Having Been One of the Few People to Actually Eat at Soul Daddy...

I can say the food was lousy. They completely ruined his idea for a restaurant. The second I walked into the place, I saw almost no real "Soul Daddy" in it, there was definitely no Wings, Woods, and Waffles, his original idea. For starters, there were no side items I actually considered Soul Food. He had about seven different kinds of salads (regular, rice salad, kale salad, etc.) and that was about all you could choose from unless you wanted to eat this disgusting, runny cheese grits. All of the meats (and there were only three, chicken, pork, and ribs) were ruined by sitting under heat lamps all day so that it really dried out the meat, and, as Bobby Flay mentioned, it ain't right for a Soul Food restaurant to serve only baked chicken. I mean, a kale salad and baked chicken? WTF...almost any generic lunch eatery in Manhattan or L.A. could serve you that out of a plastic container and do just as well.

You could tell it was what Steve Ells, Curtis Stone, and Nina Garcia THOUGHT Soul Food was instead of what it really is (even the design of the place was wrong, looking more like a hipster's loft than a cozy home cooked kitchen) and they set Soul Daddy up to fail as a result of that.