the peculiar rabbit

we love it here! we'll be back for sure! excellent food and service. great beer selection

the peculiar rabbit offers a unique menu that incorporates internationally infused recipes of pork, seafood and duck; surprisingly they offer no dish of the rabbit persuasion. but, they do offer healthy portions of deliciousness! at the peculiar rabbit, an appetizer could easily satisfy as a full meal with dishes such as their zesty carolina poutine, a play on the traditional canadian dish, featuring braises short ribs, chopped bacon, and crispy onions smothered in beer cheese and peanut-butter barbecue drizzle placed atop of a heap of golden fries.   read more of the cuisine queens' review at  cuisinequeensnc.com

stopped by for a "working" lunch with some colleagues on a saturday. sat outside and it was quite nice out there. got there early and ordered a beer at the bar. was happy the price of the beer (5.50) was not outrageous for a craft beer. bartender didnt seem very knowledgeable about beer.  the wicked weed was a gose, and wicked weed makes a couple different ones. i asked which one and she didnt know. she just told me she "didnt like it much". food was not bad, but was nothing amazing either. it was the brunch menu so i ordered biscuits and gravy with 2 eggs. i was asked if i wanted grits or home fries, i ordered grits...and got home fries. not a big deal, a fried potato is nice too. as a table we ordered the waffle pops. i would not have ordered this on my own. this is exactly the kind of kitsch-y crap i hate at restaurants trying to hard to be "hip". just give me awesome food. dont try to jazz it up. waffle pops were average. they would be below average, but the sriracha (more "trendy" stuff) syrup saved it to an average dish. our waitress was nice, but was a bit slow. slow to bring food, slow to check on us, never asked if i wanted another beer. i actually would have ordered one, but because i wasnt asked, i just decided to keep my bill cheaper and drink water. overall, a pretty average experience. they gave us some coupons at the end. because my wife didnt get to join, we may come back and try again.

went for lunch on labor day monday. we expected slow service after reading the reviews but we weren't in a hurry so decided to try it anyway. there were only three other tables on the patio outside when we sat down with our 9mo daughter. ordered a couple of drinks and a flatbread while we looked the menu over. our server was friendly and the drinks came quickly but she was obviously left to cover the entire patio by herself. more than half an hour later and the patio is filling up now. drinks are long since empty and still no flatbread. we asked for the check and were told our flatbread was coming out now and that the manager was taking it off the check due to the wait. at about the hour mark, we finally get the flatbread and the check, which includes the charge for the app as well. when i asked about that she apologized and took the check back inside, only to return with a $2 discount.  

two pieces of advice to the restaurant....

1) if you can't adequately staff your restaurant on a holiday, then don't open.

2) don't offer a guest a comp if you don't intend to honor it. it's insulting.

never again.

great food, drinks, & view. very slow service. the venue started out great but over the course of the meal our service deteriorated to non-existence. would return, hoping this was just an off monday night.

this week’s exciting about eating journeys to the peculiar rabbit, a farm-to-fork gastropub in the plaza midwood neighborhood of charlotte. this neighborhood pub attempts to make everyone feel at home with their comfortable interior and friendly service. dora here. oops. forgot to snap a picture of that comfortable, inviting interior. i was so impressed with all the beautiful exterior seating...

service was slow, table was greasy dirty. ordered the jambalaya bites and it was no where near "jambalaya"... being from south louisiana i should have expected this. i had the tacos and my fiancé had the salmon. for $23 salmon, it was tasteless and undercooked. bottom line: overpriced, bland food. the rooftop deck seems nice in summer, so maybe we will come and hang out upstairs and stick to cocktails.

done and done.. went there for an anniversary dinner rooftop deck was absolutely great! atmosphere was amazing not to mention the cocktails were on point!!! should have stopped there.
we ordered food which consisted of chicken and when i say it came out raw i mean exactly that. there is no way on earth that whoever cooked that chicken didn't know it was raw!!! manager cane out tried to remedy the situation by giving us a dish made by the chef but the damage was already done. memorable to say the least. when i think of our anniversary this year one thing will come to mind "oh yhea remember we got that raw chicken from peculiar rabbit"
thanks for the memories!!!!

beware of the cheesecake!!!!!. my husband and i ate at the peculiar rabbit during the lunch hour. we will not eat there again. we ordered salads and sandwiches which were pretty good. before we ordered, we asked the server if the dishes were spicy and he said no. so after eating the salads we decided to order the cheesecake with mango sauce. it sounded different so we decided to give it a try. we ordered and when the cheesecake arrived, we dug in. immediately, our mouth and throat began to burn. what is happening we thought. we tried to eat around the mango sauce, but could not get the burning to ,go away. the waiter came back around to ask how everything was and could tell by our faces that everything was not okayi he said that it was a llittle spicy wasn't it. we asked why the mango sauce was so spicy. he said it had jalepeno pepper in it. nowhere on the description of the cheesecake did it say anything. about jalepeno being in the sauce. we felt as if the chef was playing a dirty trick on us and also that the server should have warned us as we already asked about the spicy flavor for our salads. after we got home, we wished that we had sent the cheesescake back and had it removed from our bill...

good gastropub!. good food. good appetizer menu. good beer menu. offers everything a gastropub should.

my wife and i walked through the door valentines day weekend and observed how extremely busy this place was and noticed they had an upstairs, so we grabbed a table there. we found out very quickly that the table was reserved. however, the server quickly reacted by speaking with the hostess and freeing the table for us, which he definitely didn't have to do. i'm not going to lie, we threw him a number of curveballs and ultimately had several guests join us. ultimately, he responded and did a great job of taking care of our tables. the service and food exceeded our expectations and i'm happy to say we would return. nice job. great place. we are looking forward to our next visit.

not worth the money and time.. as other reviewers have mentioned the service is slowwww. the servers don't move with any purpose and don’t help one another out. my visit was this past sunday, for brunch. when i finished my first bloody mary, it took the server a long time before she came by. after several minutes i sat my empty glass on the edge of the table so perhaps anyone walking by would notice and ask if they could get me another. no less than 3 other servers casually walked by without asking me if they would get me another.

brunch is until 3pm and we arrived a little after 2pm. there were only about three other tables in the down stairs area, so no excused for inattentive service.

the food sounded really delicious on the menu. but it tasted just okay. i ordered the gravy and biscuits, with eggs over medium. the eggs were over hard, the biscuit was kind of dry, and with only about two tablespoons of gravy. it wasn’t bad. it just wasn’t good. my girlfriend ordered the shrimp and grits, it arrived drowning in gravy. she really liked the grits but could barely taste them because of the overload of gravy. i had the same experience on my first visit for lunch. the food was ‘meh; it arrived as described, so you can’t really complain. but, it didn't taste all that great, especially for the price. the menu seems a bit ambitious based on the execution.


i expect they will be successful because of the location and the roof top dining. but, there is room for a lot of improvements, in my opinion.

terrible.. horrible, avoid. food is mediocre and grossly overpriced, serve was absolutely terrible. waitress was rude, nasty and cursed at one of our guest. drinks are watered down. just a bad experience all the way around and i will not be going back nor will i recommend.

the food was mediocre. the tables, which the owner apparently made, are the worst tables i've ever sat at in my whole life. i would avoid giving this place a second chance because of the tables. :(

tasty but not for the mo-ney. i had the brisket with blue cheese, it was delicious. the fries were average. the waitress was very efficient and nice. one of my friends had a salad and it was big but not as dressed as showmar's, ok looking though. my other friend had the salmon entree and it was sparse. we all agreed that we would def. not make this one of our lunch rotation places due to the price...$15 for tea and a sandwich??? wt...

haven't eaten here; most likely never will.... as the title says i haven't eaten at the peculiar rabbit, i probably never will. here's why; i called to make a reservation earlier but they were not taking reservations because they had a larger wedding party. fair enough it's a busy sat. night. i ask the girl on the phone what time the party was scheduled for & did she think i'd be able to get a table for 3 as a walk in guests, she said yes.

i had gotten a couple friend together to help me review this restaurant for a menu planning project at the local culinary school. you know the one, no need to name drop. anyhoo, my friends and i arrive at 6 pm are asked by the hostess how many in our party and then told not so politely that they aren't actually taking any guest at this time because of the previously mentioned wedding party. now i am more than a little annoyed but we leave and have a fantastic meal at midwood bbq.

after dinner, on the way back to our cars, i decide i am going to stop back by the peculiar rabbit and speak to the manager. he is very sorry that we couldn't be accommodated, he would feed all of charlotte if he could. he agreed that perhaps the hostess needed to gently guide me over the phone to a later meal time. however what he failed to do is invite me back.

i assume he took one look at my dirty converse and listened to me say i am a college student trying to review your restaurant & decided this girl isn't worth my time because she doesn't have the money. in a way he is correct, i do not have the money to spend at his restaurant like the wedding party guest potentially have. i am glad that his restaurant is doing so well that he doesn't need to worry about the $50-60 dollars that i might spend there. i hope for his sake they have lots of wedding parties because one thing they will never have is my business.