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I never got around to eating there but this guy sounds like a drama queen. Chefs know all about the grind before they get into cooking.

There must be more to this story than the time management aspect. A lot of money was spent building out that place.

Damn shame, food was always good.

The name of the place was not immediately appealing. My guess is that ain't the only bad business decision here.

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. A lot of money was spent building out that place.

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I'm sure that is more to the story. I never saw it very busy and if I remember correctly he has 4 young children. You have to shove a lot of chicken and waffles out of the door to tote that kind of note.

I thought he had too much on the menu. If it was pared down and focused on fewer items done very well it might have gone better. But that's just my thought. Who knows? He could just be overwhelmed as it seems he left IPO for the same reasons if I remember correctly.

But on the plus side, an old beat up building was renovated and is now set up as a restaurant so hopefully something better will fill the space. And Curbside being almost across the street should actually help.

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I never got around to eating there but this guy sounds like a drama queen

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The food was good but yea he does come off like that.

Seems more to the story than what's told.

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The name of the place was not immediately appealing

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Yea if I were to ever open up a business, I'm not going to name it something that looks and sounds exactly like a current disease(unless I'm curing said disease).

Went once, they pushed Monroe wine on me, and just so happened to be out of every other label. Also got served 2 of the same dish on the chef selection deal.

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I never got around to eating there but this guy sounds like a drama queen.

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Not too mention pretty full of himself. Talks about accomplishments and successes but only cooked at a couple failed restaurants

Went there once and had a horrible experience: piles of dirty glasses and dishes stacked up on the bar, servers stopping to pick up tips and not bus tables. We left without ordering food

I got the fat back and it was legitimately blocks of fat. Otherwise, everything we had was very good.

I've been harsh on this chef because I think he tries too hard with his plating and overambitious dishes, but I'm sad to see this place go. The crab pizza and the crawfish waffles are awesome.

They only have a dish that is just pork fat. Yall might have gotten that. We went and ordered it and regretted the second we took a bite.