Restaurant Review: Digger & Finch

This is a first for me, reviewing a restaurant; my cousin is a chef and therefore the restaurant expert in the family, but I needed to put into words my displeasure with this restaurant. Nobody else in my party seems to agree with me, so take this all with a grain of salt.

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Digger & Finch
At the Golf Centre of Dublin
6720 Riverside Drive
Dublin, OH 43017
614.889.8585

"Fine Scottish Grille & Pub"

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Selected food items are very edible, even delicous, but it is hit or miss. The steaks are good quality and they were willing to cook the meat to medium rare, an uncommon skill in these days of legal disclaimers on menus.

The fish & chips is top notch, well the fish is worth every bite. The chips were oily and a bit soggy, but had an excellent flavor. The fish seemed to be beer battered with highly flavorful spices.

Okay, so far so good huh? The only food complaints came from my sister-in-law, a professional salad eater, and her cabbage only mandarin chicken salad was not traditional or flavorful. My father also refused to eat his apple strudel, though my mother enjoyed it. The strudel was too homogenized and could have beeen made with apple sauce and the apples may not have been top quality.

Well the problems were mostly with the service. Begining with the lack of parking. Mostly because the building and the parking lot jointly serves as the restaurant and a driving range. The very busy driving range filled EVERY single parking space. They had a nearby parking lot and a golf cart shuttle, but it was not running when I arrived. After taking another loop around the lot, a space opened.

Fortunately there was not wait for a table. The atmosphere and the building were true to the Scottish roots; the waitresses even wore kilts! I must say the televisions everywhere were a nice touch, good looking LCDs hung from every corner, even the restroom.

Though we did not wait for a table we spent the remainder of the evening waiting. We waited a solid 10 minutes before our drink orders were taken. We waited a very long time for our meals, then the desert, then the check; we experienced more waiting at every turn. I was forced to get up and fill my own glass from the pitcher between dinner and dessert.


They first opened for business only a few months ago, so perhaps they will resolve some of these glitches, but I'll never know because with all of the fine eating establishments in town, why would I waste my time at Digger & Finch.