"I’ve been dining at the Venesian Inn since the late 1950s, when we would go after Razorback games, and the line would wrap around the building—but the wait was always worth it. I continued to visit during my college years in the 1970s. However, I returned tonight and was sadly disappointed. The menu is similar, but the offerings are quite different. The service was lackluster and the food quality was mediocre, far from what once made this place great. The rolls are still quite good, although they arrived just as we were finishing our entrees. The salad remains nice, but the signature bone-in fried chicken has been reduced to chicken fingers, and the steaks bear no resemblance to the ones that made people wait in line for over an hour and contributed to the restaurant's fame. How can a place renowned for its fried chicken be out of bone-in fried chicken right at opening time on a Saturday evening? The earlier operators of this once great establishment must be terribly disappointed."
