I have only been here once and need to go again to try something else. Â I had the mushroom stuffed burger. Â It was okay, not great, Â but I am very particular when it comes to burgers. Â My friend had pulled pork sandwich and it looked very good. Â She really enjoyed it. Â The place was packed even at 12:30. Â It has been open long enough so many people must really like it. Â I think I would try the chili next time, the options for it look very good. Â Even though it is open for dinner Monday through Friday, it still has has the feel of a lunchtime place. Â The service was quick and the price was reasonable, so it is a very doable lunch place if you want a place to go the lunch and sit down.
Review Source:I love love love the fork and knife coney! I get it with chicken chili, cheese, sour cream and jalapenos on top...like no other coney I've had before. Their soups are also very good (try the buffalo chicken chili). Overall a great value, and very quick service. The perfect place for a delicious lunch downtown. They've got a good selection of healthier and vegetarian things too.
Review Source:The people who work there are nice but the chicken and rice soup was gross. Think condensed soup before you add the water. For a soup place, I'm surprised the soup was so bad. I couldn't even finish my take-out bowl, which cost me over $5.00. Â They probably would have made it right if I ate in.
Review Source:I was excited about the idea, but quickly deflated.
This place specializes in soup & salad. Â Wouldn't it make sense that you could buy a soup & salad combo? Â Nope. Â You can buy a HUGE salad, for regular price, then you can buy a MICROSCOPIC serving "cup of soup" for $1.99 extra. Â So disapointing. Â
Reco for the Ladle- Â upsize the "cup of soup" to at least a cup, and think about splitting the difference with a combo so people like me who want the best of both are delighted with your offering.
Nice option for lunch. Anytime a decent place opens downtown for the working crowd, its a plus. This place has a nice selection of sandwiches, soups, salads and burgers. I really like the pick two option. The Silver Ladle sandwich (turkey, bacon, cheese, some delicious sauce) and the silver ladle salad are really good. The food isnt fancy, but consistently good. Ive definitely added Silver Ladle to my lunch rotation.
Review Source:Silver Ladle is a rather disappointing addition to Sixth Street's so-called "Restaurant Row." Â
What I've tried has been relatively bland and unimaginative. Â All the sandwiches but one are served on a doughy and not-very-flavorful telera roll (apparnetly a Latin cousin of ciabatta), and the cold cuts seem like they're of the grocery-store variety. Â (As far as I can tell, there's no in-house roasting of meats as at Wicked-Wich a couple of blocks away.) Â No enhancing garnishes are used except for a "signature sauce" that tastes like an only-slightly-zinged-up mayonnaise. Â To Silver Ladle's credit, everything seems very fresh, but that doesn't help very much when you're serving a sandwich that is hardly more inspried than what you get out of a convenience-store cooler.
For a $1.99 you can get a cup of soup with your sandwich. Â This sounds like a really good deal until you get your soup, which comes in a receptacle about the size of petri dish. Â And Silver Ladle, please don't call your rather pallid chicken-and-vegetable soup "Cajun Chicken Gumbo" just because it has a few pieces of okra and some grains of rice in it.
Spinach salad was pretty blah, and contained several rotting spinach leaves. Â Kinda gross. Â Yeah, spinach goes bad quickly, but this kind of thing is too easy to avoid.
Plusses: Â the staff is friendly and efficient, and the spacious, open, airy dining area is colorful, clean, and pleasant.
Silver Ladle is OK for a quick lunch stop-in, but not much more. Â It mainly reminds me how much I miss the far better sandwiches from Lunch on Main, which was only half a block away and has since converted to a gourmet hot dog shop.
Silver Ladle is another exhibit in the "Yelp Needs Half-Star Options" appeal. Â 2.5 stars, rounded up thanks to the service and decor, because the food, at least in my experience so far, is definitely closer to the two-star level.
Silver Ladle is a new edition to Cincinnati's fabled "Restaurant Row," which they've been talking about forever on Walnut next to things like Mr. Sushi. And you know? It's a solid addition to the lunchtime scene. Think diner food without the gross and grime of a real diner.
Seriously, that's the best way to put it. You walk in and order at a counter. They give you a number, you find a seat and they bring you your food. The dining options are your typical dining fair - burgers, soups, salads and with a nice Cincinnati twist, a whole bunchy of chili options (coneys and whatnot.)
I got the stuffed mushroom burger and fries, both delicious. The burger had a bacon, cream cheese and chive spread with mushrooms between a double patty on a toasted roll. Delicious. The fries had some sort of tempora-esq crunch to them and were hot and tasty. Even more delicious!
At lunch it is inanely crowded. We were lucky to get a table and even then we got a four person for two people and then switched with a family with a baby so they could have the four and we grabbed their two. Crazy and the whole place is like that. Between noon and two, I'd get my food to go.
Still, totally worth going to and checking out, specially if you're a hungry downtowner.
Note: Even though the address is 580 Walnut, it's actually on 6th around the corner from Walnut. So if you're having trouble finding it, that's why.
I got the chicken chili with a side of fries. The chili had a really great flavor and the fries had this extra crunch, which made them really hard to stop eating! Lunch time is busy, and you might have to stare down a couple of chatty Cathies idly sitting there while everyone else is scrounging for a table, but other than that, I'm going back.
Review Source:I saw this restaurant's opening discussed via an article about Restaurant Row along 6th and Walnut sometime back. Shortly thereafter it came through on my Facebook news feed as an up and coming joint. I friended them at that time, for a moment when I might be up for trying a new locale. It all looked promising. Today, when my coworkers asked for a suggestion for a birthday lunch, this came in handy. Kudos to stories about new locales and the power of Facebook, I guess.
Silver Ladle has a great downtown location, with ample seating inside, lit by the large front windows, as well as outdoor seating shaded by the surrounding building (thus cool enough for Cincinnati heat, but with the breeze in your hair). Great place to sit and chat after a good meal (lamely, we had to go back to work).
Foodwise, there is a good selection of burgers, sandwiches, salads, soups, and even chili (build your own and with a chicken version- not typical 'Cincinnati meat sauce'-sorry Skyline) to satisfy anyone in a potentially diverse party. The food options are listed on a board as you walk in, and while laid out simply, I couldn't decide on a direction (first time jitters?). In the end, I went with soup and a sandwich. A solid choice with great execution.
I had the 580 sandwich (turkey, ham, banana peppers, swiss, house sauce) and a side of  Black Bean soup ($1.99 to create a combo). It was really tasty, fresh, simple, and clean. The service was quick- by the time we sat, the food was already arriving. My coworkers ordered the ham and gouda on pretzel bread (rave reviews) and something a bit more American looking- with shredded cheese, also a hit. A salad on the table looked good, though I'm not usually a fan of ice berg lettuce and it seemed mostly of that variety. Yet another coworker ordered a burger. There are two patties with the topping between them (like Five Guys but less greasy looking). I didn't try it, but for the size, the price was right and the combinations looked appealing. I'd like to go back and try some other menu items...even this chicken chili on spaghetti- a rift of the 3-way I might be able to get behind.
To make this a little more interesting, I read that the restaurant has connections to the family who started Skyline Chili (great grandson), the Lambrinides, and current ties (son) to the restaurant Nick and Tom's on the West side of town. It's always good to see family ties and local roots popping up all over town, it makes dining out more fun.
In summary, I really enjoyed my food, the outdoor seating, and the bright modern colors inside. If you're in the area looking for a quick, tasty, fresh meal, give it a shot.
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