I have mixed feelings about this restaurant. On the one hand, it’s a brilliant concept and it has been very professionally done. On the other hand, about half of the food was not very good.
The themed interior decor is fantastic and will delight families, especially with kids who are fascinated by construction projects or equipment. The menu is one of the best conceived I’ve seen. It’s themed, attractive, and offers pretty much any kind of dish family or sports bar enthusiast could be looking for.
We started with the baked potato skins. The problem here is that they aren’t really baked potato skins. They’re essentially half potatoes with some sort of a cream cheese filling underneath the top more conventional presumably cheddar cheese and I guess bacon bits in there somewhere. They just weren’t potato skins.
For my main course, I had the very reasonably priced classic Cobb salad. It had all the correct ingredients for a Cobb salad, but there was nothing classic about it. As it was just a pile of lettuce with stuff on it. A classic Cobb salad would be served in the traditional rows of ingredients where you can dip and choose amongst them as you wish. But it was fine.
My wife had the chicken tenders, which were served with fries. The tenders were quite good, actually the best thing that we had. They had a delicate and very crisp fine-grained breading on the outside. The fries on the other hand were some of the worst fries I’ve ever been served. They were a huge mound served underneath the chicken. They were only about half cooked and it didn’t seem like the oil had been hot enough. They were heavy, limp, and large, although voluminous.
I don’t want to discourage you from trying this restaurant because I think they’ve put a lot into it, and it has true potential. If the food lives up to the descriptions on the menu and the pictures on the menu, it could be really good. Perhaps we went when the second-string team was on at lunchtime, and we should try it again in the evening. Great concept though.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-construction-zone-restaurant-kissimmee
