Taste My City — Restaurant in Phoenix

I’m gonna start by saying they should stop advertising “Chicago style” as the food is not Chicago style in my opinion. Especially the baked Mac and cheese.

I ordered a bucket of tips which included fries and bread (as stated on their menu). We got a tray not a bucket so that was misleading.

The tips were burnt and cut so thick that they seemed more like a rack of ribs. The ribs taste like turkey ribs, just a odd taste in general.

Then the fries that were included they forgot to put in the bag so we had to drive back to get after waiting over an hour for our food already so that was disappointing especially considering that no courtesy gesture was given of any sorts for the inconvenience.

Only to get home and the ribs barely to have sauce on them and were now warm.

The “ Baked Mac and cheese” is a 8oz cup priced at $4.99 not only is it over priced for it to taste store bought, it looks nothing like baked Mac and cheese. In all seriousness they know damn well they don’t serve that kinda baked mac and cheese at the thanksgiving table at home and call it “soul food” it just ain’t NO WAY!

This I was very annoyed by because yet again it’s misleading when the Mac and cheese is advertised as baked and they advertise being a soul food restaurant. Google soul food baked mac and cheese I guarantee you it looks nothing like what you are given here.

In all honesty I was very excited to try a place that reminded me of back home (Chicago). I’m just overall disappointed. From the wait time, what I got for the price I paid, the customer service, the food overall was not good.

In my opinion it is not even close to Chicago style as they advertise on tik tok and in their name “taste my city”. If you are going to rep Chicago you gotta come better than that food wise at least. I understand this isn’t a fast food restaurant so its going to take some time but over an hour is a bit excessive and if it takes that long at least make sure everything is correct again just as a courtesy for the time waited.

My suggestion would be to do better on wait times & customer service and find a way not to burn the ribs that someone is paying nearly $33 and lastly, if your gonna charge $5 for baked Mac at least take the time to make it authentic. I paid about $40 for everything total. Overall...

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