Flashbacks

We live across the street and we were so excited to get a new restaurant. One that we could just walk on over too. Had extremely high hopes but unfortunately this place is just mediocre. I like what they did to the inside from when it was Brandons. However the food is severely lacking. If it were your standard bar food of greasy burgers and deep fried foods, I would give them the benefit and probably give them a higher rating.But this place tries to offer "fresh ingredients with an upscale menu," as they say on their website... I just feel this place could go beyond the crap they serve. Nothing about it is upscale. Just because you put filet mignon for $23 and lobster mac and cheese on your menu doesn't make you upscale!

First experience, I had the fish tacos, which I couldn't even finish eating. Horrible! The manager said a lot of people really like them, but I couldn't eat them. And that is so not like me. Even if i don't like something I will usually eat it anyway. I couldn't get past the taste of some kind of seasoning they used. Not to mention it was soggy fish just chopped up in a tortilla served with fries, coleslaw, and tartar sauce. No artistic or original spin on it what so ever! In my opinion if you have fish  taco's on your menu and you do it right and make them phenomenal, they could be your signature dish...Not at this place though.

My boyfriend had the bacon cheeseburger. To which the server then had to tell us that there wasn't any actual fresh cooked bacon on. They use a product called bacon jam...not sure what that is, but it wasn't good. Another time I went I got the turkey reuben. I feel they should have told me this was not a traditional turkey reuben. What i got was turkey and coleslaw on a toasted bun. No swiss cheese, no thousand island, no real sauerkraut...For desert the server told us what they had. Naming a thin mint desert. Not sure what it was we went for it...I just shook my head when it was brought out. 1 scoop of ice cream with 5 generic thin mint cookies stuck into the ice cream and tons of whipped cream on the plate. That isn't a desert! If i wanted a hodgepodge of sweets on one plate, i could do that at home. I have no idea what that was that they served us.

Besides the food, our server along with the entire kitchen crew took a cigarette break outside for around ten to fifteen minutes. As we could see because they were right in our view. Also they all kept their aprons on. Which because I've worked in restaurants I know is a big no no. Also they didn't wash their hands upon coming back inside. I was watching them the whole time as they started to just go back to work. I have also received a water with some glob of something sticky and gross on the inside rim of my glass.

Also they use little plastic ramekins for all the side sauces and such. If you want to claim "upscale" maybe use real ramekins and put them on a spare side plate. Don't just drop 4 plastic ramekins of sour cream and salsa and stuff on the center of my dish with the lids still on them from when you dished them up however many days ago!  

And I'm just going to be blunt with this, the wine list sucks! I can appreciate that you want to promote one of Indiana's only local wineries but Oliver wine is bottom of the barrel! In my opinion it's a joke of a winery!  If you want to say you are more upscale and make your restaurant far better than the average bar, then make it more of an upscale place. Don't offer crap food, with crap wine, and crap service. You have the potential to make this place good if not great, and be successful, and be a place everyone loves to come in to....do it! I would have loved to have had an amazing experience here. I think everyone who lives around here was expecting it to be great. I'm sad it has been such a disappointment!

As for anyone interested in dining here, it's up to you, but don't go in with high expectations!

We've had stellar service, fun and tasty dishes, and phenomenal beer selections at this surprisingly classy local pub.

The inside decor FAR trumps the exterior strip mall. Think SHALLO's in Greenwood. Beautiful interior, and a fully stocked bar with plenty of TV's.

They've worked out the kinks discussed by the other reviewer and Flashbacks gets my hearty endorsement.

Me and my kids and mom went in here because it just opened,my son got a cheeseburger and daughter got chicken fingers. Our waitress was nice I will say that but my daughter bit into a chicken finger of which the outside was burnt and it was raw pink chicken on the inside.After that I looked to se if sons burger was done and found a black hair on his bun. This place was gross!