French Toast Bistro Clawson — Restaurant in Clawson

New Orleans / French / southern theme here.

This used to either be the hamburger or egg frittata or ice cream place before.

Beyond the green curtain is Viridian, a speakeasy an evening Open Table reservation only spot.

The lobster omelet sounds pretty good, maybe add some crab meat too? Then again the sweet potato bowl sounds good too.

A few spots in the lot in the alley, most likely have to park out on the street, since the back lot is full.

Nyla is waiting on us, she and the rest of the staff are pleasant.

Ordered a black coffee with oat milk side, green tea, sweet potato bowl with blackened salmon, lobster omelet with white cheddar grits instead of potatoes and side of biscuit and extra side of turkey sausage. $79.50

The house salad was blah. Some brunt romaine lettuce, some thick red onion ends, some maybe cooked cherry tomatoes, the skins looked wrinkled and old.

The herb vinaigrette for the house salad is all lemon, not much else, not for me, but it's the lemon vinaigrette or ranch, neither is good to me at all. I asked for EVOO or any kind of Olive Oil, they don't have any, super shocked. Finally a manager said they will give me Olive oil to eat my salad, not what I wanted, but better than the lemon.

The EVOO with fresh black pepper was better than the champagne lemon vinaigrette.

The sweet potato bowl without the salmon is super salty, too salty and it would one be sweet potatoes, onion, frozen red pepper slices, Brussel sprouts and cherry tomatoes, kind of a sparse ingredients for a bowl, no? The dish as a whole is extremely salty, almost tastes like an entire ramekin of salt was dumped into my bowl, accidentally.

The salmon was okay, slightly undercooked near the top side.

The turkey sausage is quite salty, not as salty as my potato bowl. The chef here likes to salt their food plenty.

Biscuit is so-so, nothing buttery or...

I went with my S.O. Atmosphere was fine, the space was clean enough and there were some southern inspired decorations. The patio area seemed nice but we sat inside because the former was full. Regarding the menu, the restaurant does not have their liquor license yet--which would normally be fine--but it took us an hour to get our shrimp po boy and fried chicken sandwhich. The shrimp po boy was pretty standard, nothing to write home about. I think it could have used an extra shrimp or two because it was pretty sparse. The chicken sandwhich was pretty tasty with the slaw and sauce on it, breading was done well! But I can also get a better fried chicken sandwhich elsewhere for a quarter of the wait time. My fries were seasoned but hers were not (and we did not ask for hers to not be seasoned). However, the common denominator between them was that they were just strewn about on both our plates. The waitress was friendly enough and asked us if we needed anything. She also apologized for the wait, which we appreciated.

I get it--because they just opened and are working the kinks out, things may not be perfect. However, there is a lot of things that would need improvement before a 5 star review is in order. I'd say that maybe it's a matter of trying something else on the menu...but we probably won't be back for a long while until things are...

We were excited to try the new place, but unfortunately it was a bad experience and we won’t be back. First impression -Hostess was not friendly or personable. Waitress was nice, but she was clearly overwhelmed and the service was SLOW. Our coffee was never refilled. After waiting entirely too long for our breakfast, my eggs and toast were cold, sausage was hard, and I had to send it back to be warmed. My son’s Mac and cheese had a chemical taste- he did not eat it.His burger was missing the bacon and it had obviously been sitting for awhile because the plate was filled with the juice which saturated the bun making it soggy. My husbands gumbo and biscuits with gravy were also barely warm. With so many other breakfast spots in town with fast, friendly service and better quality standard of food, sadly I do not think that this place will last. The owner has some work to do if he wants return customers .The staff needs to work together…/nobody wants to wait 30 minutes for cold eggs with a piece on unmelted cheese on top. I can honestly say that I’ve never had to send back scrambled eggs to be reheated. Better quality at a Coney Island for less than...