"Antebellum is one of the 100 best restaurants in the USA on Open Table and I'm here to say it's well deserved. DH took me here for my birthday today and everything was amazing. Service was wonderful and our waiter was both informative and enthusiastic about the menu. The restaurant is a converted older south house and unique. We started with the free maize bread and green tomato jam (hot and fresh, very good) and then we had the baked Brie appetizer. I love baked Brie en croute anyway, but that was the next stage with the port wine reduction. Between apps and entrees we had a beautiful little butter salad with goat cheese and lemon vinaigrette, which was refreshing and tasteful. DH had escaped the halibut. He said that it was perfectly and really tasty cooked, but the spiced popcorn found a bit of a failure with the textures on the plate. I had the braided bovine bolognese and no exaggeration, it was the best Bolognese I ever had (and I had some good Bolognese). It was rich, comforting, so many layers of taste. The house made Gnocchi really supplemented the sauce and brat beef and the pepadews and goat cheese took it to the next level. DH liked it better than his halibut. For Dessert we had the sticky cake and I thought I was too full to enjoy it, but it was so amazing that I found room for it. Absolutely a must try. When it was my birthday, they also brought me a warm chic cookie with ice and an illuminated candle. Nice touch. Ambience, service and food were stellar. My most sincere compliments to the cook and the staff."
