Great wine selection for the area. Coconut Shrimp is great. The prices are a bit high for the area I feel but if you're used to Ann Arbor prices then you wont mind. It would be nice if a small salad came with the pasta dishes overall its a great addition to downtown Adrian. Â Best for apppetizers and happy hour wine.
Review Source:I tried Sauce three times, with similar results every time. The service is weak, which means he owner is a poor manager. The food is on par with fast food Italian, and worse in some ways. The veal was disgusting, the chicken over cooked and tough and the sauces flavorless. Overall, I was disappointed. I really wanted to find something I would like about Sauce. The bread was the closest thing to that.
Review Source:I've been here twice, for lunch and dinner, and had two great experiences. Great food, great ambiance, great service. And a killer 2 for 1 wine special (I think it was Tuesday night). This is one of the best restaurants in Adrian. It is almost like a little slice of Ann Arbor transplanted here.
Ignore the reviews from haters, this place is legit.
After reading some of the other reviews, all I can say is wow. Â I have visited here 8+ times, and every occasion was positive. I have had the Pizza, Lasagna, Burger, Spaghetti, and several items on the appetizer menu.
I am batting 8 for 8. This place is very crowded on the weekends and some weeknights for a reason. Â I would have visited more than eight times , but some nights I could not get a seat.
I like Sauce.
I have been here four times and the service has been horrible each and every time. Waitstaff is very attentive to chit chatting with each other, but there is zero interest in customers. The food is okay. Sadly, Adrian doesn't have any nicer restaurants or places to have a cocktail, so maybe the owners feel that being the only game in town exempts them from having to provide good customer service.
Review Source:I looked forward to eating lunch here, as it looked very nice from the outside. Well, it looked nice.
The onion rings are described as having coconut in them. Sounds great, and I eagerly awaited their arrrival. I shouldn't have. The coating/batter on the onion rings was utterly drenched in grease. The coating simply slide off them. Yuck. I was left with a mass of grease, coating and onion. Â The burger patty was hand-formed, but not at all flavorful. Also, it was smaller than expected. I had asked for it medium, but it had a raw interior. The bun, to their credit, was high quallity and very good, not the usual white bread disaster.
UPDATE: We gave Sauce a second try. This was in the evening. The onion rings were better this time around. Crispy, and no coating sliding off. We only recieived 4 large onion rings, however. They were too thick/large, and fried for too long. The calamari we ordered was SUPERB, very fresh, very flavorful and NOT the bread crumb coated disaster usually recieved in many dining venues. The chicken pesto sandwich I ordered was okay. It needed more basil flavor. The bread used was the worst part. Instead of being the crisp, crusty ciabatta bread, they used one of those soft, too thick, Â prepackaged ciabatta style rolls. This didn't work. The soup (a creamy crab soup) fellow diners had was truly wonderful. The hostess was fast, friendly and very professional. The same cannot be said of the waitstaff. Again, with one exception, too inexperienced and inattentive. I agree with other posters, the waitstaff doesn't pay attention to the needs of the patrons. They chit-chat among themselves, or ignore the customer after they are served. The hostess is very nice, but the waitstaff needs to improve.
A man stopped by the table to see how things were. Why did he only speak to ONE member of the party, rather than address the table as a group? He walked off before I had the chance to point out why I was not happy with the meal. Oh well, it is doubtful I will be returning anyway. He was also far too casually dressed, so I am assuming he was the owner. But, as an owner, it would be nice to see him dressed a little more appropriately for a restaurant.
Also, people who were seated well after us were served before us.
The menu was too limited, IMO.
Our server was friendly when at the table, but the help seemed uninterested in the customers. I had to flag her down for a refill on the beverage. The hostess was zombie-like. Help was all young, as far as I could see. This was during the day. What, no older, more experienced adults?
The place is clean, and decor is simple but attractive. Restrooms were clean.