Restaurant Pomme

What a little hidden treasure in the middle of the mountains. Such a random location for an amazing french restaurant. This was my second trip there and it has not disappoint what soever. The way the chef cooks fish is out of this world. Everything is on the menu taste like it is straight from France. They would get a five star, but our server could have used some customer service training.

Just went here for the first time. We're foodies who grazed on great food across continents for a living. I'm not bragging, just qualifying my opinions.

We asked some of our neighbors and my wife did some serious sleuthing and of the places that are open on a Tuesday -- which aren't many -- she decided upon Pomme.

We were both excited. I will say now, that this could have been a 4 star experience easily but minor glitches in service/expediting bumped it down. But it's not cheap and if I'm paying the prices, I expect the service.

Lovely place. We sat down and got the menus. We proceeded to look them over and the waiter came back to tell us the specials and we found out we had the dinner menus. We got the lunch menus.

After seeing the escargot on the dinner menu, we asked if we could get an order for lunch and it was no problem. Nice. We started with green pea soup. The soup was lukewarm, which was fine since it was a warm day, and the soup worked at that temp. The snails came out the same temp and that wasn't planned or impressive. And we had yet to be served bread, which once it was requested was served and quite good.

We had the veal cordon bleu special and it was a generous portion, butterflied and stuffed with ham and cheese, then breaded and baked. Lovely veal a bit overcooked and the breading fell off the meat. The sauce was very nice.

All in all, a friendly, lovely space with friendly, if not focused staff and a kitchen with great vision, lacking consistent execution. Maybe it was an off day; I'd give it a shot again but I'm not counting on much changing. It seems to have a passionate following and I'm sure that's for good reason; I'm just not that passionate about it and it seemed neither was the kitchen nor staff.

A delicious and indulgent treat in quaint Gordonsville.     Our dinner here was an incredible experience for all of our senses.