Monday, December 12, 2011

The Silver Dollar

Being the new kid on the block can mean a few different things.  For one, people seem to always be talking about you, whispering to all their friends about that place that just moved in.  Also, it sometimes unfortunately means you have that awkward stumbling point where you haven’t quite got your groove, but everyone knows you will have so much to offer when you hit your stride.  That is how I see The Silver Dollar.  Having just opened in the last few weeks over on the downtown end of Frankfort sits The Silver Dollar in the old Albert A. Stoll Firehouse.  By now you all know how much I love anything local, well I happen to also be a history nerd, so if you put a locally owned restaurant in one of America’s oldest intact firehouses I am there.
Being greeted by the reclaimed wood bar as I walked in, I wandered over to my friend who was already seated in a large booth.  The sound of old country and low chatter fills the room and creates a nice background sound to an evening with good friends and house-made cocktails.  Both of my friends decided on the fried oyster sandwich.  Apparently they were good, one going as far to say it was the best oyster sandwich she has had; the other commenting that the bread wasn’t as hard as a normal po’ boy bread, which made the sandwich better.  I had the Barbecue Pork sandwich, it was delicious.  The pork was tender and the coleslaw on top of the sandwich was just right.  What we would like too highly recommend is that you cover your chips in the house-made salsas or ketchup that is brought out to you.  We all had our preference, one thinking the regular salsa was great, one claiming the smokey ketchup was where it was at and myself feeling that the salsa verde was money.  Either way we seemed to demolish all of our chips while simultaneously making the sauces disappear.
What I would like to caution is that the stumbling point with The Silver Dollar seems to be the service.  While we had one server to start with and kept putting off ordering until our third member arrived, we ended with another server.  I am not opposed to switching servers since we had only ordered drinks, but the server we ended up with was not the greatest.  She finally did take our meal order and the food arrived fairly quickly, but after that it was downhill.  We waited for what felt like forever for her to notice that we had been trying to get our checks to leave.  After we gave her our cards it took her 20 minutes to bring them back to us, she had actually forgot that she had them.  I have heard from a few different friends that their service experience was much the same.  Again I am going to contribute this to being new and still working out the kinks.  The food, drinks, and sauce alone is worth the visit, perhaps do as we did and go on an off day (Mon-Thurs) when it is a little slower so the servers have a bit more time.

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