Chicken (not so) Little

Ali, Andi, and I went to The Roasting Company for dinner one night and it was fabulous. Just walking in and smelling the food was enough to make me start salivating like Pavlov's dog. This little gem of a restaurant is located on Montford Dr. and its menu is filled with a variety of Southern and Tex-Mex cuisine.

The Top 100 dish is the "Quarter Dark," which is basically a quarter of a chicken with dark meat. Not being a fan of dark meat, I edited my choice to the "Quarter White" and was much happier. It's served with 2 side dishes. On an interesting note, all of their side dishes contain no meat by-products, which is a little weird considering you're probably going to get some sort of chicken on every plate. Anyhoo, I got the squash casserole and smoked cheese and pasta salad. Andi got the chicken and rice, and Ali got the chicken and black bean combo.

Your order is taken at a bar area with a cash register and then they call out your name to pick up your food. It's kind of nice not to have a waiter - more self serve - but the ticket for a credit card still has a "tip" line on it. That always confuses me - am I supposed to tip someone just for taking my order? Anyway, our food came out in a reasonably short amount of time and it was delicious. The chicken is rotisserie so it's nice and moist and it was a huge portion. I ended up taking home half of my meal. The squash casserole almost looked like a cornbread dressing and I think it did have some sort of stuffing-like component to it. When I read the smoked cheese and pasta salad, I missed the salad part and thought it was some type of macaroni. Well, it's not - it's an actual pasta sald. No matter - it was really good. It had spinach, penne pasta, and cheese, and it was served cold. Everything tasted great the next day for leftovers too!

The second best part of the meal? TCBY was very close so we got dessert too!!  All in all, a really nice dining experience.