Restaurants near Fayette County Fair Grounds

Yet another wonderful dining experience at Lindey's! After many years of dining there (used to live in Columbus, now in Florida), Lindey's remains as our favorite restaurant in Columbus - especially during the holidays. From start to finish, service, ambiance and food was flawless. My favorite is the tournedos of beef and they were perfectly prepared. And, of course, we finished off with sharing a Post Mortem desert. We have a favorite table and they were able to have it available for us. Thank you!

I booked this restaurant for my daughters 17th birthday because I wanted something special. Wow did they come through! We had a reservation at 4:30 and when we check into our hotel room which was a block away we discovered her birthday dress was still hanging up at home an hour away. She forgot it since it wasn’t in her overnight bag. Long story short we got the dress but had called the restaurant to let them know we would be almost an hour late would we still be able to come. The gentleman who answered the phone said absolutely and her birthday won’t be spoiled on our end! Relief in that moment one act of kindness gave. We get there at 5:20 to a beautiful table, incredible service, and outstanding food. From me being able to sample a couple of the white wines and settling on a delicious one from France. To our steak being cooked perfectly medium rare and that peppercorn sauce amazing. The lobster was delicious, picked two sides which my daughter loves a good gourmet Mac and cheese this one was perfect! They even give a complimentary dessert and candle. Never did we have an empty water glass and the continuous staff was either wishing her happy birthday or asking if we needed anything. If you want exceptional service, amazing food and a great experience please don’t skip this one! They even made sure we had plenty of time to get to the nutcracker!

Cooper’s Hawk is becoming one of our favorite mid-priced dining choices lately and today’s visit was as good as all the others. An eclectic menu offers plenty of options to satisfy just about anybody’s appetite of the moment. Service is excellent, too. The house wines, a feature of this chain, have gotten much better over recent years. Some of the dry reds especially hold their own nicely with big-name brands.

It was a lovely dinner with scrumptious food, excellent service, and attentive wait staff. We thoroughly enjoyed the ambiance with the live piano player entertaining everyone with classic Christmas songs!! Everything was on point!! We were even surprised with a treat for dessert to celebrate our anniversary! So sweet! Can’t wait to return!

Fun place on a Saturday night. We tried the Pot Roast Dinner and the Fish and Chips, both very good.