Donna “Doegurl” B.
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Having heard so much about this place I finally got to go try it tonight. Drinks ordered specifically one unsweet tea and one sweet tea and I almost had to spit it out it was so sweet. I mentioned it to the server who looked at me and said you're kidding me? Who made it? Bad start. The menus were disgusting with all kinds of stuff stuck to it, a lemon seed on one page, some other mysterious chunk of food on another part. I pointed it out to the server who should have said let me get a new menu and I'll clean this one or offered to clean it, but no, I had to try to work around the disgusting menu. Cleanliness and first impression clearly is not a priority here and I probably should have left then.
Ordered first was the appetizers one, the Combination with Southwest egg rolls, Sully's Sacks and fried cheese for $13.99 and the Bang Bang Shrimp for $12.99. The apps were good but nothing to write home about. Pretty routine when it comes to comparing to other restaurants. The Combination was most definitely from the frozen aisle and deep fried. The shrimp was just okay. They didn't taste like fresh Gulf shrimp and despite claiming to be jumbo, they weren't. Neither were they hand battered it was more like panko and a boat load of pepper in the breading even before you added the bang bang sauce.
On to our meal, we asked about the Mahi. So sorry we're out of that tonight but we have a special Red Snapper with Gulf Shrimp and asparagus. For a restaurant with very few fish options, there really was no other fish choice except more Shrimp so my friend got the special for $37.99, a little pricey for a small piece of local catch that's plentiful here. She liked it though so it was worth it.
For me I hadn't had steak in a long while so I upgraded and got the "Prime" Ribeye 16 oz steak for a whopping $52.99! $10 more than a USDA cut. I only eat well done and usually ribeye can be safely cooked well without being too gristly. I was impressed it was cooked perfectly well done. I've got to say I was super disappointed so many restaurants now order and serve ribeye without that extra piece of meat around the edge, the piece I call the tail. Yes it's the fattiest and most tender part of a ribeye and it is missed by customers. Overall the meat was good but there was beyond too much gristle around most of the steak edges. For your protection, I won't share that picture but I'm glad I brought it home as a dog treat. For my sides I ordered salad and it was literally the best part of my meal. I went through the normal litany of questions I ask when out, are the fries fresh or frozen? Frozen. I finally saw green beans and ordered them, never thinking to ask anything about them. Always remember the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask. When my meal arrived you can imagine how upset I was to see those canned, unseasoned, flavorless cut green beans I grew up on, in a bowl on my plate along with some weird bread that had no flavor whatsoever, and that you could use to break a window (I'm not kidding, I wish I were). For as much as we were paying they should have gone and picked them beans out of a field for us after all we have some of the best fresh produce year round here (kidding but am I?). So yes I told the server to take them back and put them back in the trash where they belonged.
A normal reaction for the restaurant would be to ask if you'd like something else but that didn't happen. The server communicating to us that she told the Manager about the dissatisfactions with our visit. We made it completely clear it wasn't on our waitress or the chef but do you think whoever the fictitious manager could take one second out of her empty restaurants tasks to come and at least apologize? No, they didn't, and I feel the same about ever going back there. EVER. If I decide to ever go back I'll be ordering a burger or that side salad.