Old Hickory Traditional Steakhouse
Nashville, TN 37214
Phone: (615) 871-6000
- Price:
- $$$$
- Best of Citysearch:
- Hotel Dining 2006, Special Occasion Dining 2006
- Hours:
- Daily 5pm-10pm
Editorial Review for Old Hickory Traditional Steakhouse – by Susan Blue
In Short
Putting its antebellum theme to work, this steakhouse inside Opryland Hotel's Delta atrium creates an intimate atmosphere, with several rooms open to diners. Guests can sit on the balcony overlooking the trees and canal, or inside the club-like lounge, where casual convention-goers mingle with sharply dressed business associates and couples. Menu favorites include traditions like filet mignon and wild salmon and the more unique Southern-style shrimp with cheddar grits in a candied hot sauce.
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Insider Tips
The ExtrasThe restaurant serves afternoon tea Thursday-Sunday 2:30pm-4pm and opens the library after 5pm for its humidor and collection of single-malt whiskies and cognacs.
Look GoodThe full-time maitre fromager (master of cheese service) will visit your table with his cheese cart to help you customize a cheese plate.
User Reviews for Old Hickory Traditional Steakhouse
12/27/2007 Posted by debbiedl
We'd heard good things about the OpryLand Hotel’s Old Hickory Grill, so headed there for Christmas dinner. After a brief wait, our waiter arrived and began a service that I will charitably describe as dour and indifferent (did we ever make eye contact?) and then, as the meal progressed, increasingly inattentive. For some reason, we were not given a wine list, but the waiter, at my request, brought one; I ordered a glass of decent and well priced Pinot Grigio. Very tasty and well prepared appetizers and bread were long devoured as we waited maybe 30 minutes for the entrees to arrive; when we asked the waiter when they would be ready, he told us "you're next in line." This seemed odd since the restaurant wasn't even half-full and the party of 4 seated next to us had not only arrived after we had, but were finishing their meal by that time. (They did have a different waiter.) At last the meal arrived. My filet (filets are priced at $44.00) was lukewarm; the accompanying 5 stalks of asparagus were thick, undercooked and also barely warm. My partner's chicken (at $32.00) amounted to a small portion (4 ounces, she judged), distinctive more for its dryness than any actual flavor. Mom’s filet, accompanied by a handful of desiccated onion rings was stringy and mushy, the latter suggesting a recent visit from the meat tenderizer. I sent mine back to the kitchen to be reheated and asked for extra hollandaise, which I then realized was the main source of the meal’s flavor. Not much later, after a few more determined bites, we pushed aside our plates (I finally stacked two of them out of the way), and I looked around for the waiter. I finally spotted him across the floor in another dining room, setting tables. My partner went to ask him for the check and a to-go container. The price for 3 with 2 appetizers, hollandaise/crabmeat, 1 chicken, 2 filets and a broccoli side dish plus one glass of wine was $198.00.
Pros: Nice ambiance, decent wine list
Cons: Indifferent service, food quality highly uneven and downright bad
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
12/25/2007 Posted by ssliston
I dined at Old Hickory on Christmas Eve 2007 in a party of four. To a person, we agreed that: (1) The setting is cheesy. It's a little like eating in a theme park (Disneyland, Six Flags etc.) (2) The staff, while well meaning, is undertrained. We encountered oversights in our order and long delays between courses. (3) The portions were not commensurate with the prices. While the prices were comparable to Morton's, for example, the portions were meager by comparison. (4)Finally, each of the items we ordered were simply underwhelming in preparation, quality and appeal. Be it the bison steak, the Niman Ranch pork tenderloin, the salmon or any of the salads, all were lackluster. Our bottom line at the end of the evening was that Old Hickory Steak House is a strange mixture of high aspirations and low achievement. My advice is to look elsewhere for fine dining.
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