Bull Durham Bar

Reviews about Bull Durham Bar

• 3 / 5

  By Trevor Chenoweth
  Bull Durham Bar is a good place to stop in for a drink and/or more casual lunch, if you can deal with it being a little stuff at times. In the warmer months the outside patio is awesome.
  
  I have eaten here many times and most of the food is quite good, although the portions are sometimes hard to gauge. Shrimp and grits, for instance, is delicious and comes in many styles depending on when you happen to come in, but on occasion you will end up with three shrimp and a few spoonfuls of grits and that's it. Other meals (most recently, a delicious mahi-mahi BLT with jalapeno bacon) will fill you up before you get 3/4 of the way through.
  
  Service can also be hit or miss. Most of the time wait staff is polite and helpful. However, as a young (under 30) guest, I at times felt like they were exasperated with my presence when they would rather serve the big-tipping older members. I always tip 20 percent as a baseline, so it's not like they are reacting to my behavior on this. I can recall one time when the waitstaff argued with my friend over what she had ordered. I believe she asked for an irish coffee and instead received some kind of kahlua drink. Kinda weird, maybe a miscommunication, but could have been handled better.
  
  Also, it should be noted that things are a little pricey for the Durham area, but about what you would expect at a country club restaurant/bar.
  January 19, 2017