Giardina's Restaurant — Restaurant in Greenwood

Just an amazing Greenwood experience. Giardina’s is a pearl in the oyster of the delta.

A retro-speak easy, curtain booths, private tables and excellent service. The curtained booths harken back to prohibition era wherein you could imbibe in privacy and avoid the revenuers...

Apps are unique and staples; Worcestershire BBQ shrimp with bread to dip, onion rings or fried pickles.

Fresh salads, excellent comeback dressing, great Cesar dressing.

Entrees are sufficient to please every palate. Steaks, fish, pastas, chicken and the like.

The ribeyes are cooked to order with a savory compound butter. The filet is tender and delicious.

The chicken parm is as good as they come.

The fried catfish is local, fried crispy and delicious.

The house specials, whatever they may be, are special. It was a crab torte on this visit!

Sides are great. Home fries, oven roasted sweet potatoes, and a variety of others.

The broccoli is a star. It’s Better than any broccoli you’ve ever had. Tender with charred bits. Fresh parm. Dip it into some of your steak jus and you just experienced broccoli heaven.

Service is above and beyond. Full bar, unique drinks and an adequate wine list.

Desserts are available, and the chocolate chip cake with ice cream is better and more special than it sounds…

SPECIAL NOTE: There’s a negative, 2-star review by Gary Demaree. He has his comments turned off or I would have commented directly to him. He characterized his visit as being placed in a department store dressing room and attributed it to racism! He made note that he and his companion were a mixed race couple and after all this was Mississippi. Gary’s ignorance of the prohibition booth and curtains is astounding, but he now associates his experience as bad due to his lack of knowledge. Be advised the Curtain Booths are NOT to hide your race! It’s to hide your alcohol...

SO DISAPPOINTING!! The only part of this restaurant that we enjoyed was the ambience of having a private room to dine it. No bread even though there are bread plates on the table when we arrived. My chicken parm was burnt and the spaghetti was cold when it arrived. My husband's steak was not cooked properly and there was absolutely no flavor to the ribeye which was bizarre. We timed how long it took to get our waitress back to our table to even check on us to send the steak back, 10 minutes! She never came to check on us, we had to walk around the restaurant to go find her!! The restaurant was not busy. Each room has a service ringer to call our waitreess, which apparently does nothing! I went to the front to get our waitress who was hanging around talking. We wanted to leave. Poor food and poor service for what we were paying for. This was our second time here and was DISAPPOINTING YET AGAIN! I would...

We were spending a night at The Alluvian, and stopped in for a light dinner. We weren't prepared for the historic space, as they put us in what they call "Booth Number Zero." It was like its own little room, with a curtain ensuring privacy from the rest of the restaurant-- very quiet and intimate.

If there is a complaint, and it's my own fault, it's that I wasn't hungry enough to get something more substantial! The Caesar salad with blackened chicken was truly exceptional (the stomach wanted the spinach manicotti but the brain said otherwise), and the fried Gulf shrimp appetizer was to die for. Wonderful service, all of the people at The Alluvian were tops, it was a shame we were only there for one night.

If we come back to the area, no question where we will...