FloraBelle — Restaurant in Florida

I was hoping for some sort of light breakfast like fruit because I was in a hurry and didn’t know if I’d be able to take anything with me when I had an appointment with someone in about 30 minutes. The only thing that seemed appropriate would’ve been a few of the items at the buffet, but since I knew I couldn’t eat much and didn’t have time to pick at it over a longer period of time, I asked if there was a child’s portion price or something instead of the $30 regular price because they didn’t have any options that would work for me on the menu. I even have proof from my doctor that I usually order from a child’s menu for medical reasons. He asked his manager and they said no.

He allowed me to order a child’s meal off the menu and there was nothing there that would’ve been a lighter breakfast like fruit, so I ordered the seaside biscuit. In the description on the menu, it said it was a biscuit with over-hard egg and sausage and cheese with potatoes. I assumed that would be a better choice than the waffles or pancakes that were the other options. It took more like 20 minutes to get the food and left me with three minutes to eat, so I asked the kid that brought me the meal for to go container because I had to leave and did not have time to eat. When I was packing it up, I took a bite of each thing just to get something to eat and the egg was not hard cooked; it was full runny and very peppery, which I found strange to be in a kids meal! The biscuit was tough and I just threw out, I found the sausage to be pretty spicy; especially for a child, but the potatoes were the only thing that I actually liked.

Fortunately, I was able to take the box with me to my meeting. That meal was $14 and made me think it would’ve been worth the $30 for the buffet even just to have gotten some fruit that I would’ve enjoyed and had time to eat over that disaster.

The best thing about that whole visit was, I chose to sit outside with the amazing view of the ocean while I waited all that time for food I couldn’t even eat besides the...

Robin saved the day! It started out as a horrible experience, but was turned around. With several empty tables in sight, we had a 15 minute wait. No problem. We happily had coffee while we waited, and the hostess was very friendly.

We were seated at the table, and then waited. And waited. And waited. No problem. We went up to the breakfast buffet, helped ourselves, and then returned to the table to start our breakfast. After sitting at the table, for the second time, for about 10 minutes with NO ONE coming over to help us, I got up and asked 2 waitresses talking in the back if I could get some water and some water glasses. I clearly annoyed them, and they never brought us water. About 5 minutes later, a sweet waitress named Robin passed by, and asked if anyone had waited on us. She immediately got us water, coffee and found our waitress. Our official waitress, Shanique, came over after Robin had already taken care of anything and brought us our bill. I know I had to look bewildered because we weren’t finished eating. Robin made a second appearance and I asked for a mimosa. She came bopping back to our table, and proudly handed me a very special “Robin-mosa.”

Not only did Robin turn the experience around, but a very friendly manager came over as well. What would have been a 1 star review is now a 4 star....

Tried to eat here this morning only to hike over to the other side of the hotel pregnant wife and toddler in tow only to find that there was a 30-40 minute wait. The frustrating thing is that we asked for a table inside or out and the two ladies working the front said there was no tables available. I walked around the dining room and outside before we decided to leave and found 12 tables with no one sitting at them! 12! People were just waiting around waiting to be seated while we were there for 10 minutes and the open tables within view of the hostess stand still sat empty. Honestly I can understand they are busy but the girls at the desk did not seem interested in helping at all. We stayed at the Ritz down the road and honestly everyone there is willing to go out of there way to help while here this morning we seemed more of an inconvenience. Again we cannot comment on the food but service...