Stock-Yard Restaurant

09/30/09

A Delightful Evening

by JOYCEAB at Citysearch

We enjoyed the occasion of our daughter's birthday but we could come more often if you served smaller portions and, thus, more reasonable prices.

• Pros: Delicious food, great service & great atmosphere
• Cons: too large portions, thus very expensive

08/25/09

Insecure retaurant seeking prime time

by unknown5 at Citysearch

Let's start with the good - service was attentive and the steaks were good. The building is unique and provides an interesting setting for a steakhouse.

Now the bad - service was over the top. Everything was the "best you will ever have" or "a fantastic choice, one of my favorites" or "was everything just exactly perfect and beautiful?" While attentive service is good, the constant boasting of how great the steaks and wine are, how great the building is, and how wonderful it is they have a $480K bottle of wine got old real quick.

Further, the wine prices were at least 50% higher across the board compared to even NY City prices. I would expect a great southern steakhouse to have a bartender who knows how to make one of the great classic cocktails - the Sazerac. What I received was a wiskey on the rocks with a rock sugar swizzle stick to use to stir in the sweetness.

At the end of the day, this is a decent steakhouse that tries to sell iteself at every opportunity. They should let their food and service do their talking and avoid boasting about their greatness so people can enjoy a nice quality steak dinner without feeling like they are attending a time-share sales demo.

• Pros: Decent steaks
• Cons: Wine prices, bartending, special prices

04/20/09

Horrible Service with Horrible Atmosphere!

by jacksbug02 at Citysearch

I had heard the Stock-Yard Restaurant was an awesome steakhouse in Nashville. Let me just tell you, it definitely was not! I called to make a reservation for mine and my husband's six year anniversary. The lady who took my reservations did not ask if we were coming for a special occassion or anything. Our waiter did not ask us this question as well.

The building is very outdated. We walked in, and the smell was overwhelming. It smelled exactly like body odor. We are both 26 years old. We order our drinks from our waiter, and he tells my husband that he is not able to server him. My dog chewed a small piece of my husband's driver's license off, and the waiter said he couldn't server him because of that. I had never heard of that before, but it was fine. We ordered an appetizer. We ordered the crab cakes because they are my favorite. It was $13.25 for two of the smallest crab cakes I have ever seen. We ordered our filets, which were $40 a piece just for the meat. The filets were alright, but I have gotten a filet at Stoney River which was 10 times better than this one. Someone came to pick up our dirty plates from our table, and this guy smelled so bad. Now we know where the body odor smell came from. It was so bad, it made my stomach hurt. Our bill wound up being $160. Our waiter went to charge my husband's credit card, and he brings us back a bill that says $175. He tried to screw us out of $15. I asked him how this happened, and he looked at how much we gave him for a tip and said "Your bill got mixed up with someone else's". Well that is funny to me because you brought us the right bill in the first place.

All in all, I would not recommend going here to anyone. It was a horrible experience. It was not something or somewhere I would want to go for a nice dinner. They also put us in a room with two groups of eight people. They were so loud, and it was obvious me and my husband were trying to have a nice dinner. That definitely didn't happen! Horrible service, horrible experience!

• Pros: Pretty good food
• Cons: Waiters smell like body odor; Tried to overbill us