Busick Court Restaurant — Restaurant in Salem

This would be my third time eating at this restaurant over the course of the last 3 years. I generally go there when the better choices in town have very long waiting lists.

Today, was not much different than the typical experience at this restaurant. They must go out of their way to hire hipsters - because that summarizes their entire staff. This being said, today took the generally uncleanly dining experience to another level. Before I begin, I should probably mention that the customers restroom is in the kitchen. Yeah you heard that right (real sanitary).

All this may explain today. It's not unusual to have a dirty table or a ketchup bottle that looks as though it's never been cleaned, but today I got a little something extra in my omelette. What is it you ask? Two PUBIC HAIRS cooked into my potatoes. Now I don't know about you, but any human hair in my food makes me want to vomit, but these were pubic hairs.

This is another wonderful quality about this restaurant. To get help, you have to act as through you're landing a plane. So after 3 minutes of trying to flag down our "waitress" down I finally went up to the cash register with my plate.

Now the fun begins. My waitress was there talking to a middle aged woman who was one of the rudest cashiers I've ever met. I showed the waitress the "pubes" and she grabbed my plate and ran off with it without saying anything. Keep in mind I was talking to her. So I told the cashier that I guess I'll talk to you now seeing as how she walked away as I was talking. I told her I had pubic hair in my food and she said, and I quote, "OK, and?"

My mouth was watering still from the thought of this nasty crap in my food and I wanted to throw up. So I said, "Wow, OK, I guess we're out. And left this gross restaurant.

If you're looking for an unsanitary, disgusting, hipster dining joint then this is the...

It was once "good". Not great, but just good. A place just a bit better than Sheris is the best example i can give. Please read as it will give you an insight on what may occur with your experience at this gross restaraunt.

Their coffee dispenser it extremely greasy, not just because of the coffee, but to the point where it appears as though they NEVER cleaned it. Its quite disguisting looking and to think that the old build up is in the coffee that we have been drinking!

I could push my nail on the table and make an indent in it. As if the finish was old and mushy? Just absorbing the old overused rags the waitresses were using to clean the table and left over food.

The waitess was nice to me in the begining, but just short with me when ordering and gave no eye contact when we asked if i could have some creamer for my coffee.Was I inconveniencing you? Their wasn't creamer on the table... Sorry??

Here is the kicker though, when our food arrived, their was this short, dark, thick curly hair in one of our plates of food. It just looked WAY to thick to be a hair from the head. It could of been beard hair... Or worse. Absolutely disgusting and was cooked RIGHT into the food and was curling too riiiight out of it.

The staffs response to this was jaw dropping, completely unprofessional, and unsalvageable. She gave no resolution to this or even a care. Acting like a high school student being told to participate in PE. We just left and I will NEVER go back there.

Its unsanitary there, the staff are unhelpful , unproffesional, and uncaring...and it wasn't like I was being rude or demanding. I just don't like hair in my food; especially ones that look like pubic hair! Absolutely not worth the stop and wait. Be observant, youd be surprised what you will see in places like this. I will definitely be sharing my experience with my family...

I paid 16 or $17 for the chicken fried steak. What arrived was a ground beef patty with soggy breading. What? Neither the menu nor the price indicated that this was what’s known as a “poor man’s chicken fried steak.” If I’m going to be paying $17 for a chicken fried steak I’m expecting to get a piece of beef steak. The ground beef wasn’t even seasoned, it just tasted like bloody ground beef. If the ground beef patty had come with a crispy fried outside that had a crunch I could’ve probably eaten it and known to never order it again but it was soggy and mushy.

I also ordered over medium eggs and an English muffin. The English muffin was so burnt that my teeth couldn’t even tear it and the eggs came with runny egg whites.The potatoes were good. When the waitress came over, I told her that my steak tasted like ground beef and not chicken fried steak. She admitted that they do a ground beef chicken fried steak, but if I didn’t like it, they were happy to replace my meal. I took her up on that and ordered biscuits and gravy. What arrived was not a biscuit, but a super fluffy 4x4 piece of bread that was 3 inches high. That was only a half serving of biscuits and gravy. It wasn’t bad, but the bread just soaked up the gravy, and made it a soggy mess. The only saving grace was that the waitress was incredibly kind, patient, understanding and sweet.

My partner ordered eggs benedict, which I have also ordered there before. The eggs Benedict is legit. It’s good. Order that.

I understand prices have increased but it’s ridiculous to expect someone to pay $17 for an unseasoned bloody piece of ground beef when they ordered a steak. At least call it what it is...