Commons Club — Restaurant in Nashville-Davidson

Came in to eat for a birthday dinner and it was terrible. It started with our waitress telling us it was only her second day and she was put on the floor to serve. As a server myself that’s crazy. Management should not be putting servers on the floor when they haven’t been properly trained. I don’t know if there are sections in this restaurant but she was running inside and outside waiting on tables everywhere. She was stretched incredibly thin due to poor management. It took about 20 minutes to get our drinks to the table, in which we had to ask MULTIPLE different servers for refills because they kept forgetting. We only got one coke refill the whole time. Once again as a server if you can’t keep a drink refilled do better. After waiting for quite a while for food we saw our food come up in the kitchen and heard the cooks yell hands. Then no one came. After the third time of them yelling for hands we debated if we need to come grab our food since no one seemed to be concerned our food was dying in the window. Finally someone did bring it to us and two plates of chicken were bloody and undercooked. The mac-n-cheese, asparagus and fried potatoes with garlic were cold. We sent the chicken back of course and ordered a pork chop. Explain why we got dessert brought out and then had to once again ask about the pork chop. This was when we finally spoke to a manager, I don’t know her name but she was very kind and did help try to fix our issues. She immediately walked into the kitchen and came back with the pork chop. So was it ready once again dying in the window. I’m confused? Regardless the manager did comp off our food to try to make up for it but we came from out of town for a 21rst birthday celebration and this was the one nice dinner we went out to and it was ruined. Only thing nice about this place is the atmosphere and design. You’ll get a good picture but terrible...

Almost $100 later (on food for 2) and we’re still STARVING…

The 2 of us ordered: 12 oysters (6 each) Southern Fried Chicken Fire Roasted Duck

(We’re light eaters who typically take 1/2 of our meals home, so this should have been enough food...)

Anyway…

The oysters were TINY and I think they purposely used the smallest ones for the “Fire Roasted Oysters”—so they could disguise them under 2 Tablespoons of breadcrumbs for each oyster. (Note: the raw oysters were also tiny though.)

The presentation was super cute, but they certainly weren’t worth over $40 for 12.

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Southern Fried Chicken - $26

—The flavor was amazing, but I think there was a total of 3 or 4 ounces of chicken—disguised by mostly breading. I mean that will full sincerity, it was absolutely less than 4 ounces of meat.

Fire Roasted Duck - $28

—Good flavor but also appetizer sizing! I’d also say this was 4 ounces.

Service

—We ate our oysters and after waiting 1.5 hours, asked our server where our meal was. Apparently she didn’t come back to ask us for our meal order (she never came back and we each assumed the other had put in the order while we took turns using the restroom).

In other words... the server wasn't very attentive. We put in our appetizer order and she never came back for our entree order...

In addition-- while my husband can usually drink 4 drinks over the course of a long dinner.... he only had 2, because she spent little time checking up on us.

Overall-- we'd absolutely come back if the portion sizes were bigger, but they were SO TINY that we were left starving, and that would cause us to...

This review is for dinner on Thursday night and breakfast on Saturday morning last weekend, as we were staying at the Virgin Hotel. The ambiance is retro chic and elegant. Dark and moody, it's the perfect way to start our little vacation. Thursday night, our server was Chase, very personable and welcoming! On Saturday morning, Cody was our server, equally as good and accommodating! The lemon pepper wings are a MUST try. Some of the best wings we have had! Hot, crunchy, juicy, and seasoned to perfection! We shared the short rib dinner with sides of asparagus and creamed spinach. While the whole meal was super tasty, the creamed spinach was a bit bland.

Breakfast on Saturday consisted of home fries, a fruit bowl, eggs benedict, and an egg sandwich. All were delicious and cooked properly. The poached eggs, as was the muffin, were a bit on the chill side. But that didn't stop me from devouring it! The lightly dressed greens were perfect for sopping up any runny egg and sauce left over!

After a couple of mimosas, Cody graciously switched my order to the bottomless mimosa as it would save me money; I was very thankful for that! We cannot wait...