Comment Archives: Locations: Restaurants: 1 Star
Re: “Urban Flats [Closed]”
Over priced. I also asked if they validated parking in the garage, was told they did, but then really they didn't validate. I hate having to pay for parking at an establishment I'm already giving money to. Valet was not there that day either.
Re: “Darfons”
The price is way to high for quality of their food selection. Which isn't that great anyway!
Re: “Fiesta Azteca”
I have been to the Fiesta Azteca twice now. The first time was not that memorable other than the long wait before being seated. It was not busy at the time, so there wasn't much of an excuse. But despite that, we thought we would give it one more try. That was a horrible mistake. It took a LONG time to get seated. once we were seated we were brought chips and salsa and finally drinks. Then the waitress disappeared. No refills on everything, just waiting...
When the waitress did re-appear we had to ask for everything and was only brought a portion of what we asked for. I had to ask three times for a salsa refill. By the way, the salsa has a strange flavor and is very hot, so if you dare eat any be sure that you have plenty of water, which in my case I didn't.
Four of us were brough fajitas without the tortillas, which came about t minutes later so the food was nice and cold before we could start eating. One person in our party did not get his food with everybody else's because they apparently forgot his order.
There are too many restaruants in the area to choose from that are far better than this place and comparable in price. Don't waste your time here. But if you do plan to take the risk on the Fiesta Azteca, be sure to bring a couple bottles of water and a jar of Old El Paso with you.
Re: “Satay Thai Grill”
Worst Food I've Had In Nashville So Far!
Seriously guys? I couldn't believe my eyes when they brought out my $12 "entree" on a styrafoam plate, iceberg lettuce topped w/mayo, orange rice, and some sad white sliced meat that was supposed to be grilled chicken. To my horror, it tasted even worse. I think their "chicken" was of the pre-cooked varitey, soaked in sulfates,and the texture was like eating rubbery eggs. The salad tasted like mayo and relish, and the rice tasted like nothing. The only pleasant suprise was not getting food poisioning that evening. The owners of this restaurant have spared every expense to create this culinary catastrophe and in the words of my sister "must think we are idiots". I've had some great cheap Thai food but not at Satay!
Re: “Bombay Bistro”
I had heard nice things so I went but was very disappointed.
Goat curry meat was too tough, veggies were watery, and their famous chaat was too soggy instead of being crisp. Maybe the owner was having a bad day.
I hope they would get their act together soon as I love Indian food and they are conveniently located in Franklin.
Re: “Yogurt Oasis [Closed]”
not good do not go there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: “Joe's Place”
I ordered a grilled chicken salad at Joe's and the chicken wasn't cooked. I'm not talking like slightly pink...it was still raw! I know a sports bar is probably not a place to have high expectations for food, but come on! Cook your meat!
Re: “Fattoush Cafe”
Terrible food and high prices! I can't believe they are still in business. My gyro salad tasted terrible and almost chemically and cost me over $8 for lunch. Highest price in town. I will never return to this place
Re: “Ruth's Chris Steakhouse”
We had dinner here on Saturday night. The service was excellent; however, the food was less than expected. The steak was greasy (way to much butter), the salad was bland and the cheesecake tasteless. All I can say is that I am glad I was NOT paying for this dinner.
Re: “Chappy's”
I cannot understand how this place is still open. My first experience was not very good at all. The food was "warm" at best and felt like most things had already been prepared beforehand and plated as it was ordered. It was not crowded at all.. There were maybe 1-2 other tables occupied. A few months go by and I told myself I would give it one more shot. Worse than the first time. Food was cold, way too expensive for what you get and almost empty again! it just doesn't taste good to me. I will not go back here ever again.
Re: “Neely's Bar-B-Que”
Expensive for bbq and not that good. This place is now a tourist attraction due to the Neely's being on Food Network.. Do not waste your time if you are local and want good bbq. Go to Martin's in Nolensville. It is worth the drive.
Re: “Giovanni Ristorante”
The WORST + most over priced restaurant in Nashville. $90 for 2 waters, 2 cold pasta dinners and a pizza dinner ??? Go to Valentino's instead. Don't set foot in Giovanni Ristorante. Ever. 1. They brought dinners 1 minute after setting pizza appetizer on table. Two $25 pasta dinners sat cold as we ate the pizza. Pizza was good. 2. Pasta is lackluster and mediocre at best. HORRIBLE value. I realize you get what you pay for and better food is priced accordingly but this menu is so overpriced its offensive. I regularly eat at the best restaurants in town and this is definitely not one of them. 4. Want bread or rolls? Well you better ask because $25 pasta doesn't come with bread. At least ours didn't. 3. If you want to spend stupid money on dinner to impress a date or client, you're better off going to elsewhere. You'll look like a fool for taking them here. "A fool and his money are always parted" was meant for Giovanni Ristorante. NEVER EVER EAT AT GIOVANNI RISTORANTE IN NASHVILLE!
Re: “Mad Donna's”
food was mediocre, service was terrible, parking was impossible. will not be back.
Re: “Firefly Grille”
We had a horrible dining experience with the rude staff. We immediately felt rushed by Doug, our waiter, as he made the comment to our table that he was on a schedule. They hovered the table all night which I thought was great service until I realized the hovering was because they were rushing us out. Finally the extra rude man with the suprisingly outdated soccer haircut came to our table and asked us to leave because people were waiting on the table. Really?? Is this great customer service? You definitely should ask if your reservation is on a timeline because apparently our reservation had a timeline which was not communicated. A table for 8 and 1.5 hours in the resturant seems reasonable to me. Upon leaving another staff member ran to the parking lot to tell us she was sorry for the way her "socially dysfunctional" colleagues treated us. We will never go back there....I have had a few bad dining experiences but this one goes straight to the top. Way to go rude Doug and soccer haircut man!!
Re: “Stock-Yard Restaurant”
Dined at the Stockyard many years ago, and it was fabulous. Something has changed. Food was served cold. Cooked properly, just cold. When we complained, we were treated very rudely. Got no satisfaction. Will never go there again.
Rating Detail:
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 2
Value: 1
Overall: 1
Re: “Mama Mia's”
There is nothing at all unique or special about this restaurant, except to say that one could find better food in a jar of Spaghetti-O's. The pasta was ordered al dente but came out slimy & soggy. The sauce was very sweet and tasted like it was prepared by a rank amateur. The amount of pasta served barely covered the bottom of the plate and the price for it all was ridiculous. When I stated I did not like the pasta and wished to just pay for the salad, I was charged $6.00. Needless to say I will not return to this place anytime soon. Full blame for this is poor management and certainly not Sicilian. The cooks in the rear all spoke Spanish. Not a pretty sight.
Rating Detail:
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 2
Value: 1
Overall: 1
Re: “Sperry's Restaurant”
This is another one of those “first class” establishments in Nashville that no longer deserves its reputation, if it ever did. I have lived in Nashville for a number of years and whenever I heard of this restaurant, it was always in tones of hushed, almost whispered worship, like a prayer or wishing upon a star.
My Italian friend, born and raised in Italy, and I ended up at this restaurant on Christmas. We had had a perfectly glorious mini repast at 1 808’s earlier (check out the reviews of this place. Genuinely superb!) earlier in the day but decided to see if all we’d heard about Sperry’s was true.
The bread, assembled in a glue factory, stuffed with soggy cotton balls and then zapped in the microwave arrived within seconds of our being seated; the soft, cottony, gluey center scalding hot while the colorless crust remained tepid as road kill. It instantly became ballast in the mouth and created a choking hazard. I cannot fathom why my fellow Southerners, who in many ways invented American cooking, cling to this soulless incarnation of wheat and water. It’s everywhere. They should stick with cornbread.
The French Onion soup, arrived like the Escargot, within mere seconds after placing our order, which should have been a tip off that no actual cooking was being done. It was so salty I was concerned I would need a blood pressure pill to get through it. The onions looked and tasted like strips of soaked cardboard, while a piece of the glue factory bread sogged, untoasted, over the salt mine below, and then the bland, blubbery cheese had been applied as one would apply mortar.
The escargot, little black blood clots, entombed far longer in a tin can than living in a shell had the same musty dead scent of a mausoleum. They were dredged in bread crumbs in the vain hope of masking their flavor and then greased in cheap, tasteless margarine, or was it mineral oil? I’m convinced it wasn’t butter. Greenish, black flakes floated over the top of each cup in the pillivuyt The flakes, at one time in their history before being mixed into the can in which the escargot was embalmed, had been parsley. Or so it was presumed. We deduced that the bread crumbs were intended to pass for stuffing.
The usual buttery earthiness of actual escargot was so badly deformed, the spirit of blue blood excess and culinary elitism signaled by its consumption so insulted and debased by this glop, that its only charming feature was that it was not served cold. We did not feel elevated up the social ladder afterward. We felt abused, lashed by the food chain.
The salad. Salad bar. Even the vinaigrette was creamy, made with the same machine oil that was in the escargot. The greens were wet. Enough said.
By the time the first bite of smoked salmon dip was dipped into, it was surprising that the Nashville Fire Department had not shown up following the scent of liquid smoke wafting through West Meade. It took my Italian companion three cups of canarino to remove the odor from her taste buds. The only thing that exceeded the liquid smoke in ratio to the canned salmon it had been poured over was the mayonnaise the whole concoction had been bathed in to make it spreadable. The bread, sliced Pepperidge Farm White Bread, cleverly cut on the diagonal, had some heft and tooth feel for sure, unfortunately, because it was stale. The reason for its outer crunch being it had been setting open on the kitchen counter since last night’s dinner. Staring at the dish, I kept thinking: Super Bowl, maybe it’s palatable with a keg of beer.
Salmon Florentine with creamed spinach and, uhh, and, hmmm….mayonnaise hollandaise? The waiter, who was excellent in every way, had told me that the, cook, or did he say chef?, whatever, the cook liked to cook the Salmon medium well. My first inclination was to ask for just barely medium and boy was I glad I hadn’t! Frozen, with the mustiness of old salmon, the “well done” part saved the dish from perdition. The creamed spinach, was actually spinach (frozen) and gravy (from breakfast) mixed together into a mound over which the perfectly broiled filet reposed. I’m not certain what was in the ramekin that arrived on the plate. Was it mayonnaise or hollandaise? Lumpy, oily, the only part of the lemon it had seen was maybe the outside of one and butter had been nowhere near it. It resembled congealed pus more than buttery, lemony, silky hollandaise.
The place was dirty. The dishes were dirty. I sent one bread plate back and the waitress brought me another dirty one. The silver is dull, scared and bent, the walls and ledges dusty, the salad bar kiosk looked like a health hazard. I can see why they keep the lights turned down. The place is stuffy, claustrophobic, with an old world club décor which to the regulars no doubt feels like a pair of comfortable shoes. As a newbie I had the sense of traipsing across over-worn, dank, sticky theatre carpet.
We had no liquor and no dessert. I had a hot tea and my companion had only water. Our bill was almost $60. This is too shameful to endure. Caveat emptor.
Rating Detail:
Food: 1
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 1
Value: 1
Overall: 1
Re: “Tenno”
Place is so dirty and we foung roaches crawling in the sushio bar, service sucks and they aRE not busy
Rating Detail:
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
Value: 1
Overall: 1
Re: “Red Door Saloon”
avoid!! this is one of those places that will not allow you to relax to the lifestyle or music you enjoy. if you dont fit their "poser" mold, then you will find yourself denied. They even have a sign that says you can not choose Country Music to listen to :(
There are many great bars in Nashville that accept everyone...we should be beyond this, avoid this place at all costs.
Rating Detail:
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
Value: 1
Overall: 1
Re: “August Moon [Closed]”
Well, my search continues for the best Chinese in Nashville. I thought that from their awards and other reviews I had read that this may be it, but I was saddly dissapointed. I don't judge a place on looks so I will leave that alone, but the food was not up to standards. As it was my first venture at this place, I started with the staples: General tso's, fried rice, egg drop soup. The other three in my group had similar standard items. NONE of us came close to finishing our meals. The sauces tasted as if they had scraped the bottom of a 5 gallon drum of generic sauce they bought from Walmart. Egg drop soup was equally disappointing. Even the ice in our drinks tasted gross. Needless to say, I will never go back.