Sweet Chick
Chicken n’ Waffles
Carolina Cheese Grits
Sticky Bun
Pastry Plate – Banana Bread, Corn Muffin, Asian Pear Coffee Cake, Pumpkin Cranberry Loaf, White Chocolate Cranberry Scone
Iced Coffee
Located in one of the trendiest sections of already trendy Brooklyn it was just after 3pm when I met my sister from Chicago and a friend from Los Angeles at Sweet Chick for the first of many shared meals over the coming week. Undoubtedly stylized, perhaps to the point of trying too hard with wooden picnic tables, Edison bulbs, chalk boards, mason jars, plus fanciful duds and suds all accounted for along with over-the-top aloofness from Damian, our server who first condescended to me about the pastry plate before bait-and-switching a sticky bun for the desired bread pudding, I think it can be said that the scene at Sweet Chick left much to be desired and leave it at that…and so how was the food? Good but not great, the thick toothsome grits and coffee cake stealing the show from crispy chicken entirely reliant on syrup to make up for a lack of seasoning, though the quality of the meat itself was high. A fine place to drink, see, and be seen there is simply far better food and service to be found throughout the five boroughs than to dedicate a meal to a place that doesn’t seem sure it wants to be anything more than another hipster watering hole.
