Big Walnut Grill

What a lovely late lunch we had today. We split the cod daily special, w/​loaded baked potato and cole slaw. My partner had the salad w/​the steak, crumbled blue cheese, onions and tomatoes. Everything tastes deliscious and fresh, our server did a good job keeping us loaded w/​drinks, extra napkins and salad dressing. Reasonably priced, clean bathrooms just a great place for a super lunch or dinner. Thank you for a wonderful experience! Darla. ;-)

In Columbus from Saint Louis, MO visiting a friend. Wanted some smoked meat. My friend said Big Walnut Grill. Great choice.
First off, they had my favorite hard Cider, Angry Orchard. Made me happy!
Next we had the smoked chicken wings. Loved the rub! So meaty! Perfect amount of smoke! Quite a variety of sauces! We asked for 3 on the side. Sweet BBQ, Asian Sesame, and my favorite sweet chili! Really enjoyed them!
I ordered the smoked chicken special. Half chicken with mashed potatoes and cole slaw. The chicken was even better than the wings! The meat was so juicy. Seriously cooked perfectly. The mashed potatoes we fresh made. Lots of butter some of the skins to let you know there were fresh. Coleslaw was very tasty too. You could tell it was house made and very fresh. The last thing on the plate was a great surprise. A piece of sweet cornbread! So good!!!
Hope to come back soon! Would love to try the ribs!

If you are in the mood for overpriced lukewarm food, being charged for beers you never ordered, and poor service, then you’re in luck at this place! I’ve been here three times. Twice the food was horrible. All three times the service was bad. Save yourself some money and a headache, eat elsewhere.

This place really stepped up its service and both the food and service have been great the last few times we’ve returned. Excellent ribs.

Tried this restaurant twice now. Great atmosphere mediocre friendly service but the quality of their meat is so poor I don’t think I will be back. Prime rib and ribeye is small skinny and packed with fat. Wife’s steak salad order, medium rare filet, came out with cold, gristly well done mystery steak. But you pay a fairly high price for sunbury ohio. If you go stick to the drink specials and bar food they can’t mess up.

Love the specials. Half off burgers on Mondays and then half off pizza/​pasta on Tuesdays. Great place for the family. Awesome food at a bargain. Chicken mac n cheese is delicious. Also had the oven roasted penne with chicken and sausage, loaded with cheese. Enough for two meals. Have never had bad service here.

Service was fair. Food was marginal at best.
Quality of pork on Nachos was very poor.
Smoked wings was nasty in flavor !
Go to Gallows on Bethal Rd way better. By far.

Zero stars ******* Still trying to get the foul taste out of my mouth of the pork nachos and smoked wings. How do you screw up nachos and wings? Our friends are moving to Florida and we wanted to have a going away party for them and they recommended this place. We checked Unilocal prior to going tonight and did not have a good feeling about it.
The nachos had very little cheese and iceberg lettuce. Who puts lettuce on nachos? We ordered the pulled pork on the nachos. If you did find some pork in the nachos mess it was probably mostly fat. One huge piece, the size of my palm was nothing but fat. Once you did find some meat, it was so bland. It had very little taste. My dog’s chew toy tastes better.
Now to the wings. I can’t really pin point what was going on there. They seemed to have a fair amount of fat on them and my husband said they had a chemical taste. We are now enjoying a nice Donatos pizza to get the taste out of our mouths.
We had a large group of around 40 and I have to say the wait staff did a very good job. Unfortunately that didn’t make up for the incredibly nasty food!
Fortunately we will never have to go there EVER AGAIN!

Slow service. Took server 7 – 10 mins to greet us and food took a very long time to hit the table. My friend got a burger, I had a BBQ chicken salad. Burger looked decent. My salad was really bad. All iceberg lettuce, poorly cut (giant chunks) and whitish brownish. Avocados were flavorless, tomatoes were over-​ripened/​mushy. Had very little chicken and I bit right into a small bone/​tendon. No BBQ sauce or flavor. To top it off the décor is cheesy and the bathroom floors were sticky.

Looks like a decent place but needs work. Foods is average and service is what it is. Prices are reasonable and bar is decent. Might be good to watch the buckeyes but not take your family

The place is huge and has a nice atmosphere but the food is just deep fried bar food. It’s also very expensive! An appetizer order of cheese sticks is close to $ 9!

One week its 3 stars the next its ONE star. I have to agree with a lot of the other reviews. 50 – 60 wait for your food seems to be the norm. The food is ok. I’ve been hoping to find that signature meal. NO LUCK The place is great for seeing bands and the service was good.

We’ve been here several times the food is just ok on this trip I was willing to give the smoked prime rib a second chance but they were out, so I went with the 10oz ribeye,(18.99) it was ok and came with a baked potato and salad (sorry French dressing people they don’t have it), when they first opened the salads had a shoe string deep fried potato toping that was very good, this time it was more like the burnt fries from the bottom of the fryer. My wife had the BWG burger (8.99), she said it was kind of dry and the fries were cold. They do have a lot of big TV’s with games on. Wednesday is Kids eat free night, so if you’re like me and don’t want to listen to little Ethen scream you may want to pick another day

The only reason why I’ve gone to this place is because on Monday’s their burgers are half off. Other than that it’s just to much money for what you get. I never leave full which is disappointing, and on one occasion I had a waitress «accidentally» short me about $ 10 on my change. I walked up with my receipt and mentioned that I didn’t get all of my change back (I handed her a $ 20 for a $ 5 bill, only got maybe $ 6 back) she just smirked like she already knew and handed me my change. Needless to say she didn’t get a tip from me that day. This was very shady and really lost my trust which is a shame because I like local businesses and the atmosphere in there is pretty decent

Nice environment and ambiance. Great setting for listening to the live bands. Unfortunately, the food is just ok. Our kids aren’t fond of the smoky flavors in everything.

Short review: Good food, good service and the ventilation needs to be improved because, when we left, we smelled like we had sat in the kitchen.
Long review: I enjoyed one of the best portobello mushroom sandwiches that I have ever eaten. The bun was extremely good and toasted to perfection with a piece of crisp leafy lettuce and a very nice slice of tomato. I am a tomato lover and it is hard to find restaurants that will pay the extra money on top quality produce. The fries were hot, crispy and tastey.
My BFF ordered a burger and fries which she thoroughly enjoyed. Generous burger size!
The service was good, the bottled beer was super cold, just the way I like it!
The down side is the unpleasant fried food odor that clung to us. :(

We’ve tried this place twice now and both times the kitchen was slow. The second visit, after waiting an hour for our food to come out, I discovered they literally burnt my «medium well» burger to a crisp. The server was apologetic and went to tell the manager, but the manager never came out. They tried to make me wait another 15 minutes for them to make another burger, which I refused. When they brought the bill they still wanted me to pay for the charcoal briquet of a burger they brought me. I refused, asking for the manager, who was rude and tried to say I ate half so I should pay for half. They’ll never see my money again. So much for trying to support a local business.

Waiting over an hour for mediocre food.
The wait staff was really nice but everything else was pretty poor.

So I have been there twice — once on a Wednesday and once on a Friday. I had the prime rib special on Wednesday — it was ok. I have had or made better myself. I didn’t care for the smoked taste. Yes I know it was called smoked prime rib; I just wasn’t prepared for that. The Friday visit I ordered a salad and got grilled chicken in it. It was very good. Hubby got a burger that had a grilled cheese as part of it and he really enjoyed it. Son got a burger and gave it two thumbs up also.
We actually had the same server both times — nice lady, took good care of us.
I hope this place sticks around; it is nice having a restaurant close to home with out heading into the city.

I will preface this by saying that I wanted a decent meal, and a drink to toast my grandmothers memory after passing earlier today. I was not depressed, or cantankerous.
Tuesday night (½ price pasta & pizza). I sat at the bar near the kitchen entrance watching the food go out, to help me decide on something other than between two buns. It’s as loud as expected for sports on multiple TV’s. However, the volumes are mute, and the jukebox music is on. I was greeted, and the staff was friendly and neat in appearance. I ordered a cocktail with multiple details, and all were met precisely. I chose the Macaroni & Cheese pasta with grilled chicken. The one I saw looked very plain, so I asked for my chicken to be extra seasoned in any way. It was over cooked with the burnt side down. The kitchen had to know it when they took it off the grill, and again when they sliced it for the meal. I consider that laziness, or lack of effort for quality. I sent that back and tried a Buffalo Chicken Pizza. Either I would have designed this dish better, or laziness & lack of effort. The chicken was breaded, not grilled. Maybe the breading soaks up more buffalo sauce. It’s pizza, finger food, not knife and fork. Cut the toppings into bite size pieces. A piece alone is fine, but add into that bite, crust, sauce, cheese, LARGE chunks of Bleu cheese, and large pieces of onion. Too much. The sauce… Truly lazy to dump a bowl of coated chicken onto a pizza, followed by ALL remaining sauce in the bowl. That person decided that my pizza should have a wet crust, unable to pick up without a fork. I left a lot of that meal on the plate. If I wasn’t depressed when I went in, I was now. I washed my hands in the bathroom, and the sink area was tidy and clean. Didn’t look around at the rest. Now, I pay my check, push away from the bar to leave, only to discover a stain. The front of the bar had not been clean, and I was leaning into someone earlier’s dinner. It’s too bad. I really wanted a nice place nearby that was not primarily known for carryout or drive thru. I counted 4 mgmt/​owner types there tonight. I spoke with 2. It will be a while, or a change in mgmt sign that will lure me back.