Onion Creek Grille — Restaurant in Austin

Had the breakfast buffet. Everything honestly tasted like it had been frozen and reheated or just thawed. Even the muffin was still very cold on the inside. Blueberry sausage patty was flavorless and bland. Bacon was limp. Biscuits tasted freezer burnt. Potatoes were ok. Pancakes were dark and tasted burnt. Croissant was stale. Omelette was ok but waiting in a long line for one in addition to the bad food was annoying. Also the lady making omelettes had dollars on the counter not in a container for tips. This is not sanitary to have money around food and also the price of the buffet being $20 for food that was not enjoyable is astonishing. I don't like giving a bad review but quality and price were a huge factor. I honestly suggest going somewhere else for breakfast! I've had free hotel breakfast that tasted way...

I came for the breakfast buffet on a Sunday at 7:30 am but was informed by the lovely waitress that the hotel only makes the breakfast buffet available when hotel occupancy is close to 100% which wasn't the case today. I decided to stay anyway and order from the menu an American Breakfast, which came out pretty quick given I was the only customer. It was tasty, well presented and a good value for the portion given. I removed a star because the seasonality of the buffet should be made clear. I particularly enjoyed the strong coffee they serve as well as the high quality silverware and china used. Those little details really do enhance the dining experience. If they were to also use non-disposable containers to serve the ketchup and mermelade, it would...

On our road trips, we've eaten in a lot of hotel restaurants with very mixed results. On a road trip to west Texas, chance had us eating at the Onion Creek Grille in the Austin Southpark Hotel. Bravo--a great setting, fine food, and Francisco proved a really a great server.

For lunch, I had the tortilla soup and--thanks to Francisco's ingenuity--a big side of vegetables. My husband ordered the tuna salad melt on marble rye. Everything was fresh and tasty and the restaurant manager came out and asked us if we enjoyed lunch. Great food and...