re: Spunky & Friends Gourmet Grub & Tailgate Treats

Y'all are drawing me back in. Since we are talking about food...one of my favorite subjects...

Last Friday, we came up early and stayed with a relative. Went to the new 5&10. I have had many a memorable meal at the old location next to 5 points liquor store. BTW, it's a Mexican place, now called Cinco y Diaz. Booked solid.

Ordered the price fixe. For an appetizer, ordered the boudin, beet headcheese, charcuterie board. The pickled mustard seed stood out. I like beets when they can have that "dirt" flavor, but it is somewhat masked by vinegar.

The rest of it was meh. Vegetables...outstanding. Protein/meat...hotdogish. Nothing memorable.

First course was bay scallops, autumnal squash, mushrooms...outstanding.

Main course was probably the worst quail that I have ever eaten.

Don't order it, it's horrible. Flavorless, overcooked...It's kinda like they boiled it and then took this cooked grey mass and threw it on the grill.

Tough, chewy, flavorless crap. The aged ribeye was offered up at $60. Glad I didn't get that.

I cook quail/dove all the time, I like duck. Cook the hell out out of it and it sucks. No marinade, no fat like bacon wrapped around it, no brine...cook a piece of lean meat to well done...might as well just order the "uncubed" round steak. It was that chewy.

I will never go back. That taco place next to the Dunkin Dougnuts on Pierce knows how to cook meat better than 5&10.