Redwood Room

This restaurant is much beloved in Rochester, but it needs help.  Their tiny menu is very limited and does not seem to ever change.  It would be great if it changed at least seasonally.  The music limits conversation and can sometimes be lacking.

We took a friend the last time she visited and the band had written the own music, which was horribly depressing.  We left wanting to cry.

We would love to love this restaurant again

I really want to like Redwood Room, but I just cannot get excited about mediocre food. The ambiance is perfect for a date night (dimly lit, usually live music) but the food has been pretty disappointing.

Their Apple Cider Pork is decent but covered in a too-sweet brown sugar sauce.  Luckily the heaping mashed potatoes save the dish.  The shrimp risotto is just so-so, with a lot of corn as filler and not as creamy as a well-made risotto should be.  Also got the house salad but should have asked for dressing on the side, as the romaine was drenched and wilted on the plate.

Biggest disappointment:  the SOUPS!  On one occasion, a soup described as "spicy chicken with rice" by our server ended up more like a bland minestrone with cubes of chicken that tasted like it came from a can.  I sent it back for a cup of Tomato Basil, which had the consistency of ketchup and was just as sweet.  The only way I could eat it was by sopping my bread in it (luckily there was a lot of that to fill up on).

Probably won't go back again unless someone else is footing the bill.

Was better in its first incarnation.