The Collingswood Foodies
West Side Gravy: Comfort Food with a Trendy Twist
Chef Alex Capasso might make the best coleslaw in town.
While waiting for our food during our most recent visit to West Side Gravy, we took a look at the restaurant’s rating on various opinion sites. Our predecessor has already addressed the merit of review sites, so we won’t reignite that debate. Instead, let’s focus on how opinions vary about West Side Gravy and how they match up with ours. Yelp users give West Side Gravy 3 stars out of 5, and Trip Advisor rates them 3.5. The general consensus on Yelp and Trip Advisor is that West Side Gravy is “just okay.” As fans of the restaurant, we want explore this briefly. We think its identity might be partly to blame for the less-than-stellar reviews. We've eaten at West Side Gravy even before its upscale sister restaurant, Blackbird, moved in to …
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Mel Sharples
3:58 pm on Monday, May 6, 2013
Went back the week after I wrote that post. About 6pm on a Wednesday evening. One table with customers. No hostess, no servers in sight. Waited. Waited. Waited. Left. Honestly, that played right into our concerns and the issues we'd had in the past. We were disappointed, we really wanted to go in and give it another try. Had a great meal at Keg-n-Kitchen instead. With Pour House and KnK...why … more ›