Tuesday, April 22, 2008

review: 755 club

755 Club
date of visit: 4/20/08

kiwis:
taste: 3
service: 3
ambience: 5

I love the Braves. So that automatically makes me love the 755 Club. But even as fun as it is, the food & service isn't that great. If you're not a Braves fan, it's definitely not worth it ($30 buffet in the dining room, or $10 sandwich/bar food in the bar area).

First off, you have to be a member of the club, or use someone's tickets to get into the club (I fall into the latter category. It's one of the few perks that makes me like my day job, hehe.) Then, if you want to do the buffet, you have to have a reservation, no walk-up seating. You don't have to do reservations for the bar area, but then the line to be seated is often very long, and people like to take their time.

The buffet is nice...I've had dinner and brunch here now, and dinner definitely has more choices to it. I especially like the cheese buffet and sundae bar that you can get at dinner. But this past weekend we had brunch, which was a little cheaper and not as good. There is a buffet with all kinds of carbs (danishes, waffles, bagels, etc), then a buffet with a lunch type entree (ours had orange glazed red snapper with couscous - I really enjoyed this!), a scrambled egg bar with various toppings (the eggs are fake so I wasn't really into it), a salad/fruit bar, and a meat bar (bacon, sausage, and a carving station with ham). Dessert is separate from the buffet service & costs extra. It's good food, just not spectacular food.

The service is just average as well. Our host was nice, but then we didn't actually see our server until halfway through our first plate. We got plates and waters from a busboy. Our server was a little slow on getting us drinks, and then he asked us if we needed ketchup while he stared at the ketchup bottle already on our table. He wasn't quite all there if ya know what I mean...

But ambience. How can you beat being on top of an awesome ballpark with a great view of the whole field. Watching batting practice...being there before a game with all the excitement and pregame fanfare. I love it!

Here I am at our table in the awesome sunshine (the weather was perfect - sunny & a cool breeze):

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

waaaahhhh i was not able to c the game and enjoy the buffet

But I got some weird news from the Masters Golf Tourney. Here it is . . .

Pimento Cheese crisis threatens 2008 Masters

With food prices rising almost as rapidly as fuel prices, organizers for the Masters Tournament are realizing that not even their precious pimento cheese is safe from the situation.
Masters food vendor Centerplate has announced the price of pimento cheese has risen over 50 percent in the last year, to over $110 a barrel. Production disruptions in North Carolina, wage conflicts in the dairy pastures of California and rampant speculation have fueled a meteoric rise in prices.

“We’re really struggling to overcome the price problems we are experiencing,“ food service spokesman Tom Arnold said. “We have a tradition to uphold here, but at the same time, we’re trying not to lose our shirts on the deal.”

Food service officials have considered solutions ranging from raising the prices of the sandwiches to offering the sandwiches as a loss-leader to encourage the purchase of other items at concessions stands. Officials have even considered taking the unprecedented step of shortening the tournament to three rounds.

Arnold said tournament officials have asked Governor Sonny Perdue to declare a pimento cheese state of emergency in Richmond County, in an effort to clear the way for federal funds to help deal with the crisis.

FEMA spokesman James McIntyre said emergency officials are standing by for federal approval to deliver 26 truckloads of pimento cheese from federal emergency supply warehouses in Kentucky and Alabama.

“This thing has gone straight to the top,” McIntyre said. “The President is being kept apprised of the situation in his morning briefings, and is expected to make a decision in the next few days.”

Mozzarella, cheddar and Cheez Whiz manufacturers have offered to assist in resolving the crisis, but concessions officials rejected their offers, saying they’re trying to taint the tradition of the tournament.

Note: Rest easy, there isn't really a pimento cheese crisis. And the rest of the story is fake too.

lol-dad B-]

Anonymous said...

well look at you, getting all tan!! :'c hmph well i've been kind of laying out so hopefully i'll be able to keep up with you hehe :P i can't wait til saturday lil' booger when i get to hang out with you and ryan!!! my professor asked me to be a volunteer for it, but i told him i couldn't. yay for $5 bands! maybe if i did volunteer i could get us them for free! i should work on my pout face O:) lol