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We had lunch on a Tuesday during Dine Out Boston 2023 week, and we got various dishes. We were disappointed and do not plan to return.
In short, most of the food was disappointing and the service was also disappointing.
This might be a good place to come to have drinks so you won't notice the disappointing food.
My Caesar Salad starter was good. The kettle chips are good. Our dessert was good. End of "good" list. The rest of the food was disappointing.
Fried Chicken sandwich: The buns were the cheap starchy buns right out of a bag; I tossed the buns and had the chicken with fork and knife, it was an ok tasting nice portion of deep fried chicken. The sandwich would have been much better if they had toasted or grilled the buns.
Looking at the menu I see that the chicken sandwich should have come with coleslaw, but they didn't bring any coleslaw. My fault for not pointing out the omission. Now I'm even more disappointed.
Grilled Tuna Burger: It was way too spicy, one of us could only swallow a couple of bites and then gave the rest to her husband. The buns were again starchy and not toasted.
Beer Battered Fish & Chips, substituting broccoli for the chips. This was a single piece of battered fish, it was a small piece of fish surrounded by a large thick mostly cooked batter. He ate the fish and left the icky batter. Worth avoiding.
The broccoli was ok, however it was boiled and not seasoned; had they topped it with something like Lawry's Seasoned Salt would have been an improvement.
Brownie sundae dessert was good, it's worth getting again. Brownie was nicely warmed and the vanilla ice cream was yummy. Too much whipped cream.
Service was patchy. When it came time to pay the bill, they gave us the bill and found that it was wrong. They brought a corrected version, left it, and disappeared. After 10 minutes waiting with the credit card sitting on the corrected bill, with no one coming, with wait staff walking by looking at me waving my hand and staring at them all the while doing nothing, we stood up to look like we were going to leave, and only then did someone show and we signed for the check.
We felt that even with the special pricing of the Dine Out Boston 2023, the food we received was overpriced, and we do not plan to return.