Oaken Barrel (formerly Grand Avenue Pub Grille)

Recent visit on my wife's Birthday proved to be a bad choice at this venue . The 4 of us were seated in the empty restaurant , ordered our food and started the salad bar . For the next half hour our water glasses as well as the salad plates were left ignored , never was our food order even mentioned . I had to ask for refills at the 40 minute mark and then asked if there was a problem with the order . The waiter only replied that yes it was taking long ....after getting our food in a bit over a hour my Lasagna was way over cooked crispy and the sauce had dried up into the pasta , my wife said her shrimp Alfredo was in her words so so . Marginal or awful food at the menu price is not acceptable . The salad bar was ok . After myself telling the waiter the food isn't that good and him seeing I could not even eat the Lasagna he did take that item off my bill . Food and service used to be great at the Hotel Mead , what happened ? New manager , new chef ? Also was told the salad bar was included with Pasta entree , I was charged for an extra salad bar .

This is a raised bar with decent bar food and a large selection of drinks. the personal is well trained and friendly. homemade French pommes are delicious and the pizzas are also recommended. it is good to go when they have a band, especially in summer when they play on the outside terrace. I'd like it if it would be open later hours as it is closed at 9 days. (at the time of writing, nov 2018.)

Excellent Friday night fish fry. The waitress was very accommodating with not trying to rush us out of the restaurant. The grill has a nice atmosphere in that you can carry on a conversation with others at your table.

We were served chicken wings that were still frozen in the middle and were then charged 18 bucks for the wings we could not eat. Extremely slow services. If there was a zero stars I would definitely use it here.

Less than impressed, extremely disappointed. Once our table of 6 was seated we waited roughly 20 minutes for waters and at least 30 minutes before we even had our order taken. There were 4 tables, mind you. Waitress took our order as we specified which bills went together. Salads/soups and appetizers came out in a timely manner, deep fried pickles, we make better at home. Nothing to write home about. Upon unwrapping silverware crusted dried on food was on our silverware set. Food came out in a timely manner surprisingly. Waitress had no idea who had what. One order was completely wrong, with no crab on the salmon. Waitress never once checked on us, refilled drinks or refilled water. A cook possibly in a white uniform eventually came out and refilled our glasses of water. No one received their bills correctly. After waiting 20 minutes we finally went to the cashier and complained. No apology made and we still waited for our bill. As we were cashing out the white uniformed man came and informed CJ she had another table waiting for their bill. We could hear the table next to us complaining about their waitress too. So much potential but would have rather spent our $50 at Applebees, sadly. There was NO excuse for the lack of service received!