Vee V.
Yelp
Uffda...my first dining experience out in MN in 2023 and it was a bust.
There's no diversity at this restaurant, there's only one group of diners. This doesn't impact my rating, just a note for those that like to see diversity when stepping into an establishment.
The ambiance was nice and our server tried really hard, we can see her clearly stressed and trying to keep it together, but there were some strange things that happened. Two stars for the odd effort, but the food was some of the worst I've had in a while.
We had a small group of 5 for trivia night, the host had a lot of energy and did great. The restaurant itself was understaffed, so everything was extremely slow, I get that. My issue is that we'd ask for water, plates, and silverware and we had to ask multiple people as our food got cold until we got our own. This was a three hour meal, it should not have been.
The crispy chicken sandwich was not crispy, I think it was previously frozen, it was flappy, flavorless, and almost nonexistent, it was all bun. The pub wings were more of a Dominos Buffalo sauce than Carolina hot sauce, they were not hot or crispy, they were sad, super deep in a depression. My Foodsmith salad was flavorless and had globs of cheese.
A couple of off putting things happened with the staff. Another couple ordered the Foodsmith salad with medium rare steak and the server that brought it out said "here's your cow..." It's was an unappealing description and seemed judgy. Another friend ordered a second glass of wine, our server brought it and started to pour the remnants of her 1st glass into the new glass, but we stopped her....whoa. I've never seen this in my life.
They need some training for sure, but I wouldn't be back because of the food, it just wasn't anything redeeming on the food front.