Be aware! Low quality ingredients!
Tasted 7 dishes. Below are comments for those 7 dishes.
1. Beef tartare: raw beef with over grown veggie. It is hard to chew. Parsley leaves are watery and rotten black. It is nasty.
2. Scallop: the scallop must be socked in the extremely salty water for more than 7 days to prevent from going bad. It is completely unacceptable.
3. Fried oysters: the oysters were already stinky. I just had one bite and had to spit out. It could cause food poisoning.
4. Flounder Crudo: Flounder is the garbage cleaner at the bottom of the water. Why chef created this raw dish? The restaurant did not tell where the flounder come from. Could the flounder come from China? I am very concerned.
5. Fried squid: this is the only appetizer you could eat. But the vegetables in the dish are overgrown and hard to chew.
6. Gnocchi with pork sugo: Because of the word "sugo", when I read menu, my understanding was the gnocchi coming with ground pork meat slowly cooked with tomato sauce. What I had was BBQ pork meat pulled with thumb thick size and mixed with gnocchi. The dish is black color. There was no taste at all. The gnocchi is totally watery. That dish should be called the gnocchi soup. The portion is very small. No taste, no presentation, no gnocchi cooking skill.
7. Pasta with sausage: sausages were not cut from the sausage links but it was some one fourth of palm size irregular shape ground meat. When you see those big chunks of black color meat socked in black color water together with the socked pasta, It's really hard to have any appetite. The dish has no presentation look, no basic pasta cooking skill involved.
I really don't understand how this restaurant could compare with other Charlotte restaurants such as Upstream or Lumiere, Barrington's, or even Good Food on Montford. At Upstream or Lumiere, those restaurants use fresh diver's scallop, Blue Point oysters and heritage poultry. For the final presentation, they use baby veges.
I did not see a single piece of baby veges in all 7 dishes at Kindred.
If I give 5 stars to Upstream, I can only give 0 star to Kindred.