Mimosa

We've eaten at Mimosa once and did carryout a few times, because it's close to our house.  Tonight I tried the teriyaki chicken for the first time.  The menu reads, "Grilled with home made teriyaki sauce and vegetables".  What I got as "vegetables" was a few onions and two pieces of asparagus.  I thought something must be wrong, so I called the restaurant to check.  Sure enough, that's all you get as vegetables with the teriyaki.  I'll probably be back just because it's close, convenient and fairly inexpensive. No more teriyaki, though!

We went to Mimosa for dinner about a week after they'd been open. Reviews seem kind of spotty and I think I fall somewhere between the extremes.

We opted not to wait for a table and accepted bar seating. Not sure if that was our best choice. Biggest obstacle was lack of restaurant knowledge from our bartender/server. When going somewhere new, we tend to ask our server for recommendations. Huge mistake here. Our bartender literally said, "I hate this kind of food. I like McDonald's."

Jaw. Drop.

Okayyyyy. I think it's pretty obvious that that's unacceptable from wait staff. We stuck with safe choices and ordered a spicy tuna roll to share, pad thai for me, and my girlfriend ordered cashew chicken. The three stars comes solely from how good our food actually was. Spicy tuna roll was on point, pad thai was a good mix of sweet and spicy, and the cashew chicken was nice and light, no heavy sauce.

I ordered a Bloody Mary, which proved to be a challenge for our bartender. She went exactly by the book since she hadn't made one before. I was sad to see barely one shot in my drink.

I won't give the bartender an F--she was super nice the whole night and pretty attentive--just grossly undertrained and not really professional. :/ That actually is pretty bad now that I've read my review.

I'm still standing by three stars. The food was good and the atmosphere was a nice upscale change. Oh! And the pricing was SUPER reasonable. I think we got out of there for under $30. I saw lunch specials on there for under $10.

Definitely worth a second go.

Now even after 2 months of being open, it's still a disaster. Avoid at all costs!