Slog - Comments on For Your Brunch Consideration... http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration Beginning tomorrow, Smith will be serving brunch on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. From the menu (the chef is from Licorous): • Baked eggs with Dijon cream, gruyère, herbed baguette, $8 • Braised pork belly with sunny-side up egg, $9 • Cinnamon-sugar baguette with apples and gruyère, broiled, $6 • The elusive Scotch egg, $5 (surely better than the one at the Athenian) Also now on the dinner menu: chicken pot pie and roasted marrow. Someone recently likened the decor at Smith to the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. True. Also, Smith is the seventh business... Copyright 2008 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:24:11 -0800 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:05:37 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Katelyn I really don't like Smith. Those bacon/cheese/date appetizers sucked ASS, even the waitress was like, "are you sure you want those? Have you had them before?" I had to talk her into letting me order five shriveled putrid bites. When they came to our table half an HOUR after we ordered, my friend and I couldn't stop laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. And what the FUCK is up with "trout with ham"???! Also, no descriptions of anything on the menu... just stylishly difficult to read menu titles.

That plus the dead animal heads presiding over my table ensured I will never go back to eat there. I could see going for a beer with people who maybe really love shriveled candy bacon bites, but I'd never choose to go there myself, not when there's the unpretentious and jukebox-eriffic Canterbury on the same street a few blocks down.

I will now to go Restaurant Reader Reviews and post this on Smith's page. The public should know.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818692 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818692 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:28:29 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage The Devil's on Horseback at Smith are fucking awesome--I have them every time I'm in there.

You just don't know what you're talking about, Katelyn.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818701 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818701 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:32:29 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Ewwwwwwwww.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818709 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818709 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:37:24 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi ...even the waitress was like, "are you sure you want those? Have you had them before?" I had to talk her into letting me order five shriveled putrid bites.

The waitress tried to talk you out of ordering them, you insisted, and now you blame Smith for serving you shitty food. That makes a lot of sense.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818714 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818714 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:41:47 -0800 Comment by hunh? NONE of that shit sounds appetizing. No gracias. I’d rather stick to boring old Coastal Kitchen.

]]> hunh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818715 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818715 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:42:25 -0800 Comment by terry miller smith is amazing.

devils on horseback are the best!

love the flank steak, the burger, the beet salad.... i could go on and on. it's fantastic.

]]> terry miller http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818727 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818727 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:47:35 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Not to mention "Trotters" and "Brawn".

It'd be interesting to see how many of Smith's menu items have actually ever been attempted....

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818730 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818730 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:49:09 -0800 Comment by Katelyn @4 I had to see what the hype was about!! I WANTED to like them!! I love pancetta, I love dates, I love bleu cheese. I really wanted to like these horseback things.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818741 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:53:06 -0800 Comment by Paul I've tried the burger, devils, beet salad, and recently the pot pie. All were terrible. I want to like their food because it's a neighborhood place and I like the ambiance, but its just not good. The only thing that's good is the putine.

]]> Paul http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818766 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818766 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:19:40 -0800 Comment by blah! Seriously. How much free press are you going to give this place. Food sucks. The staff is slow. If this wasn't part of the whole Lindas franchise, would you keep writing about it? I really don't think so.

]]> blah! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818777 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818777 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:26:40 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn I have to agree about the odd menu with no descriptions... Makes ordering foreboding. I lucked out with great, simply prepared, giant mussels. The greens in olive oil were pretty good, too, for vegetables in a bar. What I love about Smith is the conversation-inducing looong table.

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818801 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:46:53 -0800 Comment by Steve M Does The Stranger have an ownership stake in this restaurant?

]]> Steve M http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818833 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:16:41 -0800 Comment by kinaidos Scotch Eggs? What about some proper Groaty Dick as long as we are descending into the bas profonds of Brittish *cuisine*?

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818855 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818855 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:33:56 -0800 Comment by JD I have to agree descriptions on the menu would be really nice, especially with the eclectic menu. Also, not a very goodl list of beers on tap considering we are in the NW

]]> JD http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818867 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818867 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:44:57 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn @12: No.

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818868 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:46:57 -0800 Comment by COMTE You haters are out of your freakin' minds - there is not a single item on Smith's menu (and I've had many, albeit not all) that sucks. Devils on horseback are crack-on-a-plate delicious, the burgers just as good as Linda's or King's, the strip steak is yummy, although admittedly a somewhat skimpy portion - but other than that, it's all good.

I was literally thinking last Sunday that I wished Smith served breakfasty foods on the weekend, and now my dream has come true!

You-all can just stay away as far as I'm concerned, because that just means all the more room for ME!

In fact, I might even pop by there tomorrow morning.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818932 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818932 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:38:28 -0800 Comment by Explorer One also hopes that Smith will someday live up to the hype.

]]> Explorer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c818950 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:08:00 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Maybe the devils on a horseback appreciation is a genetic thing, and you can only appreciate them if you have a certain quaternary combination in your DNA. Or, it may be a moral failing of mine that I don't like them. Either way, Comte and Dan, you guys are welcome to mine :D

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c819004 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c819004 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:19:43 -0800 Comment by me I keep meaning to try Smith, but I always end up at Jamjuree. Yummy.

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c819047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c819047 Chow Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:10:49 -0800 Comment by donte smith has funnel cake. for freakin' breakfast! my inner twelve year old squealed in delight upon discovering (and subsequently eating) that.

]]> donte http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c821298 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/for_your_brunch_consideration#c821298 Chow Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:05:37 -0800