Wooden Nickel - Kirksville

We have been here a few times now and drive about an hour to Kirksville. This was the first time the service was not so great. Autumn was our waitress and she could use some work on her personality. My fiancee and I felt like we were an inconvenience to her. Normally I'm a minimum 20% tipper for just average service. The best we felt she deserved was 15%. Hopefully this is taken as constructive criticism and helps improve her service.

They always have really delicious specials at the Nickel! This week it was a creative take on grilled cheese blackberry jam, bacon, and brie on house made jalapeño corn bread! So yummy!

The chicken was not overcooked and dry. The mushrooms were right on spot. Good job. A Marsala sauce is a reduction sauce of chicken juices and or chicken broth with wine, flour, and butter. Then other spices and mushrooms, maybe tomatoes or capers added to reduction, then applied over the chicken, usually served on a bed of noodles. I got a watered down chicken sauce with mushrooms and tomatoes. No seasoning and no pasta because i (assumed which was my bad that it would be on a bed of pasta) with runny liquid leaking into my baked potatoe. I received a properly cooked chicken breast with a bland, runny liquid next to a baked potatoe.I declined business to another establishment because of lack of culinary knowledge, I guess i should have quizzed this establishment also. Just an honest critique.

Had the brisket. Hate to say it but not worthy of my dogs food bowl.

Traveling for work and decided to stop into a local establishment. Wasn’t very busy was that very quickly. Server came over I asked asked a few questions he said the chicken Marsala was pretty popular. The tomatoes in the mushrooms were the only thing really edible. The chicken was charred with absolutely no flavor. I was looking for the wine sauce but it was only oil. The baked potato was extremely hot and fresh. The salad was mediocre. The lettuce was wilted.As far as talking to someone about it, I only seen my server when he took my order brought my food that was it .