Mayberry Gastro Pub

The food was really salty, I had dead over seasoned salad, of Sad greens, and a very sweet nasty looking dressing...I knew the place was hit or miss, but I live next door 2 it, and I'm not spending money at that place...Not sure what more to say.

So I REALLY, REALLY want to like this place.  This is was my second trip to Mayberry in about a year.  The first visit wasn't bad but it wasn't great, just so-so. I was expecting more for the price. My husband and two of our friends decided to give it another try for three reasons, close to some of our usual hangouts, looked fairly busy but not overly so on a Friday night after 8, and they had a brand new menu.  The experience: utterly "meh" and overpriced "meh" at that. I really want to love it, or at the very least like it. But I honestly had a hard time recalling what I had besides the $5.00 bread appetizer noteable more for the price than for the taste. All of the food was so incredibly underwhelming. And for the prices that are being charged, I need to be a little bit whelmed.  I won't say "never again", because I am curious about their brunch menu.  Before my party and I left, we took a look at that and wished we would have waited to eat until the late night menu was being served.  This dishes looked far more interesting and at a better price point. On a positive note, the restaurant is comfortable and inviting and our server was top-notch.

Some jerks go to restaurants that just give bread away. Not me. I'm rich, b#tch! I'm rolling in the green. That's why I go to restaurants that charge five bucks for seven measly bread crumbles and three dollops of fancified butter. I can't imagine being some poor dude who goes into the 99.9% of restaurants out there where when you sit down to a meal they drop a basket full of a few loaves of bread and butter in front of you to hold you over until your mean comes. Me, I lilke to WASTE my money.

OK, sarcasm is done. I'll come out of my self-imposed <a href="http://yelp.com">http://yelp.com</a> review writing retirement only because this place is a farce. Contrary to my last review where I said I wouldn't be back, I came back to Mayberry's. I always get into trouble when I don't listen to myself. I'd just read this review re: bread.... <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/mayberry-gastro-pub-cincinnati#hrid:Rna-_x0BBcu5TYaLSzBPHQ">http://www.yelp.com/biz/…</a> ...so I was conscious of their lack of bread offerings. However, I then saw Bread with a Trio of Butter on the menu. For $5. I told the waitress, Oh, I gotta see this five dollar bread and trio of butter you guys are offering.

Jeez, what a waste of five bucks. And it's just insulting. If restaurants are getting away with this, then the repeat customers should really be examined by a psychiatric professional. They're nuts! I mean, there's hookers around the corner offering more for five bucks.

Then we tried to order our meal. "I'd like the chicken!" I say. They're out. "I'd like the crab cakes!" my wife says. They're out. I check my watch. It's before 9. Oh. How nice.

On the plus side, contrary to last time, the staff didn't seem creepy.