Donovan S.
Yelp
I ate here with my teammates for volleyball Nationals after we found that two other places had 1-1.5 hour waits. This place had no wait. Now I know why. When we got there the manager came by in a Texas Rangers jersey and a hat and said "How many?" We said 9 and he left and came back with 9 menus and rolls of silverware and plopped them down at the end of the table and left. Oh-kayyy, guess we're handing them out ourselves!
Our server was nice and I'm pretty sure she was the only server in the place and she was hustling, it was packed. We had to wait quite a while for drink orders, but she got them eventually and they do have a good beer selection and lots of TV's so we watched the Cavs-Celtics game.
We were starving so I made sure everyone closed their menus so she'd know we were ready because I could tell she was slammed. She took them and we waited a while for food too and when we got served two orders were wrong. She fixed them both quickly. The food was not great. I got the blackened salmon with charro beans and vegetable medley. My salmon portion was small, overcooked, and the spice was...off. The charro beans had carrots in them, which they shouldn't, and I don't like cooked carrots...but I wasn't sending anything back. Plus see above: starving. I ate'em. The veggie medley I liked, it hit the spot.
One of my teammates' girlfriend had the blackened chicken and said it tasted like "chorizo" and said "how do you DO that?!" It was very thin and it was the same spice on my salmon. Not good. She had hatch chile mac'n'cheese with bacon...sounds great, right? It wasn't. The cheese tasted very processed and weird. Another buddy had the chicken fried steak which I am still kicking myself for not getting and he said it was pretty good. Another teammate had the loaded baked potato, which I finished for him, and it was good. Hard to mess up, but it can be done, and they didn't mess it up.
I did get a $1 off coupon for my Yelp! checkin, our server had already taken my card and couldn't take it off after it had been run so she gave me $1, which was funny but I'll take it.
The venue is cool and has a good layout for watching sports and a nice patio outside to watch downtown Dallas, and a good beer selection. The service was really slow and I saw another table get their menus and silverware dropped on them with a drive-by by the manager and raised their hands like "What the hell?" You can beat the wait at busier places, (you seat yourself), just be prepared to sit a while or bring a snack...