Butcher Block — Restaurant in London

In the heart of a farming community, you'll find a capacious and attractive restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating and a well appointed bar. There is an additional outside bar upstairs with a few tables for dining and a firepit table with sofa seating. Highballs with premium spirits were very affordable ($8), doubles (whiskey) were stingy pours. The menu has ample offerings, including appetizers, salads, flatbread, burgers/sandwiches, steaks, and seafood. Our party of 6 started with a wedge salad and a house salad, both of which could be ordered as a side, and a bibb salad, which could only be ordered as full size, and a mushroom flatbread. They were all attractively plated. The wedge salad ($8) was served on a plate too small, so that it was hard to cut with it sliding off the plate. A steakknife helped. The bibb salad ($15) had a simple poppyseed dressing and an underwashed head of lettuce, tossed with some lovely fresh berries and canned mandarin orange slices. The house salad was a spring mix lettuce blend, the balsamic dressing was overly sweet. The flathead was lightly baked; the cheese just barely melted. The majority of the table ordered steak: 3 ribeyes ($49) and 1 New York strip ,($49). All were cooked to correct doneness. They were not seasoned at all, and were not grilled. They appeared to be cooked on a flattop, or at best, in a cast iron pan, although there was no hint of seared crust. One person ordered the Bearnaise sauce, but it was unimpressive. One person ordered the meatloaf ($28) which was tasty. It was the only dinner served with a side-- mashed yellow potatoes. All dinners were served topped with crispy breaded onions. The additional side of brussel sprouts tossed with bacon was unremarkable. Appetizers and main courses were served at almost the same time, a pet peeve and a failure on the part of the server inputting the order or the kitchen executing it. The desert menu was out of date, according to the server, so we were told what was available. Three of us ordered a piece of sour cream topped cheesecake. The pieces were small for the $10 price tag, but the flavor was good enough. After dinner coffee was ordered as well. The server was friendly, but not very skilled. We had to ask multiple times for items (sugar for iced tea, cream for coffee, water refills). Overall, not a bad experience, but surely an expensive one. Although it seems like one can make online reservations at the website, you are directed to the phone number, so must make reservations during business hours. There are nightly specials during weeknights and live music...

We were there for 40th wedding anniversary. I made the reservations 2 months prior, and they asked me if I wanted to sit inside or outside and I chose outside. When we arrived I was told I could no longer have that option to sit outside they gave our seats away. We were not late for our reservation we were about 10 minutes early. They set us in a cubby hole where the chairs are trashy and broken down and you feel like he's going to fall in the floor because of how terrible they were. We paid for all you can eat bread we got three rolls brought to us in the beginning an hour and a half later we got two rolls brought to usbetween that time I was asking for more rolls our waiter kept saying he forgot. And then when he finally did bring us out two rolls he said that was all that there was for the evening. And they were nowhere close to closing. We ordered appetizers which was the alligator bites that was so had so much Gristle to them you couldn't hardly cut him apart with a knife, you struggle to do that. let alone try to chew them. I ordered a grilled chicken breast which they were two very small flattened out pieces of chicken breast that you would get on a grilled chicken sandwich at a fast food restaurant or somewhere like that and they were overcooked in the microwave so they were dry and tasted awful. my husband ordered a filet mignon and he ordered it medium well and it came very rare. I tried to get my husband to send it back but because we hadn't eaten all day we were waiting to go to this restaurant he ate it anyways. It was so rare it was unhealthy looking to eat. I tried to get him to not eat it. On our way out a football game I suppose let out I'm not exactly sure but there were kids and teenagers running all throughout this restaurant, around tables, knocking things over including me. as we was walking out the door. There were two teenagers that ran into me and knocked me into the floor, not one person working there that seen me in the floor offered to come over to try to help me up, to say that they were sorry, or to tell these kids to stop acting like they're on a school playground. Not the manager no one they just let these kids run rampant. The food is way overpriced but we don't mind that.. that's the type of restaurants we go to and when you're getting good, food good service and you leave feeling satisfied and happy instead of disappointed the price isn't an issue. We'll...

Slow service, food hit and miss and over-priced!

One decent experience... One awful. I've traveled internationally on business and eaten at a wide variety of up-scale restaurants, so have a decent idea of what good food, service, and costs are. Decent - While visiting WWII surviving father last February who was hospitalized up the street, I decided to try the new place. Burger, fries and a beer. Taste was good. Service was a bit slow for how little crowd was there. Cost around $20, which I considered fair for good food. Awful - Then I recently visited (Mid-May 2022) with other family members from out of state and convinced them it was worth the "pricey" reputation they'd heard. They have also lived and traveled internationally, as US Army officers married to high-ranking military spouses. My two sisters and daughter ate salads. One had wine, one beer, one water. Dad only wanted dessert. I had a chicken sandwich, fries and a couple beers. Service was very slow, and the waitress didn't bring the wine and beer refills until delivering the bill. Had we been able to find her we would have cancelled, as it was ordered long before we were done eating. Dad had his heart set on NY-style cheesecake. Having all lived in NY for many years, we knew what to expect. Unfortunately, the dessert was dried out and not at all creamy, like NY-style. Dad is pretty easy to please, but couldn't eat it. The bill came to over $120. I still left over 20% tip, as I know it might not have been the waitresses fault things were so slow, and respect the service industry. With tip, the bill total ended over $145. For what little food we got, albeit drinks 3 beers and 2 wines, that seemed very high. My family gave me the evil eye and questioned my judgement at rating restaurants! Maybe for London, Ohio, this place is exciting as an option, but my family and I were very disappointed and will...