Tavern 42

119 Oleander Dr, Clayton
(919) 553-8888

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Tristan Manduley

Sun 3:30p: Order the usual when we do takeout at Tavern 42. Asked for "floppy chips", waitress says "oh you mean when their slightly undercooked?" and i confirmed. Sun 3:50p: Wife returns home with food for family. No obvious issues with anyone elses order, but my "floppy chips" instead are potato slices that sat in a fryer just long enough to become grease sponges. The Salmon BLT wrap looks through and through like its been sitting in the same grease, so much so i cant even tell if the salmon is undercooked or its the grease. Sun 3:55p: After trying to quick fix by tossing the chips in a fryer and removing the grease saturated lettuce, i decide to call down to get it replaced. I only live 5 minutes away and have done many takeout and dinein orders, taken out of town guests here, never had any problems so at most this should be just a short trip for my order to be replaced... youd think. On the phone after explaing the issue she puts me on the phone with the manager. I explain the same thing to him. He tells me ok "let me call the owner and ill call you back". to maybe the less savvy theyd just go along but to me i went "???" because of the giant red flag standing in front of me. i explain to him how to handle the situation, "ill be there in 15 minutes, so use that time to start the order and call the manager and ill be there in 15 min". i dropped one F-bomb over the dog food they tried to serve me and who the owner doesnt trust her employees to make right. mainly out of frustration that was exacerbated by the fact that her staff probably did understand the problem but werent empowered to just make it right. Sun 4:10p: I arrive with receipt, food order, and wifes card in hand. i notice one unusual thing. call it another red flag. there are signs ALL OVER the place saying "BE KIND OR LEAVE". gotcha. i know the code here. its a virtue signaling zone. they must have had some unkind customers come thru. keep my cool. Im seen right away and indicate i called down for my order to be replaced. (at this point im still not quite believing what the store mgr has told me). The manager then comes over and he says "ok and you said you want to swap out with the blackened chicken sandwich?" and i say yes then he says "ok let me call the owner and get her ok" and i said "you should have done that already, just refund the whole $38 order." i should add that he lets me know everytime he has to call the owner he has to wait for the owner to call back. i quietly ask "do you think everyone here would be happy to know it could take yall up to 30 minutes to even be able to decide if you can make an order right?" about the refund, the mgr says "yes but i have to call again for the refund". i ask isnt there a mgrs override? he says "the owner is probably watching everything right now on camera". then the owner calls and apparently wants to talk to me. i say "well hello CEO-in-chief", amazed that this much of the business structure is involved in a $38 messed up order. she defends the transaction by blaming me for ordering chips undercooked. the same chips her waitress communicated she understood, the same chips they made me tens of times, the same chips that never made me question the food safety of my order. Sun 4:15p: im issued the full refund and the staff informs me the owner has asked me not to return. i say "sure thing, thanks" and leave. This is bittersweet for me cause even tho im moving to a nearby town i still wouldve driven here occasionally and continued to host visitors and date nights, or maybe even just to get my paws on some of them tasty chips... but they dont want to be special anymore. they have signs all over their restaurant that indicate something's happening over at Tavern 42 to cause an unkindness epidemic. since i dont see these signs anywhere else, is it really that your clients became less kind? or maybe its the owner.... if this is how they want to run their

Tristan Manduley

Sun 3:30p: Order the usual when we do takeout at Tavern 42. Asked for "floppy chips", waitress says "oh you mean when their slightly undercooked?" and i confirmed. Sun 3:50p: Wife returns home with food for family. No obvious issues with anyone elses order, but my "floppy chips" instead are potato slices that sat in a fryer just long enough to become grease sponges. The Salmon BLT wrap looks through and through like its been sitting in the same grease, so much so i cant even tell if the salmon is undercooked or its the grease. Sun 3:55p: After trying to quick fix by tossing the chips in a fryer and removing the grease saturated lettuce, i decide to call down to get it replaced. I only live 5 minutes away and have done many takeout and dinein orders, taken out of town guests here, never had any problems so at most this should be just a short trip for my order to be replaced... youd think. On the phone after explaing the issue she puts me on the phone with the manager. I explain the same thing to him. He tells me ok "let me call the owner and ill call you back". to maybe the less savvy theyd just go along but to me i went "???" because of the giant red flag standing in front of me. i explain to him how to handle the situation, "ill be there in 15 minutes, so use that time to start the order and call the manager and ill be there in 15 min". i dropped one F-bomb over the dog food they tried to serve me and who the owner doesnt trust her employees to make right. mainly out of frustration that was exacerbated by the fact that her staff probably did understand the problem but werent empowered to just make it right. Sun 4:10p: I arrive with receipt, food order, and wifes card in hand. i notice one unusual thing. call it another red flag. there are signs ALL OVER the place saying "BE KIND OR LEAVE". gotcha. i know the code here. its a virtue signaling zone. they must have had some unkind customers come thru. keep my cool. Im seen right away and indicate i called down for my order to be replaced. (at this point im still not quite believing what the store mgr has told me). The manager then comes over and he says "ok and you said you want to swap out with the blackened chicken sandwich?" and i say yes then he says "ok let me call the owner and get her ok" and i said "you should have done that already, just refund the whole $38 order." i should add that he lets me know everytime he has to call the owner he has to wait for the owner to call back. i quietly ask "do you think everyone here would be happy to know it could take yall up to 30 minutes to even be able to decide if you can make an order right?" about the refund, the mgr says "yes but i have to call again for the refund". i ask isnt there a mgrs override? he says "the owner is probably watching everything right now on camera". then the owner calls and apparently wants to talk to me. i say "well hello CEO-in-chief", amazed that this much of the business structure is involved in a $38 messed up order. she defends the transaction by blaming me for ordering chips undercooked. the same chips her waitress communicated she understood, the same chips they made me tens of times, the same chips that never made me question the food safety of my order. Sun 4:15p: im issued the full refund and the staff informs me the owner has asked me not to return. i say "sure thing, thanks" and leave. This is bittersweet for me cause even tho im moving to a nearby town i still wouldve driven here occasionally and continued to host visitors and date nights, or maybe even just to get my paws on some of them tasty chips... but they dont want to be special anymore. they have signs all over their restaurant that indicate something's happening over at Tavern 42 to cause an unkindness epidemic. since i dont see these signs anywhere else, is it really that your clients became less kind? or maybe its the owner.... if this is how they want to run their

mechele arnette

Came there because online stated they had gluten free options. When arrived asked waitress and she said there was not anything gluten free

Scott Lupro

Great food and service, The staff is great, but you have to try their potato salad! The closest I've had to my grandmother's. It is that good.

Jamie F

Placed a pickup order for 4 burgers 3 fries potato salad and a pickle The person taking the order read back exactly what was on the order Everything was cold there was no potato salad or pickle Whoever messed up this order should pay better attention to the ticket order

Catalina Mejia Montoya

Amazing Pizza and service. We almost forgot to took a picture. It was very delicious!!

Jeanne' Laramee' Schmidt

Food is excellent, staff is friendly, the atmosphere is fun as well as the crowd. We have been going there weekly for a few years. We love it!

Shawn Baker

garlic Parmesan wings were horrible…

Scott Pope

just ordered a pizza from tavern 42. The pizza was terrible. Never again!

Jess High

We were recommended to eat here, and let me go on and tell you…..the food and service were phenomenal!! We’ve never been and we went last night and 10/10 highly recommend. The menu was fun, and the chicken salad wrap, Angus burger with bacon and egg and both pizzas were PERFECT. I let them know it was our first time and they were so accommodating and brought out samples and we were impressed! Def will make this a regular occasion. Thank you!

Keith Pleasant

Great place to eat. Food is always wonderful

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Loaded Fries, French Fries, Blackened Chicken, T42 Double Burger with Chips and Ranch Dip

Barbara Anthony

Bianca was fantastic and the food was so fresh. Great drinks specials and a fun bar vibe.

Adam Gross

Great place to eat and have a nice drink.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Brick Oven Pizza

John Riley

Ordered wings well done they describe them as crispy to them it appears to mean skin rubbery and not cooked PIZZA minimal topping low quality cheeses center not cooked crust essentially raw. The take out food was uneditable low quality ingredients probably the cheapest they can find.
This place was new to us and horrible quality is lower than chain restaurants. Save your money and go anywhere else.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

Peter L

Ordered meatballs which consisted of 3. They were so small and had the nerve to charge $10.50 what a joke!!! Everything is about the same

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Calzone

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