Reviews for Ratio in Elgin, SC
Exquisito! Dined on the patio, enjoyed the sunset and a masterpiece of a meal served by a most gracious young lady who was... intimately knowledgable of the menu and wine offerings. Will return to explore more of their extraordinary tapas menu. Read more
Amazing! They advise you to take more than one dish. My husband and I chose 4 + 2 dessert in total. The food was really tasty,... honestly the size of each dish is perfect. The sauce is not overflowing like other American restaurants. The arrangement isbeautiful. Some espresso for the end and bread accompanied with the dish were missing to the menu though. Read more
Very chill, groovy even from an atmosphere perspective with a great drink list inspired by the flavors of Peru! Bartender is... very personable and creates master pieces behind the bar. Outside seating available to enjoy while sampling Tapas brought to usfrom Peru! Overall it?s a hidden gem and should be visited! Read more
We had an amazing experience! Food and drinks were delicious and service was great! This is definitely one of our favorite... restaurants in Columbia and sure is worth the 30 minutes drive from downtown. Read more
Ratio is one of the best restaurants in the Columbia area! Everything was excellent from the food to the service! We tried a lot... of items and enjoyed nice wine. Great spot for a date or just for dinner. We will be back soon! Read more
We made reservations for our early Valentines Day dinner through google maps and Resy (how convenient!!!) We drove about an hour... and 25 minutes from Augusta to try this place out after seeing the amazing reviews. Upon arrival, parking is ample and FREE! Wewere greeted and seated immediately. I went to the bathroom to wash my hands, came back out and our server was at the tablebringing water and asking if we were ready to order any drinks. I asked her to give me a few minutes, I knew I wanted to drinkbut just wanted to mull over the menu for a minute. As I?m doing this, another couple of people walk in and are seated besideus. Our waitress finally comes back after a while and we place our food and drink orders. The couple beside us place their orderwith a different waitress and there food and drinks came out within about 10-15 minutes of them ordering. It felt like it tookour food FOREVER to come out. Not sure if we just got overlooked or if our waitress was doing something else while our food waswaiting on us. Either way, we ordered the tacos, the ribs and the empanadas. Tacos were room temperature, they tasted prettygood though. The ribs and empanadas were pipping hot and delicious! After we finished the food, we were ready to order more foodand drinks. Our waitress kinda disappeared for long stretches of time in between our orders so I don?t feel like I really got toorder as much as I wanted, especially the cocktails, they were AMAZING! I was apprehensive about writing this review becausedespite being a woman of color from the south, I?ve never experienced much discrimination, & being that I was a waitress in thepast and knowing many waitresses now, I understand the stereotype that black people DONT TIP. (This is absolutely untrue by theway.) I don?t 100% feel like we were being overlooked because of our skin color but the speed issue was not one of the bar orthe chef, again, everyone around us received food and drink very quickly, most of which came Read more
Ratio is amazing!! The food NEVER disappoints. We have eaten there several times. It is a great place for date night or dinner... with friends. It is not a restaurant for kids. The fried brussel sprout leaves and Ceviche are two of our favorites. Weliterally try almost everything when we go. Read more
I was very excited about coming here because of their great reviews. Although their service was great I was disappointed by some... of their plates. I was not blown away by the flavors of their small plates like I thought I would be. I was most excited for themussels and beef tartare. The beef tartare was pretty good but it definitely felt reminiscent on tuna because of the choice ofingredients. It was soy/sesame based so it definitely seemed like tuna rather than beef, but it definitely was my favorite plateoverall. The mussels were cooked just right but the broth, which I was most excited about was quite bland. Not enough salt andit had mostly had a smokey taste from the chorizo also tomato paste? I was hoping more of a balance of salt, acid and sea but Ididn't get any of that. It was just watery and a bit smokey. The Pork Chicharrones were cooked well but I felt that there wastoo much BBQ sauce to get through and it felt as it the sauce wasn't warmed up before the pork of coated in it. Cold BBQ sauceon meat is never good. Too sweet of a BBQ sauce by the way, needs more apple cider vinegar or something. The empanadas weregood, meat was tender and well seasoned. The tacos were alright but not $13 good. I left me wanting more flavor. The chickenthigh in the taco was very tender and cooked just right but I've had much more complex tasting tacos at Mexican mom n' popshops. It needed more acidity, more freshness in my personal opinion. Personally as a cook I think acid is underused in manykitchens and I felt that it was lacking here. We ended up not ordering more plates and went about ordering desserts because Ijust felt disappointed with what was coming out. The crema catalan was too eggy for me. It also seemed like it wasn't sweetenough, I normally don't like overly sweet desserts but this definitely wasn't sweet. The sugar was over caramelized a bit so ithad more bitterness to it than I'd like. The tres leches cake definitely was a better choice. And I Read more