Problem: Amazballs! I love these little cake donuts. The are yummy and crispy. The folks that work there are SO friendly. I love that you can customize the donuts however you can dream them. Having said that the simple cinnamon and sugar really are my favorite!
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A: positive

Problem: OI. I reallllly wanted to like this place. After my last review, one of the owners reached out and emailed me, apologized and asked me to give them another shot. Love how much they care about their customers. The remodel they have done is AMAZING! I loved the enclosed patio area, so cool, literally, I thought the temp would be horrible back there but it was so nice. First off, the hostess. Sweetest girl ever! She told us it looked like a 20-25 minutes wait and that we could find a spot on the patio and enjoy a drink while we waited for our table. We lucked out and found a spot, this place was SLAMMING for a Tuesday! A nice waitress in a skirt that ALMOST showed some butt cheek came over and took our order. We were hungry so we ordered some guacamole to tide us over for our "twenty five minute wait". 30 minutes go by and we think that the waitress has totally forgotten about our order. I go up to the hostess to see how much longer we have to go "you are next" she says, Rad! 5 minutes later out comes our gauc, finally. The gauc was decent, we all loved the chips, they were like crack. Another TWENTY minutes goes by, so now we have waited double over what our estimated time of wait was. I really wish she would have been honest with us and just said its going to be a 45 Min- Hour wait. It was CLEAR when she gave us the 20-25 minute wait she was either fudging to keep us there, or had no clue on how to quote a wait for a table. But seriously, sweetest girl ever. FINALLY we get shown to our table. We are EXCITED. We have been dying to try this place out. Like I mentioned in my first review, the MIL lives in the neighborhood behind the Vig, so we are fans of places we can walk to! The waitress actually cracked a joke about how we probably all know what we wanted to eat since we had waited so long. The food came out relatively fast....the fries were all warm, but all the sandwiches were luke warm at best. Im pretty sure mine and the hubs were meant to be hot. Our cheese was melty but everything else was room temp/luke warm. Lets start with mine first, the honey ham & provolone. I took one bite and was astonished by its lack of flavor. It should have been bursting with flavor, it had ham, provolone cheese, grilled pineapple, dijon mayo and a pablono chile! It was flavorless. The only thing that had flavor was the chile that brought mad heat. I tried a few bites with out the chile to get the flavor of the sandwich, zero. I cut off a piece for the hubs and MIL to try to see if it wasn't just me. Nothing. It was a luke warm pile of meat and cheese that tasted like nothing. At least I had some sweet potato fries to munch. Next up the hubs, He got the uptown steak sandwich, Asked for it medium. It had sliced bistro tenderloin with wild mushrooms, caramelized onions, arugula, roasted red peppers, Swiss cheese and horseradish mayo on a sub roll. First off, they cut the sandwich in half for you which is awesome, but had the chef been paying attention he would have seen the middle ends of the sandwich were verging on RAW (like red)!! So gross. The hubs picked all the raw looking pieces out, took a bite, NO FLAVOR! A sandwich that has roasted red peppers and caramelized onions and horsey mayo should for sure have flavor!?! This was not the case, he cut a piece off for each of us to try. We all looked at each other in disbelief, how could there be no flavor. Really people, this is not an over exaggerated story, I wish it were. He also got onion rings. Now in my family, onion rings get devoured, in fact fights usually occur as to who gets the last ring. We each take an onion ring, now have you ever eaten those fried batter pieces at the bottom of the Long John Silvers fish baskets? Those little clumps of fried batter that have zero taste? Well, that was what these onion rings tasted like, a bunch of fried nothing. Lastly the MIL's Turkey sandwich. It had turkey breast with dill havarti, cranberry chutney, roasted tomatoes, cole slaw and honey-mustard mayo on pretzel bread. We all swooned at the pretzel bun! This one wasn't as tasteless as mine and the husbands sandwiches. It was ok. She also ordered the regular french fries. Those were good. I know this review is getting long and winded, but I want to give an honest full run down of why I gave only 2 stars. Our waitress only came back once to check on us and was never to be seen until the check came. A different waiter came by and asked if we wanted boxes as each of our plates looked completely untouched. We all said no (in unison). It for sure has a nice happy hour atmosphere and prices. That has got to be a reason why this place was packed both times we have gone (530-6ish). I've never been to the 1st location to compare the two food and service wise. It has tons of potential, and it looks like plenty of people love The Vig, maybe we went on an off night? I'm sorry Vig, you are just not for me.
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A: negative

Problem: Stopped by for lunch while combing every inch of Charlotte for car dealerships who will meet my price. It was a Saturday, noonish and the place was pretty full with the seats on the patio all taken on a sunny day. I took a seat at the bar, was greeted promptly and offered a menu and a drink. I wound up ordering French Onion soup and a Croque Monsieur (one can never have enough melted cheese in a meal). One nice touch is that I was asked if I wanted the soup to be my side with the sandwich, an offer that I accepted. The soup itself was hot, as in really, really hot, to the point I melted some skin off the roof of my mouth in my haste to shove the first spoonful in. The broth was in need of salt in a pretty big way and also benefited from some pepper. The sandwich was very nice with tons of melty, turned crispy on the edges, cheese. While it also benefited from the salt and pepper shakers, I would certainly order it again. I truly enjoy French bistro style food so will likely try Cafe Monte again when back in SouthPark.
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A: positive

Problem: Went for lunch with my family - my wife and I both ordered salad nicoise and tasted the food ordered by our kids - croque monsieur, the burger, and french fries (pomme frites). We both agreed that the salad was the best. We ordered it with salmon filet (chicken is also an option) and it was cooked perfectly - crusty on the outside while moist on the inside. The other salad ingridients complemented the salmon very well. For desert we ordered beignets which were served with a kind of chocolate sauce which the kids loved. Overall it was a nice lunch.
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positive