Wellington's Restaurant

1216 W State of Franklin Rd, Johnson City - 37604
299 reviews
Southern Venues & Event Spaces
(423) 979-6401

Although I’ve forgotten her name, our waitress was very good and made an amazing cherries jubilee! We enjoyed our dinner and would recommend it highly!

The shrimp and grits starter and the Spring Mountain Chicken dish with smashed potatoes and green beans were delicious. Unfortunately, my husband ordered the fried catfish and it was absolutely dreadful. Our server was a lovely young lady, very attentive but not intrusive. We will definitely try Wellington's again. The bartender makes a mean gin martini!

We chose this restaurant to celebrate our anniversary based on the countless Gluten Free options due to a severe allergy noted on the website and menu. I was excited to celebrate over dinner; however after inquiring our server about the Gluten Free items on the menu we were expecting to try - I was saddened to learn the items are not Gluten Free and they are cross-contaminated as they are fried in fryers with other Gluten Containing foods.

Not very busy yet everything took a while to come out of the kitchen. Not as Delicious as fine dining could be - better filets as different chain restaurants. Great cheesecake, cold rolls. Server was normal

Great fried green tomatoes. We had salmon and catfish which were excellent. Have had the deconstructed beef Wellington before and it is phenomenal

Great dinner and experience as always. Attentive staff, excellent meal and drinks.

I have heard great things about this restaurant from friends that have had past experiences here. Friends have told me that the restaurant is going downhill and I wish I would have listened. The entire experience from start to finish was terrible. After waiting 15 minutes we were finally “greeted” by a waitress that honestly seemed annoyed at our very presence. In my opinion, the restaurant honestly wasn’t very busy. There were 6-7 tables, three of which were parties of two and this is on a holiday night so I would assume they would have been prepared for a larger number of guests anyway. We were seated at 7 and we didn’t receive our food until 8:15. We ordered two steaks (one medium and one medium rare) with no mods to the plate. There was a family of four that sat down behind us about 30 minutes after us and they actually received their food before we did (with at least one of them eating what appeared to be a medium steak). Our waitress was obviously overwhelmed and I had patience for that but not the attitude. However, when the steak came very undercooked (I ordered medium and it was a rare- the center was cold) I told her very nicely that I wasn’t happy with the temperature and she had an immediate attitude, walked away, and we didn’t see her again. The manager on duty wasn’t much better trying to argue that it just seemed rare because the steak was thick and that a medium on thick steak will have a cold center. Instead of just apologizing and admitting the steak was undercooked, she was making excuses. She asked if I wanted a new plate or a steak cooked medium well instead (still not able to admit that what I was given was not a medium) but I simply told her that I was fine and I didn’t want anything because I was afraid of the time it would take because of the time the first steak took and honestly I was just ready to leave. She had no issue taking the meal off our bill but was condescending the entirety of our conversation . We were very disappointed with the entire experience.

Took my Aunt Lyn from California to brunch at Wellington's. We had the best breakfast burrito in the world! Thank you for a LOVELY outdoor brunch!

It was very convenient to have a great restaurant in the hotel . We enjoyed our meal at Wellington’s. The atmosphere was very relaxing and we enjoyed watching the flaming desserts being made at the tables. We also ate breakfast there- it was a little more expensive than chain restaurants- but we got a huge breakfast plate and it was very tasty.

Good but not great. We will be back to give it another try soon