Gift store in front of restaurant & restrooms located in the front in the gift shop area. They offer a large Buffet offering numerous items ( say had chicken, turkey, pork, ham, beef & gravy, mashed potatoes & 2 types of gravy, chicken noodles, cottage cheese, pasta salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw, full salad bar & salad dressings, fish bites, macaroni & cheese, stuffing, green beans, broccoli casserole, turkey tetrazzini, rolls, meatloaf) and the Buffet includes a piece of pie and ice cream of your choice with the purchase of the buffet as well you can order anything you like off of there vast menu. They offer Pepsi products, tea both hot & cold and water are just among some of the beverages they have to choose from. The gift store offers tote bags toys stuffed animals cards as well as many other unique items. If you would like to take home any of your food items if you purchased the buffet you can ask for a box but you will be charged a separate charge for that item even though you have already paid for the buffet. Large room for large parties additional area for seating as well as large area near and around the buffet. The waitress we had was Echo she was super friendly, nice, very attentive, got us refills and anything we needed as well as everyone there was very friendly and very helpful. Outside there is a an additional treats & sweets shop where you can get ice cream, candies, there are many books, postcards and various other unique items to choose from to buy as well as a very unique super nice putt putt golf course. Across the parking lot is a antique mall with various unique stores. I tell you will not be unhappy or disappointed with this location I have waited for you to go to this location for year's, I'm sorry I waited so long but it won't happen again, I look forward to going back again. I was definitely not disappointed, thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We were told that they started charging $2 extra for the ice cream even if you buy a meal or pay for the buffet you must tack on an additional $2 for ice cream. Even though I find this a little ridiculous it won't even get you I think it is still worth it but we did not pay the additional $2 for the ice cream. When you can go outside go in the same parking lot to the little ice cream shop where they have so many different flavors to choose from an options available to you. I would choose to go to the little ice cream shop and get your dessert from there. I'm not saying don't have pie while you're there or something else for dessert while you're there especially if you've paid for it. I'm just saying if you want ice cream go to the...
Read moreThe Broasted chicken on the buffet is superb, supreme, super duper; a lot. (Broasted is a special way to fry chicken, according to the Internet) The chicken is fresh, hot, tender, fabulously flavored, crispy; it is completely wonderful.
The Potato salad is supreme. The noodles on the buffet in a light gravy are great. The roasted turkey, with dressing & brown gravy is wonderful. The roast beef on top of the noodles with some brown gravy is terrific. I added a little salt & pepper to a few things.
The cole slaw, macaroni salad, fresh fruit are really good. The Stewed tomatoes are too sweet, but extra salt made them much better. I still ate two servings.
The regular Apple pie on the dessert bar is Dy-no-mite! It is fine, fine pie. Crispy, tender, flavorful crust, extremely delicious sweet, spicy filling. The server offered to bring ice cream, but I couldn’t eat it as I was too filled up.
The food on the buffet which I ate was simply tremendously and carefully prepared, apparently. It was so very fine.
There are at least 2 1/2 X more dishes on the buffet than what I have mentioned. The salad greens & toppings looked terrific. There were more meats available I couldn’t begin to get to. The number of hot vegetables available was quite high. I didn’t get to them either.
I ate 3 trips worth of food and wanted 5 trips worth. The foods that I started out eating I just got more of; they were so satisfying.
The staff was very professional - acting; totally helpful, friendly, patient, offering refills, etc. often enough, etc.
This was a completely professionally run business today. It was tremendous. The log-in at my place of employment often asks “How are you feeling today? My response today...
Read moreI did not experience this restaurant and certainly won't tank their reviews because of this issue, but this interaction needs to be addressed. Called up to ask about outdoor seating and dog policy, it's a "No" on both by the way, which is perfectly okay, no worries there for us! Plenty of other options in the area; however, when I said it was a bummer because we were looking forward to some rib-sticking Amish food, the person on the line very rudely corrected me and said they were NOT an Amish restaurant, but an old fashioned home cooking restaurant and tried to continue on about it, but I ended the call quickly because, 1. We weren't going to eat there anyway because of the seating and dog policy (again, no big deal, we were not fussed), but 2. LOL pardon MY pedantics, but your signage is a horse and buggy with a man in a flat hat, a woman in a bonnet, and a young boy in a flat hat. Your business name is: "The Olde Dutch Restaurant & Banquet Haus." It is a buffet-style set-up. Every context clue given is that this is an Amish restaurant. Whereas your staff may think this is an annoying assumption made by prospective or actual customers, it could be that there is spotty internet service in the area and your website wouldn't load and that even though all the wordage and pictographs on your signs seen everywhere from the highways and by-ways scream Amish, one may still not know that you're just an old fashioned home cooking restaurant. Phone etiquette and customer service work hand in hand and the attitude that I experienced completely turned me off. There wasn't any need for it. Again,...
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