re: Gov’T Taco more than lives up to its name.

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I just wanna read the reviews

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ive never seen the show, do the competitors pick the choice of food to be cooked in this show?

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I just wanna read the reviews

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Hi Anna,

I'm sorry to hear about your restaurant week experience. We miss the good old days before covid, too. We don't miss White Star, but we do miss reasonable prices for our inputs, predictable labor markets, and ordinary customer routines.

Our restaurant has grown tremendously and has taken strides in many positive directions from our days of popups and a food hall, and my career has had continued growth during a pandemic as well. I can't be everywhere at once, so I've tried my best to staff the restaurant with great people and for the most part I think we're on the right track. By all means, sometimes customers can have bad experiences, but that's always the case at any establishment, and I stand by my team.

To address a few of your points:

We never had to fight for our lives at White Star. We crushed White Star. We needed to get out of White Star because with few exceptions, we were the draw, and that very quickly didn't make any financial sense for us. I agree that what we were doing at White Star was fantastic, but it wasn't sustainable either.

Other than a taco of the month at White Star at the new restaurant, we've never had had brisket on the menu. So you're simply mistaken there. The smell of our brisket pretty much never wafted through the food hall.

I'm not sure what's confusing about the decor at our new restaurant. Perhaps the conspiracy theories are lost on you, or perhaps you never understood our government puns in the first place? Either way, your confusion is confusing to me.

As for music choices, that's up to the bartender and management each day. Maybe sometimes it's a bit out of left field. I don't know what has playing, so I'd need more info. But I like empowering the staff and not making them listen to the same thing every day.

The happy hour is generally intended for the bar. It's printed on the bar menu as well as viewable online. The front cashier should know about it, so we'll work on that. If you ordered from the front register, it would honor the happy hour pricing, so there's no concerns there.

Prices have indeed increased a little. Hopefully you've paid enough attention to the world around you since we opened in 2018 in a food hall to understand why.

As to the quality of the food, I am definitely sorry to hear that. I'd hope you would bring that my manager on duty or send me a personal note before writing a public Yelp! review calling me out, but here we are. Our food should be better than that. However, the Bovine Bureaucracy has NEVER featured brisket, so it is difficult to know how to assess your judgement here.

We are on the $15 price point on Restaurant Week, the lowest price available to customers, to offer a value. Perhaps we could do something more off-menu for more money, but with current market and labor conditions and that didn't make sense. What did make business sense was to participate in RW as the ONLY $15 restaurant and offer a great bang for the buck and get people in the door to try our food. There's a lot of food in your photo for $15. I'm sorry it didn't meet your expectations.

We all miss the good old days before covid. Sadly, that's not reality anymore. Sigh, indeed.

Jay Ducote

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