MIXX Restaurant opens in Villanova
January 30th, 2010
MIXX, the sister restaurant to Azie on Main (and part of the WIN Signature Restaurant Group) opened on Friday January 29th in the downstairs space that used to hold Maia in Villanova.
The menu concept is comfort food, with an average entrée around $10 and nothing over $18, and includes a full range of entrees as well as sandwiches, burgers and homemade brick oven pizzas. Some highlights are: Crispy house-spiced buttermilk fried chicken with mango coleslaw; Shrimp macaroni and cheese with rock shrimp and laced w/ cheddar and parmesan cheeses; Tender cornbread hush puppies with a honey-chipolata dipping sauce; BBQ baby back ribs with a Cajun dry rub and pineapple glaze; The signature MIXX chopped salad containing tomatoes, apples, avocados, cucumbers, red onions, bacon, walnuts, blue cheese with a honey Dijon dressing.
For more details, check out their website. (Why does WIN insist on having music on all their websites? So useless and annoying.)
Have you checked out MIXX in the early going? Post a review below.
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Enjoyed the food. Service was off.
Went to MIXX for the first time on Valentine’s Day. Big space, nice atmosphere. Food was very good – especially the chili fries, wonderful! However, our server seemed inexperienced and made continuous mistakes that affected our enjoyment. (Salad & entrees arrived together, request for lemon cocktail required several reminders, a menu item was explained incorrectly and I thus ordered a side dish that was redundant.) I will definitely go back to MIXX to enjoy the food, but I hope they work out the service. I really want them to do well and stick around!
Went there with two friends, one a foodie, last night.
I agree with Michael, the fries and the cheese garlic mashed potatoes are the reason to go there at least once a week.
Also agree, good value. We had three entrees/apps. Two were good. The fried chicken was burnt beyond recognition, but the server was very apologetic.
Will be back and hoping the chicken is not burnt.
The area needs exactly a spot like this.
I hope they do it right.
Give them a try.
Good Food – Reasonably priced
The most important thing about a restaurant in my mind is good food, a close second is value and Mixx succeeds in providing both. I was there last night (wednesday) around 9:30, there was a light crowd in the bar and no one at tables. Apps were chili cheese fries and chicken soup – the fries were cooked to perfection, cripsy enough to hold up to the cheese and chili but not burnt and portions on the chili and cheese were appropriate. The soup was flavorful, with large pieces of chicken but too few noodles. I had the Brioche Burger with swiss which was cooked to a perfect medium-rare as ordered and was delicious but was overshadowed by a side of cheese garlic mashed potatos which would be reason enough to return. My girlfriend had the Angus filet burger which was good, but the meat seemed lost among the bread.
As for atmosphere, the bar area is cosy in spite of the clubby music being played, however the rest of the space seems too large and disjointed. My only concerns for Mixx is the lack of foot traffic and that they rented more space then they can fill.
In summary they really provide good comfort food at a reasonable price, my meal listed above was a little over $50 including 2 glasses of wine. I’ll probably be here once/week and look forward to trying the rest of their menu.