Honey is a fine example of how restaurants overrate themselves and over charge simply by taking common everyday food items and calling them by their European names. It instantaneously gives the staff the unfair upper hand and pretense of knowing a food item by its European name. So the poor American who very seldom speaks more than one language, ""American"", has to ask the unknowing question, ?What?s this?? For example, ""mashed plantains"", translation ""mashed bananas"". Or ?demiglaze?, which simply translated means ""half sugar"". I won't go into the ever so common European ""Yukon Potatoes"", which the menu makes sound like a potato sent by God and not common to Krogers, or ?Carpaccio?, raw beef or fish. Nor will I go into her ultimate pretense, the wine list. Actually you can call food whatever you want, but at those prices it should be outstanding in taste and it wasn?t. The Creole Meatloaf wasn?t better than my Aunt?s meatloaf who lives on the Bayou in Louisiana, and if my Aunt saw what Honey?s charged for ground beef and spices overcooked she?d have fainted straight away into the Bayou. My friend had the Short Ribs with a cookie, yep an almond cookie they called ?Amaretti?, which it is called in Europe, but don?t bring no cookie with my ribs, I don?t care if it is a European cookie. The owner is the very short and nervous woman type, every time she explained a very common European food and I looked at its price on the menu, I felt like she was pouring hot oil on my boots and telling me it was raining. She talked down to us, even though we both live in Europe and were both raised in the neighborhood I let her explain the cookie with my girlfriends short ribs as if it where something simply done this way and this way only in Europe. In all fairness the food is so, so, and over priced. I think she should lower her prices, write the menu in ?American? and continue to expose Americans to very common inexpensive European food at fair prices.
Pros: Good inexpensive Eurpoean Food.........
Cons: Way over priced
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