So close to 5 stars! A party of 10 enjoyed amazing food and great service for dinner. The catfish special was delicious and the Bison prime rib was a huge favorite of the table. The BISCUITS were scrumptious… especially the olive biscuits! So different and yummy! So why not 5 stars? One word… ATMOSPHERE! This… is the Omni! This… is Nashville! The restaurant is called«Kitchen Notes»! I feel the owners have missed the mark in a really cool opportunity in what is an absolutely beautiful space. No music! No vibe! No connection to the name or the location. As a PR professional one thing I know is that«everything you do or say is public relations». When someone walks into a restaurant called Kitchen Notes in Nashville it better have music and I mean live music! A small trio playing in the entry, a baby grand with a jazz pianist, or something as simple as an acoustic guitar would be fabulous. What a perfect draw it would be to the community to have this be a real«Music City» restaurant!
Amanda H.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Nashville, TN
My husband and I took our 2 yo for dinner today after walking around downtown. The entire staff was so welcoming and accommodating. The manager(I think his name was Phillip) brought my son a biscuit as soon as we sat down after he heard my little boy ask for one when we walked in. Then he discreetly(thank you for that!) brought cookies for him. Our waitress was wonderful as well. As locals, we visit downtown with our child often. This was BYFAR the most family friendly place we have found! And our food was amazing. By the way, the bucket of chicken is huge and so delish! We will go back for sure on our next excursion!
Bryant M.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Columbus, OH
Great food, beautiful space, horrible service. Some friends and I went for the Sunday brunch buffet. I’m not really a buffet person, but the one at Kitchen Notes won me over. It was big(but not too big), fresh, upscale but still very approachable and Southern-inspired. All along the buffet you’ll find: –Traditional breakfast items(eggs, meats, potatoes) –Southern staples, like grits and sausage gravy –Omelettes and pancakes, made to order –A biscuit bar, including GLUTEN-FREEBISCUITS –Fresh fruit –Perfect prime rib –A dessert station Judging by those CAPS, you probably figured out how excited I was about the gf biscuit. Look, as a southern boy who cannot eat wheat, my life is plagued with rock-hard«biscuits» or just no biscuits at all. I genuinely thought it was impossible to make a good gf biscuit, but Kitchen Notes managed to do it somehow! I was seriously going to give them 5 stars for this alone. All the food was fresh and tasty, and I really was enjoying myself… and then… the service. Our server, Albert, was extremely sweet and polite, but he abandoned us. In the beginning, he took really good care of the ladies at our table but kept ignoring me and the Mister. Like, would refill their glasses and not ours. Finally I got his attention and asked for a water and a refill on OJ, and he reluctantly brought out just the water. After being on a 9-day road trip, I inhaled my water, but then Albert never refilled it again. Then, to make matters worse, he kept coming by to clear the dishes and to drop off our checks — and he could clearly see that I had nothing to drink. Then he abandoned us for 15 minutes while our credit cards were out and ready to pay… and while I continued to suck on ice. He finally brought our checks back out, and once again, completely ignored my empty glass. I normally wouldn’t lower my rating so much simply because of bad service, but when you’re paying $ 30 for a breakfast buffet, the experience should be great. I’m never going to be one of those people who tries to «eat my money’s worth,» but I do expect service staff to take care of me.
Angel S.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Nashville, TN
Went here for thanksgiving brunch. The restaurant is really bright and nice. Lots of options to eat and food was good. Some of the foods were a little too«fancy» for this type of brunch, i.e., not sure what I was always eating and not everything was labeled. But overall good. Pricey but I guess for the holiday meal that is expected. Valet parking was free upon validation.
Thomas B.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Nashville, TN
I got the opportunity to go to Kitchen Notes for a semi-formal event and couldn’t imagine it being any better. I would recommend a rehearsal dinner or any formal event here. The staff was extremely attentive, the food and menu were top notch and the chefs made an appearance. While this is not the norm, we did a family style dining experience appetizers, entrée and desert and everything was awesome. I have read some other reviews complaining about price but since this was for someone else, it was not an issue for us. I have heard great things about the breakfast buffet and plan to visit for brunch on a weekend soon.
Ed W.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Miami, FL
Breakfast is pretty good. Coffee is really good when hot, but this morning was tepid. The omelet was really good. The worst problem is that it was really really noisy. I ate here several times while I was attending a conference at the Omni, and their breakfast is good normally. The fruit is somewhat iffy in terms of ripness, and the biscuits are good when hot, but they get cold quickly and then turn into something like you get at Mickey D’s. So I am giving it a 3. It is pricy, and the quality varies from 2 through 4 depending on the day of the week and the attitude of the help. But how do you get luke warm coffee? Was it brought over from someone else’s table? And I always end up(when it is good) finishing my little pot, and have never once had them offer me more coffee. I was here a year ago, and the quality seems to have gone down considerably.
Emma Jane C.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Nashville, TN
Kitchen Notes was phenomenal. We got the grilled pimento cheese sandwich and the kale salad. They were both delish! We also ordered iced tea that came with lemon, lime, mint and orange. Our waiter Gary L. was a wonderful waiter he was very friendly. He was very perceptive of our drink status and needs, we never even asked him for a refill he would just come and pour more tea in our glasses. I would give him a 5 star rating.
Vince N.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Renton, WA
Wow did we eat like we were starving for the past 3 days. Kitchen notes is a wonderful place for some nice fine dining. The wait staff was on spot and the restaurant immaculate. The food was all well flavored and cooked nicely. We had a bit of everything and definitely left full. No worries on skimpy small servings.
Katelyn W.
Évaluation du lieu : 2 Chicago, IL
This restaurant, located in the Omni Hotel is just okay. The service is bad. Our waitress came up and just said what do you want and took 10 minutes just to get our drinks. I got the grilled pimento cheese sandwich which I was so excited for! Basically they put pimento cheese on toast so it’s not grilled and the cheese was cold. Disappointing. It wasn’t terrible but not good. The biscuits are good and the décor is so cute. My boyfriend got a Patty melt and it was good. The fries aren’t bad. I wouldn’t come back.
Martha M.
Évaluation du lieu : 2 Riverview, FL
Nice décor. We got great service when we were seated and it ended there. The waitress said we would be getting biscuits. We ordered the empanada appetizer which consisted of 3 different kinds of empanadas. Only thing good will I waited was my white wine. We were ignored for a while. We got the empanadas and our entrees came immediately after. I told the waitress we just got all our food at once and she apologized. And then she mentions she will get us the bread we never got either. The empanadas were good. I ordered the risotto dinner with no goat cheese. Goat cheese was on it and I scraped it off. My friends ordered the chicken pot pie and they liked it. Overall very disappointed in the service. Little details always matter.
Aubrey W.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Franklin, TN
I like Kitchen Notes even more now that I’ve eaten there for brunch! The buffet was great(there’s an omelet station, and you can ask for a waffle), and they had $ 5 mimosas. I ate there with a party of 11 for my day-after-wedding brunch, and I appreciated that they allowed me to call ahead for a reservation. The price was still steep, but the service and food made up for it. Our server did a great job managing a table of 11 people! Everyone enjoyed it, and the cost ended up around $ 30/pp.
Shanda O.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Woodland, CA
Delicious! Friendly service. Attentive. We have eaten here several times over the past few days. And have loved everything we have eaten. Well except the bass. That was just okay. But the coffee rubbed steak, chicken pot pie, shrimp and grits, are all amazing. And you can’t go wrong with the dessert. All are fabulous. Defiantly eat here! We will be again for sure.
Marlena M.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Philadelphia, PA
As the Omni promises, they try to fit their hotels to the local culture of each city. This is especially true in this Nashville restaurant. The food is country to a fault; I hope to find variety at hotel restaurants, since I will usually be eating more than a single meal there. Besides, if you are in the mood for home-cooking I am sure Nashville offers more authentic places, with tastier options. There is a lack of vegetarian options, and a complete lack of healthier options. For dinner, there is only a creamy vegetable rice dish. Breakfast is a bit better since they offer an egg white frittata(although I saw it online and had to ask for it specifically since it wasn’t on the menu at the table) Tip: If you are staying at the Omni and hoping to get a few healthy or vegetarian meals in, be sure to ask for outside recommendations when you check in.
David S.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Franklin, TN
Dining Notes: Gang, we’re talking about a hotel restaurant. Remember that. Even if I forget, I had to wonder what the Omni Hotel was really after with Kitchen Notes. Nashville may not have survived without yet another southern-fusion cook-alike. Doubtful. Maybe it’s just a swing toward the right-center field of semi-family friendly that’s still hanging in the air and refusing to come down? Maybe. Hard to call whether or not it’ll be fair or foul, but I can say I ate some of the finest fried chicken I’ve eaten anywhere. What? Fried chicken isn’t on the menu? That’s right. But I ate it. The menu is more like your standard hotel restaurant menu: eats that toe the line of trying to appeal to the at-large guest, yet a twist or two that hopes to attract the casual foodiphile. But this was a birth-of-nation holiday weekend. Picnics. Cookouts. And an off-menu buffet that appealed to just about every angle of a Southern-style Independence Day feast. Three meats: Nashville-style(chortle!) hot chicken, cornmeal battered fried catfish, and brisket. Salad options of shaved squash ribbons and slaw were colorful and would have been better enjoyed by a vegan palate(mine was still somewhere near Broadway & Third nursing on a pop top.) Two house-made dressings were unique, fresh, and tasty. The tomato and avocado«tartar sauce» that sat neglected by the catfish chaffing dish was heavenly. Catfish in a chaffing dish? Really. But what chaffed the mud fish that’s been skinned, fileted, battered, and fried most was that it was caught at all. Charred everything seems the rage these days. On purpose. Ah, sweet childhood… meals that were charred were accidental and eaten only because that’s all there was that week or replaced by a quick burger out on a good week. They burn it here, too. Charred romaine. Why? I tried to eat it. Really I did. Charred, oven roasted okra. OK. THAT was a winner. Oh, the breads? Down home excellent! Granny would have even hid a few in her purse for later(Sis would’ve hidden them with jam and butter, but that’s Sis.) Loveless got nuthin’ over Note’s buscuit lady. But I was talking about fried chicken. Nashville-style(chortle!) hot chicken.(Guffaw!) I can just hear Gomer Pyle revving up for a «Shame, shame…» because that tea-brined, lightly floured and seasoned, perfectly browned and crisped, tender, succulent, fried chicken had capsaicin heat nowhere to be found! Unless you doused it with the au jus(just another neglected condiment by a chaffing dish.) So, back to the au jus. Now it’s hot and I wasn’t chortling any longer. Tasty, even, slow to quiesce capsaicin. But the hot chicken masters and mistresses of Nashville are wagging their fingers and clucking their tongues at this dish. That’s OK. It’s still some mighty fine chicken. Shazayum! That’s the food. Service? Too many Nashville restaurants fail on customer service. Notes is right there with ‘em. Inexperienced staff stood out on this holiday excursion. I do hope the menu changes. On paper, it’s no match for off-menu options. Your milage may vary.
Hall W.
Évaluation du lieu : 5 Atlanta, GA
Okay… lets get 3 things straight here… 1. This place on the spendy side of the price range — so great date option… but not the place for your rando casual dining… In my opinion the extra flare, taste, and presentation makes it worth it! Everything about this place is a clean classy establishment whereby you still feel the southern comfort. 2. I will admit that I have heard that early on their service was much wanting, but recently… myself and others have only found world class service… as they apparently revamped their program. 3. YES… this is technically a hotel restaurant, but unlike other hotel restaurants, this doesn’t feel like one… and it has the food glory(biscuits and all) of trendy local great. Although you do get valet parking for free with a Kitchen note stamp… The food is Southern, but they really kicked it up many notches with the experimentation into great new flavorful and fresh dishes that you could never imagine.
Dan Z.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Brentwood, TN
The Good: Nice open and clean location; good selection; buffet; good service. The bad: spent a lot of time telling us that their buffet won awards and the hype did not meet expectations. Did not bring us water with meal. Gave me the wrong(someone else’s) omelet The Rest: really, thought it was good but not great; average service, overpriced.
Alisha W.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Nashville, TN
Used to be such a great treat for celebrations, however not so much anymore! It’s $ 26 for the buffet and the buffet is delicious! However, Id never eat $ 26 worth of food. The part that made it ALL worth it for a Sunday treat was the $ 5 bottomless mimosas. Yet, they have now decided they need more money and charge one mimosa for $ 5! That’s a crazy mark up! I’ll be looking for a new more cost efficient brunch spot!
Brandon W.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Nashville, TN
The atmosphere and décor are very aesthetically from the moment you enter the Omni Hotel and continues into the restaurant. The staff is extremely courteous as they constantly maintain cleanliness and replenish the copious selections the buffet has to offer. Warm plates waiting at the head of the buffet was a pleasant surprise. This was my first time visiting this establishment and I am unaware if the buffet was the only option, but after being seated for ten minutes before my server who never introduced herself came to ask what drink I wanted, she simply told me «You can get started while I go get your drink» so to the buffet I went. My server was very inattentive, but overall the service gets five gold stars. Two trips to the buffet and a made to order pancake and waffle unfortunately earns the food a three star rating. The fruit was delicious and fresh, the sausage and bacon were very well cooked, the peel and eat shrimp were good and the cocktail sauce was great if you enjoy a little spice, but I am not a fan of seeing«the vein» in shrimp I am served. However I do recommend their shrimp in grits which is in a separate location. Unfortunately I did not enjoy the pancake or waffle, which my server later told me were made using corn meal and although the dessert selection was plentiful only one of the six I tried were tasty. A good friend endorsed this restaurant for having an excellent brunch, however the recommendation may have been a bit ill-advised.
Tracy S.
Évaluation du lieu : 3 Santee, CA
This restaurant is in the Omni Hotel. It is very farm-to-fresh feeling. PRO: a biscuit station! The restaurant brings you a plate of four scones and biscuits that are phenomoneal. We had a sausage cheddar biscuit, a cornbread muffin and My favorite. and seriously the BESTSCONE I HAVEHADINMYLIFE: a white chocolate chip– berry scone. It was baked to perfection and melted in your mouth! CON: i got the pimento grilled cheese, i thought it would be delicious but it didnt meet my expectations. The cheese was gooey and messy and the taste was ok. I wish I would have ordered the kale salad instead.
Sheena T.
Évaluation du lieu : 2 Nashville, TN
Yikes with a capital Y. I was tempted by a new restaurant initially but was a bit afraid that it was in a hotel which is usually hit or miss and expensive either way. However, my BF and I decided to go in on Saturday for brunch. They still had a brunch buffet and we looked it over but weren’t impressed enough because it came with a $ 19.99 price tag per person. If you order an entrée you get to sample the biscuit bar which was the highlight of the meal. They offered 3 different kinds of biscuits and a variety of jams and two kinds of honey. I really liked the sausage a jalapeño biscuit and we did get a nice sized pot of coffee at our table. That’s where the good ends. We ordered the trout and the patty melt. First issue… The patty melt had very obvious old fries mixed in with fresh ones. Not appetizing. Then my cauliflower accompaniment had a couple pieces that were clearly going bad and tasted rotten. There was also a lemon sauce of some kind that tasted weird with the fish. Bottom line… it looks very pretty and upscale but you pay for the atmosphere and some decent biscuits. Just go elsewhere!