I was planning to review the food and service, but after seeing the restaurant's own public post attacking "bark-eating tree huggers," "church haters," "government left-wing nuts," and various other people the owner apparently considers beneath him, I feel obligated to mention something else: I am exactly the sort of customer that post tells me is unwelcome.
That's an interesting business strategy.
Apparently the Blue Eagle is happy to take my money, just not my politics.
As for the actual restaurant experience:
The food is overpriced for what you receive, the music is unnecessarily loud, there is no air conditioning, and the number of flies competing for dinner is difficult to ignore.
The "all you can eat" fish fry is particularly laughable. In theory, that means you can keep ordering fish. In practice, you may spend the better part of your meal wondering whether someone remembers that you're there. The servers simply don't reliably return to offer another serving, so the "all you can eat" experience becomes more like "pay $20 for the privilege of eating one serving and hope somebody eventually notices you."
And then there's the attitude.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with using AI to advertise your business. There is, however, something remarkably foolish about using your business's public page to announce how much contempt you have for entire categories of potential customers. If you don't want people who are tree-huggers, liberals, church-haters, government-haters, or whatever other imaginary category you've decided to lump people into, that's your prerogative. But perhaps don't be surprised when some of those people decide to spend their money somewhere they're actually welcome.
A restaurant is free to have whatever politics it wants. Customers are equally free to decide that the politics, the food, the price, the service, the flies, the heat, and the volume aren't worth the money.
The most remarkable thing about the Blue Eagle isn't that it has opinions.
It's that the owner apparently believes insulting potential customers is good marketing.
For my part, I'll take my supposedly wackadoodle, left-wing, tree-hugging money somewhere that has air conditioning, fewer flies, reasonably priced food, and--most importantly--people who understand that hospitality means making your customers feel welcome, not publicly sneering at them before they walk through the door.
There are plenty of places to eat. Life is too short to pay $20 for lukewarm fish while being insulted by the proprietor. read more