Ovide

Reviews

• AL

  AC Lockyer

  Mar 24, 2024
  5.0
  Overall good experience. Lovely hotel and restaurant. Beautifully decorated. Friendly staff. STANDARD food selection. Solid. One highlight was a few cool twists on standards that showed local flare. We enjoyed it.
• DW

  Dee Wood

  Mar 16, 2024
  4.0
  Breakfast is Mid, Dinner slightly Above Average! Did my headline catch your attention? This was my teenager’s balanced response when I asked her to rate the food at Ovide. During our stay at Hotel Effie we tried nearly every food item on their small, yet well-crafted breakfast menu (excluding seafood dishes). Their well-crafted small menus limited us at dinner, so we chose not to dine their again after the first night. Overall, I rate the restaurant 4/5; see the pros and cons based on our spring break experience. PROS: Generous portion sizes and reasonably priced. Food is plated beautifully, and the staff is attentive and professional. We were warned by the front desk that Ovide fills us fast, so it was imperative that we booked our dinner appointments early if we wanted to dine; however, there were less than two other families there when we arrived at 6:30 p.m. We were able to book reservations 15 minutes before we decided to eat for the remainder of the trip, with rarely many guests in the restaurant during those times. The restaurant is elegant and quaint and provides a relaxing ambiance to dine. The full gulf breakfast is a no brainer and should be everyone’s go to menu option! Food Highlight/Standouts: Mimosas, coffee!!!!!, and bacon. CONS: Flavor. The food descriptions listed on the small, yet well-crafted menus read better than they taste. The food is not terrible but does not hit the palate as expected. I found myself adding salt and pepper (as did my teenager) to every meal. Their dinner menu lacks a vegetarian option and one of the only two pescatarian options has pork sausage in it (Shrimp & Grits). I should note that the chef was able to prepare this dish without pork, however I’m sure this negatively altered the intended flavor of the four ingredients dish. Their breakfast menu inadvertently has corn beef listed as a vegetarian option; however, it is NOT VEGETARIAN! The biscuits are bland and the French toast unsatisfactory. Based on the well-crafted description the French toast (my go to breakfast item) should have tasted amazing but not theirs; adding syrup could not fix the flavor. Last con, their menu is reasonably priced, however additional side items are pricey. Food Lowlights/Don’t Waste Your Money: French Toast, “well renowned” biscuits. Some of their dishes are seasonal so the menu changes according to availability. The octopus that others have posted on their review was not available during my stay. Would I dine here again? Sure, with my Amex Food and Beverage credit. Would I dine there again using my own money? probably not.
• PG

  P G

  Mar 8, 2024
  1.0
  We had dinner at Ovide while on vacation in the area. Nice ambiance and upscale look. We wanted to take our time so we asked our server to pace ourselves from appetizers to main course, she said no problem and she would place the main course order when we were ready. When we were almost finished our appetizers she came back and asked if we wanted the main order put in and it would take about 20 minutes, we said yes. About 2 minutes later someone else arrived at our table to take away our appetizer dishes and immediately replaced them with our main course dinners. Terrible timing and service. Our food was bland with absolutely no flavor. We were rushed in and out in about an hour, all for $180. Overpriced, poor service and bland food. Not recommended.
• CC

  Claudia Pereira Caswell

  Jan 19, 2024
  5.0
  Beautiful and tasty creations. The ambiance of the restaurant is perfect for an elevated and intimate time.
• TJ

  Tonya Johnson

  Jan 18, 2024
  5.0
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