Luminary Kitchen & Provisions — Restaurant in Springfield

Long review but worth the read - esp in the post covid service industry.

Luminary is by far the best restaurant in Springfield! We have been there 3 times in 6 months and have thoroughly enjoyed our experience each and every time and was our new favorite place after the first visit.

First, the food and drinks: the food is so incredible. We have tried 6-8 different things on the menu, (one lunch date and two dinner dates), and each appetizer or meal is just as good as the next. Each meal is so meticulously paired with all the flavors on the plate. Each one is unique, and DIFFERENT than what you find in 99.8% of the restaurants in Springfield. I am so impressed with the fusion of innovation on classic meals. (Highly recommend the Canterbury Prime Ribeye with mojo fries and Cuban slaw. Literally the best dinner I’ve ever had.) The drinks are SO good, so well crafted and clever! I love the drink names!

Second, the service and atmosphere: the vibe in the restaurant is so calm and they play great music! Everyone is there to eat a good meal, nothing rowdy or overly loud. We have seen the same people working each time we have been in there. Servers, kitchen staff, and the owners. Every single time the service is impeccable. Quick, SO informative and knowledgeable about the drinks and food menu. Friendly and personable, and you can tell they LOVE working there! They all operate like a big family! I’m the post covid world, we have had 75% of our dining out experience be poor due to the staff. The complete opposite can be said for Luminary! We had 3 different people fill out water glasses last night. They all work together to make sure every table is taken care of and enjoying the dining experience and atmosphere.

Third, supporting a small business: last night at dinner I posted a picture of Grant as soon as we got there about it being our last date until the wedding, tagged them, and then we put our phones away. After our meal, and dessert was ordered, one of the servers (not ours) came over to our table with a bottle of Rosè, and two glasses. We were so confused at first that we didn’t order that. The owner, Aurora, had seen my post on Facebook, and sent over the bottle as a congratulations to us on the wedding, and to thank us for our support. I cried, lol. It was so unexpected, but so so so incredibly sweet. We were just absolutely floored that she would do something like that for us.

It was already to go without saying, but this is one of the only restaurants we will eat out at from now on. We are very particular where we want to spend our money, and wouldn’t want to go hardly anywhere else but here to support these kind folks!!

If you haven’t been, go online to their website Luminarychefs.com, and get yourself a reservation, I promise you will not regret it.

Thank you Aurora and Jordan for creating our facorite restaurant. I hope you’re open for the next...

As promised, I would return to Luminary and amend my rating if they gave the flavor and ingenuity that I had grown to love. Boy, did they deliver last night! We had the Parisian salad, the charred carrot and ruby trout. I highly recommend the Parisian salad 4/5, but the charred carrot and ruby trout were both a 5/5. I would not change a thing about the latter two dishes. The cocktails were great. I had the cocktail with the St. Germain that was recently added to the menu which was light and refreshing. We will be back. Overall 5/5!

Prior rating: We are both American Harvest fans so we were REALLY looking forward to this. I have to be honest, nothing really stood out at all. The go go potatoes were decent and my favorite out of all the dishes we tried. My chicken Caesar not so salad was a 3/5. I don’t think anything really stood out about it at all. It didn’t have any unique flavor combinations that set it apart from similar sandwiches. They LKP burger was also okay, 3/5. We tend to prefer juicy burgers that are medium. My totally impressed salad had all the component it needed flavor wise but the dressing didn’t take this salad home for me. It was the “almost” dish for me. I also wish that my chicken breast had more salt for seasoning and was more tender in general also a 3/5. Overall, we agreed that this was the appropriate rating. I suggest people gravitate to other dishes...

Brunch was amazing!!! Four of us shared The fig and feta appetizer. The donuts!! The onion burger, The Cajun sweet potatoes, The prime steak eggs And the pork wings And peanut butter pie! Everything was so great And perfectly paired together! There was nothing that we did not like!! It was a perfect celebration for my friends 40th birthday!! Liam was very attentive and knowledgeable, He knew that we were food lovers, and he knew that we were trying To get the most out of the experience!! The only thing I was upset about was that the menu online was different than the one when we got there, But it still contained some amazing things, and I was not disappointed in my experience at all, I am disappointed in myself for not coming to your establishment sooner! To all of you, I give a big chefs kiss! Never stop doing what you are doing!! And a special shout out to Sean. Because he always gets me to laugh. So to quote him, I will say...