Long post alert... Worth reading if you're thinking about going here:
My husband & I found this restaurant online while looking for things to do in Georgia, as we've lived here a year but not been able to explore as much as we would have liked with his old job. We came across this restaurant in Vidalia in our research & thought it would be cool to drive to & experience ourselves, Google maps showed it was about 3-3.5 hours away, so we decided to try it out... Then Covid-19 hit & the restaurant, like everything else in the country, closed for take-out only.
My parents came from Iowa to visit around Memorial Day weekend. We had told my parents we wanted to try this place & we were all excited to try it. We looked on Google maps & saw that it was still closed to dine-in seating. We tried to call, but no one answered so we assumed it was still closed. I decided to try to call again on Tuesday, 6/2/20, & found out they were reopened. My husband & I decided we would drive down to celebrate my birthday a couple days afterwards.
Come to today, 6/6/20... We got up & hit the road from Canton, GA, to Vidalia. We got to town earlier than the restaurant opened, so we drove around town. We pulled back in the parking lot around 4:55 & waited in the truck since they weren't supposed to open until 5:30. There were 3 other cars in the parking lot, they all went down the stairs about 5:10, so around 5:15 we got out & went down the stairs ourselves.
We walked in & were told to have a seat wherever we wanted, so we sat down. The restaurant was decorated in a unique fashion. There were 3 young ladies helping get drinks & food orders. There was also an older gentleman there as well, I'd assume either the manager or owner.
We sat down at our table & were greeted right away. We gave the waitress our order, we wanted to split the 16oz ribeye, get onion peels, each have a salad & got an order of fries.
Our salads & onion peels came out very fast. We were surprised at how quickly they arrived at the table. The onion peels are very delicious & worth the money, the salads weren't anything to write home about, but were ok.
Our steak & fries came out fairly quickly after that. At this point my husband's beer was empty & my tea glass was almost empty. The gentleman brought out our food from the kitchen. He put the plate in front of my husband. I advised him that we were splitting the steak & asked for another plate, he said he'd bring it out. We waited about 7 min for the 2nd plate before my husband advised me to eat. Our drinks were empty. We could easily be seen by the staff from the bar, we were also walked by multiple times with no one stopping to check on us.
I went ahead & started eating part of the steak. Another 10 min passed before one of the girls came by the table to refill my tea glass. My husband was frustrated so he gave her our CC to pay the bill. The waitress asked how everything was, not looking at the fact that half of a 16oz ribeye sat uneaten. My husband replied, "I guess it was ok, but I wouldn't really know." The waitress took the CC & walked off without addressing his comment.
When I took the receipt to the bar, she asked how everything was again. I told her that we never got the 2nd plate we asked for so we could both eat so we only ate 1/2 the steak. She seemed completely unaware of how to respond, so she said she could go get another plate. I told her at that point it was too late. I gave her the receipt & walked out the door.
The steak was ok, but nothing special. It definitely didn't look like it was a 16oz steak, even before it was cooked. It was over-seasoned for my liking, definitely not worth the $35+ for we paid for the steak.
This was a major disappointmeny for us. We definitely will not be driving back down here again. The only good thing that happened today was that we bought a bag of fresh Vidalia onions on the side of the road...
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