Olivia J.
Yelp
I went to Boston to celebrate a birthday with friends and we planned to start our night at this bar, but ended up staying until we went back to our Airbnb.
When we arrived and after we got drinks, one of my friends told me she was hungry. We decided to look at their menu online and order food at the bar, which took a while to get anyone's attention. We actually thought the kitchen was closed, but since they claimed it was still open, we ordered anyways. Biggest regret of the entire weekend.
We ordered Mac and cheese, corn bread, French fries, fried pickles and jalapeños, and hot chicken bites. I highly regret ordering any food at all, and I'll explain after I talk about the seating situation.
While one of us ordered, I went to look for a booth. I was so happy to have come across an empty booth and immediately grabbed it as I figured this would be the only opportunity I'd get for a booth to eat at. Almost immediately after I sat down, some security guard came up to me and told me that I couldn't sit there. I had to ask him why, to which he stated that I couldn't sit past the barrier of the "stage" where the band was performing. I couldn't believe what I was being told, especially because I didn't even know who the band was and it wasn't like I was a threat to them in any way? I told him i just wanted to sit there to eat when my food came out and he made me get up. He walked me over to this big round table towards the front, asked how many people I was with, and grabbed 3 Ice cold metal chairs for us sit on. Eventually, a long high top table opened up for us to sit at.
While we're sitting at the table waiting for our food, time keeps ticking and we were really starting to get upset. I had gone up to the bar to check what was going on about 2 or 3 times in the 35 minutes that we waited for our food that should've only taken 10 minutes as no one else was waiting for food at that time. I'm at the bar asking for an update when my friend came to tell me that the food came out, but that I won't be happy with any of it. I go back to the table and she informs me that all of the food is COLD. How can your service be SO bad that you leave your customers waiting over 30 minutes for their food to come out COLD? It's very obvious that the food was sitting out for at least 20-25 minutes prior to being served. I am very temperature sensitive and the only reason I ate any of the food is because they closed the kitchen after our food came out, so we couldn't send it back if we even wanted to(which I fully would have if I had the option). The chicken was pretty tasty, despite the fact that it was maybe lukewarm. The fried pickles and jalapeños were OK.... Especially because they were clearly not freshly cooked and were extremely salty. The fries were cold and mediocre. I didn't try the Mac and cheese or corn bread, but I was told that it was pretty lousy as well. Safe to say if I'm ever back here for a night out, I will never order food from them again. There's no excuse for taking 35 minutes to serve food and serving it legit cold. Very very upsetting after we read all these good reviews about their food.
As for the band, considering this is supposed to be a country themed bar, the band was disappointing. They played all like emo rock music, pop rock, etc. What made me the most upset is when they would pretend they're going to play a song by the red hot chili peppers and then after playing a few notes, they'd stop and be like "oh I'm just kidding, we'll learn this song for next time!" When you're out to have a good time, part of that is the music played at the venue. If you're not capable of playing a specific song, then don't tease the crowd! They weren't awful and I do think they sounded decent, but it really bothered me that they wouldn't play certain songs and gave off weird vibes. I heard a ton of people in the crowd that were booing. I would never ever boo a performer, but it just goes to show that it wasn't just me who wasn't the biggest fan of the band that played on Saturday, December 4th.
Overall, I did not have the greatest experience at this bar and I don't plan on returning. I did have fun with my friends, but I do think that my negative experience with the food and start sort of hindered my time out with my friends which is extremely disappointing. We were only in Boston for one night, so I do regret not bringing up the idea of bar hopping to find a better venue after they treated me pretty poorly and the food was not very good.