City Grill, Montgomery, Alabama Restaurant Details

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Awesome staff, excellent bar, delicious food, & classy atmosphere. What more could you want? Belly up to the bar and ask Blake to fix you a drink. It's going to be a good time.

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Good solid wait staff, knowledgeable and friendly. Elegant and simple decor. A menu with wonderful favorites and always something new and exciting. The kitchen treats the food with understanding and respect

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The Hampstead still has a lot of work to do, but it's good to see places like City Grill having already taken up root. My experiences with fine dining in this city have been pretty touch and go, but it usually comes down to a matter of value. If I'm going to spend twenties of dollars for an entree, I want to know there's some technical skill going into it.

A chicken might not seem like the most elegant protein for a meal, but there is quite a bit of technical finesse in cooking an entire bird, and the half poussin I ordered - partly because it's fun to say "poussin" - was a fairly well-done balance of the white and dark meat along with the crispiness of the skin. It was also a pretty freaking large portion for one person - I was served half of a four pound bird, leaving me to figure out how to best attack the thing with my knife and fork. After half an hour, I just went to town using my hands.

The passage of time has me forgetting everything about that meal other than the bird itself, which is probably a testament to City Grill and a reason why it's worth making the trip - it's a Montgomery restaurant that not only understands what goes into fine dining, but gives you ample portions for the money.