I have heard incredible things about G's from Yelpers, influencers, and family and friends! I have anxiously been waiting for it to open since I first heard about it, especially because it is right down the street from me. My boyfriend and I decided to go for a date night on Tuesday. Good thing we got there right at 5 pm for happy hour, because the whole restaurant was full by 5:30. We thought - wow this is the new place to be!
The atmosphere is bright and new. I liked that they gave us nice, heavy duty menus and a drink menu. For happy hour they had $5, $6, and $7 drinks. I ordered a glass of Cabernet that was $2 off. My boyfriend ordered an Arsenal Cider to which our waitress said "Ha jokes on you!" She explained that "even though Arsenal was right down the street, the restaurant never went to pick it up". She said that "it had been on the menu since they opened, but they have never served it". That seemed strange, but wasn't an issue.
A waiter then brought chips and queso to our table, to which I told him wasn't ours. Our waitress came over and asked if everything was okay and why we didn't want the chips, and I told her we didn't order them. She said we could have them and she wouldn't charge us. The table next to us looked over and said "Wow they are really confused tonight". It seemed like the food runners, bartenders, and wait staff didn't have great communication. We ordered apps and entrees, and watched our apps come out as the waiter looked for which table they went to. We tried to flag him down, but he never came over. Our waitress then came over to see if we ordered those apps the waiter had and we said yes. She asked why we told him they weren't (we didn't ?), and then seemed annoyed with him that he didn't bring them over. It was a very weird and awkward dining experience.
However, the food was amazing! My boyfriend's french onion soup was so savory and delicious, and you can tell it had been cooked for a long time. We both loved it. We also enjoyed the surprise free chips and queso.
I tried the fresh beet and smoked goat cheese terrine. Wow, I had never had anything like that before. It was incredible! So smoky and creamy. I spread it on the crostini with the orange vinaigrette. I will 100% order this again!
Our entrees came out pretty quickly after. My boyfriend ordered the buttermilk fried chicken with mashed potatoes, carrots and mushrooms. He asked for no mushrooms, but when they came out on the plate I ate them for him. ;) The portion was huge, and his mashed potatoes were awesome! I didn't try his chicken, but he really enjoyed it. We were impressed with how huge the chicken breast was. He thought for sure there would be a big bone in it when he cut into it. The chicken was really thick and looked very moist.
I ordered sesame seared tuna. It was served with a glass noodle salad with shredded red cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, green onion, pickled sprouts, cilantro, and sesame soy vinaigrette. The sesame tuna was also a large portion and was seared perfectly to my liking. I really enjoyed the first few bites of it. I then tried a few bites of the salad which had a super spicy chile sauce on it. I then kept chewing what I thought was a peppercorn or sesame seed and spit out a piece of metal! It must have been a bristle or piece of steel wool or something since it was very small. It did hurt to bite into it, but I was very thankful that I didn't swallow it!
A waiter took our appetizer plates when he brought our entrees, but our waitress hadn't been over since taking our order. No one filled our waters the whole meal until I asked when we got the check. We sat there for 45 minutes after being done eating before our waitress came over. I understand places are super understaffed, and she was very busy working behind the bar, but many customers visibly needed the wait staff's attention.
She apologized when I told her about the metal in my salad and brought over her manager. I told her it was okay and the food was still great. She apologized and didn't charge me for my tuna dinner. I was a little bit grossed out that she picked up the metal piece with her fingers "so she didn't lose it" after I had spit it out. It was very nice that she comped my meal, especially because I was scared to keep eating the salad. I will keep in mind to plan to be at this restaurant for a very long time since the service is slow. We were there for 2 full hours.
At 4 am my boyfriend woke me up because he got violently ill. The only thing he ate that I didn't was the chicken. He thinks that the chicken may have been undercooked and gave him food poisoning.
I am so bummed to write this review, because I do believe this must have been a one off bad night for the restaurant. Maybe they had several people call off, or were just exceptionally busy. I do plan to give it another chance since so many menu items sounded delicious, and I hope to update my review after visiting again. read more