Aunt E’s Southern Cuisine — Restaurant in Greensboro

We just left after dining here about around 7:30p after arriving maybe 5 mins after 5pm. So we spent about 2hrs or so dining but most of it was waiting for food to come out. We had a party of 6 people. Upon ordering, we learned many options were not available due to volume of business with a couple of large groups they had yesterday. The one thing that 2 of us wanted was to try the Jollof rice. We were told that the cook was starting to prepare it and can take an hour or so, yet it is almost 5:30pm. On Saturday's they have been opened since 12p. Why are they not managing and timing the batches of the Jollof rice to know when to start on the next batch it this is one of the side dished that patrons are ordering most of, but I digress. We had 5 apps and 6 meals. One app came out lukewarm and the other was forgotten. The other 3 apps specifically were 2 orders of the jerk chicken egg rolls and 1 order of the cheesesteak egg rolls. These cheesesteak egg rolls were mid, slightly salty and the jerk chicken egg rolls for some reason seem like it had a heavy hand of cayenne pepper taste to it. We were told it would be spicy but not what was expected for the taste of spice and my family can eat spicy food. It also threw me that they are pairing the egg rolls with sweet thai chili as a dipping sauce for both these apps as the food is a Southern-Caribbean style. It took a while for all the main meals to come, but once it did, not much of it was seasoned. No salt. Cabbage, bland. Mac n Cheese, cheesy but bland. Even the noodles, bland. Green beans, if get southern style, it will have pork in it for flavor but still missing salt. If get the garlic green beans, it will have some sort of weird brown butter sauce which tasted bland. Sweet potato fries slightly fried too long. Garlic fries, salty. Chicken wingettes are best to get grilled because that is where the seasoning is, but if get battered or naked, no seasoning to taste. Please know, I am not a smoker and mainly drink water. Everyone at the table had the same complaint. For the food to taste bland, for the staff to stand around behind the counter most of the time talking, for them to have plastic catering plates, plastic cups and to cost this much especially when your are applying gratuity of 18% for parties of 5 people or more is highly disappointing. It seems as though this restaurant is not equipped to manage the volume people such as large groups if not supplying enough food nor managing the time within their service as have been now opened for 5 months. If they do not improve on all of these things, they will not make it. By they way, the dinner was to celebrate...

Came here from out of town to celebrate a birthday and our experience was a major disappointment. We came on a Saturday right at opening time. Before entering the restaurant, I immediately got excited that they had oxtails on the sign outside of the front door. So, I knew exactly what I wanted to order and didn’t need to look at the menu. First red flag was we received our water in a plastic cup and the cutlery was plastic as well. When it was time for me to order my food, I was told that they weren’t serving oxtails today, but the sign clearly stated oxtail dinner on the sign. So, I had to wait and review the menu and pick something else. Decided on the Jerk chicken egg rolls and the whole wing dinner. We were a large group but the food took forever to come out and we were the only ones there when they opened (2nd red flag). No ones food came out together, we all received our food at different times. One side of the table was done with their meal before the other side had even received their plates. Our server came back and told me that they were out of the jerk eggrolls (at opening time), so we ordered the Philly eggrolls. Someone comes out from the back 5 mins later stating that they actually DO have them and we can keep our original order. I kid you not, 10 mins later the server returned and said that they had it wrong and they only had two jerk eggrolls available and the rest Philly so we would have to split that amongst the other people that ordered that at our table as well (3rd red flag). Our food finally came out and it was on a plastic plate as well smh, the wings were decent and could be more seasoned. The cabbage had peppers and one sausage and was so bland, I took one bite and couldn’t eat anymore. The sweet potato casserole was sour. My husband ordered the beef ribs and they were just okay, his jollof rice was nowhere nearrr true authentic jollof rice. The Mac n cheese was surprisingly pretty good and the eggrolls that we actually received. With 1 alcohol drink each, 1 appetizer and two meals our bill was $136 including a 20% gratuity fee that was automatically added!! Never again will I visit this establishment or recommend it to any...

This review has zero reflection on the food but is an indication that all good food doesn't equal "restaurant". I also wanted to take a few days before writing this to make sure it was not written from anger. This place is sad and makes me sad to have to write this review. I can ONLY hope that it is received as a matter of means to improve. We had the absolute worst experience trying to have an event at this establishment. From the beginning it was a disaster, the energy in this place is "off" and the "manager" had ABSOLUTELY no empathy and by the looks of it no business being the manager. We booked this space months in advance and went in the night before to try and mitigate the damage as we were only given 1 hr to set up prior to the event starting. We arrived and our time was cut to 42 mins b/c EVERYONE running this place was late- including the manager! We enter a space that was a filthy mess. Tables and junk everywhere, roaches( dead and alive), tablecloths filthy, chair covers torn/tattered, floors slick and all kinds of fire code violations. Food arrived 50 mins after the start of the event and didn't include the entire order( not sure where we eat shrimp/fish at brunch w/o grits). We had to request everything including water to get this place in order. And to add insult, they rushed us out. I refused to eat the food b/c I saw all the roaches and made the mistake of entering into the kitchen to get some kind of support from the staff. Requested some sort of cleaning/sanitizing supplies and none were available in this establishment. Bacon was under cooked and microwaved along with the sausage. Folks did say that the food was good and I was happy to see they enjoyed it. If you are a true GBORO native you know the history of this establishment. A good SAGE and cleanse may be the first place they need to start. Will NEVER patronize this place- not even for free. There were two young ladies ( Amarianna?- Smuffette hair) from the kitchen that jumped in with smiles on their face and we totally appreciated them. True...