SoHo Social — Restaurant in Homewood

My GOD, man. The music is so loud.

Welcome to Assassin’s Creed: Where Culinary Dreams Meet Acoustic Nightmares

Trussville Social where the fried mushrooms whispers sweet nothings to your taste buds while the live music screams "WITH ARMS WIDE OPEEEEEN" directly into your temporal lobe.

Let's start with the positives: The menu is a love letter to modern American cuisine. The extensive list of specialty cocktails would bring tears to your eyes if you weren't already crying from the acoustic assault of "Higher" playing at what I can only assume is the volume they use to test jet engines.

The ambiance would be charming, with its exposed cinder-block walls and chartreuse curtains, if those same walls weren't literally vibrating from what appears to be a mashup of Creed's greatest hits and what I originally thought was a wolf sanctuary's midnight feeding time. I later learned it was actually a a local musician that will remained unnamed with his full-stack accidentally set at 120 decibels.

The waitstaff deserves combat pay. They've developed impressive lip-reading skills to communicate your order, though I'm pretty sure I accidentally agreed to buy a timeshare when I was just trying to request more Diet Coke. They've mastered the art of bootleg-sign language and can somehow interpret your desperate hand gestures for "Please, for the love of all that's holy, can we turn down Scott Stapp before he takes us even further to his own prison?"

Price: $$$$ I added an extra $ for the hearing aids you'll need after dinner) Food: 3.5/5 stars Volume: 11/5 stars Overall: 2/5 stars

Would recommend if: You've always wondered what it's like to eat a well prepared meal during a frat-house wolf howling competition You're looking to practice your sign language You need to drown out your inner thoughts You're already deaf

Would not recommend if: You enjoy conversation with your dinner companions You have functioning eardrums that you'd like to keep functioning You've ever uttered the phrase "Can you turn it down a bit?"

Pro tip: The food is actually okay between 2-4 PM when they do system updates on their sound system. Those precious two hours of relative silence are your window to actually taste what their kitchen is capable of creating. Otherwise, I recommend takeout – the food should travel well, and more importantly, Creed doesn't...

I usually have nothing but great things to say about SoHo Social, but last night my experience was unacceptable. I was meeting my brother, nephew, and brother for dinner and we were all very excited since we haven't be able to get together recently, but that excitement quickly grew into frustration. We were sat in the room to the right which was apparently being used as a venue for a very loud office party for Cadence Bank. It seemed like they were wrapping up so we decided to stay where they sat us, but we realized after we had ordered that the party was actually just getting started. We spent our whole dinner literally yelling at each other across the table because it was so loud in there. They had no sense of personal space and they stayed close to our table the whole time. When they decided to take a group photo one of the ladies attending the party put her drink down on our table with no hesitation. Because of the excessive noise level we had no choice but to ask for our dessert to-go since we all had headaches after being in a room full of yelling for 45 minutes. I would also like to mention that there were 3 other tables of non partygoers in the same room and I believe we all shared the same frustrations.

I realize that the actions from the partygoers aren't SoHo Social's responsibility, but I wish that they wouldn't have sat us (or anyone else for that matter) in such a small room with such a large and obnoxious party knowing that was more than likely going to make our dining experience a lot less enjoyable. Like I said at the beginning of the review this usually isn't the experience that we have, but it definitely made me think of SoHo Social a little bit less and I will be hesitant the next time we...

This was my first time coming to this particular restaurant. The hostess was friendly and didn't think twice about my requesting a booth. The waitress greeted me in a timely manner. My grandson was anxious to place his order and she took our orders, along with our drink request. The order came out to us in less than 10 minutes, which was an immediate red flag. My burger and fries were lukewarm and so were the fries that my grandson ordered with his chicken tenders. I requested some hot fries and the waitress happily brought out MORE LUKEWARM FRIES. I finally gave up expecting a good eating experience and just tried to enjoy my grandson, who is 5 and didn't care that his chicken tenders and fries were cold. The waitress said that the fries are "kept under a lamp to keep them warm" and shrugged like there was nothing else she could do. How about dropping some fries in the cooking oil and serving your customers hot food? The waitress was nice, but I think I would have had a better food experience if I had just gone across the street to Jack's. At least I know my food would be hot. If you're just looking for a convenient place to meet friends for a beer and to watch the game, choose this place. If you want good hot food that is cooked to order and not just have someone in the back slapping pre-prepared meals together and tossing it on your plate, I would suggest going around the corner to Ironwood. At least they would try to consider your reasonable complaint and attempt to...