Lamberto's Brandon House Bistro — Restaurant in Columbus

I don’t know where these 5 star reviews come from. My wife and I had a reservation for Valentine’s Day, early (5:30). We expected to be seated in the main room where we would be warm and could enjoy the live music, but instead we were banished to the basement where the fireplace didn’t work and they wouldn’t turn the heater on. It took a while to get our first cocktail, because we were banished to the basement. We asked our server about the specials, and he had to look them up on his phone. We asked what was in the “pink sauce “ and he had no idea. The basement, by the way, is brightly lit from overhead, so not romantic at all. Did they try to dim the lights at all? No. Did they put a flower on the table? Or a candle? No. Nothing special for Valentines Day. Let’s talk about the food. The mussels, that everyone raves about, were way overcooked and rubbery, and overpriced at 16 dollars for 10 mussels. Is there really a reason we should have to pay $6.95 for oils to dip our bread into? I won’t even talk about the wine service. My wife’s meal, the skewered salmon and shrimp over linguine, was delicious. And very reasonable at the price point. My Sea Bass was very undersized for the price point, though it was very tasty. Served, however, with cold vegetables. Disappointed again. If you have very low expectations, this could be the place for you, but we won’t be...

Absolutely incredible!!!!

While driving to New Braunfels for a river trip, we found this adorable place to try out! So glad we stopped!!

I saw “Make a Reservation” on Google, so I did, but it was not needed at 12:30 on a Wednesday afternoon. We were seated next to two other tables in our room. There are multiple rooms with seating.

The cocktails & wine are a bit pricey, so we stuck to water. Very good water actually, with lemon. Perfect.

We were served delicious warm bread with an awesome garlic butter prior to ordering our meals.

They had just ran out of the daily special, but the pasta looked really good so I asked for a bowl of angel hair with their lemon garlic white wine sauce and WOW!!! The amount of flavor that they pack into that sauce is amazing. Absolutely delicious. You get hit initially with the tang from the lemon, then the subtle fragrant garlic. I added some parm cheese and it was splendid.

The service is a little slow, but that may just be the leisurely small town! Regardless, we will be back when...

I got here around 4 pm on a Friday. The place had plenty of seating. The environment as mentioned by many other people is very nice with hollow wood floors and pretty wall paper.

As for what we had the spinach dip (14.99) and the charcuterie board (14.99). Both were done well.

We also had no problems with our entrees. The 12 ounce Ribeye (30.99) was tender and moist even when done medium well and had fresh potato wedges. The Seafood Spiedini (23.99 had al dente pasta with plump jumbo shrimp and chunks of flaky salmon in between, all with a nice chargrilled flavor.

The only problem we had was the meatballs for the Spaghetti Polpette (14.99). It reminded us of canned meatballs.

Service was excellent and attentive, our server even gave us glass carafes of water as we were drinking a lot!.

When we left at 5pm. Parking lot was pretty full.

It was serendipitous for me and my friends to come to this restaurant. Luckily this is a place that we would gladly come back to if we were back again...