Loading ...Silk City Lives Again
Posted by Foobooz on October 16th, 2007
Adam Erace dines at the soap opera that is the Silk City Diner and finds that despite the kitchen drama, the food delivers.
Silk City’s menu is definitely dineresque — hanger steak, meat loaf, grilled cheese and tomato — but the place doesn’t feel like it’s trying too hard to be cheeky or retro-chic. The food is interesting, flavorful, and unpretentious, not to mention served in inexpensive, obnoxiously large portions.
This is an accomplishment for a kitchen that’s been a veritable Maury show. North 3rd chef Peter Dunmire helmed the ship until Bee hired David Katz, but Katz left within weeks after issues with menu alterations, and in a recent interview, called Silk City “Applebee’s,” in so many words.
This all went down the very week I ate at Silk City, and Dunmire has since returned to re-re-focus the kitchen. According to Bee, I sampled a little of both chefs’ menus, and though these guys got menu-mama-drama, my yummy meal hardly tasted like sour grapes.
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November 25th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
The food is interesting, flavorful, and unpretentious, not to mention served in inexpensive, obnoxiously large portions.
Hmm, I must be going to a different Silk City. Went for dinner a couple weeks ago and brunch today, and was decidedly underwhelmed. Got the mushroom omelet today and the cheese tasted like it came from the local Acme. My companion thought hers had velveeta on it. Best of all, everything came out lukewarm.
Let me also say this about the service: It sucks. You could die of old age before seeing a server. I think the problem is that the waitstaff was hired for their looks. They’re very pretty. They just don’t know how to wait tables.