Sheridan Livery Inn

brilliant. after eating at ruby Tuesday’s this afternoon, anything would have tasted magical, but I believe the food here has an extra touch that most restaurants don’t have. I got the grilled chicken sandwich and my lover got the grilled vegetable club. it was sensational, literally. it looked clean and organized, the chicken smelled of the grill and the bun was not too greasy. tasted great. I had the Devils backbone IPA with it. can’t complain. the sandwich left me begging for more. we ventured out and ended the week with the hazelnut cheesecake. OH MY! I’m still salivating at the thought. delightful hazelnut crust. not too heavy. I would recommend this restaurant to all Unilocalers! sit on the patio ;) it’s great! our server was fantastic as well!

My wife and I got take-​out from here… One of our items were spring rolls. There were two of them… two bites each per each spring roll. (9 $ total) So by my math… we literally paid 2.25 $ per each bite of spring roll. If they were made well and in house… I could POTENTIALLY understand paying that much, but there was more bread than filling, the only seasoning appeared to be the ginger dressing drizzled over top (which contained so much ginger it made the spring rolls slightly bitter), and as I mentioned earlier, each roll was consumed within two bites.
We also ordered she-​crab soup, caesar salad, and a spinach dip… The she-​crab was delicious though as a lover of this variety, we were let down by the lack of crab and the many tiny pieces of shell we had to pick from our teeth. The price for it though was fair, 5.50 $ for a 6−8oz portion. The Caesar salads were large for 6 $, but the dressing was very strong. The spinach dip needed seasoning, and though the crostinis accompanying were well seasoned and toasted we still felt the dish was a bit of a let down.
We did not try any of the sandwiches or entrees, so we cannot review these items, nor have we dined in so we cannot review the service. I would like to give this place another try, but this experience will make me second guess myself if I ever decide to eat here in the future.

I had dinner there this past week, and it was terrible. I ordered pan seared tuna, and when it arrived (they told me it was the last one), it smelled so fishy, and the color was grey. I asked my friend to try it because I thought it was bad, and she couldn’t even try it because it smelled so bad. t returned it and ordered something else, but the waitress wasn’t even apologetic. THEN, a woman came over, maybe the owner or maitre’d, and said, «There is nothing wrong with this fish. Fish smells fishy.» When I proceeded to tell her that fresh fish does not smell fishy (but should smell clean and like the ocean) she argued with me and disagreed. Finally, I stopped her and said, «You shouldn’t argue with a customer.» She continued to argue. Also, they brought the wrong wine to my friend, and her soup was cold. Very bad experience. They didn’t apologize for any of it or offer us a complimentary dessert, nothing. Stay away from this restaurant.

The beer was good. Biting into the bitter lemon seeds in the chicken marsala ruined the meal. Seeing our waitress cleaning the bathroom toilet was gross. The sign in the restrooms of detailed instructions (~10 steps) for employee hand washing, including «using soap», made us wonder how bad their employee hand washing problem, really is.

Would commend their sandwich menu, they are one of the best value lunch eats in Lexington. The dinner is decent, but I’d say there are better options around town. Very friendly family that runs the business, would eat lunch there again.

A gem of a restaurant. I had shrimp with parmesan grits and a red pepper sauce. I’m not a native Southerner, but those grits were wonderful! Creamy and cheesy, a real treat for the gluten free. Husband’s salmon was grilled perfectly, served on grilled asparagus and a rice that resembled risotto. Service was attentive but not hovering. For dessert we had key lime pie and a flourless chocolate cake that was the best I’ve had… light and very chocolaty, not heavy and leaden. Drinks were good too. All in all, a delightful evening. Be warned though, we went in the off season– both colleges on break. May be much harder to get a table at other times. We just walked right in at 7 on a Saturday night.

I’m a big fan of the Livery when the weather is nice. They have a great covered outdoor dining area. I would highly recommend the chicken sandwich for lunch — it’s decked with bacon and Boursin cheese.

About a 2.5: I was excited to try this place out while we were in Lexington. We started off with the Cheese Tart, which was made up of onions, bacon, and cheese on a puff pastry — the bacon was undercooked, but the rest of the items was okay. We also shared the Crab and Spinach dip, but I think the crab was not fresh :(It was not the creamy dip that I expected it to be, but the dip itself was just not appetizing with the old crab chunks. The salad was pretty good with the Raspberry Honey vinaigrette, but the Ranch on the other salad was a bit too watery and runny. The French Onion soup came piping hot and was very soothing — I just wished there was more Gruyère cheese on top! The Handmade Ravioli with mascarpone and sweet potato a underseasoned, and the ravioli were literally bite-​sized pieces. My husband had the Chicken Piccata, and the chicken itself was very dry; the capers in the dish was quite overwhelming as there was an abundance of those.
+Raspberry Honey vinaigrette

One of my dearest college friends and I reconnected after 40 years. She lives in SW VA and I live in northern, so Lexington is a good meetup spot, and this is our favorite place to have lunch. The food is excellent, and they don’t mind that we sit and talk the afternoon away. I highly recommend the duck salad! The soups are good, too, haven’t had a bad one yet.

Our son is a junior at W&L so we have eaten at most restaurants in town. We had dinner with our son and his friend on Saturday night and unanimously we all agreed it was one of the best dinners we have had yet in Lexington. The salmon was grilled to a crisp tenderness and the rice and grilled vegetables were flavorful and just enough to balance out the meal. Many of the restaurants in town overdo the sauces and spices, so it was nice to have a healthy meal and know with my gluten allergy I wasn’t going to get sick. The tomato salad dressing was incredible. My only recommendation would be to add some carrots, black olives and a touch of onion to the salad. Two people had the shrimp and grits and raved about it. The service was fast and attentive. We would highly recommend the restaurant and plan to make a reservation for our fall trip to Lexington.

Very slow service, outrageous prices for mediocre food. I ordered the pan seared trout with puttanesca and green beans. I made the mistake of assuming the puttanesca would be a side item of pasta. Instead the puttanesca sauce was drowning my otherwise flavorless fish. The green beans were cold. The salad was merely a plate of lettuce, no other veggies included. Bleu cheese dressing was thin and watery. My dinner companions ordered steak which was over cooked. We will not go back.

Sadly, this restaurant has gone from impressive to a frustrating disappointment. They usually have good food, and I would recommend them for lunch, but dinner has become a joke.
During my most recent visit, I ordered a fettuccine and spicy Italian sausage dish, and was not at all excited by what was placed in front of me: a minuscule portion of egg noodles with a bit of ground sausage and red sauce. It didn’t taste bad at all, but left me hungry. I don’t expect to be hungry after a $ 17 pasta dish.
Also, our waitress left much to be desired. Perhaps it was because our table didn’t order any alcohol, or maybe she was just having a bad day, but she was awfully inattentive.
I’m sorry, Sheridan. I used to enjoy my meals there but have been too disappointed recently. I’m done wasting money on overpriced food and iffy service. You’ve lost another local.

This place was really nice for a weekday lunch. We sat on the patio and it was gorgeous. I had the Duck salad, and it was really good. I had a Cru and Soda on the cocktail menu and it was fantastic. We were perfectly comfortable with the kids.

I stopped here on my drive back from Savannah to Manassas for lunch.
It was very slow on the Tuesday after Labor Day.
A beautfiul sunny day and I wanted to find a restaurant with an outside patio.
This was a great pick.
I had the crab bisque which was excellent.
For my main I had the seafood salad with grilled salmon, shrimp and scallops on a bed of greens with the raspberry vinergerret dressing, it was excellent.
Katie took good care of me and kept my glass full of sweet tea.
She told me the ‘Livery’ used to be a place where horses were boarded.

Delicious crab bisque soup.

The patio is a great place for lunch! The lunch menu is great and priced reasonably compared to other Lex choices. I have had both the bbq and the chicken salad and like them. I am not a huge fan of the crab cakes and my husband didn’t love the shrimp and grits (he lived in SC, he knows good shrimp & grits). The key lime pie is very good…
In re: to the hotel reviews: hotels in Lex are pricey for what they are. I have stayed here and some others right downtown, they are actually comparable, even the continental breakfast!

I have dined here many times over the past several years. The food is perfectly fine as well as the service. It’s not particularly innovative. Nor do they really change the menu. I’m disappointed they change the she-​crab soup I enjoyed for years to a basic crab soup. It had a faint seafood flavor that was totally overwhelmed by cream. Caesar salad with grilled chicken was very good. Ravioli — not so much. It was really small and kind of lukewarm. My dessert was delicious — homemade apple pie in a ramekin dish topped with ice cream. They have a small but good wine list.

This is a review of the hotel. We came here for a wedding and were told to book early because it was the «nice» hotel in Lexington. If that’s the case, I don’t even want to know what the «bad» hotels in Lexington are like — this one was a total disappointment, especially for the price.
The fact that we got an old school key to the room — as in, an actual key — should have tipped me off to what we were about to experience. The rooms were old, weird and smelled funny. The walls were paper thin, as were the sheets and blankets. The pricey room rate apparently did not include a hair dryer or soap/​shampoo for that matter. The «free» continental breakfast they offered was one of the stingiest excuses for a meal I’ve ever seen.
I’ve stayed in small, old hotels before and this one was one of the worst. I’ll give a star for the nice restaurant adjoining the hotel and a star for the location, which is right in the middle of downtown Lexington.

I almost never ate here unless I wasn’t paying for it -.-’. But the food is really good, especially their sweet potato fries and seafood salad (biggest scallops I’ve ever seen).
Sitting on the the patio outside is really nice, especially in warm weather. Dymph always took us here for goodbye senior meals. Unsolved mystery: what is a livery?

This is a review for both the hotel and the restaurant.
First to the hotel. As Lindsey said below the carpet and décor is horrid, but I don’t agree that at 120 a night I am getting what I paid for. While there is «free» continental breakfast and wireless Internet, the housekeeping needs to be brought up to par. The seat of the desk chair is stained… including one that looks to close to blood to make me want to sit in it. Being that there are only 11 rooms in this place it should be spotless. I am for sure paying for location here, it is right across the street from VMI, and in the historic downtown area. Also, there is assigned parking-​which you have to replace and move a cone every time you leave so that someone else doesn’t take your spot.
Now to the restaurant. I thought the 11 dollar shrimp, scallop and grits special sounded good – but the tomato sauce was SO overbearing on the other flavors. The crab bisque, was okay – but some of the roux wasn’t mixed in well and resulted in some clumps. The service was really the thing that saved this place from 2 stars. The people are friendly and willing to help in what you may need.