The menu looked good but the food sucked. Little was edible. So sad cuz I really liked the menu and wanted this to be a new go-to spot in Hendo.
I was sick to my stomach the rest of the night and into the next morning. The fried shrimp were the most disgusting thing I've eaten in a while. They were battered and fried in old fry oil, so they absorbed a lot of brown grease. Also for some reason they through in some non-battered zucchini and squash. Right into the fryer! Why? They are very pourous vegetables and absorbed so much oil they weighed as much as silver dollars! Bleccch.
Likewise their asparagus was awful. Paired with some kind of meat (hello?!?! Wrap it in cream cheese and pancetta?!?!?!) and there was no evidence of the promised cheese in there. Then they were wrapped in some kind of dough and appeared to be thrown into the fryer. Heavy heavy heavy. Limp, grease-soaked asparagus. Absolutely disgusting.
We felt bad cuz the waitress was really nice and we were talking so much s### about the food every time she came around to the table. We ordered a lot and ate almost none of it. The sliders were okay. (Enough with the sliders already. Jfc.) The tacos were meh at best. The lobster roll was way too tarragon-y and came with gross frozen, battered Oreida-style fries. Make fresh fries. You're supposed to be a trendy restaurant.
No discernible change in the decor from the 2 previous tenants, both of which were ill-conceived "grill" concepts.
The music was weird 50's stuff piped through cheap, tinny speakers.
Sorry, Urban Grill. I wanted to like you. You're doing the no-longer-trendy updated junk food and comfort food thing which has played out in every other city but Vegas. You're menu is strikingly similar to your neighbor, Republic, which also sucks.
I wanted to but I didn't. In fact I hated you. One extra star for the nice waitress.