Arthur's Terrace — Restaurant in Manheim Township

We are a group of friends who have used commercial brunch offerings for celebrating many of our favorite festive occasions that included birthdays, Mother’s Days, and most certainly Thanksgiving. While we value other occasions, we’ve always placed great emphasis on personal birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations and for those, we enjoyed sparing no expense on the venues. We’re only pointing this out to say that we have tasted many, many celebration brunches over more than a decade. So, this is Thanksgiving 2023, about a month ago, and we chose to go to the Eden Resort. Several of us have always enjoyed starting with a few appetizers, of which there were many, and following that with a bowl or two of what had for a long time been termed as AWARD WINNING lobster bisque at Eden. Whow!!!! Big salty surprise here! Typical of canned food, and canned soups in particular, this bisque reeked of saturated salt. As an alternate, someone pointed to the tomato soup that was placed right next to the godawful bisque but another one noted that it tasted like a ruined, oversalted spaghetti sauce, not a soup, and there was no spaghetti in sight. By this time, everything that the other appetizers did to evoke a pleasant culinary experience was ruined by these dreadful, appalling, salty canned-like food abominations. Of course, there is no Thanksgiving without a nice piece of freshly roasted turkey and our expectations were high. Before going to the carving station, we reviewed the other food table that had a number of chafing dishes, with one of them labeled turkey. This dish had a dried up Diner-standard roll of processed white turkey meat that no one even tried but it also had some bits of finely cubed dark meat. Since several of us like dark turkey meat, we tried that only to encounter another hair-raising salt-mine experience. The bits were all dried up and, like the bisque, salt saturated to the point of wanting to spit it out. Well, all was not lost, we thought, since there was still the carving station to keep hope alive but high expectations were quickly dashed here as well by observing the process. There was a pile of turkey extremities, wings, drum-sticks, lots of skin, burned skin, lots of burned pieces, gristle and tendons. A carver was frantically tearing this apart to debone, making little piles that included the burned stuff, the skins, the leg tendons and gristle; this person was cutting all this up into small pieces as best as he could, as if to prepare for doggie dishes, and trying to give this to people: disgusting. No new turkey seemed to be available and this was only at about 2:30 PM. We opted out of that unappetizing choice and decided to try the prime rib. There were only some greasy pieces left with some overdone meat, so we asked whether or not there was a new piece coming. Somewhat to our surprise, the answer was yes and a new roast appeared in a very short time. The piece was large enough to have various degrees of doneness and we received nice cuts of medium rare roast that all looked great. We are finally back at our table, showing off to each other our prized pieces that looked good and were roasted well. At this point, we probably shouldn’t have been surprised that the cheer was going to be very short-lived about this prime rib. Apparently, the prime had gone out of this prime rib years ago and the cuts might as well have been some chewy, inedible piece of beef gristle. We hadn’t had beef this tough in years and certainly not at a purportedly well-regarded, well rated restaurant. To close this awfully disappointing day, a ruined Thanksgiving, it is easy to say that our server was attentive and helpful but he had nothing to do with food and could do very little to assuage the dire, despicable food selection conditions at Eden, a restaurant that prided itself for many years as a place of choice for celebrating...

Nice restaurant in the beautiful, busy Eden hotel. The prime rib buffet is good, but on a small scale. 4 different entrees were offered plus prime rib. A pasta, chicken, fish and cooked veggie dish. The other row for the buffet is a salad buffet. The salad side is a typical style of salad offerings, plus other cold salads such as chicken salad, pasta salad, fruits etc. Bread and 2 soups offered, plus a row of desserts. Coffee is an extra cost, though. The ambiance of Arthur's is nice and cozy. Its dimly lit, and consists of booths,tables, and 2 levels. Staff is very helpful and friendly. The Eden hotel is great, beautiful fireplace right outside of the restaurant to sit and enjoy in the lobby afterwards. Side note, the buffet size is acceptable, but really small in comparison to the Eden's Sunday buffet which takes up an entire room for about...

Friends told us the prime rib buffet was very good so my wife and I tried it. I had the buffet, my wife had seared scallops. Her meal was mediocre at best. Scallops were good size but lacked any flavor. The prime rib was a waste of money. We were there at the peak of dinner hour and they had only well done meat. I asked if they had anything more rare and they told me they would get some from the kitchen. 15 minutes later I asked again and they told me 'we are looking for it'. It never occurred to me it was something you need to look for. It's either in the kitchen or not. Service was not very good although they were friendly. I had to ask 3 times for a knife. Will never go back and surely won't recommend it. Salad was good. That...