Woodland Restaurant – Galena, IL

I reserved about a week and half in advance for hubbys birthday dinner. I did some google searching for a nice, romantic, delicate location and good menu and I decided on Woodlands Restaurant because we’ve never been there and on their website, it looked amazing with beautiful lighting and setting. And the menu looked so delicious. After that, it was a no brainier and I made the reservation.

Today (well I suppose yesterday the 5th) came the day to the birthday dinner. It was a rough start. I realized we were going to be late so I called and gave heads up. We finally made it and got seated. Jack (the owner?) was welcoming and nice. It took about 7-8 minutes for our waitress to even come to our table to take our drink order (she just kept telling us I’ll be there in a minute each time she passed us).

Jack brought us our drinks and then ten or so minutes later she finally comes to take our order. In the mean time…nothing looked the same as it did in the pictures. Sure the room was clean and big…but I didn’t feel any type of intimacy setting I was looking for and found online. The menu was absolutely not what they showed online.

To make this long story some what short: took about and hour and ten minutes to finally get out food- which they had to re do hubbys stake ‘cuz it was all cold. Which turn I waited for his second attempt and then mine got cold. The whole evening was a mess.

Thankfully we knew the cook, Josh, who is absolutely wonderful at what he does, and Jack made up for all the mess.

Will we go back. No. Would I recommend? Eh…maybe. I’m giving it a 4 star rating because of customer service.