The Barn Restaurant

I can only review the soup and salad bar.  The rest of the menu may be great, but I wouldn't know.   Coming into the restaurant which has a great atmosphere younthink you are going to get some great home cooking.  You would be wrong.  

As for the soups, the chili tasted like it was out of a can. The chicken noodle was very gamey, and the vegetable was so,so.  All were luke warm.  

The salad bar was very blah, nothing special.  The croutons were stale.  The fruits were from a can also.  And like another reviewer said, nothing was labeled, not even the dressings except for low-cal on one.  Same for the soups.  Annoying.

The honey butter "spread" was the best thing on the salad bar as it saved the tast of the so- so bread.  But even it wasn't real butter.

There were tons of waitresses standing around but we finally had to put our plates on the table next  to us in order to get rid of some items.  

So, all in all...salad bar worth about half the 9.50 price and service was nothing to rave about.  We won't return.

The setting for The Barn is pretty slick; an old school barn with a scenic view of a big pond is really tranquil. The decor and how the servers and hostess were all dressed in period milkmaid-type dresses was interesting too (though I'm sure they probably hate it).

The menu consisted of plenty of appealing options, but not many of the healthier variety. I could have gone with the grilled fish (pretty sure it was tilapia, but can't remember), but instead I opted for the soul and salad bar. The $2 discount on it for the winter months helped along my decision.

The lettuce was crisp and fresh, and there were the standard things you expect to see at a typical salad bar, but nothing that really grabbed me. Also, nothing was labeled!

For soups, they had five different types ou, but I can only guess what they actually were because again: NO LABELS! My best guess: beef & vegetable, chicken noodle, ham & bean, chili, and cheesy broccoli. I tried the beef & veggie first, and it was easily the best (also, the only one I had seconds of). The rest were rather non-descript. Cheesy broccoli never found its way into one of my bowls though, too cheesy for my latest attempt at eating healthy.

Plus side: bathrooms were spotlessly clean. Overall it was a decent meal, but nothing I would make a special trip for. I would love to give a 2.5 star review, but since that's not possible I'll go 3, based on the good service I received.

My daughter, my boyfriend and his daughter and I went to The Barn for lunch today.  The girls and I opted for the salad bar but my boyfriend, since he ate earlier, ordered a piece of pie with ice cream.  The pie was served to him cold.  He asked if it could be heated up and the waitress took it back saying, "I thought I heated it up."  Now I have been a server before and you should never argue with a customer, just make them happy.  The pie was given to him cold again but this time the ice cream was melted because she kept the ice cream on the plate when she warmed up the pie in the microwave the second time.  My boyfriend went to the manager and complained.  I will say that the manager apologized, heated up the pie himself and gave it to my boyfriend for free.
The waitress also half-heartedly apologized and never took any of our dirty dishes off the table.  Her service was very poor.  She did not have to do anything except serve of drinks, serve a piece of pie and clear dishes...and she couldn't even to do that.  I will not go back.