Hermon's | Infatuation Score: 8.9 | SW Score: 7.7

With all due respect to Hermon's and Last Word Hospitality, you've gotta be shitting me with this bullshit.

Admittedly good, though derivative vibes, a spotty menu with a few hits and a great bar do not add up to one of the best restaurants in the best food city in America.

This is a solid restaurant that hopefully continues to improve, in a great part of town with no other dining options.

Highlights:
Fancy coconut shrimp is such a win
$10 serious fries feels like a gift in this economy
The vongole is great and really the only innovative thing on the menu
Good drink program

Lowlights:
Why on god's green earth does there need to be nduja in the prawn sauce?
Wait the croutons on the citrus salad have nduja on them too???
Someone here is working on behalf of big nduja
Black garlic's molassesness destroys an otherwise delightful chicory salad
Mushroom main is a joke