Bull Feeney's taps Joe out
Joe Reynolds
Issue date: 4/14/03 Section: Arts and Entertainment
Back downstairs: food's ready.
Sweet potato fries? Yes, please. This is not your typical French fry. It is a little softer and a bunch sweeter. The sugar caramelizes so the outside is a chewy-crispy and the inside is a firm-gooey. Not something you find on every corner. The coleslaw is a little bland but, oh! the fish! How delicious!
It is indeed the batter that sets one fish fry apart from another. Bull Feeney's nails it. The batter is golden and crunchy; it's salty and actually kind of buttery, too. The hearty portion is enough to fill me, with tender and juicy fish left on the plate. Top shelf.
The final word: you know the feeling that you get after you eat a good meal--sluggish, full and relaxed? Go to Bull Feeney's if you want to leave feeling like that. Their vast space remains intimate because of the attention to detail in vintage style, and I give ambiance an eight. The food was ambitious and a head above average: also an eight. And the un-"Bull"-ievable service gets a nine. The composite score for Bull Feeney's is a nine.
Joe Reynolds can be contacted at freepress@usm.maine.edu.
Sweet potato fries? Yes, please. This is not your typical French fry. It is a little softer and a bunch sweeter. The sugar caramelizes so the outside is a chewy-crispy and the inside is a firm-gooey. Not something you find on every corner. The coleslaw is a little bland but, oh! the fish! How delicious!
It is indeed the batter that sets one fish fry apart from another. Bull Feeney's nails it. The batter is golden and crunchy; it's salty and actually kind of buttery, too. The hearty portion is enough to fill me, with tender and juicy fish left on the plate. Top shelf.
The final word: you know the feeling that you get after you eat a good meal--sluggish, full and relaxed? Go to Bull Feeney's if you want to leave feeling like that. Their vast space remains intimate because of the attention to detail in vintage style, and I give ambiance an eight. The food was ambitious and a head above average: also an eight. And the un-"Bull"-ievable service gets a nine. The composite score for Bull Feeney's is a nine.
Joe Reynolds can be contacted at freepress@usm.maine.edu.
