Caney Fork River Valley Grille — Restaurant in Nashville-Davidson

This is the worst restaurant I have ever been to, maybe in my entire life. Staff will tell you their corn cob is fresh...I was in the restaurant industry for 20 years including managing a couple kitchens. I gave ANTHONY many chances before I ordered the corn to tell me that it wasn't fresh. Nope. He treated me like a fool. It was disgusting. Frozen corn has an extremely obvious texture and flavor. I DARE the owner or whomever to reply here and post a photo of their most recent fresh produce order showing the delivery of fresh, not frozen corn cob in the day or two leading up to 3/20. It doesn't exist because ANTHONY flat out lied to my face. My baked potato was made the night before, maybe early that morning before my 6pm dinner. Disgusting and chalky. My wife's pulled pork plate was actually cold in the middle. That's nothing to say of the pork quality. It looks like someone vomited normal smoked pork back onto a plate. At worst it was older than dirt and disgustingly made and reheated. At best it has a mushy texture of BBQ hash and just tastes nasty.

The place is just terrible. The food is awful. Go here to get robbed. The bar pour was worse that any I have ever seen. Maybe 0.75oz. for an $8 well whiskey. Should have stayed at the hotel and gotten a proper pour for $12.

Bartender ANTHONY didn't seem to care about our issue. After being informed of my wife's cold dinner he went back to washing his bar dishes. We were a nuisance to him I guess. We almost walked out but because we were leaving super early on a flight the next day (tomorrow), we stomached what we could handle and left.

And please don't think for a second their prime filet is actually prime grade. Not a chance in frozen he|| that they were selling a prime filet for $26. The "AMAZING" sirloin is maybe a half inch thick with a full quarter of it being inedible tendon section. Thin sirloin tip steaks are not good. And no, I am not talking about a big tri-tip.

This place is absolutely worthless and the greatest waste of money and time I have ever experienced.

There is more, but this is all I can be bothered to stress over and type.

And I STILL left 15% after all of that.

Source: Caney client with 20 years of restaurant management, kitchen management, and food ordering experience through US Foodservice, Sysco, Blue Line, Performance Food...

I’ve been here several times. The food is great and love the decor. Sadly I called about being a larger than normal group and instead of trying to figure out how they could accommodate us, the lady on the phone that identified herself as the manager of basically said no reservations and don’t bother to show up. Guess our little group will spend a thousand dollars elsewhere.real shame

Follow Up based on th reply from the restaurant.

I DID NOT LIE IN MY REVIEW. However maybe you should learn to listen to your customers. Let’s start with, it’s sir not ma’am.

1st, I said I had been there several times, 4 to be exact. Never said I brought a group.

2nd, if you had bothered to listen when I called, I said I had a group of 20 players and at least 45 people altogether. I was trying to explain to you that it was a team and their families. Hoping you could at least accommodate the players at 1 table and spread the families around at tables around them, but you never let me get that far. I asked about events because I saw it on your website. Didn’t even know you had a private room until your response. I went to your website because I needed the number to call you, Caney had been my favorite Nashville restaurant until 46 minutes ago when you replied.

3rd, you absolutely said to me that you would not be able to serve a walk-in group of our size. In my review I may have simplified your answer but until you called me a liar, I wasn’t going to dwell too much on it, but since you brought it up. You said at dinnertime there is no way you could take a big group. You sounded annoyed I would even ask. When I asked about event reservations all you said was there was nothing you could do with such short notice. You didn’t say anything about the size of a group for a reservation in the private dining room, that there was a private dining room or if a private dining room was available. Had you, I would have restated that the total group size was a minimum of 45, so hitting the 50 people was probably going to happen.

The only thing you have now accomplished is insuring that 4 remains the number of times my family ever eats at your restaurant. Which as I said in my first review, is a shame because you have great food, and a beautiful restaurant. Obviously customer service isn’t part...

My family and I were here for a family get together. After a tour of the city we decided to stop by and grab us a bite before being picked up at 5 by the charter bus to go on the General Jackson boat.

Anyway, I'm gonna say it was around 2:30ish. We had an older lady as our waitress. (There was about 15 of us who stopped for food)

It probably took a good 15 mins. for her to get our drink order. Then it took another 20 to 25 mins. for us to get the drinks back.

So she proceeded to take our order, we saw that it was about to be a long drawn out thing, so my cousin went to the front to ask if they could send someone to help the lady out on taking the orders.

A young girl came out to help, but im assuming the waitress told her she could handle it. So the young girl left.

Again, we asked for the lady some help, the lady came and started on the opposite side taking orders. Thankfully that speeded up the process.

So back to getting our drinks the lady when bringing the glasses gmwas grab them around the top where you drink. Thank goodness for straws.

Now, one of my cousins ordered a Bloody Mary...she said it didn't taste right and the color was right. She told the waitress, she took it I guess to her boss. The lady came back with the BM in her hand and she said she couldn't take it off her bill but she could switch and get something else. My cousin said that's fine. Then the lady proceeded to ask if anyone else wanted...of course not my cousin already said it didn't taste right, they took the drink away...so that was a no.

Food started coming out. Now its probably around 3:15ish. I only ordered a dessert and a sprite bc I knew I would have dinner on the boat.

Around 3:40 we asked for our receipt. The waitress went to get them. It literally took about 15 to min to get our receipts. So now our time is slipping up on us and some of us had to go to our hotel to change. So we got our receipts and just about all of them were wrong!!! They added a Mimosa on mine.

I really hated to put all of this but my family and I were very disappointed in our visit here and probably will not be returning. I mean I don't know what else to say...I could see if the place was busy but they weren't.

The food was OK. Some had complaints about theirs. But that's all. No...