Susan Feniger's STREET Take Two

From her onscreen personality during many different reality TV shows about cooking, Susan Feniger comes off as funny and charming. A few years ago on my birthday, Hubs took me to one of her restaurants, STREET, which I had very much wanted to go to. I ordered green curry. I got something that had a lot of coconut milk, a little curry, and was probably green because of the vast amount of lime it contained. I have a high tolerance for acid, but this was an overwhelming amount of lime. It was the worst curry I've ever had. It was also the most expensive.

So that was a bummer.

Since then, STREET has started serving brunch. And I had a Groupon. Woo-hoo! Unfortunately, I forgot to read the fine print of said Groupon, the whole reason we went, so we ending up paying full price for brunch. Boo. Was it worth it?

The main dish I wanted to try was the Kaya Toast.

Coconut jam between grilled bread. You dip the bread in the egg and swirl it around in the soy. Mmmm. Perfect bite of food. Sweet, salty, rich, crunchy, and soft. It tasted like Asia. I could have easily eaten another order by myself.

I wanted to try an Angry Egg because I am a huge fan of the deviled egg.

It's a basic deviled egg with green sriracha and Malaysian hot chile. The egg wasn't anything special and the sauces didn't have a ton of flavor. Mostly heat and not much else. Meh.

The Chicken + Waffle Croquettes sounded interesting. I'm a big fan of Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, so I was hoping for a unique spin.

This dish was all over the place. I liked the poached eggs and the greens. The eggs were perfectly cooked and the greens were perfectly seasoned, maybe with fish sauce? They had a something-something that I couldn't place, but it suited the greens perfectly. The waffle wasn't crispy and had no distinct flavor. It tasted and had the texture of a waffle from the freezer heated in a microwave. Belgium is crying. There, there. Brace yourself, it gets worse.

The waffle came with something on top that was described as spicy maple sauce. It wasn't spicy and was reminiscent in flavor and color to Smucker's caramel in a jar. I have no idea why this was on my waffle, syrup would've been just fine, but there it was. It was not good. The chicken croquette was fine. It was basically a deep fried chicken sausage ball. But that sauce, man. I saw another table where the waffle was barely touched. I heard them tell their server that it was "weird." Yep. It was that.

We also ordered the Croatian Apple Fritters.

Our server asked if we wanted them as dessert, since they were so sweet. I'm not a huge fan of the super sweet, so I was nervous. But the sweetness level was fine, normal pastry sweetness. Unfortunately, the fritters were very chewy. As in, it was hard to get a clean bite into them. Maybe razor blades would've worked. There was some tugging and yanking going on, which is unacceptable for a fried dough coated in a sticky whiskey cider sauce. And there was no apple flavor whatsoever. Were they called apple fritters because of the apple butter in the sauce? If so, that's misleading. There was, however, a crap ton of orange zest. It didn't even list orange on the menu, and all you could taste was orange. No thank you. Orange dessert doesn't do it for me. Especially orange dessert that I can't chew.

We still have our Groupon that we've already paid for, so we have to use it. I'd be happy to get the Kaya  Toast again and try something new. Maybe the chilaquiles? Fingers crossed. Right now STREET's about 1 for 10.