99 Problems
The Carter
Sydney
Sister’s birthday dinner
The new Beyonce and Jay Z bar in town, they had me at Kimye cocktails, wings and ribs. This place has a lot of hype, only 2.7 rating on Zomato so i had to check it out for myself. We made a reservation for a Tuesday night via opentable.
As we arrived, the place is full of gold scaffolding which looks really cool, it’s more like a bar than a restaurant so we saw our table with my name it and sat down. Grab our own menu and realised it was not table service so went up to the bar to order only to be told there are no cocktails available….none. I was celebrating my sisters birthday so i was pretty annoyed. Why wasn’t i warned? How hard is it to go to Woolies? I was very close to leaving, but we aren’t big drinkers so decided to stay.
The bartender offered to make cocktails with what he could and still charged us same price of normal cocktail…whatever. As he started to bring the food over he explained it’s American inspired so the portions are big and maybe we should order from the Lebanese menu…theres another menu? Maybe we would have known that if we were greeted properly. We had already ordered all our food so too late, and you can’t get a bill at the end, you have to open a tab if you want to keep cocktails coming.
Don’t get me wrong most of the food was good, if they had the cocktails it would have been a great night. Food is really good value for price. I felt like it was a bit of a failure so took my sister to Koi at Chippendale to end the night on a high.
I would definitely try The Carter again, not for a dinner, more for a pre drink destination. Maybe in a few more months when they have their shit together. They have some really cool stuff coming up too like displays of celebrity items etc. I wanted to love this place, i really did, they made it impossible though.
The Carter Chicken Wings (Beyonce’s Hot Sauce Chicken Wings) 8 wings $6 - these were gooooood, not too hot which i love yum!
Notorius A.N.I.M.A.L Fries $12- House Made Mac & Cheese, crispy bacon and cheese - yum!! Crispy perfection, mac n cheese and that bacon, one of the best animal fries I’ve ever had yassss
Cheesy Hush Puppies $10 - we had to google these to see what they were, pretty much cheese balls, they were too doughy i could only have 1
Nas sticky lamb ribs with house pickles $16 - these were my fav, amazingly sticky, the sauce was delicious, perfect bar food
Boy’s Don’t cry cheeseburger with jack cheese, pickles, red onion, mustard and tomato sauce $15 - the bottom bun was completely soggy, not even eatable, so my sister had to pull it apart and just eat the meat, which she said was pretty good but not the point of a burger
