Starkville question
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that some people like and some people absolutely hate. I am on the hate side. Although I did love their basketball drink specials back in the late 90's, early 2000's - for every made 3 during a State away game - you got a free beer.
and the "free beer every time State hits a 3-pt shot" is still going (and completely worth it with the current squad). Rosey Baby's downfall, however, is the service, which has never been good. Nice staff, but undermanned and lacking in effort. I've never had a waiter that brought beer or took orders in a reasonable amount of time, but that's usually because one person would be working the entire restaurant. Never was crowded enough to warrant that kind of service though. I usually get the blackened Rosey burger, which I recommend. It's pretty good. Nothing else I've tried there really made a big impression.
Basically they just give you any opened wine over the weekend. Myself and a rather large fellow drank all the red wine they had opened. They then cut us off before opening any bottles. It might have also had something to do with us being entirely to drunk to be in a restaurant.
rosey baby was closed basically all of late 07 through 08, then reopened this year. i was talking to rick of rick's cafe (all the bar owners are actually pretty close) and he told me that he is trying to sell the place, and its open because its easy to sell an open establishment compared to closed one. i'm sure he also muttered something under his breathe about the hunt club, all the bar owners hate the place, it overthrew an established agreement all the owners had before it arrived by having willy nilly specials.
I had softshell crabs there and they were the worst I've ever seen or imagined. I missed out on the free drinks. That was probably a good buy.
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Wooderson
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you get one there that's as big as your head (on Tuesday). And then get double mashed potatoes. Don't get the green beans, they taste like clorox.
But yeah the restaurant sucks.
But yeah the restaurant sucks.
(delayed posting vis a vis dead cell phone battery)
LIVE from Rosey Baby....
The college world series is on a small screen in the corner of the bar. The big screen TV in the seating area is broken.
I knew this place was going to miss the mark as soon as our drinks arrived. Our iced tea was delivered in giant plastic coke zero cups whose elegance was rivaled by only the finest convenience stores in the Golden Triangle area.
But they did have authentic cajun home-cooking....and by home-cooking I mean that stuff you cooked at home right after you moved out of your mama's house. Let's see...frozen catfish fillet's from kroger which you skipped thawing and slapped down on a pan with some cooking spray, salt, pepper, and a dash of Tony Chachere - and in between reading your mail, paying some bills, and stuff you just about forgot the fish was cooking. It was too dry to flake, but still edible and not burnt. Served with the best canned string beans kroger had along with some boilin' bag rice. No exaggerations here - it was stuff you'd fix for yourself when you've not planned anything and want to put forth minimal effort in the kitchen.
Also had some grilled shrimp and by grilled I mean cooked plain in a steamer until the point you cooked & ate your other food and then remembered you still had shrimp in the steamer. Grilled? I assure you no combustion process was involved here. It was tough and chewy, but instead of throwing it away, you sprinkled on some pepper and ate it anyway. Easily, the worst I've ever had.
Rosey Baby has got to be a front for laundering money or other nefarious goings on. It can't be there for the food. Only customers there were in two different planned events....events no doubt planned by someone unfamiliar with recent history in Starkville.
LIVE from Rosey Baby....
The college world series is on a small screen in the corner of the bar. The big screen TV in the seating area is broken.
I knew this place was going to miss the mark as soon as our drinks arrived. Our iced tea was delivered in giant plastic coke zero cups whose elegance was rivaled by only the finest convenience stores in the Golden Triangle area.
But they did have authentic cajun home-cooking....and by home-cooking I mean that stuff you cooked at home right after you moved out of your mama's house. Let's see...frozen catfish fillet's from kroger which you skipped thawing and slapped down on a pan with some cooking spray, salt, pepper, and a dash of Tony Chachere - and in between reading your mail, paying some bills, and stuff you just about forgot the fish was cooking. It was too dry to flake, but still edible and not burnt. Served with the best canned string beans kroger had along with some boilin' bag rice. No exaggerations here - it was stuff you'd fix for yourself when you've not planned anything and want to put forth minimal effort in the kitchen.
Also had some grilled shrimp and by grilled I mean cooked plain in a steamer until the point you cooked & ate your other food and then remembered you still had shrimp in the steamer. Grilled? I assure you no combustion process was involved here. It was tough and chewy, but instead of throwing it away, you sprinkled on some pepper and ate it anyway. Easily, the worst I've ever had.
Rosey Baby has got to be a front for laundering money or other nefarious goings on. It can't be there for the food. Only customers there were in two different planned events....events no doubt planned by someone unfamiliar with recent history in Starkville.
You were warned.
But I know how it is- sometimes you just have to experience it for yourself.
Actually, the last time I ate there, it wasn't that bad, but then again I eat hospital food everyday.
But I know how it is- sometimes you just have to experience it for yourself.
Actually, the last time I ate there, it wasn't that bad, but then again I eat hospital food everyday.
Those are extremely cheap people. I think they lost their chef a long time ago when it was actually decent. They also own Bulldog package store and the gas station attached to it along with Coconuts gas station in the Cotton District.
Something happened to Rosey Baby's around 2000, and it hasn't been the same since. I don't know if it was a change in ownership, the loss of a chef, or what, but it hasn't been the same since. It was pretty good for a little while in the late 90's.TBonewannabe said:
...is a close friend of Rick's, knows other restaurant owners, and says it was closed by the Mississippi Department of Health for repeated violations. He says the owner's wife tries to run it with very minimum staff, treats people like dirt, so there is high turnover and only marginal employees willing to work there. I used to go there for crawfish, but got extremely poor service. When I heard about the Health Department issues, I quit going all together.
I knew just about everyone that worked there then.... It was really about cheap beer and oysters but Gene is a good classically trained chef. The food (and Menu) improved dramatically when they brought him in; but he moved to Jackson in 2000. Unfortunately there was no one to continue, or build on the work he had done with the place so if pretty much fell apart.
Haven't been there in 7 or 8 years now.
Haven't been there in 7 or 8 years now.
back in '99-'00 @ Rosey's, and they ran off both of the chefs' that were on staff. they made me the "kitchen manager" at one point, and i had worked in the kitchen for only about 4 weeks. i ended up just bartending for little while before i finally quit. Curt wasnt too bad of a guy to work for, but his wife was very difficult to work for/with. it was on the steep downslope when i left, and i havent been back in the place since '01 or so (and that was only to go drink)...
Gene still is a helluva cook, just not professionally anymore. Joined the army after a short stay in Jackson, did a little time in Germany, then of course Iraq & Afghanistan. He lives in Georgia now. Married with three kids. Who would have ever guessed!
you went anyway? Man, you're dumb. Gives the whole "Give Henig a chance" statement new perspective. And if the food sucked ***, you deserved it.
It does have to be a front, because there is no way that place should still be open. It is an atrocity.
It does have to be a front, because there is no way that place should still be open. It is an atrocity.
I mean, you have to try for it to be that bad. Hell, you could order frozen **** from Sysco that is passable.
i really liked working with him. he had an excellent chris farley impersonation, too.... (the "tommy likey, tommy want wingy" was spot-on)
funny story of when i worked with him:
the night of the election in 2000, he came in about 15 minutes before we closed, and the only folks in there were me, and the closing server, and like 4 customers. he locked the door, asked if anyone had anything they really needed to go do, and said: " we're not leaving till Bush wins".
needless to say, we staggered out about 3 a.m.
funny story of when i worked with him:
the night of the election in 2000, he came in about 15 minutes before we closed, and the only folks in there were me, and the closing server, and like 4 customers. he locked the door, asked if anyone had anything they really needed to go do, and said: " we're not leaving till Bush wins".
needless to say, we staggered out about 3 a.m.