Q: positive

A: Without a doubt this is a fine restaurant. The food is all locally sourced and if I were from Edinburgh it would make me very proud to know that a restaurant of this calibre existed in my city. I went there with my wife to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary and was not disappointed. First, the wine list is enormous and has very, very, fine wines from all over the world (I noticed a $6,000 bottle of wine!!). My wife and I decided on Champagne the night we were there and we had a large and prestigious selection to make our choice from. Next, the food. We were both impressed by the quality of the ingredients and the fact that it was all locally sourced. I started with a Shellfish bisque and then had a grilled Lobster from the Isle of Mull with a truffle sauce macaroni and my wife had a wonderful smoked salmon from Loch Duart (which, by a happy coincidence, is where her Clan's Castle, Maclean of Duart is located). Our desserts were wonderful. Hers was a burnt Cambridge Cream with passion fruit sorbet and mine was a Blairgowrie Strawberry and lemon verbena custard tart with strawberry sorbet. To top the meal off after our coffee we had to have some Scottish Whisky (when in Rome...) Hers was a Tobermory 10-year old (again the Isle of Mull theme) and mine was a Jura 16-year old. Lastly, the setting and the dining room ambiance is superb!

Q: positive

A: Best bar in Charlotte!

Q: positive

A: $400 for a cabana 10 AM to 5 PM. Food service stops at 3:45 PM. John and Brittany went WAY out of their way to make our day perfect. So much fun!

Q: negative

A:
Awful. Every time. First, it's hard to hear the person on the speaker. Or at least it was when I have gone. And I've gone more than a few times since it's close to home. I have never been satisfied with a single experience here. Either my order was wrong or they ran out of what I wanted or it took a century to go through the line. The last (and I'm convinced it was actually my literal last) time I went, I had spent the day hearing over and over about their new bacon burger on the radio. By evening I had decided to give into marketing and temptation and try it. Got there, waited a gosh darn eternity before I could even order, and then actually finally ordered. They didn't have it anymore. Did they run out? Did they discontinue it (no)?, did they forget how to assemble it? No idea. But they told me they didn't have it anymore and asked if there was something else I wanted. There wasn't. So I spent a lifetime in line, and drove away with nothing. Combined with my other bad experiences, it spells the end of them getting my occasional business (which clearly they weren't trying to keep in the first place, so no loss for them I guess).