Bill W.
Yelp
Rarely do I give 5 stars to a restaurant on the first visit but this one deserves it. Service is great and very friendly, and the food is excellent.
First became aware of this restaurant a couple of months ago elsewhere on another social media platform in the Denver, NC section. All of the comments were very good but were so few, they could have been easily manipulated.
Made a mental note to give them a try and last Saturday, we passed it by on the way to another restaurant for lunch and I made a comment to my wife, that I wanted to give it a try. She suggested I go ahead and stop but I already had my mind made up what I wanted for lunch so I said, "maybe next week" That would also give me the opportunity to check out the menu online.
Checked out the menu online this morning and it looks great. Since this is the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, I called just to make sure they were open and fortunately they were.
It's only about 15 minutes from our house in Trilogy so very convenient and easy to get to. From the Hwy 16 bypass, take the St. James Church Rd exit and the restaurant is in a small strip mall at the junction of NC Hwy 16 Business and Saint James Church Road.
The glass in the front is frosted with black lettering which gives it an elegant look. There are a couple of tables on the outside and about six booths on the inside. Not large but sufficient because it looks like a good part of their business is take out although they also do catering.
You order at the counter and then you pick out a table and they bring it to you. There was one gentleman ahead of us but the wait was only a couple of minutes and gave both my wife and I an opportunity to review the menu again. Good thing because what my wife ordered was not on the online menu.
When I lived in NE Ohio and Western PA, one of my favorite sandwich's was something called a Beef on Weck. Basically Roast Beef on a Caraway Seed Bun with Kosher Salt called a Kummelweck Roll served with Horseradish and Au Jus.
They call theirs "The Mimi" and they use thinly sliced roasted Top Sirloin as the roast beef. I've had Beef on Weck at several Charlotte restaurants and while some were close to the original, they always fell a little bit short.
Not the case here. If you're from Western NY and like Beef on Weck, you need to give it a try but I will warn you, the horseradish tis the real thing. Very quickly cleared up my sinuses. For a side, I had and excellent Pasta Salad as will.
While not on the online menu, my wife had a Sub called the Scotty. It looked delicious with Sausage, Salami and Provolone Cheese with red onions and I think, lettuce and tomato on a Hoagie Bun.
Her order came with a choice of side salad or pasta salad but she asked if she could substitute a side of fruit instead. They readily agreed and she got her side of fruit. Here we disagree. She said it was Strawberries and Grapes while for some reason, I though it was Strawberries and Blueberries. In any case she enjoyed it.
This place is very comfortable and an oasis from everything going on around us. A good place of peace.
They are Pembroke Welsh Corgi fans as well and we had a good chat about the breed. I had a bit of the Au Jus left over and I took it home to put on our Corgi's dinner. We got home around 1:30 pm and Watson the Corgi smelled it and pestered my wife to death till dinner time trying to get it earlier.
This place is a keeper. A little bit hidden away in the small strip mall but definitely a place to try and to try again and again.
