{"id":360,"date":"2008-08-26T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T17:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatinoc.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2008-08-26T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T17:41:42","slug":"memphis-cafe-costa-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/oc-food-reviews\/memphis-cafe-costa-mesa\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Cafe – Costa Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have read numerous reviews about Memphis Cafe in Costa Mesa from people on Yelp to Kat at the OC Register, so we finally were able to check it out I’m just going to make this a quick review because I’ve lost my pictures and I’m starting to forget specifics of my meal.<\/p>\n

Mrs. DanGarion meant to order a half order of the grilled chicken cobb salad, but ended up ordering the full salad ($10.50).\u00a0 I ordered the buttermilk friend chicken ($17.00).\u00a0 The salad was big, not huge, but definitely enough for any normal human to eat in one sitting.\u00a0 The salad came with a very light cracked pepper & herb dressing which was lightly drizzled on top of the mixture of lettuce, tomato, avocado, egg, croutons, gorgonzola, apple smoked bacon.\u00a0 My wife liked it a lot but wished it had just a little bit more dressing because it was slightly dry.\u00a0 There were so many different flavors that it didn\u2019t need too much dressing but it stills needs a bit of moisture to help it go down.\u00a0 The buttermilk fried chicken was served with collard greens, mashed potatoes, country gravy with andouille sausage.\u00a0 The chicken consisted of a boneless chicken breast along with the drum part of the wing sticking up from it.\u00a0 The chicken was perfectly moist and the breading added extra flavor to it.\u00a0\u00a0 The collard greens were my first experience and I liked them for the most part, they have a very distinct flavor (they were better than those from Burrell\u2019s BBQ).\u00a0 The mashed potatoes were wonderful with just the right amount of gravy on them to use for the chicken as well.\u00a0 It was a great meal that I wouldn\u2019t probably order again, although I feel I can get a friend chicken of the same caliber elsewhere for slightly less.<\/p>\n

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When we first walked in we weren\u2019t greeted and it took a minute or two for any of the staff to realize we were waiting to be seated.\u00a0 One of the unfortunate things about places that don\u2019t have a proper hosting area, people that have never been there before tend to get a little frustrated because you don\u2019t know what you are supposed to do, do you seat yourself, or do you wait?\u00a0 We did like the hole in the wall roadhouse feel though.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy it wasn\u2019t too hot though because they don\u2019t appear to have an air conditioner and it took a minute for me to adjust to the temperature.\u00a0 We sat inside, but there appears to also be a large covered outdoor area as well.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t put them on the top of my list, but I\u2019d like to try some more of their dishes, I was very split on my order and almost got the grilled pork porterhouse ($19.50), I\u2019ll have to save that for my next visit.\u00a0 I did hear they have a great happy hour.<\/p>\n

My rating would be a 4 for the food and 2 for the experience when we entered, fortunately our waitress was really cool and on the ball with our orders and keeping out drinks running, which gives them back up to a solid 3 rating (don\u2019t question my math!).
\nVisit 8\/9\/08 for Dinner<\/p>\n

[xrr rating=3\/5]<\/p>\n

Memphis<\/strong><\/a>
\n2920 Bristol Street
\nCosta Mesa, CA, 92626
\n(714) 432-7685
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I have read numerous reviews about Memphis Cafe in Costa Mesa from people on Yelp to Kat at the OC Register, so we finally were able to check it out I’m just going to make this a quick review because I’ve lost my pictures and I’m starting to forget specifics of my meal. Mrs. DanGarion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[29,53,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oc-food-reviews","7":"tag-american","8":"tag-costa-mesa","9":"tag-southern","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgNGWN-5O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inocnetwork.com\/eatinorange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}