Edward "hide your dogs" L.'s Profile

Came here the night they happened to be having their Grand Opening...not their "soft" opening. Nothing soft about this opening.

The waitress was not entirely familiar with the menu, maybe not so experienced either. And she could have been a bit more attentive. Not a lot folks eating, so I don't see why she was so absent.

The breads and goat cheese were a nice little free appetizer.

By the way, they will ask if you want free "bottled" water. It's just water. No tricks. But they apparently don't have tap water.

Anyway, I had the most pedestrian thing on the menu, a hamburger. They were late with it, so it was free. Nice touch.

Honestly, the burger patty was cooked to perfection. The bun was nice. The cheese was good. Even the onion was good. This would have been the best danged burger if it had any...and I mean ANY seasoning on it. I mean salt would have done this burger some justice.

Now, this place is fancy-ish. So, when they didn't bring me ketchup (not even for my fries!), I was reluctant to ask for fear of insulting them or embarrassing my company. Plus, I figured a classy burger shouldn't need ketchup.
Boy, was I wrong! If ever a burger needed ketchup, it was this burger.

To the chef, thanks for the free burger. You did everything right, except literally must have forgotten to add flavor to the meat. If you had added salt or worcestershire sauce or oil and crushed pepper, this thing would have been soooooo much better. It would be amazing. Just consider it. That's all I ask.

There is no other place for breakfast. Anywhere else and you're wasting your time...and your money.

Hot dang.

I love this place. Really, it's great. Good food. Good prices. Holy crap, they've got the best danged service this side of brightness. But can they please please please please PLEASE do something about those bees?!

It's like a Monet. Wait, is it Monet? I don't know artists.

Either way, up close it's an eyesore. From afar it's nice. The Philly side is ok, if you can dismiss the smell of urine. The NJ side makes no sense to me. But neither does NJ.

If you ever have the displeasure of attending a Camden Riversharks baseball game, the only redeeming value is the view of this bridge. But if you really just want to see baseball, then you might as well watch the game from the bridge and not pay to be among the 10 paying spectators.

But about the Ben Franklin Bridge...I probably wouldn't make it a part of my running route, but it's worth an afternoon stroll if you're in the area on a pleasant summer day.

So hoist up the john b sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go...Oh hi!

I guess I really have nothing to say about this place but that I was rather unimpressed with it. The food is basic and not worth the money. Because of that, I'd rather go elsewhere for my alcohol.

Why don't they let me go home
This is the worst trip Ive ever been on

Best Veggie burger in Philly? Maybe. I don't know. It was good. It was also a crumbling mess. Throw an egg and some cheese on that puppy and it's certainly a good meal. I was feeling unhealthy, so I opted for the non-beef patty. Washed it down with something beer from an above-par draft list.

All in all, I'd go back.

Let's get it straight, folks. The food sucks. I'm sorry. Let me start off with a positive. The beer list is pretty good. After four times here, I've eaten enough from the menu and consumed a number of different drinks (giving them the benefit of each piling doubt) to safely say that I might be back for drinks. But the food f*cking sucks.

The monte cristo is a pathetic attempt, weak in flavor and dryer than my napkin. The oyster sandwich is a nice try.

But the soup...I've had two different soups here. The first was ok. Simply ok.

The second was salty brown water in a cup for $5. Thanks, but give me some substance to this broth. It was basically heated beef stock from a box. So I asked if it came with bread to dunk. Because for f*ck's sake it should come with a bag of crackers if not some bread. Half the restaurants in town will give you ten loaves of bread for free. Not this place.

They brought me out a single slice of bread. A pathetic little patty of toasted dough on a plate. $1. One slice of bread. $1.

Wait. Keep reading because I'm going to repeat that.

One slice of bread for $1.

Thanks for throwing me a bone, kids. I needed something to soak up my salty water. That single slice of bread that I paid a dollar for was exactly what I needed. Too bad I had to pay a dollar for that single slice bread.

Now let me get back to the weakest of all sauces known to man. I was that guy who needed change because the bills I had were way too big for the check. Well, the waitress decides to round up the check amount to the nearest dollar, and bring out the rest. If you're not good at math (more importantly word problems), it basically means she took the coin part of my change for herself and gave me the bills. I hate when places do this. It's bad practice to assume that the customer doesn't want all their due change, even if you both can assume that the customer will be leaving a tip. Because when you steal (because that's what you're trying to do) money from the customer, you can be damn sure that what ever pittance the customer leaves behind is a mark of true forgiveness, maybe a little pity for your horrible skills in waiting, but definitely an undue blessing for you. That sort of behavior is just rude. You're no different from the cashier at 7-11 who automatically keeps the 4 cents you should have gotten back from your Slurpee purchase, which you would have surely put in the give a penny, take a penny, but now you can't because he didn't even give you the choice.

Waitress, you didn't even give me a choice to offer you my change. You simply stole it from me, along with $1 for a single pathetic slice of bread. Put my tip toward the tuition on a crash course in being cordial. Then take the advanced course in applied mathematics (food service edition). Or just buy a calculator. And go apologize to the few friends you have left. They probably deserve it.

Let's start with the only real negative: the location sucks.

But the food is good. Well, most of it. The ribs are really good. My suggestion is to get the dry rub and ask for the BBQ sauce on the side. This creates the best combo. The prices are good. The stuffing in gravy is awesome.

Then there was a near miss. My dining partner ordered a special--the tuna melt.

Who orders a tuna melt at a BBQ place?

Anyway, it was mediocre at best. It was basic and bland. It came with a nice side soup, which according to the menu was $3 and that was tasty. So, here's where the special was only a near miss. It was $6! The whole special, sandwich and soup. So, at least they are fair with the bland side of the menu.

The tasty side of the menu is, well, tasty.

And the beer list is pretty good too.

I'm done with this place. It's all hype.

I really liked what I had in the past, but I was always ordering off the specials menu. But this place is waaaaaay overpriced. WAY WAY WAY OVERPRICED.

The place is tiny and if you eat in the main area, you will get smoked out of there by the kitchen exhaust. But it has a quaint back area and carriage house.

The trouble is that I paid $16 for a dish recommended by the waiter. I mean, he raved it. So I ordered it. To put it lightly, it sucked. It was bland as bland can be. Look up the word "bland." I think they can simply redefine it as the dish I ordered the other night.

The fact that people were lined up out the door either says that they occassionally, not always, make a good meal. Or it just means that people are that stupid.

I was that stupid. But never again will I bother with this place.

While you're up this way to visit the Penitentiary, avoid this place. I really don't know how you can serve bad ice cream but this place found out how. The service is subpar but it's really the ice cream that makes this place fall dead flat. I can't say it was like that gritty frozen yogurt chemical soft serve stuff...but it was not good.