For Lon’s mom’s birthday, we went to Smokey Bones Smokey Bones, a chain scattered throughout the Eastern United States. I had never heard of this large barbeque joint (that looks like an over-sized sports bar) and they have probably never seen an Asian before. Yet, they were filled causing a wait at 5:25 pm on a Saturday. Oddly, we saw many empty tables when we were seated.
We immediately ordered some appetizers and luckily these came pretty quickly. Unfortunately, this was the worst plate of nachos I’ve ever had. I’ve always thought nachos were a safe bet, hard to mess up, but I stand corrected. These chips were stale, the meat (mix of pork and chicken) was cold, the cheese was cold and hardened already, and the salsa was sweetened with sugar.
The sampler platter did come hot: decent onion rings, decent tater skins, pretty good chicken fingers. Two problems though. One, we asked for bacon on the side so Kasi could eat the skins. You can see the bacon there, but our nice waiter did bring us 4 news ones without bacon, although it did take more than 20 minutes. Two, the seasoning was so inconsistent that certain pieces were fine while others almost killed me. Just imagine eating pure salt in a teaspoon. Unfortunately, this problem went on all night with fries, onion rings, etc. After the appetizers, there was an absurdly long gap of time before the entrees came.


Agreed. Although the long wait between the apps and the entrees was, in part, because we ordered apps the second we sat down because we were all so hungry. Then we ordered drinks, then food.
How do you mess up sports bar food?? And nachos!?
I would have to say that if I visited their site before eating there, I would have second thoughts. That website is a perfect example of abusive flash!
K&S;, it still baffles me how it could have taken so long. None of that food is made to order.
Ethan, it is baffling, isn't it?
If we didn't go to restaurants with bad (or no) websites, we'd have a lot less places to go to. =/
Jessica, that is very true.
This got me thinking, slow website, slow service… Maybe that’s the corporate motto: “Slow and Mediocre”
Haha Ethan, I guess it doesn’t matter to all the people sitting around watching a game.
We went to the one in Tampa and it wasn’t that bad but it also wasn’t all that great. I really liked the corn though, and the cornbread. And I was watching Spongebob on the many tv’s (some were playing Rayray) that you can tune the sound to this thing connected to your table -=X lols
Wonders, Kasi mentioned that some tables had those TV controls but we were seated in the area without that capability…oh well.