Vernick Food & Drink Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Excellent food, sauces are exceptional."
• "The grilled romaine with fig and cheddar is a winner."
• "Every item we ordered was new and different than we had ever experienced."
• "The food was excellent, but very rich."
• "The steak is better than Del Frisco's, better than Urban Farmer.. pricey, but better."
• "The food is very good quality."
• "Fantastic food, was even better than expected."

Cons:

• "I was a little bit disappointed on sea urchins dish. I wanted a fresh sea urchin taste, but it tasted plain."
• "The sea bass - I love fish. I love sea bass. But this was NOT a $37 dish. It was small and rather unimaginative."
• "One thing I didn’t like is that the food selection is limited, but drink menu is bigger than the food menu."
• "DESSERT: (I would skip this) brown butter financier: hazelnut milk chocolate & maple ice cream - $10 *dry, tacky, flavorless."
• "The scallop on toast and spaghetti were very disappointed. Super sour."
• "The sweet potato side dish was the low light of the night...soooo sweet and not balanced in any way with its flavor profile."
• "The fish portion inferior and lacked flavor."

Service

Pros:

• "Superb! Excellent service and the food was absolutely devine."
• "Service is attentive but not overbearing."
• "Our server Madison was incredibly warm, friendly, and helpful, without being overbearing or overwhelming."
• "Service was just right."
• "Excellent service. Highly recommend."
• "Service was also praiseworthy."
• "Service is friendly and efficient as well as helpful."

Cons:

• "The manager, I think his name was James, his breath smelled like goat droppings. Heard him talking poorly to his employees."
• "Our waitress and manager failed to ask us where everything was all right."
• "The bartender was rude and disingenuous."
• "Our server Angela needed to fake it because her lackluster attitude put a damper on our meal."
• "Strange service which was at times overly attentive and at others a disappearing act."
• "Our bartender was rude and insensitive."
• "The staff was very patronizing about the whole experience."

Ambience

Pros:

• "This place is cool - mellow atmosphere and decor, not too intense."
• "The atmosphere is surprisingly not pretentious at all despite the chef being widely acclaimed."
• "Great ambience here especially in the summer with the windows open."
• "Atmosphere is awesome for a nice weather date night, especially if you get a good seat when they open the windows."
• "The environment creates an intimate and relaxed ambience."
• "The ambience was great and the service was outstanding."
• "Lovely ambiance upstairs."

Cons:

• "The upstairs is sparsely decorated and pretty stuffy for a summer evening."
• "The seating was tight (family style?) and it was very loud."
• "It is a bit noisy at times."
• "My only complaint is when seated upstairs the noise level is horrible and they need to put some sound dampening materials up there."
• "Very mediocre low ceiling no ambiance dining room."
• "Atmosphere is a bit sparse and tired."
• "I could see someone being disappointed about being seated here. It doesn't have the warm ambiance of the upstairs dining room."