Field House

Another tavern another review. After a long day of work and house-hunting we ended up at the Field House armed with a restaurant.com certificate. Since it was a Monday night, the place wasn't busy whatsoever. We ordered cokes and began looking over the menu.

The directions weren't very clear on the certificate so I'll tell you what we learned over about a half hour of menu-staring: You must spend $50 OR purchase two entrees and the cheapest entree is $18 so you're probably better off just accumulating a table full of crap.

Some apps are half off. Some are not. The ones that are, aren't very good. (Monday night happy hour special)

Burgers are half off and delicious. (Monday night happy hour special)

We ended up ordering the crab cake platter for moi, and Dave got the Field House Burger with swiss and bacon on it. Then we ordered mozz sticks, texas corn dogs, and blackberry bbq wings.

Here's a rundown of how everything tasted:

Dave's burger was amazingly good. His fries were also delicious.

The mozz sticks were chewy old and gross

Texas corn dogs were greasy, but good. I'm not sure where the "corn" part of the dog came in since they were just crispy deepfried, similar to a piece of fried fish, but the dipping sauce was mostly horseradish so if you like that kind of thing go for it.

The blackberry wings were interesting and perfect. The sauce was tangy and sweet, wings meaty and juicy.

Crabcake was mostly crab, just the way you want it. It was properly cooked, tasted great and was filling as hell. However, I hate sweet potatoes. I thought I would like deep fried sweet potatoes (it came with sweet potato fries and rather than sub out I decided to give them a shot), but no, I still hate sweet potatoes. Vile, disgusting dirt food. Blech. However, if you LIKE sweet potatoes, you will LOVE these fries. They were perfectly fried and sprinkled with cinnamon.

Now that we got the pesky food part out of the way, let's talk about service.

It was our waitress's first night on the job and apparently she had the entire restaurant to take care of. Where the rest of the waitresses were, we had no idea. We only saw one other girl, when she brought out Dave's burger immediately after we got our apps and then he scolded her and she took the burger back. So, now on her first day she had like, 6 tables of people so her attention was divided which explains why we were there for an hour and a half. We were indecisive and took a long time to order. We had like, a thousand questions about the happy hour specials, and the certificate and the food, and she was helpful and informative the whole time. She was incredibly nice and did a great job.

Manager of Field House: never put new girl on the floor by herself. It causes customers to wait 20 minutes to get refills, put in orders and get ketchup (which I'm still waiting for by the way)

The most hilarious part of the evening was when she asked Dave if he wanted another Coke and he said "Yes" and then she asked me if I needed anything and I said "Can I get a lemon?" and she said "sure" and then came back with a coke with a lemon wedge stuck to it. I just stared it, then took the lemon wedge off and squeezed it onto my crab cakes.

Overall, we give you 3 noms.