Rosey Baby — Restaurant in Starkville

Atmosphere is ok not great, it is about what you would expect for a dive bar or in this case a college town. The food has amazing potential to be great, but its by far at best mediocre. So enough of the generalization and let's get into this review. Upon arriving at this "restaurant" the look outside is kinda down home reminds ones self of the bayous of Louisiana. Parking is a disaster of its own beastly accords, its like finding a parking spot in an alley way combined with a pot hole infested back road. Once we navigated this "parking lot" if one could call it such we (my wife, our lovely but devilish three children, and myself) made entry into this sports bar/dive bar/restaurant, after about 3 minutes we were handed off to a waitress who found us a seat (thankfully a booth) and handed us our menus. After looking over the menus for about 8 more minutes she returned and asked us what we wanted to drink (little did we know these drinks would be one of the few things that would be as one would expect) and if we would like any starters. My lovely wife ordered the fried pickles, the kids wanted the shrimp cocktail (ps it was not a cocktail more on that in a minute), and myself I ordered the fried crawfish tails (crayfish for those coming or reading this up north or from a foreign locale). About a minute later we received our drinks and was asked if we were ready to order our meals, we were not so she left us be until 3-4 minutes later when we got our starters (and what should have been our cue to start leaving). We gave our orders wife getting their in house Rosey burger and fries, our oldest getting the Cajun boiled crab legs, our middle child getting the kids shrimp plate (a basic fried shrimp plate for kids), and our youngest getting the "chicken fingers" (as it turns out these are just chicken strips nothing fancy), and myself getting a footlong fried gator po-boy with fries. As we began to eat our starters we noticed something each different with our starters. Starting with me this time the crawfish tails seemed perfect exactly what you would expect that is until about halfway down the basket, then slowly they became more and more salty until I may as well have just eaten a salt block. The wife immediately refused to eat the fried pickles, I asked why and tried one instead of halfway down it was immediately salt lick worthy right off the top. The children didn't like the "shrimp cocktail" and me fearing the worst I tried a bite of it, to my surprise and delight it was actually edible and good turns out they were just being picky because they expected an actual shrimp cocktail. Now this "shrimp cocktail" was actually nothing more then a semi sweet salsa (seemed made in house) with jumbo peeled and devined boiled shrimp mixed in. The only thing I could say about the "cocktail" is that some of the tortilla chips were stale. The kids refused to eat much of the starters except the occasional fried pickle slathered in the ranch it came with on the side or maybe a crawfish tail or two. However my wife and I devoured the shrimp salsa as I am going to call it, I think this was out of pure joy of good taste after the salt we were served. Eventually after waiting thirty minutes to and hour our main course was served along with our much needed refills. The wife took two bites of her "fries" and couldn't eat anything else, they also were over salty as well as the added insult of being burnt (she is pregnant as of writing this so essentially she couldn't eat any more due to both her gag reflex as well as the baby kicking, no doubt due to the bad food). Now before I continue, these "fries" were what used to be small to medium sized red potatoes that were cut into slices down their width not length and way over cooked in a deep fryer and finally assaulted with that wreched salt shaker. This is getting long so ill sum up the rest quickly. Youngest child's chicken was burnt black, middle shrimp was over salted, my gator po-boy over salted as well, and finally my oldest he got lucky the crab was perfect in all ways. TLDR:...

I am a food service professioal.I live on the gulf coast of Florida,and when we come to West Point we go to Rosey Baby to celebrate my wife's daughters birthday every April.It is our tradition of crawfish consuption,and creole food.Having lived in NOLa,and worked in the quarter my bar is pretty high for food quality,and in the past Rosey's impressed me,hence our tradition.However last year they ran out of crawfish,and lied to us about it.They served,and sold us appetizers,stalled us on our,and a half before admitting they were out of crawfish.So this year we called ahead.They assured us that they had crawfish so we gave them them benifit of the doubt,and went there.So an obviously untrained young lady starts by not writing down our order of 3 sweet t,and one half half t,and bringing 4 sweet t,she thens comes out with 2 lbs of crawfish that i ordered,however We all ordered 2lbs of crawfish ,but before we did we ordered mushrooms,alligator bites,and bloomin onion,Apparently no one trained this young college student that the appetizers come out first.The 2 lbs of crawfish I ordered I sent back to come out with the other 3 orders,Appetizers come out,and our bloomin onion is under cooked with raw flour still it so we send it back.After 5 minutes enjoying our mushrooms,and alligator our crawfish arrives,and one order is ice cold!The booth we were in was already too crowded for us and all our foid so we move to a lager booth.Soon as we get there our onion arrives still underdone;ie half cooked,but in spite of the small crawfish that were overcooked to the point of falling apart we ate them up.They took the onion off the bill.We ordered beignets in past years they were great in the past,but today they were satuerated in oil with very little powdered sugar.We asked them to take them off the bill.The owners did a table touch early some guy who corrected the sweet t with half n half,but failed to bus straw wrappers.After we go moved to the larger table a lady came by ,and seemed to emphasize with the onion problem,but never apologized,but did say they would take it off the bill.A good manager would have came to my table after the beignets fail,but nothing ..I would have discreetly spoken about these issues if they had so now as an object lesson I am going public!! The kitchen needs a manager to insure,and protect the integrity of the product.The servers must be trained by a training program .While having a town full of potential employees is convinient.The owners needs to bring in some veteren servers,and kitchen people.We will never be back to eat,and unless your in the college party crowd avoid this...

Visited here two nights ago with a reservation for a group of 25. We were seated on the patio, which was neat, and our waitress was very friendly and well-spoken, but the positives ended abruptly at that point. We expected the meal to be a lengthy process because of our large number + the regular business of a Wednesday night in a college town, but what we got was ridiculous, bordering on ripoff territory. Several plates did not receive but half of what their meal included, and we alerted our server who attempted to get it taken care of but the kitchen staff never came through for her, even after multiple reminders. What makes this worse is that the plates that were missing MULTIPLE items were still charged FULL PRICE at $30+/plate. On top of that, more than a dozen people in our group said their food was ice cold when they received it. On the final bill, we knew there would be a hefty gratuity, which is totally fine, but then they added a random $20 "administrative fee," on a subtotal already over $400, with tax and gratuity was now a $600 bill. There were also 5 "phantom" meals on our ticket that the serving crew could not explain and did not belong to us. We had 20 kids, 6 adults, and 3 appetizers, but were charged for 34 meals. We tried to work things out kindly and patiently with the obviously overwhelmed staff, but the young man identifying as an assistant manager was stand-offish and could not provide a response. Again, we knew this would be an ordeal with so many people and expected complications, but the refusal to communicate was a deal-breaker. If it were not for the atmosphere and our friendly waitress, this would be a 1-star review. As much money as we were obviously going to spend with that many people, most establishments would go out of their way to help, at least in making sure we all got food. I'm sure this place is much better than the experience we had this one night, but I would be leery or recommending it to anyone...