Ashburn Reviews

Tuscarora Mill
203 Harrison St. SE
Leesburg, VA 20175
703-771-9300

Web Site: tuskies.com

Location: Market Station, in the center of the Historic District of Leesburg, Virginia.

It is hard to believe, but I have a 3 good reviews in a row. This review I’m afraid will start out a bit sour but will get better… I just think it is important to go through the whole experience with you.

My husband and I joined some good friends at Tuscarora Mill for dinner yesterday.

I had made our 6-person reservations at Tuskies one or two weeks in advance online. So imagine our disapoointment when we got there and rather then give us a 6 person table (for our 6-person reservation) they tried to give us a 4 person table and add 2 chairs to it.

Now let me be clear, this was a small 4 person table, so with out the addition chairs added to the table, there was NO elbow room around the table. We are not a small people, so this would not do. We asked to be moved to an actual 6 person table. There were at least 2 or 3 of those tables without people in them. The host said NO - that THOSE tables were reserved specifically. We had a lot of mixed emotions running through our head. What we have to specify that we really want a 6 person table for 6 people? WE MADE RESERVATIONS. How dare they pick other people that aren’t here yet (better people?) over us in seating. Like my husband said, “A bird in the hand.” The host, suggested that we wait for 20+ minutes for another table to open up that was bigger. At that point some of us were ready to leave… it was insulting. But instead we waited. And yes it was at least 20 minutes till the table they wanted us to sit in was ready. Again let me reiterate here - WE HAD RESERVATIONS. (And to add insult to injury, the whole night long they continued to sit 4-person groups at that tinny table that they had originally tried to put us at.. so it was just us. Maybe they thought we weren’t complainers.)

25 or so minutes later though, once we were seated, I am glad to report, the food was good, as was the service, and the atmosphere. The restaurant is set in a restored grain mill - it is a pretty place. The meal we had was top notch. The top best things I think were the appetizers and the desserts.

For appetizers our table shared a meat platter and a cheese platter.

The meat platter had ham, pate, pork confit, mustard and pickles. Although I would have never guessed it, I really liked the pate. I had never had it before and the idea of ground liver kind of grossed me out. But it was really tasty. Like Lipton onion soup mix sort of. A bit oniony and a bit salty. And the pickles were pretty great too. Very sour. The Seranno ham was thinly sliced and great with a bit of that mustard.

On our other appetizer plate we had the cheese plate which included 3 kinds of cheeses with some fruit jelly. All was good. It felt very fancy.

The entries were mostly from the specials menu, the steak all around except one of us got the pasta and another got the salmon. Everyone liked their meal.

Desserts were way good. We had 2 warm berry napoleons on the table and one butterscotch bread pudding. All good. Coffee in my opinion was just okay.

I should also note, that we were served bread at the start of the meal. And it was served it with the very best olive oil that I have ever had. It was almost floral in its taste. Dipping the bread in the oil with a bit of ground pepper was out of this world. Yum.