Veritas

Shoutout to this establishment for exceptional service, atmosphere, and hospitality. Visiting several times in the past, we find the menu unique in both food and drinks. It's small, shareable plates that are perfect for 2 people. The portions served give each person the opportunity to grab a little taste of everything being just the right amount. There is always something to choose from on their regular menu for anyone and everyone. Depending on the time of year/season, the chef will prepare a set menu that is planned out, which never disappointes. Recently visiting for a special occasion, my husbands birthday, we chose to celebrate at Veritas. Considering our prior great experiences, we were both excited. This particular night, the chef prepared a beautifully set Japanese menu. My husband was thrilled as soon as he saw it. However, due to dietary restrictions, sadly, I realized I wasn't able to join in and enjoy this menu. I resigned with the thought that my main course would end up being the water and tea, yet still surrounded by great company, celebrating a wonderful occasion. This was not the case at all! Our waiter, Mitch, realized that there were restrictions and quickly acted, taking it upon himself to collaborate with the chef on ways to accommodate us so that our special occasion wasn't affected. Boy, did they ever accommodate us creating an experience that was better than all prior experiences combined. Thank you, Veritas, for your flexibility and hospitality. Again, big shoutout and thank you to Mitch for your patience, understanding, and exceptional customer service. We will be back!!

Easily the best dining experience I’ve ever had in Columbus. The service was exception with every detailed accounted for and the ambiance for the Japanese Super Club was elegant without being kitschy or pretentious. Now on to the food, every single dish was unique, delightful, and told a story of its own. I also got the beverage pairing and that was a fun journey all on its own. I highly recommend Vertias for any special occasion or if you’re looking for an exceptional dining experience.

Just bite the bullet financially and do a tasting menu here. It hurts the wallet but it's so damn good. We did the Japanese theme they've been doing this month and it was fantastic. Lot of very authentic style dishes offered. I was pleasantly surprised to see that egg custard dish done at such a high level. I'm always impressed to see these people constantly reinvent themselves on so many different styles of cuisine when there's no way they have expertise in all of them. They go so far beyond simply pulling it off. You taste a lot of love and hard hours experimenting. There's really nothing like this place in Columbus and I treasure the couple times a year I get to go. The service is top notch and every meal is something you remember vividly. That king crab rice was wild.

Unreal meal. This is one of our favorite restaurants in Columbus! We used to live above it and now that we’re not downtown we try to still get down there, and the summer menu did not disappoint! Probably one of our favorite menus we’ve had at Veritas. Everything was incredible, if I *had* to choose some standouts it would be the corn chowder (completely disagree with another recent review that said there was “too much” chowder lol), the pork, and the sea bass. But literally everything was delicious and beautifully presented (as always). To me, there is only one other restaurant in Columbus on par with Veritas and that would be the Refectory. If you want a special, unique dinner, you must go to Veritas. Delicious!

One of the best eating experiences I've ever had. Everything was awe inspiringly delicious and the wine pairings complemented the food so well I was left speechless at several points. The chef has managed to pack more flavor in the restrained portions of each dish than most restaurants manage to in entire meals, and somehow still managed to make the ingredients shine. I can't explain how impressed I was by the scallop, which was so flavorful and so very scallop in flavor despite the amazing and rich sauce and foam it came with. I'm definitely coming back.

Summer 2023: I’ve never been here before, but generally speaking I like high quality restaurants. The food was quite good, but I was disappointed by four things. 1. The distinct lack of chocolate in the desserts was disappointing. One of the desserts wasn’t really very desserty, but the one I got was excellent. That said, it didn’t have a lot of depth of flavor. 2. The service was mediocre for the price of restaurant, although excellent overall. There was a LOT of time between courses and I felt like it took away substantially from the cadence of the meal. The waitress we had was good, but I felt interrupted once or twice when she returned to the table. I would expect that at a $100/plate restaurant would have unparalleled service compared to places I’ve been at $30-50/plate, but I can say I’ve had significantly better service elsewhere. 3. The dish I paid extra for, the blue crab and corn chowder, was very corn-forward. The crab in the center was very good, on par with the fresh caught crab I had in Baltimore a few weeks ago, but the whole dish was just corn chowder with some really good stuff in the middle. Honestly I was really saddened when they showed me a beautiful crab cake looking thing and poured on a giant pitcher of corn sauce. I would have liked that if the corn sauce were like 1/8 as much volume. 4. And this is a big one for some folks: the server never asked about allergies. I realized this after ordering all four selectable courses. Luckily my allergen (coconut) was only present in one thing ordered by anyone at my table and that person wasn’t me. I’m fine with people eating coconut around me, so it wasn’t an issue, but it could be dangerous or deadly for someone with a serious allergy who would expect to be asked about it at a nice restaurant.