U.S. Hotel Tavern — Restaurant in Hollidaysburg

I need to take a break from this place. It's been one of my preferred dining spots but my last visit has me not wanting to return for a while. We had out of town guests and I was eager to take them to the US Hotel Tavern. I made a reservation for 4 in case it was busy, and when we arrived there were multiple empty tables - which is fine, but we were directed to be seated at a table that still had food crumbs from the last diners and had obviously not been wiped down. I had to ask for the table to be cleaned before we sat (this is the second visit in a row that we've been seated at a dirty table). We ordered our food - pub fare - after brief consideration and waited about 45 minutes for our food to be brought out - far too long for simple pub fare. One plate was a sandwich and the accompanying fries were room temperature - they actually felt cold. We immediately asked for fresh fries and those were brought out in less than 5 minutes - but why bring out old, cold fries if it takes such a short time to make fresh ones? I ordered a chicken quesadilla and ate most of it. I was preoccupied with visiting and conversing but kept wondering why in the world is this food so dry? It wasn't until later, after we left the restaurant, that I sheepishly realized that there was NO CHEESE in my quesadilla - that's why it was so dry, and why I decided not to finish eating it. Before leaving, I had asked the waitstaff if they were shorthanded in the kitchen because the food took so long and was of such poor quality, but was assured that they were staffed normally. I took my guests to the US Hotel Tavern expecting a great experience and ended up feeling embarrassed at having chosen...

Terrible experience. I was leaving the country the next day for a month so I wanted to take my wife to a really nice dinner. I called the US Hotel and made reservations that afternoon, in the middle of a week mind you, and was told that a table would be ready for two. We got to the tavern later only to stand in a hallway for about 5 minutes because the hostess, an older woman, couldn't be found by a passing waitress. When she finally arrived, she told us that she didn't have a table for two for us in the fine dinning section and there wouldn't be one available anytime soon so she sat us as a large round table for 10 people.... It was also conveniently placed next to the very heavy swinging kitchen door, so it was busy and loud. We should have left right then but we decided to stick it out because we had such high hopes for the place. The food was mediocre at best. The only saving grace was our very kind and sympathetic waitress. If you are looking for good food, just do yourself a favor and avoid at all costs. If your looking for a fine dinning experience, definitely avoid!!! It's a shame that such a cool location is being wasted on crappy management. *this took place...

My take away on the US Hotel Tavern is based on the murder mystery dinner. First the appearance of the room was great, very nice place to host an event or wedding. Second the entertainment was good, the actors were great. Only issue we had was hearing everything going on. We sat at a back table, and some actors talked real low and we couldn't hear anything. Maybe adding some mics or speakers for the back of the house would work. Third the food. It was a buffet style food line, dessert, salad, mixed vegetables, pasta, and chicken. The dessert was great, the salad was good, as always the dressing makes the salad. The mixed vegetables was kinda bland, needed seasoned..a lot. The pasta was good. The chicken with I think gravy, needed seasoned, this was probably the worst part of the meal. The gravy didn't help or add flavor. The chicken/gravy was missing flavor. Overall the experience was great, venue was on point, entertainment was great, food...well...