Emily S.
Yelp
It seems likely we had an atypically mediocre experience, and I can see how this place had a lot of the components that would lend this to being a 4 or 5 star place, but I have to base Mt review on my actual experience.
First, we asked to be seated outside and ended up at the table the furthest back to the side of the building, basically I could reach my arm around the corner of the back if I wanted to. What this meant is that service staff were constantly leaving out the side door and walking past our table to deliver food up the stairs in the back of the building.
Also, even though outside was bustling with many tables, it looks like the restaurant only assigned one server to the entire outside area. He had way too many tables and this made it impossible for him to be appropriately attentive. This meant my fiance's iced tea was never refilled and we waited a good 15 minutes after we were done for our bill, to a point where my fiance had to stand up to get attention. It didn't help that our server had been standing and chitchatting with another table for what seemed like 10 minutes.
The food itself was good, but the portions were small for this price point. Particularly small was the portion of tuna on my tuna steak sandwich.m, which was topped with a small rectangle of pineapple. I have had tuna steak sandwiches before where the slab of tuna was around the same size as a burger. THIS doll-sized portion of tuna sat like a little island in the middle of my bun. I wasn't sure how to even eat this like a sandwich so I cut it up and scattered the pieces around my bun. Safe to say, I ate this "sandwich" AND my mashed potatoes, also a small portion, AND my fiance's leftover corn salad, and was still hungry after because this meal had very little protein relative to the processed carbs (great for me as someone trying to manage my A1C).
That said, my fiance couldn't finish his pulled pork sandwich, which looked much more ample, so value here is clearly hit or miss.
I should also mention that I ended up with the tuna steak sandwich because the menu had so few fish items that didn't come with meat. There were definitely vegetarian options available, but I am pescatarian and would like to be able to get a shrimp or fish dish that doesn't contain pork products. This eliminated most of the fish dishes on the menu, which all contained bacon, sausage or some other version of pork. I expected to not be able to extract the pork items from the shrimp and grits, but was especially bummed to learn that the bacon could not be removed from what I really wanted, the shrimp roll, because it was mixed in with the shrimp salad rather than just being laid on top like a topping. Even the pasta with clams had pork in it.
Double traif.