. . "0"^^ . . "Been waiting to see what the buzz about Phil The Fire was all about. Then Groupon offered a deal, so it was a perfect opportunity. Went there with the wife and kids. Disappointed to find that they didn't have a kids menu (or at least one wasn't shown or mentioned to us). It is a more upscale setting in what used to be Houlihan's connected to the old Holiday Inn. I've always been used to comfort/soul food as take out or served by a very small restaurant, so this was interesting to me off the bat. We went on Mardi Gras and they had awesome live music by jazz band Horns & Things. Overall, we very much enjoyed our food and our visit. The kids each had a waffle with the chicken breast baked right it (called the J something). My wife and I decided to get one of their shared entrees. A plate full of fried chicken breast slices and large fried shrimp was $45. It had about 8 pieces of the sliced chicken breast and maybe about 15 shrimp, served over what seemed to be deep fried spinach. It was good! But for $45? I wouldn't get it again. In hindsight, we should've gotten the chicken and waffles, but we wanted to be a bit adventurous. We also got dessert - a sweet potato pecan pie and a red velvet cake. Both were okay, but too sweet. didn't seem special enough to be considered \"upscale.\"\n\nThe service? It was okay. Our server was friendly enough, but he made us feel rushed the entire evening. When he first came to our table to take our drink orders, I also ordered the fried green tomatoes as an appetizer (they were good). He said we should place the rest of our order at the same time because they were busy, so we had to make a decision on our entrees quickly. Then when it came to ordering dessert, he made the assumption and said \"you want that to go?\". We got the idea and just said \"sure, we'll take it to go.\"\n\nSo I'm deducting stars for my perceived value of what we ordered at this visit, then the so so service. But we'll come back again to try some other things on their menu."^^ . "0"^^ . "3"^^ . "3"^^ . "2012-07-01T00:00:00"^^ .