Elizabeth S.
Yelp
HoneyBell was a place that I did not know existed until a few weeks ago. I thought that you needed a membership to PGA in order to eat there, but you don't! So we decided to try it out on a Sunday evening, and it was like a ghost town, which was a good thing and a bad thing. Obviously, there was no wait because of that, but it kind of felt like a restaurant that was hanging on by its last leg. And nobody wants to go out to eat in a Dining room that has you and maybe one or two other occupied tables.
The food, however, was good. I'll just leave it at good, because although the fried chicken that they're famous for was spectacularly, good, the butternut squash soup was served in a very tepid temperature range, and I did not feel like I was eating soup I felt like , I was pretending to eat something that was supposed to be soup but maybe should've been like a dip or something. It's almost like it couldn't decide between being a hot soup and a cold soup. I don't know if that was on purpose, but it wasn't really that enjoyable. The shrimp, toast, bruschetta kind of thing was very good, but also served at a questionable temperature, so that was really my only complaint about the food.
The service was par for the course (pun intended lol). Our server was kind, excited, and communicative (he was one of those overly informative servers that tells you about his personal life and his struggles with working at a restaurant that is usually a ghost town on any given night of the week) but I get it, and he was nice. There were very long periods, though where he disappeared and for the restaurant to be so slow we didn't understand why that was happening. But he made solid menu suggestions and he was very kind and professional enough.
Also, stay away from the swordfish. I don't know what they thought they were doing, but that swordfish was not swordfishing. It's a little bit on the pricey end, and if I ever go back, it would be for the fried chicken. They serve it with great corn bread and hot (spicy) honey.
Another review that gives it to you straight, no chaser! Enjoy!