Rye

We went to Rye on a recent trip to Eugene. It’s the kind of place you can dress up nice for, or be more casual. Ambiance was really nice, and our server was very kind and attentive. We found the food to be great, and especially loved the Chevre frite. We will definitely be going back on our next trip to Eugene.

My daughter and I enjoyed a lovely dinner on the patio. We were originally sat way in the back in a dark and smelly room;(
It took a while for our cocktails to arrive. My wine came before the cocktail and when I asked about our other drink, the waitress rudely informed me that they only had one bartender! Okaaaay.
The mussels are very tasty with a delicious broth. The goat cheese said was fresh with you my beets sliced then on the side. The lamb chops were a bit small and could have been taken off the grill a few minutes early.
Overall good meal but waitstaff could be better and friendlier.
I would definitely go back for the wine and mussels!

Best Moscow Mule I’ve ever had! Great atmosphere, lovely and professional waiters, bartenders and servers. I just move to Eugene and have fallen in love with this restaurant/​cocktail lounge. Rarely write reviews, just had to on this one. Xoxo keep up the good work Rye!

Came here last night because all of our friends have told us about this place. We got there around 4:15 and were told they were completely book but if we could eat within an hour they could seat us. My husband and I are in the restaurant business so we completely understood. We were also informed that the kitchen couldn’t start making entrees until 5. A little odd but no big deal, so we sat and ordered some drinks. Our waitress came and took our order. We figured since she took our order that they could start cooking… but we were wrong. We could hear the lady chef say, «is this a joke? We aren’t ready yet!» And the male chef confirming. So our waitress went to the manager in which she said, «I already told them this.» Apparently our waitress was newer and didn’t know. We felt bad that she was getting snapped at.
She came over, apologized in which we said, no big deal and ordered an appetizer. The appetizer came within 10 min and was delicious, then 5 minutes later our entrees came out. I guess they were able to cook before 5. Our food was delicious. My husband had the duck and I had the goat pasta (wow!).
I’ve never been to a restaurant that opens at 4 but can’t start cooking until 5 so you may want to take that into account when timing out your dinner plans.

Ate there last night for an impromptu evening out. This was my third time, and the place seems to be trending better. Good mid-​range restaurant. Good value, and good service. The fish special was outstanding. Eugene needs a few more places in this price range/​quality.

Stopped in for a Friday night date night. Started out with 12 year Eagle Rare bourbon moving on to some fantastic mussels with duck confit. The bartender is a craftsman making some great cocktails we enjoyed his professional attitude and knowledge. Have to have the poutine here it’s best in town with duck Demi yum! Another great Rye fly by.

Fun, causual upscale atmosphere with fairly full main room and bar. Good, friendly staff. Cheese plate, french onion soup, quinoa salad, pork tenderloin with roasted vegetables – all enjoyable and shared between my wife and I. The portions were ideal. Will return and recommend without any concerns.

Best restaurant in Eugene! I come regularly and it has never disappointed. Always delicious and with great proportions of food, not too much, not too little.

We heard great things about Rye and decided to try it for dinner. Wow! Starting with cocktails (the House Manhattan is a winner), then to appetizers (wonderful muscles and fine salads) to fantastic main courses (The duck breast was magnificent. Salmon was remarkable. Pork tenderloin could be cut with a fork before it melted in your mouth), finished with homemade chocolates that were out of this world. Now it’s our turn to say good things about this excellent restaurant.

Excellent service, attentive but not over barring.
We had the salmon special and the pork loin, both cooked perfectly. We also sampled a few superb cocktails. All expectations were surpassed by this place.

2 entrees, 1 appetizer, 2 beers and a glass of wine= $ 70. Well worth it if the service and quality of food was present. However, upon arriving we had to wait to be greeted by the maitre d’. Long story short, we ordered the chèvre frite as an appetizer ($ 10 for two), lamb chops ($ 23 for 2 extremely small pieces once removed from the bone), a chicken dish ($ 20 as Identified on the bill). For the price point in the eugene area, i would have expected more flavor for offsetting the portion size but that was not the case. Turns out it’s just small portions of overpriced food with mediocre to dismal flavor. Would I eat there again? No but the ambiance for drinks is terrific!

Incredible menu. Delicious, perfectly prepared dishes. Great drink Menu. Loved the Rye cocktail. Great. Venue. Wait staff friendly and very knowledgeable. All around really satisfying meal.

I have been here for lunch and dinner now, and I’ve always come away happy with the experience. The cocktails are cute and tasty. They offer interesting things on the menu and as specials. I always recommend the Portuguese pork, which is offered as a sandwich at lunch and sometimes as an entrée at dinner. The $ 2 chocolates for dessert are a fabulous idea, a little sweet bite instead of a giant slice of cake, and they are very good quality. Service can be slow, so make time in your schedule.

Open on Mondays: good! Atmosphere v. nice: I echo Tianyi’s review below. Food: uneven; the duck confit on the poutine is indeed stringy and dry, but my muscles were excellent (though strangely served with micro-​thin, ultra-​hard toasts rather than soft bread to sop the sauce). The mayonnaisey crab salad seemed straight out of the 60s, but the pork chop was of excellent quality. Cocktails: tasty and served in cute glassware. The biggest disappointment was the alluringly titled sage-​potato soup; not sure what I imagined, but in fact it was blended and overly salty and tasted more like boxed chicken broth than anything else. Biggest surprise: the size of the dessert chocolates — they could easily half the portions and they would still be sufficient.
Service also a little uneven; sort of slow at key points — but the owner stepped in to help speed things along and she was v. personable, making up for otherwise generic reception.

DISCLAIMER: my review only concerns drinks, since we came after dinner on a busy Saturday night.
On my quest for good cocktail bars in Eugene, a place called Rye seemed like a promise.
They delivered. Ho ho ho. They delivered.
If you don’t like strong drinks, prepared by the book, just stay away from this place. Or come for the food, which I’m sure it’s delicious. Sometime in the future I’m gonna try the food too.
The cocktail menu itself could be enough.
It’s split between 6 dollar drinks — not 6 dollar drinks — really not 6 dollar drinks
and each category has «pre-​Prohibition classics» «Prohibition and after greats» plus «our bright ideas»
of what we tried
the Old Pal was bitter as an old lady with red lipstick making a snazzy comment
the Daisy was the kind of cocktail that your grandpa made for your grandma when returning home after a week selling brushes door-​to-​door
the Long Island tasted like 2am, when you’re not drunk yet but you need to catch up with your friends who arrived a couple hours ago, and you wanna do it in style, without anybody noticing
the Scofflaw was sweet enough to cover the fact that a classy lady does not order sweet drinks
(and these are all 6 dollar drinks)
next time I rob a bank I’ll try the really not 6 dollar drinks, I promise
great place
if you’re in your late 20s like me, expect your presence to beat the average age in the place by a couple decades, which doesn’t make it any less fun to be there (the place is nice and so is service)

I’ve been dying to go to this place since my brother told me about it. The bar has an excellent drink selection that is made up of pre-​prohibition and prohibition drinks. My mother and I decided that we needed a few hours out the house. We’d been spending too much time on the couch binge watching Supernatural on Netflix. Getting drinks and lunch at Rye felt that the go to move
I ended up getting a Jack Rose. Let me tell you, that thing was strong but damn was it good. It was sweet, I find the best way to drink it is to hold it in your mouth for a little and push towards the front teeth. In doing that you can experience the sweetness of the drink as well as the mixed flavors. My mother had the Daisy, which provides you with with a choice for the bitters. She went with the lemon bitters, resulting in the drink being very much like a spiked lemonade.
For an appetizer, we got the fried Goat cheese balls. Those were great and came with a lovely assortment of things. Some leafy greens in a sweet vinaigrette, pickled onions, and toasted slices of bread. It was more than what we planned, but it was good. And the goat cheese when very well with the french fries that came with our sandwiches.
I decided to ordered the griddled chicken sandwich. It was a ground up chicken patty, topped with leafy greens, herb aioli, and pickled leeks. The flavors were subtle, and the leeks were a nice touch, sort of a sharp burst of flavor and extra crisp. My mother got the pork vindaloo sandwich. The pork has a decent flavor and pulled apart nicely. Though I think the sandwich would have been better with naan bread instead of the flat bread. Flat bread can be a bit blandish while naan is a bit more flavorful and it compliments the spices used to achieve the a blending of the spices in the way the pork was cooked. Vindaloo, to my knowledge, is normally a style of Indian chicken curry, so it seems only natural that naan be the choice of bread to make the sandwich.
When it came time for dessert, we decided to give the in house made chocolate a try. We shared one chocolate, which was the «Candy Bar Du Jour.» Today, it was ganche with whole hazel nuts coated in a dark chocolate and salted with a bit of sea salt. I actually really enjoyed the chocolate, I’m a huge fan of the use of salt in chocolate. Provides a bit of a bite with chocolate so that sweetness is not entirely overwhelming. The dessert menu actually provides a guide to chocolate and brandy pairings. I have every intention of come back to Rye to partake in their chocolate drink pairings, seeing that I am a chocolaholic.
All in all, I found Rye to be a spectacular place, a good atmosphere, very polite service (though a little slow to checking in on us while waiting for food, and a little overwhelmed by the many many specials that the restaurant provides). I have a definite interest in coming here again to try out their dinner menu, seeing that they have duck on the menu. For anyone that knows me, I can’t resist a well prepared duck.

Nice ambiance, but the overall experience left me wanting a lot more. We were a group of four arriving at 6:30 on a Thursday. Service initially was attentive and we ordered some cocktails and appetizers which arrived quickly. At this point we ordered dinner and the wait began. I wasn’t timing it exactly, but certainly 45 minutes to an hour elapsed before the food arrived. At no point during this wait did a server come to the table to recognize the lengthy wait. A simple «I apologize for the wait, the food will be up soon,» would have been sufficient. But when I asked how the food was coming the retort was «it’s coming.» Ooookay. I could have accepted the wait if was a busy Friday night, but the restaurant was perhaps ¹⁄₃ full. Is it always like this here? I am not a snob, nor a foodie, but I work hard for my money and a little recognition that we are hungry; and have been waiting for an inordinate amount of time would be appreciated…
The onion soup wasn’t bad, it tasted fresh and homemade, but it did not register highly on the OMG list. I also had a steak which I asked to be cooked medium, and it was waaay on the rare side. I considered sending it back to be re-​fired, but I didn’t want to risk losing the meal for another 30 minutes so I ate some and figured I’d throw the leftovers in a frying pan in the morning for steak and eggs.
The dessert menu arrived and shockingly I could not find one item that appealed to me. Is it that hard to include a few more traditional items? Who knows, Rye may actually sell some of them! I know this is Eugene, but the gender neutral, dairy-​free, soy-​free, cruelty-​free, equal opportunity, no H8, smoked alder sea-​salt pudding blessed by the Dalai Lama himself just didn’t have much appeal. There’s no chocolate cake in France?
Prices seem fair and in line with other restaurants in Eugene. In the end Rye would make a fine spot for a few drinks, but for dinner this was a one and done affair.

I ate at Rye last night for the second time. Two years separated my first visit from my second, which would indicate I didn’t feel compelled to go back. Both times I sat at the bar as I dined alone.
I checked them out online before going and was impressed by their list of wines by the glass including a Cotes-​du-​Rhone among other medium-​bodied reds. But alas, the bartender glibly informed me that «that’s really out of date– we don’t have those.» Hhhmmm– someone here doesn’t understand web marketing. Minus one star.
The menu was varied and had some unusual items such as a Portuguese stew– add one star. Prices were «reasonable» for a «fine-​dining» restaurant, but Rye comes across to me as more casual than that.
The barkeep was VERY quick to respond– too much so, i would say. Greqt guy who was «on it» BUT– You couldn’t finish a sentence making a request before he would cut you off and hasten to execute. Great for responsiveness but a little abrupt.
Food was good overall. Clam chowder is a recomendation. Lots of clams, not pasty at all. But it carried a flavor of cheddar cheese which would not be my personal choice although i recognize that many enjoy cheese in soup. Portuguese stew had a lot of meat (pork) and good flavor but a bit salty for my preference.
I would give it 3−½ stars if that were an option. It’s not a bargain but not pricey either. Chowder, dinner and two glasses of wine came to about $ 50. And I think maybe that is the point of my review– I had a good experience, but maybe a $ 40 experience. I’ll try it again.

Rye is A-​OK. It’s not a destination (ie: I wouldn’t drive across town to eat here) but as it’s conveniently located near my house, it serves as a cozy joint for first dates and semi-​casual nights out. I come for the comfy copper tones, fireplace, soft lighting, carpets, and pillows strewn across seats, and stay for a drink (the Grumpy Monkey and Moscow Mule are good choices) plus the house-​made chocolate (orange cream is my favorite!) and a mug of coffee, served with raw sugar cubes.
The savory offerings are less appealing to me. The duck conft poutine sounds more decadent than it is (dry, stringy duck and gummy, salty gravy are only acceptable because the large portion offsets the cost), and mussels in a white wine, garlic and tomato broth are fresh, but not fragrant or memorable.
Still, Rye serves as a fine place to chat over drinks and dessert. I like to hear my conversations, and Rye provides just that, plus a fireplace and chocolate. :)

I have been waiting a few weeks to eat here. Upon ariving a was seated with a small child and offered nothing to help accommodate me with her. My waitress «Roxanne» is possibly the rudest and worst waitress in all Eugene.
There were three of us and we were given 2 napkins and 2 glasses gor water. She never checked on us and I had to get up many times to. ask someone else for things that were needed at the table.
Her face was grim her attitude sucked and its pretty amazing how one person can ruin something for others. To top it off she never once asked if anything was okay and left us to fend for ourselves.
This how a place looses buisness. Get rid of people who dont help your buisness flurish.
We wont be returning or recomending this to any friends.