208 Talbot - St. Michaels

This place definitely lives up to their reputation. We reserved a table for our anniversary dinner after highly being recommended by our Hotel. Amongst the adorable Main Street of St. Michael's was Talbot 208 with a brick stone walkways, dimly lit lights, fireplace setting a romantic and classy ambiance. Our server was sweet, attentive and add fantastic recommendations. It was so delicious that we made plans to get dinner there one more time before their final closing at the end of this month. We ordered the following with ratings: Cesar Salad (delicious house made dressing) Talbot Salad French onion soup (best I've had) Seared Scallops and the little yet most delicious lobster Filet Mignon was so soft but slightly over cooked. Peach Bread pudding (the lightest and delectable in flavor) Lemon Curd was good but nothing extraordinary Service

Place was outstanding. Fancy casual restaurant with a high end feel. Outstanding cocktails, food and service. Cocktails Pomegranate marg well balanced marg with outstanding Pom flavor St. Mike's Mule citrus fruit with gin paired extremely well. Food Duck confit ravioli outstanding homemade pasta. Great duck flavor. A bit heavy on the balsamic, made it a bit sweet. Sea scallops just outstanding. Seared to perfection. Risotto was cooked well with lots of cheese. Local rockfish again absolutely cooked to perfection. The tomatoes, spinach and fingerling potatoes were the perfect compliment.

My husband and I had dinner here to celebrate our 1st anniversary, and it was the perfect spot! We were greeted at the front and led immediately to a more intimate room with a few 2 tops in it. Quite a romantic vibe, though juuust quiet enough to hear other people's conversations. The hostess offered us water options, which was a nice touch as she was able to provide this while our server greeted us and went over the specials. The wine menu was lovely, and I chose a couple of old world wines by the glass for us to commemorate the fact that we honeymooned in France and Italy. While Talbot's, like all the area restaurants, has an extensive seafood menu we'd had a bunch of seafood already so limited it to our appetizer of crab spring rolls. Absolutely perfect, lightly fried with plenty of crab and a delicate orangey dipping sauce. For entrees we both chose beef I ordered the short rib special (over jalepeno cheddar grits, yum! and my husband chose a more traditional steak. Both entrees were cooked perfectly. We were stuffed but HAD to get to dessert, and trust us, we finished the apple cobbler!! We only mentioned to our server as we got our dessert that it was our anniversary, and she was so sweet that she brought our complementary champagne to top off our meal. We felt truly special and Talbot's was the perfect way for us to celebrate our first year of marriage!

Top spot (in my opinion) in this beautiful city. Reservations are a must so that you arrive on time and enjoy your meal. The menu a small yet very complex a multitude of different spices and meats and vegetables are fresh make any of the serve entrées stellar. We ate a variety of menu items and I have to say without identifying each one, they all were superb worthy of my opinion the restaurant being the best in he city. It's not often you find a high-quality restaurant in a large city nonetheless find it in a small resort town off the beaten path. The wait staff was superb they had a small customer to waitress ratio which meant that you were always attended to before needing to ask for anything. Again the food superb, came out piping hot beautifully presented, flavorful, and most of all filling. I would recommend this to anyone in the area or if you're within 50 miles.

Came here for dinner. Wow. What a great place. We were seated inside in a room that only held 2 tables with wide doorways--felt safe enough during Covid--they didn't appear to have outside dining. Service was great from the host greeting us, to the waitress to the wine manager who pointed us to a great bottle of Charbona I would have overlooked. We had the pate--so rich and delicious and great with the wine. The waittress split our watermelon arugula salad so we each had our own plate--really an amazing salad with the combo of sweet watermelon, bitter arugula, salty fatty feta, and crunchy salty pinenuts. So good. Sadly I was almost full before the entrees came--we had the ribeye and scallops on risotto. Both were delicious. Scallops and risotto were extra special. Ribeye very good, slightly more cooked than I prefer, but still great. Overall just a great dining experience. Highly recommend!