Forked On Main

If you haven’t been back since Forked on Main opened their doors after the Covid shut down, you are missing out on one of the best Restaurants in Orange. I am so impressed by their new menu. Great food, great service and great atmosphere. It takes a lot for me to do a review but this restaurant deserves high praise.

Decided on this place after seeing the menu online. We were surprised when we arrived to see the menu was completely different. It was partially our fault, we failed to notice the pictures of the menu were two years old. The menu is very different and prices are very different as well. The restaurant was very clean and staff is nice. We ordered Pimento Cheese & Fried Pickles which were very good and everything complemented each other very well. We also ordered the Gnocchi, the flavor was excellent but the portion size seemed small for $14. For entrées we ordered the Vegetable Risotto again flavors were awesome and portion size was huge, but on the downside the risotto was a little soupy for us. Our second entrée was the Lemon Basil Linguine, this was the true gem of our evening, everything about it was exquisite from the chicken, pasta, and the sauce it was out of this world good. Fork on main is definitely a place I would recommend for people to try if in the area.

The place is nice and it has a well stocked bar. Definitely a date night spot right in the heart of downtown Orange. Everything was excellent but the wait to get appetizers was long and our waitress was not very attentive for how slow the place was. To start we had the seared tuna and a bowl of edamame for appetizers. There were other couples that were seated after us that had appetizer and were eating their entrees before we got the appetizers. For dinner i had the Peppered Scallops with grits and asparagus. We also ordered the bone in stuffed pork chop with asparagus and smashed red potatoes, and a 12oz steak with potatoes asparagus and an herded butter. I'm looking forward to ournext visiting.

Had a great lunch yesterday at Forked on Main. We arrived a bit after the lunch hour but the service and food was still terrific. The crab bisque was really good and paired with the focaccia bread was even better. The Forked Salad with shrimp was very tasty. Very welcoming people and light and airy atmosphere. Great music on the speakers. Recommended.

I am very glad to see Forked on Main reopened again after closing for several months due to COVID and the pandemic. I stopped here for lunch with a friend and had the Grilled Salmon. It was delicious and we both thoroughly enjoyed our meal. As with all restaurants these days, more wait staff would have been nice, but the server we had was working hard and did a nice job. I look forward to returning again when visiting in Orange. This restaurant is a real asset to the community.

I'm sorry, this is going to appear mean, it is, but truth sometimes helps growth. I truly am offering an honest opinion after over 45 years serving food throughout the country. 1. Shrimp should never be overcooked! 2. Grits should always be creamy! Skillet fried sweet 🌽 dumped over ball of grits topped with overcooked shrimp drizzled with way to much browned butter. All on top of a clump of fresh spinach, odd. Not complimentary to the dry grits. Avacado BLT one word GARLIC to the point of bitter. Bread is delicious but inedible as a sandwich, tough crust, diced tomatoes, avacado slices and 2 strips of bacon is impossible to eat. Try it, you cannot cut the crust of the bread, the diced tomatoes go everywhere, so you can not hold the slippery avacado tomatoes as sandwich. Try biting through it if you do get it up. No pun intended. I was really looking forward to eating here, 3 years ago my daughter loved it. I know the last 12 months of catastrophic economic malpractice has decimated our businesses, as well as putting 70 percent of the service employees on vacation, but if we're in the service business we need to meet that need!

We split a generous appetizer and a small meal for our lunch on a very hot day. Our meal was a treat from start to finish, with great staff, management, music choice, and wonderful service. Only thing negative I can say is that the air conditioning was freezing! I will absolutely be back! With a sweater.

Good food and great service. Everything that had a unique twist. Some great but some...just Ok. One thing that you might want to think about is ordering a drink on the rocks because that "Rocks" is going to cost you another $2.50. Yes the 1 big block off of ice is $2.50. Gumbo was excellent, lobster bisque was different and not a usual bisque.