Court Street Grille — Restaurant in Lincolnton

I am sharing this here along with Yelp. People should know.

Bless their hearts. Save yourself the time, hunger, and expense. Chris H.'s review 2 hours ago is very fitting for this place. In our 2 hour and 38 minute adventure, we watched multiple tables come and go (several times over) and received our food over the course of 45 minutes. After an hour and fifteen minutes waiting for our first dish to come out, I told the nearest waitress (who walked me to the hostess register to hand me off) to just send out whatever food was ready. We had 6 kids under 10 and not one dish on the table. One of the other waitresses standing in at the hostess stand asked where we were sitting, to which our waitress walked up and said "this is the table I was telling you all about." So, we were apparently a story in the kitchen.

There was an older gentleman that I spoke with at the 2:20 mark and asked him if he was the manager. His response "well, we try to manage it". I explained the situation, his response "your food was entered at 715". I advised he needed to do something to make the situation right. He said he would talk to the manager, old guy returned to say "the manager said we were just backed up, sorry for the inconvenience."

I asked who the manager was, his response "the owner." The owner turns out to be Osama. Literally, Osama. I am fairly certain he thought he was Gordon Ramsay on HK. Osama was such a complete jerk, I mean a complete jerk. He said he remembered me from the last time I came in when I was complaining. Out of curiosity, I asked when was the last time I was in. I mean if the service/kitchen was this bad, I probably did complain. After multiple "last time" responses, he finally said it was last month. Doppelganger alert. It has been over a year since I was in Lincolnton. And I do remember the service was crap but I did not complain and this was not my choice to return.

BEST PART ALERT As I am speaking with Osama Ramsay, this drunk chic and her husband "Napoleon Complex" husband are sitting at the bar. I was forced to stand next to them and have my Ramsay conversation over the bar since Osama wouldn't step out and talk to me. Back to the drunk woman, she blurts out "when did you order your food, I've never had a problem". I simply look over to her, point at my watch and say, 7:15. At 8:40, her drunksense actually realized, that was a long time ago. She shut her trap and agreed with a "hmm". Meanwhile, Napoleon gets worked up in his short glass, princess is trying to keep him calm, he proceeds to stomp over to the hostess stand and pay our bill. Nice guy. I didn't even ask Osama to pay our bill. Osama asked me what I wanted him to do, I simply asked him what would he want done if he was me. Then his minion chefmates start chiming in getting smart with me.

Anyway, Napoleon now walks up to me, throws the receipt in my face (in front of the entire dining room) and says "here's your free meal and don't ever get in my wife's f'n face again." I'm thinking this is a nice guy to pay for my meal. I guess he was a bit of a surprise to him it was a 9 top with mandatory 18% gratuity. Bless his heart. $200 drunk temper tantrum.

Ironically, the last dish to come out was our 4 year old's spaghetti. And it looked just like Chris H's picture. This was after they tried to deliver 6 different entrees to our table that belonged to other tables, a salad that sat in the window so long the cheese was melted on the top and the lettuce was warm on the bottom, and all of our meals over a 45 minute time frame.

Oh yes, as we were walking out, drunkoleon pops his head over to our table, yells "I hope you enjoyed your free meal" and flips us the bird to the entire restaurant. There were young kids everywhere. Bless his heart. He was welcomed back the seat in front of Osama with open arms.

This was far from a free meal. They obviously don't understand the time-value-of-money concept. Burning nearly 3 hours to eat mediocre (and I am no food snob) food is a huge waste of time and money, not to mention it...

I thought I had already found the best pizza, but this place was on a whole new level. The pizza is beyond delicious, it's a whole EXPERIENCE. The crust is both fluffy and crunchy at the same time, and the supreme has more toppings on it than any supreme I have EVER seen. The sauce to cheese ratio is spot on, the toppings aren't canned, they're FRESH, and it's big enough to share with 1-2 more people depending on how much you eat. I've been to Court Street Grille twice already and I literally just found the place. I never thought I would find the world's best pizza in the humble town of Lincolnton but it's like nothing I've ever eaten before and I could've cried tears of joy. Then, if the pizza wasn't enough to make a hungry person emotional, they have some of the best completely homemade desserts with a dessert menu that changes daily. I got and shared a slice of their 5-layer chocolate cake. Despite being all chocolate, it wasn't too sweet. The frosting seemed to be chocolate mousse, definitely not plain over-sweetened cake frosting. Despite being a thick slice of cake, nothing was too dense. The cake layers were moist and fluffy and every bite was a pleasant dose of soft chicken cake and creamy mousse that went perfectly with a cup of coffee. Court Street Grille is amazing and popular no matter what time of day. If you're nearby this is a MUST-try location for pizza, calzones, burgers,...

I was there today September 2, 2016 @ 1:30p.m. with my 19 year old daughter and we sat at a booth which was still dirty and the waitress didn't even see us when we sat down. I had to get her attention to come over and clean the table. Well she asked what we wanted to drink, but my daughter went to the restroom, so I told waitress to come back. But of course she didnt, so I believe the waitress I waived over was named Kim, she got our drinks and was very nice. Then a few minutes later Kim came back for our order and we ordered mozzarella sticks as an appetizer and a Calzone to share. When we finally got our order of Mozzarella sticks, it was our 2nd order cause the first set was over cooked and the 2nd ones were still frozen. That was the icing on the cake! When our Calzone comes, we cut into it and of course it's still cold inside! After that I was done! Thankfully, Kim came over and talked to us and apologize for the inconvenience. Which I thought the manager on call was suppose too, but guess not! The only good thing out of our lunch was that it was free, oh wait, we didn't...