Flavor Hills — Restaurant in Raleigh

🤬 CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS PLACE TO REPENT! Where do I begin?

👂🏽 Listen, bestie and I met up with our sister for her 60th Birthday Dinner. I’m not sure what they told God; but I promised Him that I’d only. order. salad. Enter Justice—our Fantastic waitress! The same Justice who sent this entire Party of 3 Straight to the alter yesterday morning. To start, Birthday Girl said to bring, “any strong thing with pineapples in it.” Ms. Justice came back with a Pineapple Whiskey Sour. Sorcery.

😍 Then c/o ‘92’s FINEST piece of Eye Candy with his salt & pepper wave streak, delivered a mimosa shelf thing to the party on our left. Youngin’s smile alone could bring tears to a glass eye.

🫨 Our heads did a Linda Blair reverse spin after that and met the look of a couple who were a few spots over. Two of the Diaspora’s best saw J’s gift bag and offered to buy a round of whatever we wanted. I played deaf. Okay, IN MY DEFENSE, I’ve never seen a drink double as incense. So curiosity accepted whatever the hypnotizing thing was—not us.

🍍 How’d the 2nd Pineapple Whiskey Sour appear? No se. I was eating salad. I know one thing. Mr. Bartender is heavy-handed. Sheesh! 😉 I did notice that 1/2 the menu eventually found its way to our table. I’m a lettuce & water chick, so I’m not the culprit. Hell, blame the servers. The kitchen staff too. They were all in cahoots to orchestrate our downfall b/c ALL of the Ancestors showed OUT!

🥇 Babyyy, those greens were set aside for a Reparations Awards Banquet. The texture/flavor was Baptism Sunday good. Whew! Catfish came from the Nile. A Walkerswood heir blessed the Jerk. Grits tasted like buttery clouds and the cornbread danced!

🐔 While I enjoyed Only salad, thee crispiest wings and creamiest mac & cheese known to man came to our table and got attacked. As did a bread basket. And maybe a bowl of gravy. A little caviar lost its fight too. I was busy upholding my promise to God; so I don’t know for sure. Did I tell ya’ll the head chef went to AL and stole my great granny’s yard bird recipe when I wasn’t looking? The nerve! A few crab tots or crab fries left crumbs on our table as well; but I can’t confirm that either. Croutons had my attention. Meet me outside if you disagree.

🥧 Management even allowed us to bring our own pie! See? It’s all a set up. HR better answer my call. AGM Nina, with the pretty pink frill top gives me hope. Such a sweetie! Ma’am, can FH serve all salads with Double the current dressing size, going forward? Portion cups are way too small. I thought they were for mouthwash.

☕️ Stronger coffee IN A larger mug is our other ask. I have bigger pill cups. That’s all. My Joe was fresh and piping hot. It just wasn’t anything more than Struggling Sanka mixed with Enfamil. That’s what the creamer tasted like. Add Splenda to the grocery list 📝 too. Just some gentle feedback. It’s all love. Believe me, we’ll be back 7/1.

🎷 FH is basically a speakeasy. Think Mo’ Better Blues and Love Jones (trapped in an elevator)—but with sporadic bursts of NYE and Chicago stepping. Solid. There’s no Live music here. YET. I speak Improv Night and Poetry Slams into its future. They just need added space and closer parking.

🤨The City of Raleigh needs to do Their part and make 1,0000 more parking spaces available near Fayetteville St. to spare seasoned ladies’ cankles from walking 40 Acres.

🧊 Menopause friendly temperature. Spotless bathrooms. Angel Shot signage. Show me to my room!

🏆 Flavor Hills, Raleigh passes the vibe check ✅ It’s quaint, but not crowded. Chill, but GROWN chill. Laid back, but NOT bonnets and ankle bracelets laid back.

COUTH PSA: 🚨Flavor Hills, Raleigh is NOT a Spirit Airlines meets WorldStar type of establishment. Okay, Pookiesha & Ra’Quarvionte? Take Prescribed meds 💊 AND Look Presentable before ya’ll THINK about visiting. OR stay put! 🚨 Auntie’s and Unc’s ain’t having it. 👊🏽

We Golden Girls had such a good time, they hauled out on a flatbed. Why?? I’ll just say that our diets were ruint. Ruint!...

8/3- After seeing a social medial post, my family drove two hours to get brunch (party of 6) at Flavor Hills and support a black owned business. We arrive at 1:48pm. We wait an hour to get seated. After being seated, the waiter took our drink order and then proceeded to ask for our food order… now it’s 3:01. We start order our brunch items (chicken/waffles, pancakes / shrimp/grits etc)., the waiter yells.. “oh no! Wait! The brunch items just disappeared off of my order device- let me see what’s happening “ She leaves and come back stating that “we have now switch to dinner. At 3pm the menu switch over” — —we are furious, we drove two hours and waited an hour to get brunch, we checked in at 1:48, seated at 2:48. Now you saying at 3:02 you can serve us brunch. The manager (QUE) comes over and states, “ on July 31st we switched to a new process of stopping brunch at 3pm”. ——— As the customer, who drove 2 hours and waited an hour to eat brunch and NO ONE COMMUNICATED to us before being seated that brunch would stop at 3pm. We would have went to another restaurant that was serving brunch. I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED in how the manager handled the situation. How could cooking a few eggs, pancakes and chicken /waffles AT 3:02 held up operations for a new customer that drove two hours to get your experience. Then to top it off, right after the manager left, we watched the table next to us get served pancakes, eggs, shrimp /grits and waffles.

@ Tellers Pollard and Andre Truss — I recommend doing some human center design - customer experience analysis. Starting with your manager- there were several engagements that could have transpired out of the customers sight. And when I asked to speak to her, she had me wait 15 minutes (she was 10 steps from me) as she was talking to an employee.. Really?!?

My friend ordered the salmon and it was accompanied with the wrong vegetable (asparagus). Instead of taking the plate back, the waitress asked her to “ just scrape it off”—- WHAT?!? what if she was allergic to asparagus?!?!

We could have been a huge influencers with 100 million followers (who the say I’m not). My experience could have been made a huge impact on your ROI. My experience as a customer is every touch point from the time I arrive at your restaurant until the time I walk out the door. I am a veteran as well who worked in DC HQ improving the experiences of our hero’s US wide. As a fellow veteran, I want to see you succeed. Contact me if you need some recommendations. I would be happy to help. I also provided the feedback to QUE before leaving . Photos are of table next to us getting...

$60 Waisted. Let's start here they don't swap sides, they will take off the plate and charge you extra for the side you requested. I asked for the side back since I was still paying for it (I ate it for breakfast and probably the best dish). If you don't know it is on street parking, it took me 30min I'm not from this area and circled around at least 4 times, my reservation had not received their food yet so I was irritated but ok. I ordered an apple bourbon cocktail that tasted like a watered down apple cider for $17....I ordered a heat catfish dish for $27, the fish was good and a nice piece, I got my sauce in lil cup because it was supposed to be a honey hot sauce but it tasted like straight sweet n sour sauce, y'all really need to visit Tennessee or Texas to get that real flavor, no thanks just give me fried fish. This dish orderly comes with collards and sweet potatoes, I asked twice so my waitress could understand what I wanted "Can I swap my sweet potatoes for Mac n cheese" (it looked good on picture) she said both times and never mentioned I would be charged $4.50 for an extra side. I got my dish and asked for a box my table was done but I ordered it late looking for parking and they weren't too happy about their food fitting pictures and flavors as well. So, I'm in my hotel by now and I taste my Mac and it tastes like dry box Mac with no sauce , no cheese, no flavor, no goo, it's like they mixed the pasta in the rue with no cheese sauce where are the layers y'all describe??? These collards OMG I'm from GA they taste like they were soaked in sugar water so bad I took one bite face turned up, I put hot sauce on it took another and still all I taste is sugar. I'm an adult I eat my greens and I want to taste them...to the trash they go!. The best thing on my plate were the sweet potatoes I almost lost. This was not worth my $60. It just reminded me that it doesn't matter who is celebrating if I've never been to stick with soup and salad, cause everyone's taste buds not like mine and everyone doesn't cook like me or is as good as mine. But it wasn't just me my whole table felt they got cheated out of their coins...Now I gotta go make my own collards get that taste out of my mouth...being that I was already late looking for parking I would've grabbed a chicken salad from Wendy's and met my table at the play. My advice to you is to travel the world explore your taste buds and learn how to create them...cause that wasn't it. I don't mind spending the money if it's worth it. Not on mine or their...