The Hound — Restaurant in Asheville

The Hound is located where the old Greyhound bus station was at the entrance to the tunnel on Tunnel Road. Their menu changes depending on which night you were there so make sure you look up their menu on the website. I have included a photograph of the menu section that has the items we ordered.

My husband and I go out with another couple once a month to a different restaurant. Sort of like a dinner club. We each take turns picking where we go and he agreed to go wherever that person chose.

All-in-all we really liked the menu from Saturday night provided by Bonita’s. I think our only true drawback to it was there was no menu for those who are less adventurous. We’re not even sure there was a kids menu. If there is, it was not included on the standard menu. One of the people in our group likes the very basic flavors. So I asked if they could make a quesadilla with just chicken and cheese. They said they could not do chicken and cheese, but they could do pork and cheese. I stressed a couple of times “ She does not like flavor”. And they assured me that should work. Unfortunately, the pork was seasoned with the same seasonings as any of the other pork shoulder dishes. So she was unable to eat it.

We sat inside which was very dark. Reminded me of Stony Knob Cafe but. They also had outdoor dinning lit with the porch lights cafes and breweries are popular for. You seat yourself and go up to the bar to place your order for both food and beverage. They had one lady running orders but she was efficient and we lacked for nothing.

** I would have liked to have posted pictures of the food we got, but unfortunately, I do not see that...

I have nothing negative to say about this business. The food and service is great! I did, however, just take a greyhound bus from Asheville yesterday and learned a bit about the economic disparity in this city. They used to pick up at what is now known as “The Hound”. A building with bathrooms and heat. If you didn’t have other means of transportation and had to sign up for a Greyhound bus (God help you) at least you were treated like a human. Now, The only bus that runs departs at 4 AM in the morning at a Shell station outside of city limits. No bathrooms for people, no shelter to get away from the weather, they’re not even allowed in the store! Yesterday the bus was unexpectedly postponed for six hours. Which meant that when I comfortably arrived at 10 o’clock (because I got notifications on my phone) there was an elderly man who had been out in the cold, sitting on an unforgiving cement curb, without restroom access, since 4am. Did the owner and staff of “The Hound” have anything to do with this? Absolutely NOT. That would be an absurd claim. The building had been closed for a long time before they bought it and renovated it. So why am I even writing this? Well, A part of me feels that patrons that are sitting on the patio, enjoying a nice cocktail, at a place affectionately called “The Hound” ought to know what is currently happening to the people that have been displaced and forgotten. With every fancy new establishment catering to rich people there is another person who gets pushed a little further away. Abandoned by the place they once called home. Try the teriyaki...

Went for the first time tonight and will not be going back. Got our drinks and sat at the bar. They make you run a tab but 45 minutes later, no food. Starving at that point, we asked the bartender to just cancel the order. He argued with me, told me it was “coming” and then asked if I wanted it boxed or he could see about a discount. No we wanted to cancel the order completely. Then he comes out of the kitchen with our spam appetizer, after we asked to cancel. 10 minutes later and several plates from the kitchen that were not ours…no one came to settle our drink/app tab. I had to wait in the walk up line to get someone’s attention. We wasted a hour of a Friday night and paid 27 dollars for a piece of spam and two drinks.

Who I’m assuming to be the manager came over eventually to cash us out. She also argued with us about canceling the order, said “it’s being plated” right now. At this point we asked to cancel over 15 minutes ago. Not one worker offered apologies, a warning the kitchen was backed up, checked on us prior to us asking or tried to rectify the situation. As a service worker myself, I found the customer service to be the most disappointing part.

To drive this point home, as we were trying to cash out, another customer came up and asked if we had gotten our food because they also had been waiting almost an hour for a single order of potatoes.

Save your money and your sanity and go eat at the Mexican place...