For the 18 years that I lived in the area, I had never stepped foot inside of Windfield's. I had always heard about this restaurant and had driven past it numerous times. For the 30 years that my dad had lived in the area, he had never been here either. We finally decided one night to see what it was all about. Granted that Windfield's has been around since the dawn of the earth, there had to be something special about here.
Needless to say, we were both extremely disappointed. I got the french onion soup with the veal parm. My dad got the AAA roast prime rib of beef (Medium rare) with the soup of the day.
Both soups were average. Nothing special about it but nothing to complain about either. It's hard to mess up french onion soup and Windfield's was able to maintain that standard. Sadly, my veal parm was below average. There was a lot more spaghetti than there should have been and the spaghetti was overcooked and didn't taste like it had been seasoned properly when cooked. The tomato sauce tasted like it came out of a can. The veal parm was also pretty below par as well and didn't have much seasoning to go along with the canned tasting tomato sauce.
My dad's prime rib came out medium well to well done and was pretty chewy. There also was little to no seasoning on it as well.
By then, I was pretty disappointed but figured that maybe their large selection of desserts that they had showcased in front would be good. I ordered an apple pie while thinking that this could be really good because it looked really good. Sadly, I was let down again.
For an establishment that has been around since the dawn of time, I was very disappointed. It took my dad 30 years of living in the area to finally go there and took me 30 years of my life to finally enter there. Sadly, it will take another 30 years before my dad or I go back.