Eleanor's - Opelika

Great atmosphere, covered and comfortable. We felt like home. The steak was the best I had in a long time and the sauces that came with him were amazing. You have to get the Mac and cheese! Fried green tomatoes and peas tomato salad was so fresh and delicious. The lemon cake and the raspberry sorbet were a perfect end to a delicious meal. Thank you for a great experience Eleanor’s!

Great atmosphere that was laid back and comfortable. We felt right at home. The steak was the best I’ve had in a long time and the sauces that came with it were amazing. You have to get the Mac and cheese! Fried green tomatoes and heirloom tomato salad was so fresh and tasty. The lemon cake and raspberry sorbet was a perfect ending to a delicious meal. Thank you for a great experience Eleanor’s!

Great new place! Great food and prices! Will definitely be back!

Let me start by saying that I have never written a restaurant review, but a meal as bad as ours was requires one. My wife and I ate at the Bistro on 5/4/19 for our anniversary. This used to be one of our absolutely favorite places, but this is our first visit since they have reopened after the fire, and I understand there is new ownership. The restaurant is more open, lighter colors than before, and brighter. The staff were pleasant, and our waitress Harriet was prompt. However, from the very beginning, the food quality was either much reduced or non-exhistent, and my wife and I truly are not picky or complaining people. In a restaurant this nice and costly, one would expect bread of some type (there used to be)....but there was none, and it was not forgotten , because no other tables had bread, either. The menu is MUCH smaller; no shared appetizer options. It 's either a $38 entree-only option, or a $50 three-course (soup or salad, entree, dessert) option. We each chose the three course option. There were three choices for the first course; a house salad, a Bibb salad, and the soup of the day. My wife chose the soup of the day (tomato basil) and I chose the Bibb salad, which claimed toppings of house-made bacon and Gorgonzola cheese . After ordering it took over twenty minutes for these to arrive. We each tried some of the other 's dish. There were two small chunks each of bacon and cheese on my salad, each less than pinky-fingernail size. Otherwise, it was Bibb lettuce literally swimming in creamy-yet-tasteless dressing. The soup was lukewarm at best...it had started to congeal, and it tasted like Campbell 's tomato soup with a sprinkle of basil herb in it. My wife agreed. For the main course, there were five options. Pork (cutlet), duck, chicken (leg, thigh and half-breast), beef (tenderloin) and fish (grouper). Again, it took about 15 minutes after we finished the first course before the second arrived, and again, we shared portions with each other. The meat portion sizes were satisfactory, but the vegetable portions were small. She chose the beef (medium rare), with a sweet potato purée and grilled asparagus. The beef had a very nice flavor, but instead of being medium-rare, it was almost well-done. The few small pieces of asparagus were tasty, but cold, as was the sweet-potato purée, which was pretty tasteless....I think it may have literally been half of a boiled sweet potato run through a blender, no seasoning. I chose the Grouper, skillet-seared, which supposedly came with grilled beets, and butternut squash, all with an Elderflower sauce. The fish was so over cooked that it was crunchy...truly. It was tasteless and barely warm. Also, no beets and no butternut squash. I got what must have been the other half of my wife 's cold sweet potato purée, and a couple of paper-thin slices of raw radish. I ate two bites of fish only and I was done. My wife tried it...managed a couple of small bites, felt the same. So, basically, for the main course, we split a plate (six pieces) of lukewarm over-cooked but well-flavored beef tenderloin, and some small pieces of cold grilled asparagus. We put the grouper to the side and the waitress noticed. I just told her we were not fans of the fish and she could bring the dessert, which came pretty quickly. The dessert options were either a white-cake with brown-sugar frosting, a French-toast-like (as the waitress described it) banana-bread with ice cream, or a couple of varieties of sorbet. My wife chose the white cake, I chose the banana bread. The banana bread would have been very tasty, except that it was burnt and stuck to the plate. We scraped it off and ate it all, anyway, because we were still very hungry. I didn 't get to try the white cake, because there were literally only two small bites. It was the saddest piece of cake I have ever seen; approximately 3 inches long, an inch and a half wide, and starting out about a quarter-inch deep at one end to paper-thin on the other. And we thi

My companion and I dined at the Bistro Saturday evening, 4/20/2019, our first visit to this restaurant since before their disastrous fire and subsequent closure. We both had the house salad, the New York strip, and the Hedges Family Estate Cabernet. She had the blueberry cobbler, I the crème brûlée. The salad was excellent with the vinegarette dressing--fresh and very tasty. The New York strip was delicious, tender, and cooked to perfection--hers medium rare, mine medium. It was very nicely complemented with the Cabernet--a good one indeed, previously unknown to me. My brûlée was average--needed a bit of refinement; her cobbler--shared a bit with me--was superb. The service was excellent; the price (fixed-price menu) very reasonable for such great food and service. This restaurant highly merits your patronage, without which it will surly perish. Yes, its location is obscure hard to find the first time, but the food and service are worth the drive and searching.