Paul The Bulldog S.
Yelp
Greg, your food is not just bad, it's down right criminal. Serving spoiled & rotten food to pregnant women is probably a violation of law. So is false advertising.
Let me start at the beginning.
My wife is very pregnant. She is hungry and emotional. We don't have the budget to order out much, so this was meant to be a special treat to surprise her with to make her happy.
We ordered the all-meats sampler with potato salad and beans, and an extra helping of brisket with beans and rice - because the advertising looked so good, and I was so eager to have big, juicy slabs of soft, tender brisket. As we all know, brisket is big hunks of soft, melty meat that is so tender were it to be sliced it almoswould shred.
When the food arrived, we were initially impressed at the portion sizes. However, as we would learn, a pound of dung is still dung.
As i portioned out the food onto our places from the containers I became increasingly concerned about the pallor & hue of the meats, and how dry it all looked. I thought there must have been some mistake, that I had been sent sliced roast beef instead.
As we bit into the riblets, a funk arose, covered heavily by sweet bbq sauce, but obvious.
The roast beef slices (brisket) were dry and mealy. It is wholly and entirely unlike any brisket I have ever experienced. I would expect to be run out of the state of Texas should I attempt to assert that the sliced cold-cut roast beef in au jus on my plate was brisket.
The chicken smelled like a brick of matchlight charcoal it was so besoaked in liquid smoke. The liquid smoke could barely hide the funk of the meat, which was desiccated jerky-like in texture.
This is the most important issue:
Frustrated and seeing my wife's dissatisfaction welling up on her face as she began tasting and experiencing this train wreck of a meal, I did not look at the lid of the potato salad (a favorite dish of mine in general), and therefore did not see the fine carpet of mold clinging to it as I licked the lid like a kid licking an icecream - only to pause mid-lick in extreme distress and panic!
Immediately my tongue began to burn and I was sickened, I am lucky to have thought & reacted quickly to flush my mouth out before swallowing! It tasted like soap or mothballs, I thought there was soap in the food until my wife came to me as I was gargling in the sink and pointed out spots of white mold growing along the surface of the potato salad.
You tried to give a pregnant woman moldy & spoiled food. Trust me Greg, you should get down and pray a thankful prayer to whatever God you worship in appreciation of the fact that -I- was the one who first ate the potato salad and not her. If my unborn baby had been impacted in any way, we would not be discussing this through Yelp.
After that we immediately stopped eating. We tested/examined the rest of the food and the mayo dip for the chicken rolls was also rancid.
I called the restaurant, and spoke with Kathleen. I can tell the staff that work the floor there care a great deal, however their hands seem tied by a manager/owner whose competence I am fully within my rights to question.
Kathleen acknowledged my concerns, but claimed she could not offer me a refund, as I had ordered over grubhub. No worries, grubhub made it right.
If it had just been sub-par meat that sat under a heating lamp all day, that would be one thing. But sending me rotten food for my pregnant wife to eat? That takes the cake.
And that brisket is a crime. You can't call that brisket, it's roast beef.
