Mockingbird Restaurant - Spring Hill

Do NOT eat here! No one greeted us at the reception, we had to find someone to get us seated for our reservation. We waited 20 minutes for someone to ask for our drinks and appetizer. Everything we ordered they were out of. Finally settled on a beer and soda water. Beer served warm, appetizer seemed like it was microwaved definitely fresh, bread was stale. Horrible service and food. We will never eat here again. It’s unfortunate because it’s a beautiful setting and has so much potential, it felt like all care and motivation has been lost by the employees and possibly the owner.

Food was awful. Very long wait for very bad food. Most was not eatable.

We came in to celebrate my son‘s 27th birthday. We had looked at their menu online and found exactly what wanted to eat so it would make it easier for us. There were eight of us there total. We had picked out some really cool cocktails that they had on their menu. And we got there they said they didn’t have their liquor license until April 1 because they forgot to pay some fees? That was a bummer. No liquor, beer or wine. Over 4%. They were also out of a lot of food items. My husband was excited to try their lamb and they were out of that. They are also out of another dish that my son was going to get and they were also out of rice. The food was pretty good. The shrimp and grits was definitely not some thing I wouldn’t get again. It was dry and had no sort of sauce on it. Our waiter was friendly. The place ambience is fantastic. I feel like there’s some management issues there? I had heard it was under new management so I was dying to try it again but it’s still not a place I would go back to anytime soon anyway. It’s a shame because the place is really cool and they have an amazing menu. They just need to make sure they actually have the ingredients for the food on their menu.

We were disappointed . The house is interesting but was not well heated and it was a chilly evening. The food, while very tasty, was served lukewarm. They were out of rice, lobster and lamb and this was on a Wednesday night.

It was obvious they had just lost their full liquor license (I assume serving underage kids because they checked both of our IDs and we are obviously in our 30’s haven’t been carded in years) so the main reason we came their incredible sounding cocktail menu was out the door right away. I wish this had been told to us beforehand because I would have booked elsewhere and came back. The food was so so, I’d say less appetizing than I could cook at home. I am the type of person who looks down on restaurants that have salt and pepper on the table it says to me that they know their chef can’t season properly but when we got our food I quickly asked my partner to grab the salt off a table nearby. It was necessary. Lamb was a bit over done, but the main issue was that it was mostly bone. I don’t understand why I paid over $30 for 2oz of dry lamb. My boyfriend’s steak medallions were so so. They looked cooked properly, but when I asked for a bite I immediately said “oh my gosh. How is it this DRY?” Turns out they high seared it to death on both sides as their method of leaving the middle pink, so it looked medium rare but was basically two thin we’ll done steaks sandwiching a mid rare steak. We had planned on getting dessert but didn’t end up ordering after our entrees came out so poorly. The staff is super friendly, but they cant overcome a bad kitchen, almost fully eliminated bar, and our server was also the hostess and had to answer the phones all night. We just moved here from Cincinnati and this was our first restaurant in Spring Hill. In general, I’d say this place could have been having a bad day. But for the money, I wouldn’t recommend anyone try it out