B

If you’re looking for a date night experience to try, this place is totally fine. The interior is a modern broody dimly lit sort of place, very cramped and small. The staff are nice, very attentive to filling up your water. The food itself was just… meh? Clearly going for upscale cuisine but ultimately not that tasty. The biscuits look delicious but are so SO dry and also a lot smaller than you’d think from photos.

I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed. I cannot recommend this place in good faith to anyone. Service was slow despite not being busy, and the food was the most “meh” experience I’ve had in Raleigh in a while.

Their service logistics need work, you can start by firing Chris. We arrived between lunch and dinner service when it wasn’t busy at all. At the door “Chris” told us to seat ourselves. Seems they should have a “seat yourself” sign because we watched many couples stand at the host stand and then decide to leave after no one greeted them. After being seated, it look at least 15 minutes before a man who looked like the manager brought us menus. The place was not busy at all and many servers walked right by us without making any attempt to acknowledge our existence. The manager and one other server both told us Chris would be our server. Chris walked by us several times and refused to make eye contact or acknowledge us at all. Finally Asia walked past and realized we didn’t even have drinks so she got us some waters. Again, said that Chris would be our server, who was completely ignoring us. After about 30 minutes of waiting, Caitlin, the bar tender, took our order and handled our service for the meal. We ordered our entire meal start to finish. A normal couple would have abandoned ship by now but we had time to kill and this place has been on our list for a while.

The food was entirely unremarkable. The pimento fritters were tasty but it’s hard to mess up fried cheese. The taste of Louisiana platter was disappointing. The jambalaya and fried gator were the best parts, the other two dishes tasted like sad flavorless bean paste.

We watched other tables get seated after us despite the fact that we were told it was “seat yourself”. We watched those tables get served, pay their checks, and leave before we received our final dishes.

Don’t waste your time or money, eat somewhere else.

Staff was friendly and had a welcoming atmosphere. Ordered the chicken over rice because another review said it was amazing and posted a picture that made me want to try it. The chicken was cooked fresh to order but the rice was old and crusty and the guy just scraped it off the bottom of the pan and heated it in the microwave. Overall the food was surprisingly tasty but got halfway through before I found a small thick black hair in it that totally ruined my appetite and knocked my review down to 3 stars.

Tried this place for restaurant week and also ordered off their regular dinner menu. Everything we tried was delicious and we absolutely plan to come back! It is such an unassuming place that we wouldn’t pick if we walked past it but we are so glad we stumbled across it because there is so much more on the menu we want to try.

The restaurant is categorized as “new american” but their menu feels like home cooked German traditional food. The service was great and the ambiance was very calm. Although there only seemed to be one waiter for the entire restaurant he was really on the ball and we never felt neglected. All of the dishes came out in a timely manner and our drinks never ran dry.

Shout out to the hostess who was considerate of things happening outside of the restaurant like a flickering street light and accommodated moving guests to different tables to be less affected by the light coming in the windows.