I want to give this place four stars because I can tell from what other people ordered, they are probably worth 4 stars, but my experience is best explained as "A-OK." This place seemed super hyped on Yelp and my partner and I were headed to Oshkosh from Milwaukee to do lunch with two other people.
1 of the other 2 people who we ate with is a regular at this place and absolutely LOVES it so I was so frickin excited to get food from here.
Its a bit small and cramped, but the ambiance is nice. It can get a little loud to have conversations and staff was friendly. I went wrong in what I ordered...I guess. Because I was grossly unimpressed with what I ordered
My partner ordered the cornbread pancakes and LOVED them. Can't wait to go back and get them. Another person ordered bakery, which looked and I am sure was fine. Another person ordered something like chicken salad which looked fine.
But I ordered the (don't recall its exact name) mandarin chicken salad. The lettuce they serve you for the salad is chopped iceburg lettuce. There was no dark leafy greens. I was really surprised at that. For the price of the salad, I would have assumed it would leafy greens, not water-filled light iceburg. Iceburg doesn't really have a flavor at all and isn't filling to eat as a salad. It cheapens any salad. It seemed like a really tacky way to save a couple of bucks. And then, oh my god...
The chicken. If you ordered a salad, right? And you paid extra to add chicken. What would you expect? In my history of ordering salads where I pay to add chicken I have literally ALWAYS gotten a chicken breast expect this place. Where they serve, I shit you not, chopped up chicken deli meat. It was so cheap and sad looking. Sure my portion was huge but it was literally iceburg lettuce with chopped chicken slices and canned oranges (which those were fine, I expect canned oranges on a mandarin salad, but when you combo that with iceburg lettuce and sliced chicken meat, its a sad water-flavor town.)
So I sat there disappointed and ate as much salad as I could And I watched everyone else eat their delicious looking stuff.
I ordered what I expected to be leafy greens, a chicken breast, and oranges and instead got iceburg lettuce, FRICKIN CHOPPED UP CHICKEN DELI MEAT, and oranges. It sucked.
Maybe one day I will be in Oshkosh again and just order the cornbread pancakes. Definitely stay clear of their "salads." read more