The Whistle Stop Grill

AWFUL!!! After 10 min. of waiting on someone to come to our table to greet us, the first person to talk to us was a guy asking if we were staying to watch the band so we would have to pay a cover charge (2 hours) before anyone was playing. I had to go ask the bartender if they had anyone who was waiting on the tables. Finally after about 15 min we had a waiter come by. We ordered drinks, and he only brought 2 out of the 3 drinks we ordered. We order food and the wings were actually very good. We had 2 more friends come and meet up with us and the waiter again only brought 1 out of the 2 drinks requested. When we were ready to go I had to flag down the waiter for him to bring us the check. They really need to work on their service. If their service matched their food I would go back, but for now I will be going elsewhere.

Wow! What awful service. Couldn’t get anyone to acknowledge we were there and when we approached the bartender/​manager we received attitude. Forget this place and go to Chester instead.

Ordered the Philly cheese steak. It came on a small hoagie bun with meat only on half the bun. On the other half was about two tablespoons of meat. Order the onion rings with it at a two dollar up charge and received five small onion rings. Disappointing.

Visited this restaurant for lunch and left extremely disappointed. The establishment was nearly empty and the food took 1 hour to arrive. There were 4 people in our party and I got my food 10 minutes before the others. Service was unapologetic so this experience must be the norm. Food was okay, nothing to make up for the service. Would not recommend.

This is by far the worst experience I have ever had in my life. Myself and 12 girlfriends visited Blue Ridge, GA over the past weekend and stopped here on Saturday night after spending the day shopping. We were seated immediately, but after ordering, proceeded to wait for 55 minutes without our appetizers or soups and salads arriving. We repeatedly asked the waitress where our appetizers were and she repeated that the kitchen was slammed and everything would be out shortly. Soon after notifying the manager about how long we have been waiting we were told that the waitress was brand new and forgot to place our order. I had such pity for the waitress who was placed by herself to work a table of 13. Someone more experienced should have been placed with her to help.
Once our food began arriving is when things got uglier. My grilled chicken for my salad was so burnt that it resembled breaded/​fried chicken and couldn’t even be cut with a knife it was so hard. I watched a friend’s burger sit in the window for 20 minutes before it was brought to the table. Someone ordered chicken nachos and they had only 2 bite size pieces of chicken, the tiniest drizzle of cheese and sour cream and jalapenos glopped in the middle (They asked for it to be on the side!). Another person ordered chili nachos, when they arrived there was no chili and no cheese. They apparently ran out of cheese and chili (thus the reason there was only the tiniest drizzle of cheese on the other plate as they were scraping the bottom of the cheese sauce container to get any). The manager felt bad and offered to comp our food while we paid for whatever drinks we ordered which we deemed acceptable. However, the owner didn’t agree and came to tell us that he would only offer 10% discount. You can’t tell your customers one thing and then change your mind and tell them another. Bad form.
Besides that point, when he came over to talk to us, I tried to explain that my friend was pregnant and after waiting for 2 hours very hungry and upset and he told me he didn’t care! The owner was rude, insulting, unkind and after we explained all of the issues we had with the food and just finally asked him to send us the check because we were sick of him being so rude, he got even more insulting and told us that we would never be happy. We told him we would never return because of the way we were treated and the way the food tasted and he told us to get the hell out.
I’ve been in the restaurant business all of my life. My family has owned a restaurant for the past 64 years and we would never think of treating a customer thusly! I do not foresee this restaurant being able to stay in business for long if they treat all of their customers in this manner and cannot acknowledge mistakes or constructive criticism.

This is the most reasonably priced menu in downtown Blue Ridge. They have a new owner and have just been renovated. We live and work in Blue Ridge and often carry out our lunches or eat here after work. Our favorites are: wings (½ price on Wednesday) fish and gator tacos, kettle chips, hamburgers, salmon. There are dozens of craft beers on tap now. Lots of good choices!

It is Valentine’s weekend and they should NOT BE OPEN! There is some kind of remodel going on. We had to ask for soap in the ladies room, then had dirt or mold in two of three of our waters. Then after waiting 45 minutes for food and no refills we received our greasy food. I think they have one cook, 2 bartenders and 2 servers. Not enough! Will not be back.

If you’re in downtown Blue Ridge, go anywhere but here!
We thought we were finding a quick spot for a meal, but this meal took us much longer than expected.
We arrived around 3:30 PM. There were a couple other parties at the bar or down eating. Our server was very slow with drinks and taking our orders. It took us 20 minutes to order even though we pretty much knew what we wanted to eat. The food took at least 40 minutes to come out, so overall this place was pretty disappointing.

So, this is another of the haunts we visited while in the mountains this past week. We went in for lunch and proceeded to gorge ourselves on fried delicacies.
Battered dill pickle chips, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, stuffed mushrooms and fried green tomatoes were among our appetizer selections. Can I just give a shout out for the fried green tomatoes? Just amazing.
For our entrees, we sampled sloppy joes (yum), whistle stop burger (yum) and some other burger… all were served either with fries or homemade chips.
To finish it off, we sampled fried, yes fried oreos with ice cream and hot fudge. Delicious on a whole new level.
If you need me, I’ll be getting my arteries cleaned while dreaming of the delicious treats at Whistle Stop. I’ll definitely go back when in Blue Ridge and would advise you to stop in to this place. It’s very kitschy and they look to have a good beer selection and a very big menu.

The service was great, they had tons of menu options, and the food was amazing! Only complaint was that they were out of a few things that we tried to order. We will be back!