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Brown Sugar Kitchen

by KitchenRebel on December 10, 2014

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I finally visited the popular Brown Sugar Kitchen and I don’t really understand what the big deal is. The place smelled really great, but the food was mediocre at best.

Fried chicken was awful.  Sure it was freshly fried and juicy, but not something I’d want to eat again. This chicken was trying too hard. Probably one of the worst versions of fried chicken I’ve had in a long while. So bad I couldn’t finish it, even at $4 a piece.

Waffles were fluffy and light, but not something I would eat again either. I know they have brown sugar in their name, but damn, just how much brown sugar do you need to put on a waffle!

Cheesy grits and eggs were not bad.

Poached eggs – one was over cooked, one was undercooked.

Coffee was just awful. Over roasted, unbalanced, bitter brown shit. Just thinking about it makes me want to never drink coffee again.

$45 for breakfast for 2, before tip.
I’d gladly pay $50 to NOT have had this food or dining experience.

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I’m totally baffled why anyone would wait in line for this food or dining experience. The place is small, crowded and cramped. Tables right on top of each other. We were literally touching elbows with the table next to us. Forget about having a private conversation!
And waitresses kept leaning over us to refill coffee and water. So much contact and touching from the wait staff, and other strangers because its so small. When did it become ok to lean and reach over someone, elbows in their face, while they’re eating?! Thats not something I even do to people I’m intimate with.  Ya know.. basic table manners!

If I had to wait in line for this food and dining experience, I’d have been pissed off.
This is one of those places that proves that you don’t need to actually be good, to be popular and trendy. The hipsters will come. And they will eat any shit as long as the perception is that its fancy and its hard to get a table.

I would never take anyone here again. I would never go here again. Not when there are so many better options, in better neighbourhoods in the East Bay.
I wouldn’t eat this food again if it was free!