Venable Rotisserie Bistro

Excellent food, service and ambiance. Nice cocktail selections, good wine selection.

Had an excellent lunch, especially as what I ordered did not sound that exciting. I got there early and decided to get the calamari. I had just assumed it was fried calamari, realized it wasn't after I ordered it and was resigned to getting a dish I would just work through, as I am not a huge calamari fan normally outside of fried. Turns out it was fantastic. The calamari was not at all chewy, usually my big complaint, and the tomato/red pepper sauce was incredible. I easily ate all the pieces and was dying to lick the plate it was so good. I decided to go healthy with the main and went with the Cobb salad, also excellent. All of the ingredients were fresh and the Green Goddess dressing excellent, did not overpower the salad but also made it flavorful and interesting. The menu is not huge but what I had was done perfectly.

Do not give business to this restaurant or any other in Carr Mill Mall unless you want to get your car towed by the property manager. This business did the bare minimum in providing information about an insane policy on towing, resulting in over $300 in tow charges. People are being robbed everyday by this crooked practice and the businesses should be telling everyone that walks in what is going on. See this article if you want proof. https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/11/27/what-you-need-to-know-about-predatory-towing-at-carr-mill-mall/

My friend brought me to this place for lunch. The ambiance was super cute and appealing. The server was extremely kind and helpful and attended to us a few times. The food and wine both were delicious. I wanted to eat light so I had the Chevre salad and she had the Venable Fried Chicken. I would have gotten what she had since it looked delicious, but I'll save it for next time.

Made reservations for dinner , since we know it can be super busy . We were seated promptly, given menus and water. The restaurant was partially full at 6:30. Our server read us the specials and offered other drinks besides water. The scallop special sounded divine ; blackened scallops over coconut curry butternut squash with brussels sprouts, finished with a balsamic drizzle topped with frisée greens. The orecchiette pasta with broccoli rabe pesto, fennel sausage, chili flake with shrimp on top. Were the two dinners that we ordered. While we waited we ordered bread and butter. It can be a loud restaurant, no acoustic panels to help the noise level. There are some neat pictures on the walls to look at while you wait for dinner. The bread was hot and crusty- delicious. Our dinners came out . The scallops looked amazing so did the pasta dish. The scallops were cooked perfectly, a nice sear on them , wonderful flavor and no gritty sand to be found. The coconut curry butternut squash had plenty of spice , but not overpowering . The brussels sprouts were tender but needed a touch of flavor , they were a little bland by themselves. The frisée was an interesting component to the dish . The orecchiette pasta was cooked nicely , the shrimp added a nice taste . It was not overly garlicky at all. It was two delicious dinners. The restaurant started to fill up and the servers were very busy. It took a while for the server to check back with us . A second glass of wine took a long time to get but it eventually arrived. It would have gotten 5 stars if the attentiveness was present by the waitstaff. All in all I would go back again.

SO, I ordered the fried chicken. INEDIBLE flattened piece of dry white meat chicken covered with tasteless batter..ONE tiny teeny bone on the whole thing. I took two bites and the rest was ingested by my dog, Awful and perhaps the menu could have specified what to expect..see photo.

Venable is consistently perfection! The atmosphere is wonderful, every dish is phenomenal, and the service is top level. You can't miss! Elle, Jake, and Michael are especially great servers! Jake remembered us (and our order!) from a couple of months prior, and makes every visit special! Just awesome!

My partner and I sat at the bar for a Thursday night dinner. The bar seats were crammed together like sardines. A bar that could maybe seat 10 but had 15 seats crammed around it. New customers sitting down had to squeeze in to even sit on these terrible trash chairs. Dirty sticky menus. Staff was all over the place. Food is lack luster. Owner gives off just rude rude rude.

Do a search on "restaurant noise" and you'll find multiple reports of restaurants getting louder. This place is an example.Going to a restaurant, we're paying for more than just the food, it should be a pleasant, relaxing experience. If I cannot have a pleasant conversation with my companion across the table without shouting and straining to hear, I don't care about the food selection, its quality or the service, a social occasion becomes a tiring, irritating experience. We were both pleased to escape it, we ate quickly, asked our (very good) server for to-go boxes and departed. We won't return.It isn't hard to reduce ambient noise levels, no new inventions are required. Some places do, some don't. I prefer the former.

Food was decent but not amazing. We tried a lot of different apps and entrees. They ran out of a special dish but the staff and restaurant are very nice overall.