Watermill Restaurant — Restaurant in Cave City

Welllll, let’s start from the beginning. A family of four hungry and eager to get a good dinner after a long day of adventuring. I asked a local antique dealer where a good place to eat was. He rattled a couple places off and then said “there’s the watermill restaurant in cave city and right next door is the dog pound. It’s an old garage. I returned to my family and excitingly reported about the restaurant that was an old garage. It seemed at that very point we all agreed that was where we would go. As we reached our exit, we seen the big sign for the watermill restaurant. “Buffett and Menu Items, 1 Mile Ahead. The word buffet somehow blocked the ability to make any good decisions moving forward. Our youngest son said, where are we eating? Dad said, well, let’s take a look at both. Sounded reasonable. But that is not what we did. You know that saying, Jesus take the wheel? Well he didn’t. Satan did. We pulled into that parking lot, parked, and like a herd of 4 hungry cattle we made our way into what will turn out to be the worst decision we’ve ever made. I made my family wash their hands before we entered into the dining area. Ironically, I didn’t want us to get sick from all the germs we picked up on our earlier adventures. Ha! As we waited for our oldest to get back from the bathroom, my husband and I perused the buffet line up. I admit, that salad bar looked a lot like ponderosa, and I was happy. Then I took one more step and seen the hot items. That’s all they had going for them. They were hot. Hot garbage. My husband and I looked at each other and was like NO - just in time for the oldest to walk out and see the hot rolls and goes YES, THIS IS IT quite loudly. We don’t want to yell NO, THIS IS NOT and cause a scene so we just said yeah, this is it. In my head I said, I’ll just order off the menu and said a silent prayer for what I was about to endure. The waitress arrived and says, what do y’all want to drink? We said water. Which later I regretted because I would loved to have had a carbonated drink to help get the wet dry chicken down. How can chicken be wet and dry you ask. I don’t know but they got that recipe down to a T! She then she said, well all we have is the buffet. Is that ok? My inside voice yelled HELLO NO but my outside voice politely said, absolutely. The entire meal we combatted flies. We joked about getting dispensary but we went back for seconds and thirds. We went all in. The rolls weren’t bad. The packets of butter were probably the best. The buffet was dirty. The floors were dirty. The emergency door was dirty. I even joked about why it probably was - from everyone trying to escape getting salmonella. We laughed and laughed. The waitress was nice As we left this establishment, we felt sorry for the poor souls from Oregon walking in. Who I’m certain will read this shortly when they run to this site to leave their review. Oregonians, be warned. You have about 30 mins before you are in dire need of a bathroom. I wasn’t that fortunate. A few miles down the road I begged my husband to pull over because my body was ashamed of what it had just done to itself. I threw up in a corn field on the side of the road in Cave City, Kentucky where my family watched in horror because they knew their fate too. I assure you, the only thing the peach cobbler will be making you drag is your butt to the bathroom. For shits and giggles, we drove by the dog pound just to see what we had missed out on. The answer is, our dignity. We will forever cherish the memories this place gave us. 10 out of 10 GO...

Long read, but worth it!! Attaching pictures of other places' decor for comparison!!! **If I could give a Zero , I would. We were curious to try this place. Boy oh boy! We ignored our instinct and stayed. Lots of dirty tables, noisy. Most chair cushions were ripped , and most chairs mismatched throughout the place. Waitress came decently timewise. Very nice. Rattled off a laundry list of food they "Didnt" have. I couldn't keep up. Tables were just "Tacky". Floors are uneven. We finally settled on a meal called, "A delight" OMG!! Bleck!🤢. It did include 1 trip to salad bar. (That was the best thing we experienced!!). But our food after we went to the salad bar took probably 30 minutes. Waitress didnt check on us. (Even after we finally got the meal). I was so ( hopeful?). I was served a half rotten baked potato. The "Chopped sirloin steak" was something preformed from somewhere! So overcooked, made it so dry. Whatever they seasoned it with didnt cover up that. Nor did steak sauce. The texas toast and diet coke was good. So, after I saw half my potato was bad, I asked for our waitress, she came right away. I showed her the potato and the "chopped sirloin steak". She understood. Took my plate back, I asked her if that would be taken off our bill, she said Yes. Next thing we knew some lady in a black shirt brought back the plate and about shoved in my face asking what's wrong with it. I said Look at the potato as I pointed to the bad part. And I also told her the meat was so overcooked. She did this....she asked me "how I ordered it cooked"!!! Well, I did tell her I didnt order it overcooked!. I swear she had her hand on her hip as she walked away. She said nothing as she left. We waited and waited for our check. NADA. Keep in mind we were not checked in the whole time! So, we went up front, by the doors. Waited at the register, she walked away from me!. Then a customer advised me to get closer or they wont "see" me. So, I did, that same lady in the black shirt came back. Didnt say anything started using the register, I asked if that was mine, she said yes. gave me a total, and I asked if the took off my meal. She said "I took off half"!!! By serving me a half rotten baked potato and an over cook steak!! Beware!!! We are not going back. Waitress was not ever...

My husband, brother, and I are on vacation and went to see the mammoth caves. We saw this place and decided to stop and try it out, based on the 4 star rating. We walked in and someone was smoking at the top of the steps. Not sure if it was a worker... You step to the left to go into the restaurant. Our server was, Cora. My husband ordered mr pibb and I ordered a water and she told me that the drink would be included in the price (they offer a buffet.) I didn’t choose to order water because I was concerned of price, but because water is better for you. I went ahead and got a sweet tea. After looking at the buffet, we weren’t interested and decided we wanted to order off of the menu. We were never offered one so my husband went to get a couple for us to look over. We already had our drinks and had been sitting in the booth for awhile and didn’t want to go eat somewhere else and be rude. So when we go to order, she tries convincing us to eat the buffet because most people do and the catfish is good. We decline and order two ribeyes and a small catfish dinner. That includes one trip to the salad bar. The salad bar had chopped boiled eggs and they were FROZEN. When I told one of the workers, she informed me that she just ate a couple and she couldn’t tell. WHAT?! So I didn’t finish my salad. Our steaks were pretty bad. There was more fat than anything. The house fries were good, just wish they would have had seasoning. The catfish my brother ordered was pretty good. And during our meal, they were doing something to the door and had power tools going and it was loud. On top of that, our servers/ other workers were loud and obnoxious throughout the whole meal. I would stay clear...