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.
Review Source: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.
This Easter was our second visit to Pomme. Both timesI had a different poached egg dish & both times my egg was almost completely cooked through? Easter brunch was a croissant (hard), topped with lobster (if you could find it) poached egg (too hard) with a lobster sauce that was so skimpy the dish was dry, partially because the egg was hard. While the dish had super potential....it missed. My very young waiter was inexperienced & didn't give us a wine list until we finally got his attention. we just sat there for 10 minutes wishing we had a glass of wine or at least a list. Oyster appetizer was great, as was the salad but the onion soup was a non event. Husband had roast pork with a fig reduction of some sort that he liked but not when he got he bill. It was
good but not worth $130
Who would think that this delicious culinary treasure would reside in the heart of nowhere Gordonsville? Â I have been to Pomme 4 times, and it is one of my favorite restaurants anywhere! Â I first fell in love with the butternut squash soup. Â I would give up my first born for the Salade de Figue et Chevre. Â Everything I've tried has been absolutely delicious! Â The chef always comes out and says hello. Â The decor is country French and very charming. Â My only complaint would be that the bartender is a little skimpy on the servings.
Review Source:We have eaten at this restaurant several times over the years because there are not many restaurants in this area. Pomme is an intensely expensive little place, as the Bentleys and Mercedeses parked outside hint.  It is nicely decorated and has an authentic Continental atmosphere.  The food, however, tends to be very rich and heavy (it's French food, after all), and I usually depart  feeling slightly sick despite my best efforts to choose wisely.  I had a fish stew several years ago that apparently was contaminated with bacteria;  I spent hours on the toilet later that evening outprocessing that meal. Of course, to be fair, something like that can happen anywhere. Hungry diners may find the portion sizes disappointingly small.  And "luxury" features like a dedicated bread waiter just make me uncomfortable.  Overall, I'd rather eat at home---my own cooking is better and healthier.  But sometimes you can't avoid having to go to a restaurant.  There are far worse places than Pomme.  Just be careful what you order---and bring lots of money.
Review Source:My husband and I have enjoyed this fine dining experience for three separate special occasions and find this to be a uniquely consistent restaurant. Â Consistently wonderful preparation and presentation that is indeed a place to count on when planning that special event.
Many restaurants come and go but this little gem hidden in the rolling countryside of Virginia is certainly a treasure to be sought out and savored.
Simply lovely!
OOHHH baby! We stopped here on our way back from the Massanutten resort and we are all so glad that we did. The restaurant is tiny and cute and so friendly. I love places like this where you walk in and you're immediatly greeted and it makes you feel like they've been waiting for you to arrive all day! Â They had a nice wine selection plus a full bar. The menu was great too. Not your everyday fare. And they have seasonal selections which I find to be fantastic! I love when restaurants do that! The food...was aaaahhhmmmaaazzziinngg!!!! Flavors were great, presentation was fantastic, we all cleaned our plates and were stuffed!!! Â I can't wait to go back and try something new. Â We all ordered something different and when we tried each others...it was just as delicious as the last thing we tried. Happy campers all around!!!
Review Source:My wife and I went there for a birthday dinner recently. We'd heard good things about Pomme, but never anything in any detail. Before going--on a Saturday evening--we called to make sure that we could get a seat, and we were given a reservation for just a half hour later. Located in the lovely little downtown of Gordonsville, Pomme was about the only thing going on there at dusk. We parked on the street just a minute's walk away.
The decor is playful--although paintings lined the walls, children's drawings decorated the front window. There is ample space around the tables for private conversation, but they're close enough to be intimate.
We were given a choice of several tables, and we chose to sit back near the kitchen, where I could observe the waitstaff and my wife could see the whole restaurant. Our wine order was taken immediately, our water glasses were filled without any fuss about still/sparkling, bottled/tap, and by the time that we placed our order, the doting staff had unobtrusively checked on us several times to answer our questions about the menu.
A note on the menu. The descriptions are deceptively simple. Looking at the menu on their website, one could easily believe that the fare is nothing impressive. Some restaurants put a lot of work into prosaic descriptions of their offerings. Pomme is not one of these. The selection is spare--a half dozen entrees, perhaps ten appetizers, and a half dozen desserts. From my perspective, at least, this is a positive attribute. By doing very few things, they're better able to do them well. (I don't trust restaurants with phonebook-like menus. Nobody can make 100 dishes well.)
I started with the vichyssoise, my wife with the goat cheese on toast. Both were just excellent. The vichyssoise was not quite salty enough for my taste, but there's salt on the table for that very reason. The goat cheese was topped with something that looked very much like clover, plus some greens, diced red pepper, and herbs. It was flavorful and, if not seasonable for the first week of April, not entirely unseasonable, either. I enjoyed both very much. My only objection is that the appetizers were rather large, given the style of the restaurant. Obviously, we could have simply not finished them, but nobody wants to let something so tasty go to waste.
Along the way, somebody brought by a basket of bread. We were given a choice of white bread slices or, unusually, warm raisin bread. Eager to try something new, we had the latter, and were not disappointed.
For the main course, I went with the filet mignon and my wife with the baked rockfish with lobster sauce. Given the simplicity of the menu descriptions, we weren't sure what we'd be getting with them, and suspected that it'd be just what it said on the tin, like at a chophouse. Not so. Both of our meats came with what one might call cheesy potatoes, but that's not doing it justice. There were two dollops of the potatoes on each plate, almost orange in color. I suspect that this was actually sweet potato, or perhaps potato mixed with squash of some sort, with just a small amount of cheese and surely other things, making it flavorful without competing with the rest of the dish. The quantity looked small, but it was perfect. Both dishes also came with baby green beans and squash cubes. I am not a green bean fan--I eat a couple and push the rest around on my plate so it looks like I had some--but these were just delicious, and I had no trouble finishing them. My steak came with a tomato béarnaise sauce, which I'd never heard of before. The tomato flavored it very lightly, and seemed to serve more for the purpose of coloring the sauce a light pink. I like steak medium rare, but always order it medium, because it's usually undercooked. This seemed like the sort of place that knew how to cook a steak, so I ordered it medium rare, and it was just how I like it. The filet mignon size was entirely reasonable, too--the sort that looks entirely too small when served, but is ideal in quantity when consumed. My wife's rockfish also came with wild rice, which had caper-sized pasta balls mixed in, providing both color and little bursts of flavor.
I finished nearly everything on my plate and was satisfied, but my wife stopped halfway through (and took the rest home). She pronounced it the best entrée she'd ever had, and we've eaten at a pretty impressive selection of restaurants for a couple of country folks.
I didn't want to leave without dessert. The lightest thing on the menu that evening was a raspberry sorbet, so I ordered that with a couple of spoons. It came out a respectable ten minutes later, presented in a towering pair of sorbet balls. It was rich, almost creamy, admittedly not a style that I would have chosen (something a bit icier would have been better after such a rich meal), but that didn't stop me from eating the whole thing, minus a couple of bites that my wife had.
We'll be returning. Hopefully soon.
What a nice surprise when passing through Gordonsville. Â This is a lovely restaurant that was very thoughtfully decorated with lots of local paintings and antique furniture. Â The chef greeted us personally at the door and followed up with us several times to make sure we enjoyed the meal. Â We were passing through and didn't have time for a full course dinner. Â We tried the pear and pecan salad which was refreshing and then ordered one of the appetizers for an entree. Â It was that night's special fish terrine. Â The food was beautifully presented and the staff was very attentive. Â The main courses we saw passing through looked great (but the portion sizes were a little large for a French restaurant). Â Entrees will run about $30, so it's not cheap but definitely a delightful place to try if you're in the area.
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