Reliably good local bar & grill. Solid ribs, steak, chicken & other typical foods - burgers, etc. but done very nicely. The meat falls of the bone on the ribs. The staff is friendly. We ate at Happy Hour and enjoyed $2 off some great pours of Bourbon.
Live singer plays guitar & harmonica.
We went at lunch time on a Sunday, waited quite a while for burgers which were ordered "well done" and came out pink...twice. That's right, I sent them back the first time and the second round was pink too. After almost two hours of waiting for them to finally get it right, we still paid full price...which was way over priced. At the very least, someone should have apologized for the errors...nobody other than our waitress visited our table...poor management.
I gave it an extra star because the Versailles patrons are awesome and friendly.
On November 28th, Tony and I happened across this lovely restaurant on our way back from WV to Nashville. It is an old train station. We weren't sure what type of food they served so we were pleasantly surprised.
The interior is lovely. It is dark paneling and signs like the old train station with high booths, a lovely bar and lots of tv's for viewing ...they were showing Horse Races of course..just outside of Lexington in Horse capitol of the world ...so it was very lovely and very fitting.
Tony had a 1/2 of ham sandwich on white and a cup of Broccoli Cheese soup with a couple bottles of Budweiser and I had a salad with ranch dressing and cup of the same Broccoli Cheese soup..it was very good. I could have just had the soup, it was very good and very filling. I had my usual unsweetened tea with lime/lemon..it was very good.
Our waiter was very nice, and our ticket with taxes and tip was less than $25. I would eat here again and highly recommend to everyone in the area.
While driving along the bourbon trail we got off in Versailles and were hungry....really hungry. Morning bourbon tasting will do that to you.
My daughter got to choose from the few restaurants in the town we could find but she choose this one, I think, because it was close. We were heartened when we saw an herb garden In the back parking lot. Nice.
The food was AOK. It wasn't blow your socks off. My fish and chips were good. One note, It was served on a nonabsorbent paper so it sat in it's grease. That's why fish & chips places traditionally serve their grub in newspaper. It wicks away the grease. Same reason Colonel Sanders's famous chicken buckets were made of paper.
My daughter said her clam chowder (always a daring order in small town Kentucky) was absolutely fresh tasting. And this kid knows her seafood.
The place was extremely clean. The waiter was friendly and knowledgeable. The place was decorated nicely. I see other yelp reviews complaining about the price but I'm a noted cheapskate the they didn't make me blanch.
I would have given the place 4 stars but I'm issuing my usual 1 star TV deduction. As I said before the place was decorated nicely and was clean which leads to my oft-repeated question: why do restaurants take great care with how they present themselves and spend thousands on decorating costs only to end up smacking a TV up on the wall and then give the remote to the stoner teenage busboy?
When you enter Ricardo's you are presented with two options: to the left is TV-palooza sports bar. To the right is a nice little room with one TV. This room, at the time we were eating, had two groups of women - about 10 each table and the three of us. No one was watching the Army football game. I turned off the tube so I could eat without having a broadcaster yell at me. Almost near the end of our meal a busboy came over, turned on the TV, then turned the volume up. NO ONE WAS WANTING THIS. WHY DO IT?
Oh, and there's a TV blaring in the bathroom so you can't even sit on the toilet in peace.
We were driving through and happened to stumble upon this place. The prices were a bit high for the area and the service was not very prompt, but we really enjoyed the food. My burger was cooked perfectly as requested and husband enjoyed his sandwich with the fried green tomatoes. Â It took a little while to get our check and for the waiter to run my credit card and bring back the receipt, but we were on vacation and didn't mind.
Review Source:Ricardo's is fun for a good time and hanging out with the locals or your friends, but if it's great food you're after it's not cheap and is hit or miss. Â The bar is nice but can get loud. Â I would head to Midway or Lexington instead. Â If you just want to be entertained, it's fine, but don't go there for great food. Â I agree that it's time for a Gordon Ramsay visit re the food, but seriously there's not much to do in Versailles so that might not be necessary. Â The service is very good, but the food not so much.
Review Source:This place is either good or terrible. Its more of a local yocal place, with the bimbet bartender who's to busy to do her job because she's googly eyeing Billy Bob at the end of the bar, also overpriced average food. Â
The positive thing, the beers cold, when you can get one, and Mexican Mondays are quite tasty. Â If They have a live band beware, you may go deaf, as they have no concept of accoustics or volume. Its kinda the only gig in town so its convenient when were too tired to drive into Lexington.
Came here with my mom and husband for a late dinner. Live music was playing, which was mostly a bonus (in general love live music, but there were some misses in the song choices/vocals).
I was starving so ordered the fried green tomatoes to start. My mom loved them, but I was disappointed with the too-thick cut of the tomato and gloppy crab sauce smothering them, which destroyed any crunch achieved by the frying.
The house salad (included in the entree price) wasn't too special, but fresh and enjoyable. I went with fried chicken for my main and was not disappointed--crispy outside, moist & tender inside, and screaming hot. The breading was a tad thick, but that's the only negative thing I can say about it. My side was mac & cheese which was utterly missable; let's just say I've done better things with the blue box stuff at home.
The server was nice, but maybe not the most knowledgeable about the menu, and we did have to wait a while for for our check at the end of the meal. The menu's pricing was a bit all over the place--quite reasonable for a few down-home selections, but more expensive than I would have expected for steak & seafood at the same restaurant.
So most things about my experience would have yielded this place 2 stars, but I gotta bump it up for the fried chicken. This is not a gourmet restaurant folks, but if you choose wisely, it could be a good neighborhood spot.
We stopped here because the attractive building made it look like this might be a quality establishment. Â I'm sorry to report that it wasn't the case. Â I had the reuben, a bourbon barrel ale, and some french onion soup. Â The reuben was bland and the meat was of poor quality. Â The french onion soup was laughable. Â Although the broth was fine, they simply put a slice of supermarket sandwich bread on top of the soup with a slightly melted square of cheese. Â The bread greatly detracted from the soup. Â My server was very kind and moderately attentive, but was woefully ignorant of the menu and could not offer any advice. Â I ordered a beer later in the meal and that came about 10 minutes later as we were ready to go. Â The menu was unimaginative, and the prices would've been high for good food, but considering what we got it was robbery. Â Lastly, 90% of their parking is in the rear and there are no rear entrances. Â You must walk all the way around the perimeter of the building. Â This isn't a huge deal on a nice day, but it was pouring. Â I won't dock them for that, but I thought I'd mention it. Â I wouldn't recommend or return.
Review Source:Versailles, KY for all its picturesque glory suffers from an appalling lack of good restaurants, either chain or local. Many Versailles residents prefer to drive the twenty-minute distance to Lexington or Frankfort to get a meal, even when gas prices make it prohibitive to drive anywhere.
Ricardo's Grill and Pub, the latest restaurant to make its home in the old Versailles train depot, reminds you why you make the drive out of town, even if it's just to Applebee's. Much like the short-lived Railheads before it, Ricardo's offers pretentious gastro-pub food done poorly at prices that insult your pocketbook as much as the food insults your palate. The scallop appetizer had still gritty, almost rubbery over-seared scallops on a bed of mushy corn risotto, covered in a extremely vinegary pineapple sauce that had huge chunks of cinnamon sticks left in. The beef skewers (still left on their sticks) were on a plate of what claimed to be a crispy potato cake but was instead a gloppy mess soaked in watery Marsala sauce and dehydrated mushroom pieces. All tolled, two salads of strictly mediocre ingredients and bottled dressings, one soda and two appetizers will run you about $35.00 including the tip. Dinner entrees start at $13.00 and go up, up, up from there. There's nothing wrong with asking higher prices for better quality, but you must first make sure that you actually have better quality. The staff at Ricardo's has missed this very important step.
Ricardo's is also unsure of what it wants to be. It bills itself as a pub, but seems to want to be a sports bar instead. Quiet dining is impossible with the banks ESPN-blaring televisions installed and the obnoxiously loud frat boy crowd of servers and their buddies screaming at the tops of their lungs in the dining area after their 100th cigarette break outside. Although Versailles proper now has a clean air act for the safety and comfort of the town's residents, don't expect to find it here. If you have asthma, you'd be advised to stay away. If you want a good meal at a decent price, you definitely want to stay away. Chalk Ricardo's Grill and Pub as just more of the same when it comes to Versailles restaurant ventures and spend your money elsewhere.
Follow up: "M.R.," the admin for Ricardo's Facebook page - Â
<a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fhome.php%23%2Fgroup.php%3Fsid%3Dd8670d9249bfdd4c84698f80b264677b%26gid%3D58349381883%26ref%3Dsearch&s=94a320af9de2edf47c4458155e752b6bba33884dfefe6af6baf6c4a345a8f214" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/…</a> - has made use of Yelp's messaging feature to send me the following messages regarding this review, entitled "clueless":
"You seem to have a personel vendetta against this restaurant- and bad grammar."
"Oops! Â I mean personal. Â Now I am you!"
M.R. claims that she was "interested" in my review of the restaurant, and wanted to know why I had such a negative opinion - everyone knows that making personal attacks is the best way to find out the basis of someone else's opinion.
This behavior certainly does nothing to enhance Ricardo's image - and a great deal of damage. Perhaps the owners of Ricardo's would better spend their time focusing on their food and ops rather than having their staff and/or supporters going after those who dislike paying far too much for poor quality food. So far, it seems the image Ricardo's wishes to project is the next candidate restaurant on Gordon Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" program, and the spoiled, petulant chefs and owners portrayed therein.
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