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Everything is exquisitely prepared. Great, great service with smile. Love the S&S shrimp appetizer!! Just passing through? Order that to go and you won't be disappointed!

Service was great and food was yummy. They even let me make changes because I am picky eater.

Food was great. Good little jem in a small town. Steaks were tasty. Portions were perfect

This place is yummy! We started with hot crab dip with crostini- it was a pretty small bowl for the price but BUT let me tell you: delicious! Tender mild sweet real crab in a beautiful sauce. Next we ordered salmon on the plank and I got the shrimp and grits. They were both delightful! A bit spender of a dinner but a fantastic experience (we also had a couple cocktails which were well-balanced, tasty, and did the trick )

Short answer: this place is very good and we liked it. I'm rooting for them. Long answer: this place is very good here's why - Driving back west after the eclipse, we wanted a place to get a good meal and let the traffic clear up a bit. Scouting ahead on Yelp and looking at menus from three years ago, this seemed like a great fit. Interesting food, solid wine list, lots of enthusiastic reviews. With the pandemic disruption and aftermath prices will no doubt be a bit higher, but this seems great and it's Rolla, not Vail. Yelp talks about food, service, and ambiance as components of a review, and I think it's worth noting one more: value. We all have limited time and money, does the price point deliver what it should? And that became the question of the night. Like with cocktails. It seems like they've updated their bar program to include more craft cocktails, which is good... but now the old fashioned has gone from $6 in 2019 to a market price situation where it's $14? $17? The menu on their website doesn't say, and looking at the cocktails there vs the paper menu we saw in person they've either brought the prices down in the past month or they haven't updated them to their new level. It was off-putting. On the one hand I get it, hopefully that helps them pay their staff well. But on another I know these pour costs and it doesn't add up to me. Nineteen dollars for a Paper Plane feels awfully aggressive. Fortunately, they had other options. Their Spanish red was delicious, and $7 a glass. I promise I'm not going to do this for every menu item, the cocktail thing just really threw me. We shared two dishes - The poke nachos were a fun idea, and they executed well - tasty, nice combination of flavors. We had a little trouble figuring out how to attack the dish, it was a nice presentation but I was worried about knocking things over and making a mess on the table. Jenga flashbacks. You will probably do better than me, but be prepared - if you're on a first date situation, make sure they're cool in that elegant but down to earth way and you can laugh together. Worst case, more poke for you. Either way, we recommend it. We also got the fish and chips, and they were okay. Fine. Not spectacular. Bit oily, but the fish itself was good. But there was not much of it, and at $26 I'm left wondering how we arrived here. At that price point I'd expect more, or better, or both. And looking online at their menu, it's not even listed so I'm wondering if this was all a post-eclipse hallucination. (Which is a possibility because we were on a bit of a high, totality is an astonishing experience.) Service was on point, the team seemed sharp. Our server was crisp and professional. Good decor and atmosphere. Seems like a solid gastropub vibe. But not more than that. Or less - they're doing so many great things here. The only real complaint is the price points. Those cocktails sent me into a spiral of self-doubt questioning if I'm turning into one of those old people I grew up around who would routinely declaim "Back in my day, you could get a cup of coffee for a quarter! And a dollar used to cost a nickel!" Is that me now? Here I am in this restaurant wondering if this is the moment I realize that life has already washed past me and I'm just not hip to the way things work now. But then I remember: we travel a lot and I don't usually see things this high except in much more expensive cities - I was so thrown I looked up some neighborhood bars in NYC and yeah this would fit right in there. I'm sure in a few years this will all sound quaint and someone will say "bro a happy hour old fashioned is $25 now lol" and to that I say "okay but you're in the future and I'm not the one reading super old yelp reviews, nerd." So I want to emphasize again I like this place and want them to succeed. Lots of respect for what they're doing, and I think a better calibrated match on value and price point would easily push them to 5 stars.