Local on the Square - Memphis

Decent food, good service, and a good option if you want to spend some time in Overton Square and get a bite to eat.

Local moves farther down the list of places I want to go every time I step foot in there.

This is the third time I've come to local to try and see what everyone thinks is so great.

Stopped in last night for a quick bite. Were told it was happy hour so beers! Lots of beer selections, but we found none of the beer was cold. When we tried to order a specific microbrew that was listed we were told that that keg isn't tapped yet with no offer to actually get us the beer. Wife asked if perhaps the bottle she'd gotten might have just been put in the fridge and asked if there was a beer that might actually be cold. Our server just shrugged and said 'They all like that.So we start off with warm beer.Then we get our Oysters as an app, which had a really, really good flavor. But they were cold fried oysters, so an otherwise very good appetizer was not very good at all.Beers sat empty, had to flag the waitress down to order another, and then was minutes before they came out. She was friendly, but just not very good at her job.Meatballs didn't have a lot of flavor, wings were decent, the prime rib dip was ok, fries were pretty good. None of it was especially hot, but unlike the oysters, most of it was at least warm.All in all the service was poor, food was very mediocre, and our tab for what was listed above beers at each, three appetizers, a sandwich, and two glasses of wine was not be back. Expensive, food was not good, beer was warm, service was poor

Let me start by admitting that I judged this book by it's cover, and my expectations were high. I generally trying new places, and I had looked ahead at the menu online since I had a baby with me and wanted to be able to order as quickly as everyone else.Initial thoughts:The hostess didn't know what Open Table was, but was very nice and she made sure to get it right. She sat us in a nice quiet booth, and that was great.The menu had changed, so we asked the waiter about it. He said that they had a new menuas of a few weeks previous, and the web guy probably just hadn't gotten around to changing it yet. Unfortunately, that meant I was extremely limited by my random food allergies. :I got the fried chicken and grits. It was ok not amazing, but good enough, but my friend got fish and polenta sticks. The polenta sticks were tepid and gritty, and the fish had skin on it inside the fried breadding. It wasn't good at all.The waiter and the guy he was training were very nice and efficient. If the menu and food been good, this would have been a rave review; however, this place is too expensive to serve bad food