GW Fins

We're having our Christmas party there and I've never been. Can anyone shed some light on what this place is all about?

It looks fancy schmancy.

 

I went a few weeks ago with a couple of people. The decor was nice. but we were a little disappointed in the food and service. They had to take our crabcake appetizer off the bill because it was cold. Not just cool, but cold.

 

That's the place that owners of Chicken Box just opened up?

 

I've heard some real good things about it from people who are pretty snobby about food.

 

I was not too impressed. The place smelled like fish and wet carpet.

The lobster bisque was sub par. I think they burned the roux and there wasnt a shread of lobster meat in it.

The 10oz. fillet was good but the potato that came with it was like a left over baker where they peeled the skin off, quartered it and deep fried for 30 seconds.

The chocolate mousse was a slab of some chocolate crap sliced and laid on a plate with 3 blueberries, half a strawberry and some kind of berry sauce. Chocolate mousse should not need a berry sauce to "enhance" it.

 

Did that smell follow your date around?

 

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Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009

GW Fins closed up its Charlotte location after serving its last meal Saturday night, said general manager Aaron Somerville.

The uptown seafood place, the only sibling to a popular New Orleans restaurant, was opened at 525 N. Tryon St. in September 2007 by chef Tenney Flynn and managing partner Gary Wollerman.

“If people had shown as much interest in the restaurant in the past as they did today … “ said Somerville, who noted that the New Orleans original Fins is “thriving.”

“It's the economy,” he said. “We had what we think is the best product in the city, a beautiful restaurant, great service. It had to just be the economy.”

The restaurant had drawn more than 700 reservations for the upcoming Charlotte Restaurant Week, he said, which had to be cancelled.

Bruce Hensley of public relations and marketing firm Hensley Fontana, owner of Charlotte Restaurant Week, heard of the closing today. “Unfortunately, they're dropping like flies,” he said of the city's restaurant scene in general. “It's a shame. (Those) reservations, I hope, will go to our other participating restaurants.”

That promotion, Jan. 24-30, offers three-course meals for $30 at more than 50 area restaurants. Other restaurants are also offering deals in that time period. In a typically slow season for restaurants, the discounted meal offers are seen as a way of attracting new as well as old customers.