Soulivia's Art Soul - Chesapeake

The food was phenomenal. Everything was well seasoned.

What a wonderful restaurant! The service was fast and not intrusive. The food was absolutely delicious! Beautiful live jazz music has made a wonderful experience. Will definitely go back!

That was my first time. The service was extremely slow. I had to ask for water and menu after 25 minutes. The food was good and the portions were well dimensioned. I think with an additional training of employees the experience would be different.

We could not have been more disappointed with our first experience at Soulivia’s. We made a reservation for Father’s Day. Hubby loves southern cuisine and I like jazz….we were promptly seated and told we were lucky they had menues because sometimes they don’t. I noticed the sax player was outside! It was piped in but you could barely hear it. The second thing we noticed was how incredibly quiet the other patrons were….this wasn’t a buzzing, upbeat place. The flowers on the tables were pretty dead…Only one table inside had food….which comes to the third issue, after listening to other customers and looking outside, food was taking a really long time the couple next to us had already waited over an hour. The couple behind us had waited over an hour as well. There was no children’s menu. We did order drinks but those took over 20 minutes. We didn’t even wait for them. We ended up leaving. I understand that there is a staffing shortage and we all need to have patience….. an hour plus for food is not a good fit for our family.

Had Father's Day reservations for 10:30am. Once seated, we were greeted by a bartender who stated it was her first day when we asked a question. We ordered off of a limited menu (Fish and Grits). Not one time in the 45 mins we were seated did the bartender/waitress come back to check on us to see if we were ok, refill our water glasses or let us know about our food we were waiting for. Fish and Grits should have not taken that long to be prepared and served. We were highly disappointed with the service and time wasted just sitting there. Wanted to support a black owned business, but this restaurant put a bad taste in our mouth based on the service alone.