Xan P.
Google
I wanted to take the wife out for a nice dinner, and this place came up on google maps with decent reviews. My main motivator is to try out scratch-kitchen foods. I decided to use the reservation system in google maps.
I got a confirmation for 7.30 PM fairly quickly.
On Saturday we got there, and the place was packed. We got there around 7.10 and when i showed the reservation they asked us how many, in our case only 2 people . The host staff (they had 2) were busy. One young lady (seemed to be always on the customer phone) and a young man, sitting people. There were other groups waiting to be seated, but since they came in groups of 4, 6, or even 10 they had to wait for seating. The host was able to squirrel us away in a small table in the corner.
The staff was very attentive, but they were overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of customers. There were plenty of tables with 6 to 10 guests. The ambiance is pleasant, family friendly. But the poor staff was really struggling to keep up, mainly due to not enough servers for so many customers.
But keep in mind, be nice and patient to your waiters, and don't make their jobs more stressful, please. And try to tip extra nice (like we did) under these circumstances. Show your appreciation for their effort, and do not demand perfection.
We were amazing to see what may have been the "floor manager" with a cowboy hat, moving tables and making room for the customers waiting, and even opened the patio for some customers. The place was extremely busy.
Our server was a young attentive, courteous young man. We wasn't sure about appetizers but ordered their nachos. For main course we ordered the Iris Whiskey Chicken. Sweet tea and Lemonade.
The drinks were pretty good and balanced.
The Nachos were amazingly fresh, you could feel the fresh ingredients in the whole plate. It was truly amazing, and i haven't had such amazing nachos before.
And that is good thing because the main dish of the chicken... was amazingly bland. It came in a bed of linguini, with a white sauce that seem to absorb and mute the flavors of everything in the dish. It was truly disappointing, and looking at other tables and seeing some very appetizing dishes, i think our choice of entre was just the odd one out, the single "not so good"
We talked, my wife and i, and were in agreement, that the ingredients where there, and fresh, but the sauce was too dampening and muting all the flavors.
We had a great time, and will look forward returning and trying other dishes.
The place has soul, the kitchen has potential, and the staff that make it work is amazing.
I leave you some pics of the AMAZING nachos, and the pasta that ate the flavor of our chicken.