***This restaurant is closed***
Apparently being on the coolest kickball team ever, Teammates With Benefits, afforded me this benefit! Jimmy, one of the guys on the team had been telling us about the restaurant he was opening all season long and was nice enough to invite the whole team to the friends and family soft opening.
The Honey Shack is on Lemmon Ave between Wycliff & Oak Lawn, it is the former home of the Catalina Room. If I’m being honest I was a little skeptical what this restaurant would be like as the only description I’d heard was that it was going to be like an upscale Hooters. I thought the layout and design of the restaurant was really well done, though the walls were still blank because most of their artwork hadn’t arrived yet. Although with an all ladies wait staff dressed in barely there uniforms, I’m not sure how many people would really be looking at the wall art.
I was there for about 3 hours Sunday night and the food and drinks never seemed to stop coming. I know this would be a really great time to interject a picture of the waitresses or of the food but I was so busy talking with everyone that I didn’t snap any pictures, my apologies for that!
We all decided to share our food so we could experience a little of all of it, though I should probably go ahead and say, I am not the most adventurous when it comes to food so I did pass on a few things which means I am by no means a food critic or even a “foodie.”
For appetizers we got the Ahi Tuna (which came before I got there), spinach & artichoke dip, chicken quesadillas and ribs (which I also didn’t have). The dip was good a little too heavy on the spinach and not enough artichoke but still not bad. I thought the quesadillas were good I liked the chicken; it was shredded instead of huge chunks. The ribs I heard were good, but I’m not a big rib fan, unless they are my dad’s and sauce-less.
The kitchen was running a little slow, but it was their test run and they were a little short handed, but they kept the drink samples coming so we couldn’t complain!
By the time we ordered dinner we were already pretty full from all of our appetizers, but again we decided to order different items so that we could share. (With the exception of the shrimp pasta which we heard was both good and very unique, they ran out before we could try it). I got a burger covered in jalapenos that was excellent. The other items ordered were the margarita pizza and the pork chops. I actually didn’t try these either because I was so full but wanted to save room to try the jalapeno mac & cheese. It was AMAZING, though they didn’t use traditional macaroni noodles.
Tonight is the official opening of the Honey Shack, with a grand opening in January. Be sure and stop by and support my buddy Jimmy!
Thanks to a review on the Thrillist you can see the menu & you can also “Like” the Honey Shack on Facebook.
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