Drake's — Restaurant in Nicholasville

1/11/25 Drake’s is a favorite for my husband and me! The small filet, Crab Rangoon sushi roll, and side salad were all delicious. Sitting at the bar gave us quick, friendly service. Always a great experience!

7/13/24 My husband and I came here for burger week and our date night dinner. We sat at the bar as the restaurant was so busy and we were not picky where we sat to eat. Our server, Lori was very friendly and attentive. The ambiance was sporty and lively. We ordered the burger week featured steakhouse burger with a side of fries and a side BLT salad but we got some other kind of salad and it was very delicious. I also ordered a calamari salad and it was so good! Highly recommend to try that if you like seafood and especially something more unique tasting. Overall the burger was delicious and so was the rest of the food. I appreciate homemade dressing and theirs was great for my fries and to top the burger with. Most definitely will be returning here in the future.

9/19/20 I came here with my fur child and friend for a late dinner and drinks to catch up. At first, I came up to the host to ask if I could bring my dog, as I wasn't sure this location was accepting dogs, as the other Drake's I've been to in the past, has, without any issues. They did allow dogs, but on the patio, well the patio we were seated at was so cold, I almost wanted to just go home without ordering. I asked if there was space in the other side of the patio where it had warmers and thankfully they did. My dog is one of the most calmest Pitbull's you'd ever meet. I'm in the process to get her certified so I never have to encounter any issues taking her places plus I want more people to relax about the Pitbull breed. It really is the owner, not the dog!

The food: I ordered the sriracha wings with ranch, and the calamari salad. I've never had the salad before and though, why not? I'm a seafood lover. Receiving the wings, they came with no celery, as the restaurant was out, but they offered more salad or a substitution of my wing order when I asked why that wasn't mentioned upon my order. But I was satisfied with the extra salad, as the calamari salad was actually very delicious! (Always ask about the missing food, you should be getting since you pay for it, it will always be worth asking) My friend ordered a couple sushi rolls and we were well into enjoying our food. Our waiter, took such great care of us and all my extra requests especially with my dog. We also had several drinks, and on this cold night, I'd recommend the honey whiskey goes good with the food and with the weather. I will most definitely return here again, with fur child in tow. The staff here was super dog friendly, about 5 of them stopped by to love on my dog. I appreciated everyone's efforts and the food as always was very delicious! Thanks for a...

Worst restaurant experience I’ve had in a long time. Got there at 2pm on a Sunday, so it wasn’t very busy at all. Maybe 20 or 30 other people in the whole restaurant tops. With that being said, we had to stand at the host table for over 5 minutes before somebody actually came to seat us. Then after finally being seated (outside, even though it was 90 degrees), it took another 5 minutes for our waitress to come. She took our order and everything seemed fine, but then it took another 25 minutes for her to bring our food. Keep in mind that there’s practically nobody else in the restaurant. By the time our food came, we had already finished our drinks a while ago, but were so focused on finally getting our food that we forgot to ask for refills, thinking we’d ask next time we saw her. Reader, we didn’t see her again for another 30 minutes when she came to give us our check — by which point we had already finished our food and didn’t need refills anyway. It was so hot, and we waited so long, that our ice actually melted into water, so I guess that was our refill. She never once came to check on us; the only times we saw her were to order, getting our food, and to pay. I usually always tip at least a couple dollars even if service is bad, but I didn’t leave her anything because she obviously didn’t deserve it. Anyway, going back to the food being awful, I had a buffalo chicken wrap that was so saturated in oil that the tortilla literally dissolved in my hands before I could finish it. It was a giant pile of mush that I ended up having to eat with a fork. The chicken itself was extremely dry, so the only moisture in the whole wrap was the oil. Thank God the buffalo sauce wasn’t hot at all (which is a separate issue), because I didn’t have a drink the entire time! Since we were sitting outside, there were also flies swarming us the whole time we were eating. Overall just an absolutely horrible experience. When we got home I had to chug a bottle of water because I was so thirsty — like I said, it was 90 degrees outside for Christ’s sake, and we had to sit there with nothing to drink. Needless to say we’re...

Worst experience I've ever had in any restaurant!

My boyfriend and I were excited that there was a Drake's near to us so we went to try it out for the first time last night. We were taking advantage of the first Tuesday of the month deal so we went in knowing that service may be slow and our food may take a while to come out, which was fine. We had nowhere to go and wanted a slow, casual dinner date.

Once we put in our food and drinks order, we settled in and chatted a little. During our (long) wait, we had enough time to table-watch and it was obvious that the place was horribly managed - I'm not going to fault the servers because it looked like they were always doing something at any point, but whoever runs this restaurant should be fired because there were tables that were sitting around waiting for their check, empty tables that hadn't been cleared for 15minutes or so, people who were waiting for an hour+ for their food. Again, it's a busier-than-usual night so I understand, but if you are going to offer a special deal, you should be prepared to handle the crowd. Our server checked on us once to apologize for the wait. After TWO HOURS our food had still not come out. Again, if you are going to offer a deal, at least prepare more food to expect the orders. It's fried chicken, how does it take two hours to cook fried chicken?? We had to get up out of our seats to find our server to ask where our food was before we finally got any service.

Again, not going to fault the server because he was ALWAYS busy, but the manager of this restaurant should not be offering deals if they do not have the experience to deal with the crowd. While we appreciate our server going out of his way to appease us after the food took so long, we will most definitely not be back if this is the kind of service to be expected at this...