Sunday, June 6, 2010

A (Not So) Awesome Place For Us To Go

The Elephant Bar has quite a few locations in Southern California.  The one that we went to was in Montclair, and it was eh……

Let me start off by saying that the food was not that great.  There is an extensive selection of choices, and the inspiration is on a world scale.  I had the Fried Shrimp with Three Cheese Macaroni.  Although the shrimp was OUTSTANDING (and all shrimp is going to be a luxury soon), the macaroni was kinda bland, like something you would make for a heart patient.  Plus there were croutons on it, bonus weird!  The Cole slaw that came with it was as crappy as any other Cole slaw you’ve gotten at a restaurant.  I’m on the wagon, so I had a Coke, can’t really say if the drinks are worth anything.  My hubby had an open-face steak sandwich that was clobbered with shoestring onions, yuck.  He didn’t like his order at all.  He also hated the macaroni.
The service was stellar.  Our waitress was a total sweetheart; we went with nine people and we were treated as if we were individual patrons.  Heads up: If you are going with this many people they want you to split the check up ahead of your order.

The decor was a nightmare!  It looked as if it was decorated by a menopausal Target store.  Africa threw up in there.  I did like the animal statues, but I’ll admit they were a bit kitsch.  The coolest thing was the domed ceiling over the bar, but I spent most of the time in the restaurant shouting at the Angels game from my table across the way.  All in all, it was a great group of people meeting at a halfway-decent locale for substandard food that we wolfed down anyway…not a total loss.  Stay tuned for some other place to go instead!

And until then, take care…Your faithful Dags