Neighborhood Services

So last night we dined at Neighborhood Services.
On other occasions we had driven by the establishment only to see the line out the door/around the building...no thank you.

We prepared!! Since it was MLK Day and we were both off work, we headed over around 5:30. Well, at 5:3o the restaurant isn't open yet. We spent our time at the bar purchasing $8 bevs. Now...normally I might complain about $8 on a drink...but this was a well spent $8. It did the trick.

When we were seated at 6, we had perused the menu enough to know exactly what to eat!
If you would like to peruse the menu for yourself, please click here! One of the bartenders told us that N.B. chose the bird that is the icon for the restaurant from an old skateboard sticker he used to own. Cool .We can get on board with that!!

What we ordered:
To drink - The Bees Knees and a Beauty School Dropout.
To eat - we began with the flatbread - Smoked/ Roasted/ Aged/ Toasted
Delicious!! The ham was just crispy enough to almost be bacon and overall, this was delicious!

We went on from there to the Chilled Crabmeat on Avocado Chop: red onion/ mizuna/ citrus & mustard vin.
Thoughts on this: granted it IS a crab salad, this salad was too crabby and not enough of everything else to balance things out.

Next we sampled the three jack and mac gratin.
Two thumbs up on this gooey, tasty treat. Very good staple item to have on the menu! Just a little bit spicy, and just a whole lot of delicious!

We finished up with the housemade Ding-Dong.
We weren't disappointed.

Overall, the experience was decent.
But the wait is crazy long. After we were seated, we learned that the wait was already up to 1 1/2 hrs. That is just too long. Granted, the place is still new to Dallas and that might wear off...on the whole, it wouldn't be worth it to wait that long!

Your thoughts?