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| - The first time I went to Bluephies has to be almost 10 years ago, since I lived in the neighborhood back then. It was a good place to take the kids, but I never loved it, so when I moved out of the area I didn't go back. Until recently, that is. The kids and I decided to go a few months ago. Maybe it was a really, really bad night for the kitchen. We decided to do appetizers for dinner since the kids didn't find anything that appealing on the dinner menu. We had the fried little rice balls, which were heavily coated, not hot, barely had any cheese in the center, and bland. We tried the mini pork dumplings which actually had a weird fermented taste and fortunately are not on the menu anymore, because even if they had arrived hot, they still would have tasted off. The mac and cheese bites were, you guessed it, not hot, and also surprisingly boring. And the trio of sliders was (again) not hot, and the burgers tasteless and overcooked. We didn't try dessert because we were so fed up with how bad the food was that we just wanted to leave. I hope that the desserts are still good.
Oh, I almost forgot - I also gave brunch a try a few months back as well. I mean, how could both meals be bad? After waiting 45 minutes, when we tried to order breakfast we were told that they were out of the andouille sausage that is featured in no fewer than 3 of their brunch dishes. They could have mentioned that when we were seated, but they didn't. And then, I kid you not, they were out of the brunch special that I tried to order (but again, didn't mention it ahead of time). And we weren't there at the very end of the brunch service. This was around 10:00. The food we did get was decent, but after the wait, then having to both rethink our choices because the staff hadn't stocked properly, it just seemed like a waste of money.
I won't be going back. Why so many people love this place is beyond me, but since most people rave about the drinks, I have to assume they make up for lack of good food for some people. Sadly, not for me.
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