Village Whiskey — Restaurant in Philadelphia

For starters if you read my regular review this is not a gluten free friendly resturant. With that said if your a whiskey fan and like good food with good atmosphere then this is defintily worth a shot. Its a little bit of a hole in the walk in terms of signage and I almost walked passed it initially. The main seating/bar area is the left door to walk in. They have additional seating in the right door. The website says no reservations but they definitely take reservations on OpenTable. I setup one for 4 and it worked fine. Initially I was trying to book a larger work function but their events dept and mgrs were very very slow to respond and never got back to me with some requested information like their whiskey menu since I was trying to do a whiskey theme for the event. In the end I shrunk my group down a lot and 4 of us went and tried the place out. We were not disappointed once we got past the initial issues.

We got 2 plates of the deviled eggs which were fantastic. We tried the shrimp. I found them over cooked and dense but the taste was good with the dip. For entree I tried the whiskey king burger. It was very good but in a future visit I think I would go with a smash burger. The onions and fois Gras was great but even with my big mouth I had no shot of eating even remotely normally. So it's a bit odd when eating with a work group. It was cooked perfect however. The only actual issue was that was bun fell apart while I was eating it making it extra messy. For desert we had the funnel cake. Wow! It finished off the night perfect. I would suggest asking for the cake to be fries for a minute or two extra though as it was a little soft for me.

As far as whiskey goes we started with a round of Breckinridge for the app, then a round of old elk for the entree, and capped it off with a round of Bruichladdich port charlotte. Their menu for whiskey was pretty diverse but they had no unicorns or allocated bottles that I could see. I asked if there was anything off menu and was told no.

I would definitely visit again. ...

A quaint, corner hole in the wall, Village Whiskey is a hot commodity on a Friday night. With ample bar seating, minimal stand-up counter space, and only seven tables, be sure to stop in early in the evening. After miscommunication with the hostess, we were seated in the dimly-lit restaurant following an hour and fifteen minute wait (which was occupied at neighboring sister restaurant Tinto).

I delighted in the Pimms Cup cocktail, which would be best seved by the gallon on the beach - refreshing, light, and quite tasty. After pointing it out to him, Jordan ordered the Highland Flip, a scotch, Drambuie, egg white, and porter cocktail, which was perfect for the fall evening and was very enjoyable in its lightly sweet frothiness. The beer menu mirrored Tinto's beer menu (a local black IPA, Lagunitas, a PBC ale, and a seasonal beer). The whiskey menu was rather extensive and included offerings of whiskey flights (three 1 oz. tastings for $30-35). As someone who doesn't regularly drink whiskey, I would have benefitted from a more descriptive whiskey menu.

While we waited for our entrées, we had the deviled eggs: 3 halves for $3, reasonable pricing, but the eggs weren't anything particularly special- slightly grainy and bland yolks.

The entrées arrived and looked divine! I really enjoyed the chicken sandwich. The crusty and soft baguette roll, melted provolone, seasoned meat, and spicy peppers made for a winning combination. Faro chips served on the side were a pleasant surprise. Though it wasn't huge, the sandwich was sizeable enough that I only ate half.

Jordan's house burger, though cooked properly, was just an average burger served on a brioche bun, albeit perhaps a little too greasy. Our server, Stefan, was very attentive and upsold Jordan on the provolone cheese add-on- an additional $2.50. The burger was served with a pickle spear and was overall a little disappointing in it's...

Super disappointed in the service tonight. I want to qualify this review by saying that my girlfriend and I are both servers in NYC. She serves at a three Michelin star restaurant and I serve at an upscale restaurant in Chelsea. We both understand that working in food service is tough and we hate it when people weaponize their reviews. That said, our server Elizabeth was awful tonight. We had come in for happy hour and left thinking that we were going to have dinner elsewhere. Our dinner plans fell through so we decided to come back to Village Whiskey for dinner. When we came back almost two hours later, our original bill and dishes were still sitting there on the table. Kind of odd that nobody would buss the table after such a long time but no big deal.. once we sat down again, she was incredibly short with us because she couldn’t wait to get back to the back of the restaurant to talk with her coworkers and text, charged us for fried pickles which we did not order, and lied to us about what their well vodka was. She said it was Tito’s… nobody’s well vodka is Tito’s and, since we are servers we thought that sounded suspicious so, before leaving, we asked the bartender what the well vodka was and he confirmed that it is NOT Tito’s but is New Amsterdam… again, we get it, serving tables on New Years Day is probably one of the last things you want to do and the difference in price between New Amsterdam and Tito’s isn’t a big deal.. but at least pretend to care about your customers and definitely don’t lie to them in an attempt to upsell… not a good look. Also, she cleared our dishes when we weren’t done eating. We had almost half of a Cobb salad left, she grabbed it and, as she was holding it said “oh were you done with this?” And we felt odd saying “no” so we just let her take it..That said, the food is pretty good and we had a lovely server the day before for happy hour.. which was why we came...