My Place Tavern

This is one of those places that seems to inspire staggered expectations. So, for what it is worth, if you are looking for clean family entertainment without profanity or drunkenness or card-playing or smokers, all things that other reviewers have spoken ill of, you have most assuredly gone to the wrong shop, especially if you opt for the bar side rather than the restaurant side. If, conversely, you are looking for a nice selection of craft pints (with excellent NC offerings such as Foothills, Duck Rabbit, and Natty Greene), a friendly local sports bar, and some unexpectedly good wings, the bar side might just be your place. Okay, this story is more complex: My Place also rescued the missus and I from a horrible experience at Village Deli and Grill down the street. After a dreadful and deeply unsatisfactory lunch there, half of which was thrown in the trash, and for which I am hopeful for an an apology and a refund, we decided that we still needed to eat. My Place was on the way back home, so we gave it a shot. Turns out, we don 't have to drive all the way to Raleigh from Youngsville to find someplace to get a bite and a pint. It 's right(ish) around the corner in Downtown Wake Forest. We were looking for wings, a food fetish of mine that sits poorly with my other ethical commitments, but hey, I 'm on vacation. I ask if theirs are any good. While it 's a rare day that anybody says, No, they suck, I can usually get a feel for the actual enthusiasm anyone expresses about food, and the guy at the host stand says they 're awesome. And they are. What we got was advertised as grilled jerk, but probably fried first: they 're crispy and tender and the jerk rub is good, and the side of the house hot sauce that we ordered to dip--well, I know this punctuation-for-emphasis schtick is played out, but all I can say is oh. my. lawd. It 's thick and chunky and hot as a shot of tequila lit on fire (okay, that simile was stupid, and I 'm struggling here today, so indulge me): plenty o ' habaneros with a nice balance of sweet, salty, smokey, and just damned hot. They were fierce, child. Service was okay, and I can see how they might get behind if the place is full, but no problems here. Place looks like a sports bar, with TVs and high tables and such. There is a juke box that we will check out next time through. And there will be a next time, because my wife 's parents live in the woods near here, so I 've bookmarked My Place as handy holiday escape.

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Came here after another restaurant we wanted to go to was closed on Christmas Eve. My husband and I have driven by this restaurant several times and I've always commented that we should go and check it out. So we finally did! We stopped in for dinner when my parents were in town for the holidays and were pleasantly surprised by this restaurant. The food was not your typical barfood as this is a tavern, we received friendly service and incredible entrées all at a reasonable price. We will definitely be visiting this restaurant in the near future. Highly recommend. My husband and mother had the chicken carbonara and said it was excellent and spiced perfectly. I enjoyed a wonderful fire house burger that was cooked to perfection with jalapeños and crispy onion straws. The sweet potato fries were delicious as well. We normally don't have dessert however we decided to treat ourselves as it was the holidays. We ordered the cheesecake crème brûlée and it was absolutely wonderful! Our server was a tentative and very sweet. The atmosphere is your typical bar or tavern look. Was very busy for a holiday eve. This restaurant always has a full parking lot so that was one of the reasons we wanted to visit, the bar area of the restaurant seemed to be doing very well, this may be the reason for all the cars in the parking lot. Absolutely loved our food, check it out!

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Teetering between 2 and 3 stars, decided to round up as I can't say it was horrible. Just standard. They had line dancing so it was a bit loud, don't even mind that as it is a sports type restaurant with events so just know that going in. Sticky tables and sticky menus is what you get. My turkey burger first came out as hamburger. Runner caught it before my non meat eating lips touched. I noticed no avocado or listed ingredients so no biggie as I was going to question it anyway. They don't offer side salads, nor Caesar salad which is a bit weird to me as they had romaine lettuce. What's up with that? At least that is what our server told us. She seemed new. Food was flavorless so highly doubt I'd return.

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Went for lunch recently solid 3 stars. Waitress couldn't have been nicer and was very attentive. Chicken fingers were average, Catalina dressing for salad was mediocre. Spinach and artichoke dip was okay. Nothing awful but nothing stand out either.

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Good American food. Excellent Hawaiian Burger. Super friendly staff. Ask for Megan the awesomely sarcastic waitress. Has us laughing through lunch.

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