I am a soul-food critic! I visited the Coffee Cup in University and I was really excited about the hype it has caused and wanted to patronize it. Since I have become the Ambassador of Restuarants for my out of town guests, I have to make sure the food is great, and service is just as good. My husband and I went to the Coffee Cup about 7:30 pm on a Tuesday evening. The server was polite and greeted us very nicely and took our orders right away. She suggested we only order from the lunch menu and it was very limited. My husband ordered the T-bone steak, (per the server's suggestion) and I ordered the fried chicken breast. We waited about twenty minutes for our food. I was excited at first about the appearance of the fresh cut collard greens that were steaming....ummm, and the candy yams were coated with a nice syrup. Then I saw the macaroni and cheese, it was runny with water at the bottom of the bowl and the cheese was curled and not baked and the cheese never stuck to the noodles at all. My husbad got his mouth-watering t-bone steak (medium well of course), at least he thought the mouth-watering juices were steak juice, but he bit into a mouth full of bottled smoke- so I tasted it myself and yep....it taste like antisceptic in the brown bottle. The steak had an unforgettable taste. As for my entree, the chicken breast was moist and tasted like the grease had not been changed in months. As the server approached us, she saw the look on our faces and saw that we still had full plates of food where we only took two bites out of it. Although the greens and yams were great, we did order chicken and steak. She asked how everything was, we told her not as what we expected and she apologized. For a $12.00 Steak, at least make sure there is A1 at the table and not some off brand steak sauce that was just as horrible as the steak. My soul was not comforted and this was everything but soul food.
Pros: Service
Cons: Food Choices
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