My trip to the "New" Wild Onion Resturant

This restaurant is an icon around these parts. It was once owned and operated by a family that have had roots in the area for over 100 years. A few years ago, that family retired and the restaurant was put on the market and sold. A new owner came in, kept the name and menu and gave it a go...Christine and I went on two occasions, not good and we just did not go back. Since the restaurant is right down the street from us, we saw that it had closed again and from the service and quality we received when we went, we could defiantly understand. Jump to January 2009, the restaurant has once again opened. Christine and I were excited and decided to go last Thursday evening...after our trip...I will never walk through those doors again. I have come to the conclusion, the Wild Onion will never be the same as it once was. Chris and I get there at about 7PM and the place was pretty much empty. We decided to sit in the large "family" room downstairs and began to look over the menu. We noticed that the prices had really gone up, but that's okay... We decide to order an appetizer...fried mushrooms..."we are out. sorry" the little waitress says. Okay, we will just order, we didn't need any mushrooms anyway. Chris decided on her favorite, the pork chops...opps...no pork chops....the little waitress informed us that the "owner put them in her car and took them home". What??? Do you have any food here?", I asked. So we decided on the old standby, Chicken Fried Steak and ordered. We then went up stairs to get a salad, it was okay but the lettuce was beginning to turn brown and they have taken the cornbread dressing off the salad bar...darn it...I loved me some cornbread dressing. So we go back downstairs and eat out salad and the waitress comes up and lets us know that "it's gonna be awhile, we had to make some fresh gravy". Ok, no problems. The food arrives, oh boy...we are going to have some great Chicken Fried Steak...uh...not so fast. My greenbeans were cold and my steak batter was not cooked. I mean when I cut into the steak, the batter was a gooey flour paste and in some places was just still flour... I got pissed...I mean real pissed. I'm not so sure that I got mad because of the food itself, I think I got mad because of the trashing of the namesake that is the "Wild Onion". It was an icon, a family place...a place were you went and people knew you like part of the family. To tell you the truth, it was alot like eating in your own house. It should be a crime what they have done to it. These new owners just need to shut the doors and let the old building rest in peace. So to sum it up, if you are hungry and want to go to a restaurant to eat, don't go to the Wild Onion, they might not have anything on the menu and what they do have will suck.