The Woodhouse Restaurant

First time Here and came because I saw it on FB. The pics in their FB page make it look much larger than it reallyIs. I got there om Saturday at 1 pm. It's open till 4. The price is $15.11 after tax for one person. It includes soup rolls salad bar fried chicken and sides like green beans and mashed potatoes along with potato wedges and rice. also store bought pie that is on another table that you wouldn't think is included because the employees sit at this table and drink their drinks etc.and the table is not near the buffet. They use stray foam plates and plastic ware. And at the plate station there is a roll of paper towels for you to take a couple. No other napkins are supplied. The soup also has story foam cups to use. The rolls sit on a cookie sheet with packs of butter next to them. They aren't warm just out of the bag and torn into squares. The rice was so old it was crusty and shriveled up. The gravy for the mashed potatoes was empty and it was drying out and getting crusty. The mashed potatoes had been sitting and left a colored film ontop but they were hot if you stirred them. The green beans were hot and very Al dente yet rubbery at the same time. I didn't find them applealing. There was bbq wings and a few crusty Buffalo wings which were semi baked. The skin was rubbery and the chicken dry. The sauce was ladled over the wings not baked or fired into them. There wasn't any fried chicken and the potato wedges were very hard and old. Let's not even get into the soup which was so old the country potato was smelling and looking burnt. The chicken noodle was all water and a few noodles. I at least tried it and the one piece of chicken that was in there was a bone. The salad bar was even worse. Lettuce was old, brown and slimy pieces mixed in. The cuts on the onions were inconsistent and the other toppings were ore packed things like olives. Cheese and ham. There wasn't tomatoes or cucumbers or other fresh ingredient. It was the worst salad bar I've ever eaten at. Ok so after an hour they finally turned out some fresh fried chicken and it was actually good. Barely fried though. But crispy enough skin. They even out out fresh wings and they were still rubbery and lifeless. Every single item needed flavor. Nothing like adding a TON of salt and pepper to your plates. I also encountered a very rude owner when he came to the table and asked how it was. I said it's all old. And he accused me of wasting food and that he had the right to charge me for the excess waste. I told him it was the green beans and bones and Napkins. He finally left and then came back and asked why I was in grabil and wondering why I chose his place to eat, this was as he was eating a plate of wings, I explained it all then asked him if it was ok that I visited Grabil!! He finally left my table after harassing me for a bit longer. I didn't feel welcomed. I passed on dessert because store bought pies aren't my thing. Mr hey boast it's Amish cooking but if that's how the Amish cook then Please never invite me to an Amish home for dinner. I wouldn't recommend eating here. I will never dine here again and I would never tell anyone it was good food. Sorry I wasted my money and time and appetite at this place.

This place might be the only place near this area worth getting some dinner. I'm not sure, as I'm not from around here. It is a smaller restaurant, 8 booths and 4 tables. It is sparkly clean throughout. Our server Ava, was so very kind and sweet. It wasn't busy and she appeared to have the entire place to herself for front of house. She took our drink order rapidly and brought out a warm loaf of bread quickly. We started off with the spinach and artichoke dip. It seemed kind of small for the price, bit it was on par for anywhere that serves that dip, but it comes with their bread sliced for dipping. The bread could use a little toasting for the dip scooping. I ordered the 8oz steak medium with onion rings and a house salad. The house salad was a good size with lettuce, cheese and boiled eggs. I ordered the house made french dressing which was quite tasty. The onion rings appeared hand battered and were very good. My steak was cooked to a prefect medium and the seasoning and onions on top were scrumptious. My wife ordered the shrimp pasta, which has two skewers of Cajun seasoned shrimp over a fettuccine pasta with a white cream sauce. It was a lot of pasta, but my wife was not a fan of the sauce. She did enjoy the shrimp. She also ordered a cluster of crab legs to go with her pasta. You wouldn't think po-dunk Indiana would make good crab legs, but the came out cooked quite well and my wife thought they were good. The only thing missing was the tiny crab leg fork. Our daughter ordered the 1/2 pound cheeseburger with fries. She ordered it well done, I know, what a shame to ruin that burger, but kids!!! It came out cooked as ordered and she managed to finish about a quarter of her meal. And for dessert, we had the make your own s'mores. It came with enough of the ingredients to make 5 s'mores. I would definitely come back to try more of there dinners.

Try as I might... I cannot come up with a positive review for this restaurant... I've been trying to think of anything at the restaurant that would warrant noting in a positive wayThe service was run by actual children. We were seated by a 9 year old! The prime rib was reheated and frozen in the center. Tasted like shoe leather. I will literally never step foot in this place again. The bread was good! That's all. Don't go. Don't do it.

Honestly... if I could do 0 stars I would. I grew up locally and was excited to hear of a new place that was in the old Grabill Inn. My family and I went there for dinner for my brother's birthday and between the 7 of us... not a single one was pleased with anything.Service: the server was a teenager that clearly had no training and didn't care about working. We couldn't find her half the time. No refills on drinks, missing 2 sides from 2 orders, and when she brought the bill she asked "cash or card" (after we had to ask someone else roaming around the dining area to find our waitress). When my grandmother said she would pay cash, the waitress wasn't even going to give a receipt. As she was about to just say how much was owed for the bill we told her to print the receipt. Once she did... she stood at the end of the booth and waited while my grandmother counted out money to leave for the bill... I've never in my life see a server do that. My mind was absolutely blown on how rude she was being with impatience to get the money for the bill. She was probably the worst server I have ever had. (Understanding that lack of training was most likely a major factor in this, we still left her a decent tip)Food: Growing up in the area, good food isn't typically hard to come by. However, there was not a single edible item that got delivered to our table. Meat dishes were severely overcooked and dry, mashed potatoes tasted instant and not homemade (along with the gravy), French fries tasted like McDonald's fries that had been 3 days old, and whatever the brown butter noodles are.... I had to spit it out it was that bad. The disappointment was so great. I would have rather gone across the street and got food at Dairy Sweet.Unless this place trains their staff and gets a new cook... we will not be eating here again.

I had crab legs. They were a little dry. My wife had a steak and she said it was good and great taste. Friendly service.Our friend had a baked potato and it was over baked. Dry. Some food was great some not so great.

I order the prime rib the meat was select at best it came with sides but they didn't have any they were all around prime rib was supposed to be king cut was very small did you know this that the owner never responds to negative reviews do not go there and save yourself money and time

This was some of the best food I have had in the Ft Wayne area. Definitely worth a trip.

Ate here for first time, staff Martin and Rosetta were above and beyond friendly Roseta was very attentive and on the ball. Martin came out of kitchen and went to each table and talked made sure everything was good. The food was excellent and there was a wide variety of food. They had steaks, crab legs, gd size lobster tails, sandwiches, hamburgers.A gd amount of of appetizers and the amount of food for the prices. Would definitely recommend.

great atmosphere with delicious food and reasonable prices ! I love the tartar sauce it's house made . The sweet tea could have a better taste but other then that everything is exceptional

My experience at this restaurant is the reason I signed up for Yelp. We just moved to the area from out of state and I hate to say it, but this was truly the worst dining experience I have had in my 46 years. The service was slow and inattentive, we waited over an hour for fried food and one medium rare steak, and when we finally got our food it was cold...even though there were literally maybe 4 other tables in the whole place. And it's not like there weren't people working--there were two servers for our little area, and a throng of teenage boys (bussers? cooks?) hanging out in the area near the kitchen door watching those servers work but not doing anything else. On top of being cold, and slow, the food was just not good. The mashed potatoes were clearly the kind that come in a bag, the salad was rusty, the chicken fingers were bargain-rate frozen pieces of leather...it was just not great. The steak was cooked correctly, but the fact that it had been allowed to sit (maybe they took the concept of letting the meat "rest" a little too far) and get cold kind of negated that. The only time we actually got attention from the server was when they dropped off our check...then they were all about chit chatting and seeing if we needed anything. Just so disappointing.