Had lunch at Macke's with my girlfriends on Friday as we usually do but it certainly wasn't up to its usual greatness! Our first problem was it took 25 minutes from us ordering to receiving our food! All of us work but have never in the past not been able to enjoy lunch and some girltalk!! Friend had the salad with apples, pears, and grilled chicken. After removing the apples with brown, mushy spots to another plate, she then said the dressing was not like usual and had too much vinegar in it. I had Toby's fried chicken salad (love when we meet up on Wednesdays b/c the fried chicken is a special and is amazing with gravy & mashed potatoes.) and noticed after eating several bites that the chicken was still pretty pink!! Looking at my watch, realized that there certainly wasn't time to send back and actually that we needed to be getting out if we wanted to make it back to work in time!! We wrote it off to a fluke after having so many great meals there (usually go for dinner at least once every wk or two) but learned when the server returned that the chef had walked after the owners mistreating him for some time! Shame on them! I have been coming here since they opened and also to the other restaurant in Kingston Springs and have become great fans of chef Toby and what he has done for this restaurant the last few years!! Also if you get to meet him is one of the nicest people! She said she wasn't sure where he was and that he did have another job lucky for him!\r
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We're gonna go to the other restaurant tonight which has just reopened after moving to Franklin so don't quite know what to expect! \r
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This is my first review I've ever put online and wish it wasn't so bad but I do regularly read reviews on here on places before trying out and wanted to get the word out as I had read other people's posts on such great experiences previously. Hope they are not gone for good!!\r
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Best of luck Chef!! I'm sure others are noticing that things just aren't the same and missing you too!\r
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