Mifflinburg Hotel & Scarlet D Tavern — Hotel in Mifflinburg

taying at the Mifflinburg Hotel is like travelling back in time (with a few modern amenities thrown in to ease the transition). The front desk is just like the hotels you see in old movies. They actually have a book that you sign your name in when you check in. On the lower level of the hotel, aside of the lobby, is the Scarelt D Tavern. The room we stayed in was structurally old but was totally re-painted and carpeted. The furnishings are old fashioned, as is the TV. The bathroom was totally updated - new tub/shower, new sink, new toilet, new flooring, etc. The room was very clean and the bed was comfortable. On the downside, there was no curtain on the bathroom window which is a clear glass window. Needless to say, my wife was not pleased with that. You looked out the window and, across the way, you could see a window in the building next door. There was no hair dryer in the room which we expect in all hotels these days. The door to the room had a simple push button lock - no deadbolt. Mifflinburg is a very small town so perhaps they don't worry about security there. Parking is very limited and, on weekends, the tavern does a brisk business which fills up the parking lot. If you come back to the hotel on a weekend night before midnight, you could have trouble finding a parking space. Luckily, when we returned to the hotel at 10 PM on Friday night, there was one parking spot left. That night, they had a band playing at the tavern. When we came in to the hotel, we were undecided as to whether we wanted to stop in at the tavern for a beer and listen to the band or go to bed. We went up to our room to drop off our coats and realized that the band was so loud (or the rooms so poorly insulated) that we could hear the band clearly right in our room. So, we decided we might as well go down to the tavern to have a beer and listen to them. If you go to the Oktoberfest or the Christmas Market in Mifflinburg. This hotel isn't a bad place to stay for a night - just know...

I've been here five times over the past year because of mandatory business meetings. The servers are nice people, but I have never gotten a meal there that was even halfway decent, and the menu is unimaginative. The “Caesar salad" ($9.99!) consisted of the equivalent of 3 ancient, dry and tough romaine leaves with a few croutons and– if you can imagine– that horrid dry POWDERED parmesan cheese on top, and the dressing was paste-like and tasted nothing like a true Caesar dressing. Another time, I ordered a crock of “French" onion soup. The broth, obviously made from a buillon concentrate, was extremely salty and the onions clearly weren't even caramelized, because they were still firm! The saturated, half-dissolved croutons topped by a layer of flavourless cheese were just disgusting. Their version of crab soup had so much Old Bay seasoning in it, that it was inedible. Once I ordered a Reuben, and got the side of “onion petals" with it. The sandwich meat was gristly and the bread was soggy. The "onion petals" was a flayed onion which had been dredged through a breading or batter and then deep-fried. Except for the outermost part, the onion was stuffed full of raw breading mixture, which was pasty and completely inedible. I tried a fish poor-boy one evening, and the breading tasted of rancid oil. Their fresh-cut fries were tasty, but arrived at room-temperature. I really can't imagine what's going on in the kitchen, but my advice to the management is to fire the current cook, and improve the menu (beyond fried this and battered that). I would suggest some interesting, healthier options; like raw vegetables with hummus, pita sandwiches and salads with snow peas, red peppers and cucumbers, fresh avocado, citrus dressing and sunflower seeds, apples and walnuts, a Greek vinaigrette, kalamata...

Here is what I know....I don't expect much from a "bar" type of place that serves food as well, but this place is just the worse.

We walked in and it felt as if were were what was on the menu. A hush fell over the "locals" to which quite a few were staring at my wife and I, or could have been the flies.....still unsure.

I ordered tea "unsweetened" wife wanted a Corona, but she brought her expired ID....these things happen.

I get my tea and its taste resembles what the chemicals they are spraying on the field down the street. Yeah no tea flavor and a lemon that was about as dry as the atmosphere.

I get my salad that comes with two hunks of tomato, and carrot peelings that looked as if they were plucked from the trash can. Lettuce that should have been 75% off at Weis, and ranch in a to go cup as if to urge me that I was unwanted.

Then we got "D" fries that I have to admit were good. Thing is that when I asked the server what it was she promptly replied "that is "D" sauce". As if to imply that telling me would have blown the lid off of there market share.

Then we get our entrees. Mine was the Chicken Carbonara, and wife got Grilled Chicken with the precious D sauce.

There was no substance to the spaghetti cheese soup. Now I will give them credit as to the garlic toast, but you really can't mess that up. The chicken was about as dry as a popcorn fart, and tasted as if they pulled it from a jack links jerky wrapper.

The wife's fries were glistening with oil, and her coleslaw was more of a soup.

All in all this place was wretchedness. That is a word with many syllables too so I don't expect the server to whom I left 5 dollars cash as a tip when she should have got 4 pennies and a nickel as she nor the establishment was...