Rue Dumaine - Dayton

Food was absolutely horrible. My food was cold. I ordered lamb chops while my friend ordered steak. The waitress took over an hour to bring us our food. She didn't apologize. She acted like it was no big deal. When we told her how cold our food was, she said it was supposed to be like that. Oh, okay, we didn't know lamb chops and steak supposed to be cold. Sorry. The 1 hour dinner turned out to be 4 hours. 1 hour of waiting for our drinks and 1 hour of waiting for bread. The best part was over an hour wait for our entrees.

Rue Dumaine always has such a fantastic menu. The food is always top quality, drinks are fantastic, as is the wine list. If you don't know what wine would be good with your meal, just ask for Evan's assistance for a selection he never misses! I absolutely LOVE this place.

Fabulous meal so sorry to hear it's closing! Service was slow but I'm guessing that's because they were swamped with people trying to enjoy the experience one last time.

This is my favorite restaurant in Dayton and we come at least 4-5 times a year. As always, the greeting at the door was gracious and they had a special menu printed noting our anniversary. That being said, the service was not up to usual standards, which may have been due to a computer system issue our waiter shared. My husband had the oysters for a starter, the Dumaine salad and the short rib for his main. Loved all of them. I had the crab cake special for my starter, the Dumaine salad (both wonderful) and the duck breast special for my main. The duck seemed to be a little less cooked than the medium rare request but that's on me for not questioning or sending it back. The special touches were missing for us (no amuse bouche, had to ask several times for bread) and the overall pace was a bit more than leisurely than I would want (2-1/2 hours for dinner) but this was just a small misstep for a wonderful restaurant. I will be back again and I'm confident they will perform to their usual excellence again. We enjoy the restaurant and love supporting this local gem.

I had a great time. Great food, already recommended it to friends.