us. The pecan pie and the ovaltine with rice krispy treat were passed around at least five times, and still no one could finish either. The pecan pie was served in a round metal dish and had ice cream on top, and the entire thing was sickly sweet, with no real crust to speak of, just sugary pecans. The ovaltine thing was about five things on a plate that were all bad-"frozen" ovaltine, which tasted like a bad chocolate mousse, stale cocoa and regular rice krispy treats, a caramelized banana, and "black caramel sauce", which no one could figure out and no one enjoyed. All of us are sweets people, I would like to point out, so it takes a lot for us to not finish a dessert!
Overall, I'd never go back here, but I'd still go to Roaring Fork (especially for their happy hour). The prices at Renegade Canteen aren't outrageous, but they're wayyy too high for the quality of food they're serving!
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