Judd's Downtown - Restaurant, Grill and Bar — Restaurant in Longview

Went here today for the first time. If it works out, I would come here often after work on Fridays. Location, menu and atmosphere-wise it's the perfect place to treat myself when I am in the mood to do so.

Things got off to a bad start when they left me unapproached after seating for about 15 minutes. Since I was there between the times that most people eat lunch or dinner, there were only three other groups dining in the restaurant. However, once I finally decided to make something happen, no one was out in the restaurant or even at the bar. I had to wait outside the kitchen door for a moment until someone came out when I politely explained having been forgotten. They felt really terrible and worked hard to make this up to me, so that is good news.

From this point forward, they took great care of me. Love that you can choose spring mix for the side salad instead of traditional lettuce! And it comes with hearty shreds of parm. Everything was fresh. I ordered the honey orange glazed grilled salmon served with jasmine rice and grilled veg. I was expecting the salmon to be grilled, but it seemed more steamed? And it was not at all dry, very tender and juicy, but cooked through instead of medium or medium rare, but it was delicious nonetheless. There was something off about the glaze; it's possibly normally yummy, but it had a weird taste - maybe burnt? Anyways, I scraped it off, and everything else was a treat! The jasmine rice was spot on in terms of texture and flavor. The veg had onions throughout which was a nice touch and the seasoning was perfection. I ate every bite! The manager came by at the perfect time to check on my experience. I did not say one word about the glaze, because I did not want to complain twice in one visit! Normally I would politely mention something like this just so they know.

I did not order any cocktails because it was, like, the middle of the day - LOL. BUT I was impressed that they had a nice cocktail menu right on the table with signature drink choices. Seriously, I do not know why every restaurant does not do this, leaving patrons to flounder aimlessly at what to order, or stick with a "go-to" cocktail. Cocktails signature to a restaurant make the dining experience way better IMO! And can make the restaurant more money. Win, win.

I will try this restaurant again one Friday. I would like to try some other items from their menu, and would even order the salmon again - with glaze on the side - to see if mine today was a fluke. I am hoping for awesome, because this place would be impressive for meeting a visitor for lunch or dinner if they have never been...

I was told to try this place by a co-worker. I honestly thought it was going to be a good experience, but apparently I came on the wrong day! We arrived and was seated pretty quickly, I noticed 3 other people walked in behind us.. 2 was seated at the table in front of us, 1 was seated at the table behind us. The table that walked in after us noticed they received their wine, never seen anybody acknowledge us.. noticed the guy that was seated behind us also came after, got his beverage and his food ordered.. we still never got acknowledge or even at this point asked if we needed water or anything.. honestly I was ready to go at this point, but my friend was like let's just ask the next person that comes by. She stopped somebody to which she said she would get our waitress. Finally she comes to our table and apologizes because they are using new headsets today. We recieved our drinks and ordered our food. Our waitress comes back out to let me know my potatoes I ordered for bunch "it's 11 or so" they ran out of. I said that's ok.. you can just take those off.. waitress comes back out with our food which I'm surprised because I ordered pancakes and the waitress states the cook had already changed my order to "mash potatoes" since they were out of breakfast potatoes (which doesn't pair well with pancakes) the waitress said the cook wouldn't let her take it off of my ticket because he had already prepared it "she apologized again and offered to pay for the mash potatoes". I said it's ok.. we will just take the ticket and go. It was not a good first experience for me, but the...

I wanted to like Judd’s based on the Google pictures of what looked like delicious food. I also hate giving less than positive reviews, especially to local businesses. Unfortunately, our service was terrible, breakfast took almost 30 minutes even though there were only a few other patrons, food was cold when finally received (no doubt it sat for a long while, so maybe it was the server's fault not the kitchen's), server forgot my drink until I had almost finished my meal, and finally the portions were small compared to price.

I truly hope they hire more attentive, experienced servers because most everything else can be forgiven. I'd go back to a nice restaurant with great food even if it were over priced or had small portions, IF the service made up for it.

Some positives... The food had great flavor and presentation, and the restaurant had nice ambiance. With a few strategic improvements, this place has the potential...