Great service, great recomendations, a really good cup of coffee, and the food is chronic! If you haven’t been I would definitely recommend this place. Side note the playlist was top notch👌🏼
The best food ! The best location ! The best service ! Absolutely 5 � restaurant !!!!!
Visited before the Rod Stewart concert for Queens Feast. Very good meal and our server was great as well.
5/2023
I sat outside because the weather was nice! The food was great! The cheesecake was good, but the raspberry puree sold it! I love the feel of this restuarant. Definitely a highlight of my trip to Charlotte! I'll be back!
Update:
9/2023
I came back as promised! Just as good as I remember!
One of the best meals I have ever ate in my life. I had the Korean Steak. The menu is quite different and many options I have never seen before. Everyone in our party was happy with their meal.
Only issue is ,wish they gave out menus not qr codes. My phone data was running slow and couldn't load the menu.
Presentation and Taste: 10/10. The ambience was perfect and warm for a cold night! Get the flat bread first- the sauce was so delicious and the bread was baked perfectly- not a burnt edge in sight. The lamb had the perfect texture and we got it both medium and well done. The drink was an old fashion- very strong! Get an appetizer if you’re going to drink so you can walk straight leaving the restaurant 😂. We are definitely going back!! Enjoy
If I can be a little picky, I wished those falafels were warm inside and kind of crispy outside. But the taste was really good and the sauce was AMAZING!
And chicken curry was great too! A little bit salty but I liked it a lot.
I want to say thank you to our server Kaitlyn who picked my drinks and made me happy! She was so kind to us and knew my taste! We will definitely going back again soon!
Enjoyed our dinner meal. Short rib ravioli and the margarita flat bread were tremendous. Margarita was strong and delish
The patio is what brought us to Essex Bar & Bistro. It was a fantastic afternoon and the patio looked great to sit out and enjoy the people on the plaza. We had street tacos and pizza and the drinks were great. Be sure to ask questions if you don't know what something is. I ended up with a full glass of tequila. It was good! Just unexpected. The service was great and really enjoyed the experience.
Our hotel recommended this restaurant and we had a lovely lunch during the St.Patricks day bar crawl. The service and food were incredible and started off our anniversary weekend in the best way. Everything was incredibly flavorful and we honestly enjoyed the food so much more than other places we had to make reservations for. We had tacos (shrimp and fish) and a few mules. It’s definitely a must return on my Charlotte list.
Here on a slow night. The atmosphere is very nice and cozy. The food was delicious. They have a uniquely diverse menu. It was hard to choose just one entree. Will definitely return.
We enjoyed an impromptu lunch with 10 people and we were able to get seated right away. Service was fantastic and the location is great. The patio is lovely. Food was excellent with lots of options to delight a variety of different needs. The fried artichokes and pistachio and pesto pizza were amazing!
Great experience, 5 in the party, ate Tapas style, you can have a large meal but we chose not to. Food was very good, with interesting choices. Cocktails were well made as well.
First time at Essex for a large group lunch. The apps and food were fantastic! I enjoyed our time there. The service was good but not out of this world, could have been a bit more attentive to the large group. Would happily eat here again for a lunch with a smaller party. Butter chicken was a large portion and the bread was a interesting touch. The tacos were also great.
A friend and I had lunch on 5/4/23, and it was delightful. She had the roasted beet salad and I had the Mediterranean bowl. We both thought they were delicious. The outside seating was wonderful, although the inside looked just as inviting. And the service and our server were fabulous. I would definitely recommend and I will definitely go back.
I had the chicken brie l’t and holy moly was this sandwich amazing! Everything paired together SO nicely. I didn’t get a chance to take a picture of all the food because everyone dove right in but from what others in my party said we were all very impressed with what we ordered. Docking a star because the shift change on 4/13 which we had to endure was highly uncomfortable and made us feel like we were a huge inconvenience. Otherwise, inside of the restaurant was gorgeous and outside seating on a beautiful day is highly recommended!
This place is amazing. The service was superb and super friendly employees. We went there for restaurant week in Charlotte, NC. The place is super spacious and has multiple seating options; tables, booths, semi-high chair tables and you can always sit at the bar, which takes quite some space. The service was fast and good which excellent good. I would recommend this place and will be going there again. Prices are on the higher side. It still affordable. Parking uptown Charlotte is always a pain, but they had valet parking, so no worries there.
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