April Clubs Council: Veritas Gateway to Food and Wine

From the President: 

For our Clubs Council dinner the host is supposed to choose a restaurant that is one of his or her favorites. Unfortunately I learned too late that Sreenu had actually never been to his selected restaurant, Veritas Gateway to Food and Wine. He just could not take the time to read the second sentence of my two sentence email to him. He is a busy man. However, I learned that a number of my colleagues from work really love this place so I was interested to give it a try.

We did have some service issues. At first we felt a bit rushed but eventually it became clear that we were encouraged to relax and enjoy our food an wine. Our server, Blythe, was very sweet but she made some mistakes. She forgot to enter one person's entree. This mistake was not recognized until the entrees were brought out and one of us had nothing to eat. By then, the restaurant had run out of the entree that person had ordered. Because of the time it took to make the desserts, we also ordered our desserts at the time of our meals. She did not put any of those in so by the time that was noticed, they had run out of what most of us had ordered. In fact, when a couple of us arrived at 5:30 for drinks before our meal, they had already run out of 2 or 3 items on the cocktail menu (which I thought was prepared daily). The good thing was that the manager or owner came over to apologize and insisted on paying for our meals. Things are always going to go wrong here and there at a restaurant, we are all human. What makes all of the difference about how you feel about a restaurant is how they take care of the problems. In this instance I thought the owner or manager went overboard to make sure we were taken care of and I appreciated her concern. That being said, however, diners gave Veritas a disappointing 2 spoons for service.

There are several menus available at the restaurant which all had interesting and tempting options. Everything that I had was delicious and I have been raving to my colleagues about the grilled cheese and bacon sandwich I got as my entree. Diners agreed that the food was good and gave it a solid 4 spoons.

The restaurant is fairly small but I think they have made good use of the space. It is sectioned off into a more casual bar area, the formal restaurant area, a small retail area and a bar that overlooks the kitchen. Some of us sat at the bar overlooking the kitchen. I was surprised at how much we enjoyed watching the food preparation. The restaurant was warmly decorated. We did ask to switch tables because the chairs at our first table were uncomfortable. Parking was easy. Diners thought the atmosphere at Veritas was good and gave it 4 spoons.

Overall, I enjoyed my meal and the cocktails were pretty good. I believe our group had a good time. Diners overall gave Veritas a fairly good rating at just under 4 spoons.

What do you think of Veritas? Please rate and review below!