Downtown Grocery - Ludlow

Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $100+ Food: 3 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 3

Great place for dinner and highly recommend. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $100+ Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 3

This is definitely one of the top restaurants in Ludlow. Just the two owners running the place, so not many seatings per night. But this is really a culinary delight food is so well prepared could have been eating at a top restaurant in NYC. We had the Pappardelle Bolognese and Shrimp and Grits and both were some of the best we ever had. Everything homemade, including the bread that comes out for starters. Also, they add some top bartending skills to their repertoire. And given that they only have limited seating, its a very intimate and pleasant setting. The one downside is that the prices are high, but you are getting what you pay for. Just need to make reservations well in advance we took the 5:30 seating just so we could get in.

I really wanted to like this place after all the hype and waiting a week for a reservation. I’m sorry to say the wait was not worth it. I should have taken it as a sign when their website doesn’t work to look at the menu, and felt blind sided when we saw a pasta entree for $50 and soup for $20 when we walked in. I could get over the prices if the wait wasn’t so long I understand their concept that it’s just a husband and wife running the whole place but maybe a bartender or one more person in the kitchen could help. You definitely can feel the passion about the menu coming from them both. However, it was An hour til we saw a beverage, 2 hours til they sent out some bread. I overheard another girl at a table who was falling asleep ask the server, who’s also the owner, who’s also the bartender, how long she thought desert would take because she was quite frankly “tired” and I don’t blame her since they were there long before us, because otherwise she wouldn’t order it. It says on Resy “be prepared to be with us 2 hours “ they should correct that to 3 hours and put a sample menu somewhere. My salmon was cold when it finally arrived and I’m sorry but no home made pasta is worth $50 in vermont. Skip it there’s better options in Ludlow.

This place is awesome. Very well run and staff is extremely nice. 100% worth the wait: Some of the best food. Phenomenal steak. If your near check it out. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner