Serpas

I consider myself a foodie and I'm pretty picky. I've been to Serpas (named after the owner, Scott Serpas) for brunch before and it was good. Didn't go back for brunch bc I thought it was a little pricey for the portion and so forth. I prefer Thumbs Up, Highland Bakery, Bluebird Cafe, etc. for brunch.

So my boyfriend and I went on Saturday night to try their dinner. It was pretty much a full house, with many large groups. It is all open and is loud, so if you're looking for a quiet and romantic dinner go elsewhere. The cocktails they offer are good and the bar was packed with young, single people. I ordered a drink made with organic vodka and green tea and lavender. It was pretty darn good. They also serve Hendrick's gin, which not all places do.

I ordered the swordfish (comes on top of a bed of shrimp risotto) and my boyfriend ordered the chicken. He said it was good, but he tried to steal my swordfish after he tried a bite of it!

The food and drinks seemed to take a long time to come. The air conditioning broke right before we got there and it was quite miserable. The manager was very apologetic and took care a round of our drinks and gave us some ice cream cake to help cool us down. Staff was friendly. I will definitely return!

Price: $70 (plus $20 tip) for 2 entrees and 3 drinks. I tipped based on the amount it would have been if I had paid for the 2 drinks and dessert graciously given to us.

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This place is kind of in the middle of nowhere, but is really cute and nice. Has an industrial feel inside and it feels like it's farm fresh, not sure if it is though. The Bloody Mary was completely fresh and really good. The french toast was good but not worth $14 or so it cost. Overall a cute place to take someone visiting but not some place I'd go to regularly.

Serpas is a chic spot with good food, however their customer service, and their treatment toward their guest is horrible. I made reservations for a dinner party and was almost forced to have a planned menu because I was thinking about 15 guest. I was told that they had a small kitchen and needed to be prepared for us, and that is standard for other restaurants, which I know is not true because I planned dinner parties at restaurants almost every year and this was a first. After discussing this for a while the owner said if I had 13 or less guest I would not have to have a set menu. The menu they were trying to force on me was a five course meal, which I was not going to make my guest pay for if they didn't plan on eating that much food.Reservations were made for 12 guest and we arrived at the restaurant and got seated after the group arrived. The waitress came and took drink orders and appetizers. She brought back some drinks and took forever with the rest. I finally called the manager over to check on the rest of the orders. The manager brought them out with no apologynothing. Dinner orders were placed and it took forever for them to bring our food out, and I mean a long time. The food finally was served. We received the tickets and one of my guest was charged for bread she ordered, but never got. Come to find out the bread was served to another guest on the other end of the table who ordered gumbo. She thought the bread came with it since she didn't order it or ask for it. It was a form of soup, so why not we thought. The guest who ordered the bread and did not receive it brought the charge to the waitress attention to remove it, so the waitress sent the manager over. The guest who ordered the bread didn't even see it on the table and the guest who got it with her gumbo didn't know the other ordered it, so we didn't question it at the time. The two guest where on different ends of the table. The manager came out and debated with my guest about the bread being...

Serpas was randomly selected b/of all the hype, however, I was extremely dissappointed. I dine out quite a bit and was disgusted that our party of 10 had to wait almost 30 mins for a waitress to appear AFTER being seated. After taking our drink orders, we had to inquire multiple times as to when our drinks will comefinally, the manager took our orders again and brought over our drinks. The dinner order was the same experience. My assumption is that since they include a 20% gratuity for large parties, they don't owe you even mediocre service. If you have lots of time to waste, don't care for an attentive server, and enjoy rude management, this is the place for you!!!...

I recently went to Serpas for dinner with two of my friends. I chose it because of it's recent review in GQ magazine. The restaurant itself is gorgeous - I love the interior decor and the beautiful stone wall. We were about 20 minutes late to our reservation but they sat us down right away. It took a little while to get our waitress over to the table but after she took our drink orders, she was extremely attentive and friendly. We were really indecisive about what we wanted to drink and eat and she really helped us. I had the Lemonade to drink first - it was so good I couldn't even taste the vodka. We ordered the eggplant hushpuppies, the calamari, and the mushroom and brie flatbread that were all good! Very different - my friend though the calamari was too spicy. We were still hungry so we then ordered some mashed potatoes and I ordered the corn soup which was delicious - it also had crab meat in it. I ordered the spiced orange drink which is one of the best drinks I have ever tried! I will definitely go back to Serpas!