M J
Google
Hello everyone, here to give an honest review. First things first, this restaurant is supposed to have a good breakfast/ brunch.
The reviews made me drive an hour to visit. The reviews here are off the wall. This restaurant isn't the southern that I thought it would be but it's still a great restaurant. The food looks better in pictures than it tastes, that's for sure. The flavor of the food is barely mid. Even while being in the restaurant all the food looks appetizing but flavor is lacking. I can only speak for the dishes that I had. I had the deviled eggs, etoufee and the fried chicken and famous biscuit. To begin, the bartender made me a wonderful lychee drink. This drink was top notch, not cheap tasting at all and pretty strong. I didn't drink it all, but it was wonderful. The service was good but she made one mistake that I didn't want to give her a hard time and I still tipped her well. She was supposed to put the honey sauce on the side and when she brought the food with the sauce on the chicken, I brought it to her attention and she used a quick excuse, I let it go. I had driven too far to make a big deal out of it but I wasn't happy about that. So that was already a damper as I was very clear that I don't like spicy but I ate it anyway.
So, if you are a person who isn't big on seasonings, if you are a salt and pepper on your chicken is good enough for you, then this is the place for you. Before I ordered, I asked the waitress if the chicken was like popeyes good and she said yes. LIE. The chicken had no seasoning (afterwards she admitted that it wasn't seasoned well... then why weren't you honest before i ordered it??? LOL, WHATEVER). Their fried chicken relies on the spicy honey sause for flavor and that's the truth. So if you like well seasoned chicken, you won't get that here. The sauce that came with the brocolini I ordered tasted a bit funky, didn't care for it.
The deviled eggs had great texture and tanginess but you could tell something was missing from the flavor. All the flavors in the food that I ate here were very light. There wasn't any bringing home of flavor and kick. I wanted that. I wanted to be impressed, I simply wasn't. The reviews let me down. The famous biscuit they have are fresh and the texture was good, then again, the butter and was slack. The texture was nice flavor was light. I have had better biscuits, for example a restaurant called Root and Bone in Miami had the best biscuit I ever tasted. The biscuit here at Luxe was the main thing they did right. If this is Southern cooking.... it is light southern cooking. If you have a restaurant that you say is Southern, especially in the title, some people expect some seasoning and soul to be in the food, there is no soul in this food and barely seasoning, atleast in the fried chicken. I'm just giving my honest opinion. I thought there would be more in the flavor department, I was let down. The etoufee...they put cheese in it. Cheese doesn't go in etouffe, tasting this was almost insulting. It had spice, but no flavor. I guess everyone is allowed to put their own spin on food, people have a right to be creative, don't get me wrong, I'm not mad at it, I'm sure some people love it. I did not love it. The vibes here are nice. The restaurant was clean, the decor was so beautiful, I enjoyed the cutlery and the glasses, good quality. I just wanted to let you all know my experience.