Simp McGhee's - Decatur

My wife and I ate at Simp McGhee’s Wednesday, June 19th shortly after they opened. It was a mixed experience. Appetizer: The crawfish eggrolls were wonderful. The veggies in them popped with flavor. They really do them right. Main Course: I had redfish over fettuccine with some light sauce and veggies, it was very good. Elisa had petite filet and seasoned mashed potatoes which were also very good. However other aspects of this experience weren’t so good. See the photo of the salad oil and whatever that dark stuff is? Look how filthy it is. I told my wife they need to pour that stuff into new containers each day and put the old one to wash! Good grief. If I owned a restaurant and my employees did something like that, I’d be absolutely livid! Never give a customer something so filthy! But that’s not all. I asked the waitress for virgin olive oil and some fresh lime or lemon juice with which I intended to make my salad dressing. She enthusiastically affirmed that she could do that. Then, she brought that atrocious stuff out. Look at that photo. I asked her “is that olive oil?” she replied, “it’s olive oil” nodding her head in affirmation. I tasted it . Ugh! It was rancid old oil spoiled like it had too much heat or too much time. Obviously it was too old and it was not olive oil. Did she knowingly outright lie to me? I had her take the salad away since I poured oil on it and tasted it with my finger. Ugh! The table. This place has a wonderful ambiance. It’s an old two story house with oak tables and Windsor chairs. I had to roll my sleeves down because the table was terribly sticky. Yuk. Who wants to sit at a sticky table? I don’t know if I want to go back there or not. The food was good except that atrocious rancid salad dressing in the filthy containers. If they treat those salad dressings and their containers that negligently, what else do they neglect?