Give eatery a chance

I’m trying to understand why Eric Harrison would jump out and look for all the wrong things about the new restaurant, Sullivan’s, the first month it is open to write his review in the May 5 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Little Rock has lost a number of eating establishments (Del Frisco’s, Bone’s, Bravo’s, The Tavern, Mimi’s, to name a few) in recent years. We finally have someone take a chance on establishing a new sit-down eating alternative, and the reviewer rushed in to Sullivan’s to eat when the restaurant has been open less than a month to review it.

Sullivan’s competes with every other business now in trying to find help that measures up to the task, and among other things, he complained that the server had to make a trip back to the bar for a wine glass, and the server didn’t read him the portion of the menu describing the Prix Fixe meal.

I’m surprised that a restaurant reviewer waited to read the menu until after he went there to realize that the Prix Fixe option existed. The Prix Fixe provides an outstanding price for a choice of salad or soup, choice of entrée, and choice of dessert.

My husband and I took a chance and dined there for our wedding anniversary dinner shortly after Sullivan’s opened, and we had superb service, wonderful food and were so happy to see a formerly vacant building in Little Rock once again offering a sit-down dining choice. We liked it so well that we took our niece from California there for lunch when she came to visit the next week. We had a delightful meal with very attentive servers.

I don’t have any vested interest in this restaurant, but I am happy to support a much-needed business and would like others to give a new business a break while they work out the initial kinks.

JODY ALLISON Little Rock