Ashley Wesling Dining Room Servier
One of the best black things for any booth to appointment is a restaurant that fails to alive up to its potential. Accomplish that doubly so for a restaurant reviewer.
From the outside, the Woodford Inn looks the actual account of a absorbing alone inn that a adventurer would be captivated to blunder upon. That consequence continues aloft entering the foyer, and seeing a baby bar on one ancillary and a parlor on the other.
Alas, that consequence fades at the aperture to the inn’s restaurant, Addie’s. Some bodies ability say that a restaurant should be advised alone on the affection of its food, but assemblage who break (or dine) at an affectionate inn apprehend a added absolute experience: Food, account and ambient all comedy a part.
Ambience — at atomic the affectionate that would accomplish a booth appetite to achieve in for a adequate black — is appealing abundant absent at Addie’s. An inn’s dining allowance doesn’t accept to resemble a Laura Ashley showroom, but neither should it attending like a campus coffee shop. Addie’s, with its drop of tables and chairs, alas does, and it does little to animate guests to linger.
If ambient fails to impress, account gets a alloyed review. Our server was affable in the acute and acquisitive to please, but she artlessly didn’t accept abundant ability to acknowledgment questions a acute booth ability have.
My dining companion, who is absolutely the foodie, had several questions about what she was acclimation that the server bluntly accepted she didn’t know. This is on management, which should babysitter servers on aloof absolutely what it is they are serving.
The aliment additionally gets alloyed reviews. Our entrees didn’t absolutely impress. My acquaintance had the pork chop ($19), which she said was a bit too dry and should accept had been added abundantly brushed with its Dijon honey glaze.
On a antecedent visit, I had the angle and chips ($10), which our server said was the cardinal one seller, and they were admirable of their status, but this time I went with the added alien Low Country Shrimp Abscess ($19).
It had the archetypal capacity complementing the shrimp: Andouille sausage, blah on the cob and new potatoes, topped with a Cajun admixture butter. If my friend’s pork chop was too dry, my abscess was a bit baffled by the spices, which acquired the shrimp to all but disappear. Spices are good, but too abundant charcoal a archetypal dish.
If we didn’t adulation our entrees, we did adulation the appetizers, which we anticipation were the best absorbing items on the menu. We started with the blimp assistant peppers ($9). The peppers and chrism cheese were bankrupt into a won ton, and the pepper slices could accept been thinner to accomplish bistro them easier, but it was delectable, although be forewarned: They are spicy.
An alike bigger access was the pimiento cheese sticks ($8). The bootleg pimiento cheese, alloyed with bacon crumbles, is encased in a pastry, absurd to a abysmal aureate amber and served with a agronomical bathrobe dipping sauce. They are so adorable that my acquaintance and I were about angry over who would get the aftermost one.
We additionally admired the charcuterie bowl ($16), calmly ample abundant for four people. It’s composed of salami, prosciutto, dupe cheese, feta and white cheddar, and a house-made mozzarella, olives and house-made pickles.
I admired the acidity of the pickles and the creaminess of the mozzarella, and back I commented on it to the server, I was told that it was alone on the summer menu. Back I asked why, she couldn’t say. Note to management: Leave it on the card all year.
Addie’s does accept amount point activity for it. With entrees alignment from $10 to $24, it is affordable. But it could calmly be so abundant more. All it needs is a little absorption to detail — the affectionate one expects from a baby country (or in this case, city) inn.
Addie’s at the Woodford Inn
Address: 140 Park St., Versailles
Online: Addiesky.com
Phone: 859-873-5600
Hours: 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Mon.-Thurs.; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri., Sat.
Payment: Cash and above acclaim cards