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| - I had so hoped this bar would be awesome because it's less than a mile from my house, and I've been looking forward to making it my go to neighborhood bar. After months and months of waiting for them to finally finish renovating, both the food and service were a disappointment - and I didn't even walk in expecting much.
There was no online menu, but since all the other reviews commented on how the food really didn't match a sports bar, I thought it could be really good. An overly ambitious sous chef who came from Bouchon sounded promising as hell. I was impressed when we walked in and saw that the daily taco was duck confit with chorizo, and only $4 for 2! Unfortunately, execution on everything we ordered was kind of a fail.
Duck confit is almost always good, but I wouldn't have known that was chorizo if it hadn't said so on the board - assuming it's house made, and the spices weren't there at all. There was also so much creme fraiche that it overwhelmed everything else. I would maybe order it again, but more because it's so cheap than for flavor.
Potato skins are pretty standard bar food, but they tried to fancy it up with fried croquettes, that I assumed would be potato, but ended up containing liquid cheese with fatty bits of bacon in it. The potato skins were burnt and the portion was ridiculous - it really was 1 potato skin (1/2 a potato) cut into 3 strips. It was a typical potato skin, nothing special and for $7 I wouldn't suggest ordering it. I also have no idea why it's called potato "skins" on the menu - because it's actually a singular skin, not plural?
Duck confit pizza (which actually should be "pizza") was in reality a flat bread - they could argue that it was an extremely thin crust pizza, but that would be a bs. There's a fair amount of duck, lots of goat cheese, chopped dates, a really sweet mostardo (like fruit chutney) and a couple things that weren't mentioned - huge dried apricots and dried whole chilis. This was an ok dish. The chilis and savory balanced out the sweetness somewhat, but not enough. I like heat, but it really also needs to be mentioned in the description that the whole chilis are on there. We were told that "everybody loves" this dish, but I wouldn't order it again.
Deviled eggs were good, but can you even screw that up? Maybe with too much salt. But that was very good and only 50cents each.
Service was friendly from 1 girl, but I think the pregnant bartender just looked like she wanted to go home, which she did later as she just left without closing out our bill, or bothering to say anything. We were at the bar but ignored the majority of the time. After trying to flag down someone to pay the bill for 10 minutes, we had to get up and give it to them at the other end of the bar.
They refilled my friend's water constantly, and my drink was cheap only $6 and pretty strong. Those were probably the only positives of the night. And they have lots of big TV's, so this bar will be good for games. But since I don't watch sports I likely won't be coming back.
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