I was really hoping the food was going to be as delicious as their picture, but unfortunately I'm going to have to claim false advertising. Blackened chicken pasta was more like soup. I bet there's one slice of a tomato chopped up in there. Restaurant was dead to too so there no reason not to make it how it should be.
Went in at 8pm on a Monday night and no worker was around. When she did show up around 4 mins later, apparently it was an inconvenience. She handed me a menu and stared at the TV, "OH my shows on, what channel is that?" She went to the back, as I looked at the menu. I picked out what I wanted, but wasn't interested in waiting any longer for her to get back. I left to eat elsewhere.
Service was very very friendly and the food was well prepared. The online menu did not match their actual menu. I enjoyed the blackened chicken pasta I ordered. It lacked the bit of spice that I was expecting from "lightly spiced Alfredo" and the blackened chicken was more like normal grilled chicken. I'm a light weight with spicy seasoning - like a lot of black pepper can be spicy for me. Haha. Thus, for me to not taste any spice, it was very lightly spiced. Service was exceptionally slow however not the fault of staff as the restaurant only had one staff acting as both server & bartender and one cook to make all dinner orders. They never stopped moving to serve customers however they were just very short staffed. They managed to stay up-beat all night, even given that some customers were not pleased about the wait. There were clearly a few regulars that the bartender knew and remembered their drinks, etc. It shows that it's overall a very friendly restaurant. I enjoyed my hotel dining experience and since I knew it was going to be slow service, that didn't sour my experience.
We only had the breakfast buffet 2 morning during our stay at the Double Tree. It's a lovely dining area. But the buffet itself is not worth $15. It's less breakfast than we had at the Hampton we stayed at the month before, and that was included with our room! The meat in the shaffer dishes was cold. They constantly ran out of eggs. There are not enough stations, no waffles, and you have to ask for things like cereal as it's not out on the buffet. There is no breakfast menu to order from. The toaster is jacked up. You have to run your bread thru more than once to get it toasted, holding up the line. The workers are having to work too hard, running crazy keeping everything stocked and bussing tables, etc. There is clearly not enough staff for the guests that enjoy the breakfast. It will fill you up but doesn't match how upscale everything else looks.
