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Wednesday night music makes the food taste better, if that's even possible. Cheese plate with wine was just the right amount. Great service!…
Marcie Cox
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This is my first experience at G&V. I had quite the selection starting with pastrami-smoked salmon and cornichons. As a Jew I have had many pastramis …
Eva Bette Moore
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Excellent food but very rushed service in a half empty restaurant. Ate here this evening and the food was very good but felt very rushed. Our food cam…
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9 Reviews on “Gervais & Vine”
Excellent food but very rushed service in a half empty restaurant. Ate here this evening and the food was very good but felt very rushed. Our food came out five minutes after our wine was served, whole evening felt rushed. Was our 4th time visiting so we were not first timers
The positive reviews on this website and others are a frank embarrassment to Columbia, SC’s restaurants. If people who eat here are doing so because of the favorable reviews local give to this pit, then no doubt Columbia will be viewed as a wasteland for any kind of dining. Of our 4 people, two got sick. When I asked the waitress where they got their cold smoked salmon, she had no idea. Ordered it anyway, and it was fishy and disgusting. The pizza used a par-boiled obviously premade crust from some low-end supplier. The shrimp in the dish we got with that were not cleaned (i.e. digestive tube intact). Service was spotty at best. The ‘spread’ plate was of the greasiest cheese mash imaginable. Overall we were embarrassed to have exposed our friends from Chicago to this hole, and we will never return and never recommend it to anyone we care about.
Had made reservations through open table for my family and I (6 total people) the night before my USC graduation, Thursday, May 7, 2015. When we showed up it was packed with people standing everywhere. A hostess didn’t come up to the front for the first 10 minutes. When the hostess finally did arrive she let us know that they did not have a table for us as they had miscalculated when walk in diners would be finished. There was also a group in front of us with the same problem. Although we were slightly upset we still wanted to eat here so we gave the hostess a cell phone number and she said she would call us when our table was ready. We went next door for a drink and waited there for two hours before giving up and going to Hampton Street Vineyard. We noticed when we left that tables were open and the hostess had never called us back. This was the worst service I have ever experienced at a restaurant in Columbia.
The waiter had no idea what was safe on the menu. When I asked him if the chef knows he said usually the chef tells him the person should know what they can and cannot eat. Never heard that before. The cheese plate I ordered never came, and they asked us to leave after an hour because they had someone with a reservation. Not a good place if you need gluten free!!
Fantastic wine list. G&V is a great date spot…you can taste, sip, and chat all night. The food is above average. Love love love the eggplant fries with honey yogurt sauce. The lamb chops, scallops, and costa brava are all delicious. The duck is just ok. The flavor is there, but the skin could be crispier and ideally the fat would be rendered down a bit more. If I had to point out a flaw it would be the service. Its a little slow and the staff in general could be more enthusiastic about being there to serve guests. I’ll always go back just because I like the vibe.
Nice atmosphere. Staff very friendly. Brussel sprouts good. Spicy shrimp dish good. Pizza very average. Not a Spanish tapas but worth the trip.
Great tapas. Awesome tapas menu, great wine list and always a live performer or wine tasting!