Harvest Kitchen — Restaurant in Merriam

Note limited service during non peak hours. Hours especially limited on weekends.

The food is consistently very good, very high quality, with plenty of variety. The staff are attentive and informative, and it's a convenient place to get a hot, healthy, and fairly inexpensive meal, plus a lot of extras like snacks, beverages, and grab-n-go items. Maybe the hospital cafeteria wouldn't normally be your first choice... and sure, it's not Michelin dining, but this cafeteria definitely satisfies. And they have good drip coffee, which is a godsend when you stay overnight.

For lunch and dinner, there was a pizza station and a grill station (think chicken strips, burgers, fries) daily, as well as rotating stations with international cuisine (I had chicken shawarma in a pita with wide selection of quite fresh toppings you'd expect like olives, tzatziki, veggies) and a somewhat less international menu (for example, chicken piccata, asparagus, potatoes au gratin, cobbler, and other items).

There's a very fresh salad bar with a variety of tasty dressings that depart refreshingly from the typical heavy stuff like ranch. I also saw a made-to-order salad station but did not get a chance to try it.

In the morning, there's basically everything you could expect. Good hot bar with quality scrambled eggs, poultry based bacon and sausage, potatoes/hash browns, and biscuits with good gravy. I thought I saw French toast sticks, a breakfast burrito option, and perhaps pancakes at some point, but didn't get to try those. Also a good yogurt bar with fresh fruit and dry toppings. And lots of other things to round it out: cereals, packaged muffins, bagels and breads, fruit, and so on. You can also pick up packaged sandwiches and healthier snack options from a grab and go case any time they're open.

Finally, there's big row of fridges with bottled beverages such as soda, water, Gatorade, tea, energy drinks, and so on. Fountain drinks available, but I didn't take the time to note what was offered. And there's a station with some packaged snacks, again on the healthier side, such as granola bars, sun chips, nuts, trail mix, etc. There's also a wide assortment of condiments, either before you pay (peanut butter, butter, jam) or after the register (ketchup, mustard, BBQ, hot sauce, and lots more).

You have to weigh most of the self serve foods on the scale at the checkstand, but before you check out, pay attention to price tags to see which things are priced by the item, and just be ready to show those to the cashier. The signs near the cashier say "use both sides to pay", but there's only a credit card machine on one side of each register, so look ahead to see where...

Brenda M in Harvest Kitchen @ Advent Health, she was wonderful helping me find what I needed. She also cared about the questions I had to ask her. In my past experiences I’ve dealt with people who have been short with me in the past but never at this hospital. Everyone seemed like they genuinely cared about helping their customers anyway they could. I really appreciated the way this hospital kitchen is run. This cafeteria closes at 2pm Mon-Fri & offers...

I never expected a cafeteria in a hospital to have such fantastic food with such friendly staff professionals. I would say that the options were great and the service was...