Maybe it's just me, but after giving Bosscat two tries, I was about ready to call it quits with this one. Luckily the third visit showed this spot in a new light.For my second visit, I gave Bosscat a go for my birthday dinner, and ofcourse they showed out in signature fashion, killing the interior design of their sparkly new market street location! The interior featured dark, moody, accents, cigar boxes housing silverware, large decorated seats, a bar open to the covered patio and many touches big and small to continue to define the personality of Bosscat.From our visit they're still training it seemed, but not to worry, it's a new location, and that's to be expected but caused a few notable bumps in the service were difficult to overlook.As far as food, we tried the country bread, a dish of, well, warm fried bread (not to be confused with fry bread- think donut, but savory). Def an experience, and a win for a few members of our party, but not a dish I would personally order again. I moved on to the catfish, and have to say that the mushroom risotto was pretty tasty. Catfish itself was well fried, overly hot when it arrived (burn your palate hot), but when cooled was fine. The homemade sweet chili garlic sauce pairing felt similar to the sweet and sour on crab Rangoon. Possibly it was the texture, but as a pairing, it was a hard pass for me. I'll try another dish next time. When booking the reservation it was mentioned that I was celebrating a birthday, this was confirmed by the waitress when we were seated, but while we saw two other nearby table receive birthday desserts, we did not. A newer restaurant, well chop it up to training.No manager visit, no birthday dessert, no dish I'd return for on this, or my first visit until...Enter visit #3. Out server was far more attentive, and although we had to pay double the happy hour price for the dish we wanted 30ish minutes prior to happy hour start time, we were grateful to see it was offered. Now, if you're visiting I highly recommend the savory decedent brisket grilled cheese and the Smokey, delightfully luscious Mac and cheese (maybe not all at once...or bring a few friends). Both are worth whatever future consequences they have on my health. This one for me is still a split decision, so I'm looking forward to round 4.
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