The restaurant and bar are housed in a beautiful old historic building - obviously once a hotel. The bar allows smoking, which is pretty rare around here nowadays, but if that's not your thing, they have a separate non-smoking restaurant area. The food is decent, although not spectacular - other than their awesome French onion soup, which is some of the best in the area. Their wings are big and not bad, although their sauces seem mostly ketchup based. Still, the staff are always awesome and friendly and the building is beautiful, so it's worth checking out for the atmosphere alone.
Review Source:Let see, from the outside it would appear that you should get ready for a fine dinning experience with the exception of the cheesy "LED" sign out front, which is totally out of character for the town and the building. Â Once inside you see that its a little more casual but very beautiful inside, it being an old historic building makes it ooze with character. The remodeling done to it twenty or so years ago has held up well and the current owner has refreshed the paint now and again keeping it looking nice.
The bar and most of the dinning area are separated because they still allow smoking at the bar which has plenty of seating if you wish to light up. The inside and outside appearance are the Waterford Hotel's greatest assets since the rest of the experience is mediocre for the most part.
The menu is varied from bar food to some entree's but more on the bar side. The prices are all very reasonable and consistently below $10, but with most things in life you get what you pay for. Its not that the food or the service is ever bad, its just not ever great. My recommendation is to try their wings, they have a flavor called "Plumber" which after being fried and sauced is then grilled giving them a very nice texture and taste.
So , if your up for ok food at a ok price with ok service this is your place. If the management would kick the food up just a notch and give most of the servers better direction and apparel this place could be awesome, because like I said earlier, the building and interior are awesome!