The Chalkboard OKC — Restaurant in Oklahoma City

Well, in the spirit of the philosopher, Plato, I will make this succinct and “perfect” by putting the most important thing at the end.

Very nice staff, on the whole, but there was a rather pushy hostess or server that was asking us about desserts before we even got a third of the way into the meal. The cocktail was delicious, and the bread they are rocking, along with the salted butter, are, modestly, a plebeian offering, but they do delight. The wine selection they had on sale featured was surprisingly fresh and drinkable, given that it was a five-year-old Chablis from France. Whoever sourced it on their staff did well. It is tasty.

What was problematic for us, however, was a host of miscalculations in the food preparation. The amuse bouche was not particularly amusing for our mouths, but I can understand that particular offering and its quixotic nature of not quite pleasing everyone’s palates.

The soup du jour they served us with chickpeas still had hard, chalky, chickpeas in the middle of it, making me think they were either not soaked as long as they needed to be or were freeze-dried and dumped.

Most of the principal plate that both my wife and I ordered, the pan-seared scallops, had lukewarm temperature, at best. This was somewhat forgivable, considering that preparation for the veggies and the béarnaise that accompanied were pretty good. What did not serve was the ammoniated scallops that did not smell ammoniated, but, when bitten into and chewed, had a clear aroma of ammonia, revealing a spoiled nature to them.

We did not eat the remainder of our principal plate. The food and beverage director, a lovely, accommodating woman, comped our entire meal, except for the wine. Understood.

We will not be returning, but we understand that sometimes mistakes can occur. This was just too many for us to handle in one sitting. With the type of menu they were offering, you would figure that one out of every three or four plates of scallops that they would serve would be cooked with an additional scallop for the cooks and/or chef de cuisine or sous chef to taste. I don’t think this is happening. If you’re going to charge $42 for four U-10 scallops, four stalks of asparagus, and a Dauphinoise potato side, spend time on quality...

1 check-in I came here for a Christmas Party, I made reservations for 7 at 1pm and they were nice enough to say that they would stay if we took a little longer to eat because they closed at 2pm. The place is very upscale and I was definitely under dressed. The servers were very nice and accommodating. There wasn't many eating there, which I was a little disappointed because it was a beautiful restaurant. We ordered chips with a sour cream dip, which was pretty good. Their chips is very thick, which I am not a fan of but it was still good. I ordered the Schnitzel Sandwich and a Jack and coke. The Jack and Coke with standard, nothing different. I really liked the Schnitzel Sandwich, it came with home cut fries and a sandwich with some type of creamy dressing. The break seemed fresh and easy to bite into. I really like the lettuce and creamy dressing that was on the sandwich, it worked really well with the schnitzel. I didn't finish my food so I took it home. I ate it two days later and it was still good, not as good as fresh but still good. I'm not sure why there aren't many people eating at this place at lunch during the week because it was really good and very reasonably priced. I wished they had a little more selection but what they do have is really good. Definitely a place to take a date for a lovely evening. I was told that they have complimentary parking service because of how there isn't many parking here. Definitely worth...

First off, I recommend getting a reservation. My spouse and I came here for Sunday brunch around 11 with no reservation. It wasn’t a problem necessarily, but we waited around 10 minutes for them to get a table ready for us despite tables that could accommodate 2 being openly available. There was also no host, so we sort of awkwardly stood there for a couple of minutes before a server welcomed us.

My spouse ordered the smoke salmon eggs benedict, and I got the croque monsieur. We both got fresh fruit as our side. Both meals were delicious, though we both wished we had more fruit as what we had were cut very small and wasn’t balanced in terms of the amount of fruit. We also ordered a mimosa to split and it was good, better than what we’ve had at other places.

Really my only qualm here is the service. It was slow. Our server got us our drinks and took our order fine. We thought it took a bit to receive our food and then our serve only stopped by once to ask out how food was at the beginning of the meal. We didn’t speak to her again after that; she didn’t give us our check nor did she check us out—it was the busser who did both of those. I thought it was just stranger considering our server was also taking care of a table behind us but seemed to pay more attention to...