Aron B.
Yelp
Well, I'd *love* to be able to give this place a better rating, but based on our first experience, I just can't, and a two-star "Meh. I've experienced better." statement is absolutely correct.
Let me be clear: I tried food from three of the purveyors at DSC tonight, and of the three, Coop's fare was *far* in the rear. I ordered the jerk chicken wings, as the half chicken, for some odd reason that defies explanation, wasn't available. On a Tuesday night. Before a Red Wings game.
Let me emphasize this: it was *never* available today. They did not "run out"...they just never had it available in the first place, on GAME NIGHT. I'm thinking poor planning to start with.
Those jerk chicken wings, though? Really a poor offering. Don't misunderstand: the sauce, mandarin oranges, the lime wedge...they were all fine, and should be applauded. I'm sure with some decent, meaty, juicy chicken, this would be a *darned* good dish. Expensive, but worth it, especially as a treat before the Wings game. I mean, you might as well spend your money here before the big old price hike at LCA, right?
Well, maybe not. These things were *sorry* excuses for wings. Dry, tough, bereft of meat, really difficult to eat. I wanted to take them back, and probably should have (so I'm willing to accept at least 20% of the blame, here), but quite frankly, there just didn't seem to be enough time to do so, and I didn't want to go to the trouble.
There was nothing wrong with the service level, except that, surely: these wings shouldn't have been served to anyone. They were visibly *tiny*, and there's no person with partially-legal eyesight that would look at these and say, "Yeah, sure, I'd gladly pay for those." They looked poor, and tasted/ate worse.
I'm not condemning them to live in death or anything...it could have just been an off night, or a *really* poor batch of wings, and again: I didn't take them back and say anything when I should have (which was after eating/trying to eat *one* wing). However, this was a dish which was greatly touted beforehand, and couldn't have been much more disappointing. Not worth the time, much less the money, and they were *not* inexpensive.
I'll try them again, but I'll say something ahead of time, I think.