Maxx M.
Yelp
Excellent meals with locally sourced food - 5 stars!
I consider all of my reviews in the context of the local community. In this case, if Table 65 was in a major metropolitan area like the Twin Cities, I'd call them 4 stars. (Of course, you'd also pay twice as much money and have a hassle parking your car.) In the context of the smaller rural community of New Richmond, I'm calling them out as a solid 5 stars.
Table 65 offers a full range of dinners, breakfasts, sandwiches, burgers, wraps, salads, soups, appetizers, and desserts. They also offer various coffees, beer, and wine (no hard liquor or spirits). The gelato flavors are pretty awesome too. Oh...I almost forget...they also have pizza!
A couple of my items stood out as particularly awesome. My appetizer with baguette and raspberry chipotle jam with goat cheese was off-the-hook great! Fresh bread, creamy savory goat cheese, the sweet jam, zippy chipotle pepper - wow! And at the end, my peach habanero gelato was unique and awesome. My bistro filet medalions with local beef was really good too. The beef was tender, flavorful, and cooked perfectly.
The two of us tried a sample of almost everything. The whole experience was great. There were a few minor glitches but I'm totally willing to overlook them when I consider the whole operation was being run by only TWO people! The owner was in back, whipping up ALL of the food. There was also a server that handled all of the tables and helped with kitchen tasks too. Later, a young dude showed up and started to answer the phone and help with pickup orders.
While we were finishing our dinner I witnessed something I don't think I've ever seen before. The server actually turned away a couple because they weren't taking new tables. (But there were only 4 occupied tables.) When I asked the server about it, she explained that they also had 10 cars waiting outside for curb-side pickup!
Personally, I would have explained things better to the customers, not turned them away, offered a complimentary beverage, and asked if they were willing to wait while they caught up. But that's me. They're doing what they feel they need to do to service customers while running everything with a small skeleton crew.
Thumbs up!
- Maxx