Best Historic Restaurants in Rocky River

As always a great Christmas Eve experience with Mike Petrone at Johnny’s Downtown.

Upstairs corner nice but extremely drafty. Great food!

Our second time here and it’s such a cute gem in this area. Steak as one would hope is phenomanal, fresh bread and the cherry on top is the wonderful service. It was packed to no surprise for Christmas Eve, we had a special request for seating and it was great. Our first time I fell in love with the beef stroganoff and lobster bisque. My only critique is I wasn’t a favorite of their famous mushroom side ( just not for me) nor the lobster pasta dish. For the cessear I prefer shaved over shredded parm but still taste good. The claws seemed old but the other chunks seemed fine, maybe a one off. Will definitely be back to try more items. They have a great lunch special, the kids menu is great and looked awesome even an medium well don’t steak on that was not overcooked by any means and a great portion. Really personal bow staff that checks on you and a cozy cabin vibe

We ended up sitting at the bar on Christmas Eve and Tracy did an excellent job serving us. The drinks were delicious. The bread isn't as good as it used to be and also the butter. This bread is rather dry and hard and we miss the honey butter. We ordered the twin filets with fingerling potatoes and succotash. It had some strange smokey tomato sauce for the steak. We were slightly dissappointed with the meal. I was glad I asked for a side of bearnaise sauce but that was real thick too. Usually we love any of the food there but nothing was seasoned enough. The potatoes weren't good because it was just fingerling potatoes with so flavor to them. The succotash was just a corn relish. We will come back in the future but not for a good steak like we wanted to treat ourselves with for the holiday. So sorry for the bad review.

Great experience overall. Our server was very knowledgeable and the food was great. I am a vegetarian and there were lots of options. We had a group of 6 and meals ranged from steak to fish to salad and all were pleased. Drinks were great, food quality was excellent and the new decor of what was once a very blah restaurant (the old Bomba) was so much better than I would have expected. It far exceeded my expectations and we will most definitely be going back.