Tristan B.
Yelp
First off, I take no pride in leaving 1 star reviews and am actually adverse to doing it. However, in order for Yelp to work, and allow people to make informed decisions on where they dine, it's sometimes necessary. However, to offset this, I intend to fully cover all the elements that contributed to my experience.
I was hungry and looking for the perfect walk and talk spot, after a few misses I come by Flatbush Counter. It's got front dining, indoor dining, and a backyard. It looks modern, and they've got some fan favorites like crispy chicken and salmon in burger form. Once inside I realize that the sandwich comes with avocado mayo. I know people swear by avocados but I just don't like them. Not alone, not with tacos, not in guac, it's a pass for me. I ask the owner who was taking my order if I can have regular mayo, and he says they don't have that, which I found odd, but I also can respect sticking to your guns and recipe. What I found less charming is that they said something along the lines of, "It's good, I think you should get it", I think I get that the owner probably has a dry sense of humor, but to have someone who works in food disregard me explaining that I've never liked avocado flat out telling me I should get it anyway because they think it's good comes off smug/arrogant no matter how you slice it. I'm open minded, so I did ask for a taste, and while I didn't dislike it, to me, it was not as good as regular mayo (hence the avocado- I just like mayo that much). Once I've ordered, he proceeds to tell me that he guarantees it will be the best chicken sandwich I've ever had, not really necessary considering I'd ordered and it did nothing but to raise the expectation I had. I decide to also order a house made pineapple limeade (I believe, may have been lemon). This ends the ordering phase.
Upon receiving my lemonade, it had CHIA SEEDS in it. No where, was this mentioned. To me, this is another indication of indirect arrogance- when I think of lemonade, I would never expect to come pre-constructed with grainy seeds- to me, this destroyed the experience of the lemonade. If I had been told, or had the option of taking these out, we would have been good, but this was so wild to me. So, I finally go outside, to be honest- I couldn't even bring myself to try the chicken sandwich inside because I thought I might be asked how it was and didn't want to be put in that position. To be fair, the thing looks pretty, I don't have ANY expectations that it'll be the best I've ever had because this person has no idea how many chicken sandwiches I've had in my life or how I rank them, but I'm thinking it should be decent. This sandwich had NO flavor. It tasted like oil, I chewed the whole bite through before giving my friend with me the verdict because I wanted to be fair, but there was none to be found. She, at the time, was going vegetarian for a month, and could not believe it was that bad so she broke it to take a bike, and she fully agreed.
So, everything was a bust, for over 20 bucks, both my drink and sandwich underwhelmed heavily. I can see so many others have had a great experience and can't help but think I may have been unlucky, but the arrogance and expectations set made this crash and burn a lot harder than it may have if I was able to form my own opinions, but if I'm being honest, that may have at best put this at a 2.