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We have lived in Tulsa our whole life, and we know good food, or at least what the best Tulsa has to offer. We came in for lunch, and the first thing we noticed was that the atmosphere was dreary. It used to be such a nice restaurant with such impressive food when it was Grapevine, but now it seems to have been transformed into one of those fratboy-nightlife venues with overpriced everything.
After an insanely long wait for lunch, we got a "Kobe Beef Burger" which for $12 was a small, dry, boring burger with none of the advertised sauce - it did not taste like top-flight beef to me (I have had Kobe beef at the tasty eatery next to the University Village Apple Store in Seattle, and this was not that) and I am fully certain that Carl's Jr. sells a better product.
One of my fellow eaters got a chicken quesadilla that was inferior to the delicious quesadillas at Taco Bell - it was a dull, congealed concoction with some sort of dip that seemed to be a bean sauce. Dipping sauces are supposed to serve as a contrast to complement another flavor, but this just tasted like a refried bean side from a Mexican restaurant. It was truly a bizarre dish - a dish served cold at that.
Perhaps their dinners are better, but I think we have a consensus here. Places like this are overpriced, overrated, and are banking on the possibility that maybe we won't notice the lack of quality - that if the price is high enough, that we will just not notice that it tastes bad. I also see a trend that this food critic is unwilling to pan a restaurant and just wants to cast rays of sunshine on even the worst restaurants in Tulsa.
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Don't come here. They told us to come back in 15 minutes when they would have a table for us. The place was packed so we weren't going to stand in the doorway. We went next door to shop, and when we came back exactly 15 minutes later, we were given the run around. They had no clue what had happened to our table, then admitted that they had just given it away. However, we could see open tables that they were supposedly reserving for other people (people that, while the tables were open for, they were not present to occupy) that hadn't arrived yet - they would not give us one of these tables.
The two hostesses were snotty and the long and the short of it is that while they would gladly give away our table to someone else, they wouldn't give away some other table that someone was not there for. We had a table dialed in for 15 minutes later, they knew we were coming back for it, and they still didn't give a crap whether we got seated. It was going to be an unholy wait after this if we wanted to stand around waiting for someone to leave, so we left and plan never to return.
Their food consists mostly of salty pizzas with arcane Mediterranean toppings. If you want a big, sweaty pizza caked in goat cheese, sea salt, and squishy peppers, on a timetable that is up to the airheaded hosts, this is your place. So stick to Hideaway, at least they are not pretentious and are impartial in how they serve you.
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We have lived in Tulsa our whole life, and we know good food, or at least what the best Tulsa has to offer. We came in for lunch, and the first thing we noticed was that the atmosphere was dreary. It used to be such a nice restaurant with such impressive food when it was Grapevine, but now it seems to have been transformed into one of those fratboy-nightlife venues with overpriced everything.
After an insanely long wait for lunch, we got a "Kobe Beef Burger" which for $12 was a small, dry, boring burger with none of the advertised sauce - it did not taste like top-flight beef to me (I have had Kobe beef at the tasty eatery next to the University Village Apple Store in Seattle, and this was not that) and I am fully certain that Carl's Jr. sells a better product.
One of my fellow eaters got a chicken quesadilla that was inferior to the delicious quesadillas at Taco Bell - it was a dull, congealed concoction with some sort of dip that seemed to be a bean sauce. Dipping sauces are supposed to serve as a contrast to complement another flavor, but this just tasted like a refried bean side from a Mexican restaurant. It was truly a bizarre dish - a dish served cold at that.
Perhaps their dinners are better, but I think we have a consensus here. Places like this are overpriced, overrated, and are banking on the possibility that maybe we won't notice the lack of quality - that if the price is high enough, that we will just not notice that it tastes bad. I also see a trend that this food critic is unwilling to pan a restaurant and just wants to cast rays of sunshine on even the worst restaurants in Tulsa.
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