This was my husband and Iâs first visit. Service was good, the employees were hospitable and even when we asked to exchange an entree after it was made. My only gripe would be that itâs a pet peeve of mines for employees to be eating in the kitchen area, especially when theyâre the ones cooking or delivering orders and where customers can see them, and this was the case today.
Hereâs what we ordered for $50:
Gumbo
Fried Shrimp w/ greens and fried okra
Fried Ribs w/ macaroni and red beans & rice
Koolaid
I didnât eat the gumbo, my husband said it was âcoolâ, not the best but definitely not the worst heâs had. The gumbo has chicken, sausage and shrimp. The shrimp looked to be good size. he didnât comment on the chicken too much, other than a couple of super large chunks that couldâve been diced into a few pieces. We like a hearty, quality sausage and from across the table, it looked like hot dog. It was not hot dog, but you know how the cheap sausage looks like hot dog, it was like that. My husband said it wasnât eckeridge, but it certainly wasnât even Chappell Hill. It had a nice brown roux, which I prefer, Iâm not a fan of super super dark roux.
The fried shrimp was good. Itâs hard to mess that up, especially when they make pre seasoned fish fry. The grease couldâve been fresher, but overall it wasnât bad. Itâs the only thing I would order again.
My husband liked the macaroni and cheese. It wasnât bad, just wasnât my taste preferenceâŠbut I also am hard on Mac and cheeseâŠif it isnât my mommaâs, Iâm not really here for it lol The person who took our order described it as âcreamy Mac, not a baked styleâ
Cornbread came with both meals. Itâs more cakey than cornbread. My husband loved it, but he doesnât like cornbread at all. It was very sweet. It had something drizzled and soaked into it, but I couldnât put my finger on what it was. It was buttery, but didnât taste like straight honey butter.
The fried okra was okay. Most pieces had a decent crunch, but not all were battered and some were battered and fried stuck together, so the interior was a little dough like because you canât cook fried okra for too long, so the batter stuck between the pieces didnât fry all the way. Definitely needed to be seasoned, but I wasnât too mad at this side. I ate all of it except the stuck together/doughy pieces.
Red beans and rice was good, would be better with sausage.
Greens were good until I got down to the part soaked in the juice. The juice was soooooo salty that it made the greens way too salty. I like having the greens juice, but I couldnât eat them anymore once the top half that wasnât soaking was gone.
We sent the fried ribs back. I was going to try them, but one look after the first bite and I could see that it was bad on my husbands face. He said the seasoning wasnât bad, but the meat tasted like it was freezer burned or just wasnât fresh. You can tell it was a wet batter and not just seasoning the meat and the flour because it cracked off when it was bit into leaving the meat exposed, which did not at all look appetizing. He exchanged them for the fried shrimpâŠagain, canât go wrong with fried shrimpâŠin most places itâs the safest option, and that stands true for this restaurant.
My husband described the Kool-aid as âinteresting, but not necessarily bad, itâs Kool-aidââŠ.do with those thoughts as you will lol
The atmosphere is very chill with mostly high cocktail table seating with bar stools. They were playing early 2000s R&B videos which we thought was cool. When you first walk in I would expect to smell seasoning or some sort of essence of the food, but couldnât. If you sniff too hard, you can smell the ânail salonâ smell from the neighboring nail salon, canât really help that, but just an observance. Parking is scarce in the front, but there is more in the back.
Overall, I wouldnât be mad if someone brought me here again, as there are a couple of times that I could get again if I happened to be here, but I am not planning to drive 25 minutes across town again for it.
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