Review is for the Thanksgiving Buffet. My wife and I decided we would go out for Thanksgiving this year so we wouldn't have a fridge full of leftovers for a week. We looked around at a lot of restaurants before finally settling on Blue Morel because the menu sounded great. The roast suckling pig was a huge draw; we'd seen it on the menu at La Grande Boucherie in NYC for a minimum of 8 people, and thought this would be a great opportunity to try it. We also figured that at the very least, even if everything else was bad, there'd be charcuterie and cheeses and desserts, so how bad could it be, right?

So we showed up, got seated, went up to the buffet, and first thing we notice, no pig. We asked where it was, and were told, "Yeah, we couldn't get them, so they changed the menu, and they didn't change the menu online." Great. That was really the whole reason we chose this particular restaurant.

So we figured we'd make the best of it, and started with the charcuterie and cheese as an appetizer. Well, not so much. The cheese selection were cubes of cheddar, Swiss and pepper jack, supermarket block cheese. I took some salami and ham (just generic ham, nothing special) but even that was inedible; it had been piled on a platter with a bunch of giardiniera and absorbed all the vinegar from it. So much for that.

The entree choices were carving stations of boneless turkey and some kind of beef (strip loin maybe?). Neither were particularly good. Both were room temperature, and the turkey in particular had a very artificial/industrial taste to it and a rubbery texture. The sides were mostly cold and not worth space on the plate.

Hard to believe, the desserts were even a notch lower. The pies were grocery-store bakery level. The churros seemed to be the best of the bunch, which is a pretty odd highlight for a Thanksgiving dinner.

Service expectations for a buffet are pretty low, but they managed to limbo below those too. When we were first seated, I had indicated I'd want to order a glass of wine a little later, but nobody ever came to check on us or ask if we wanted a beverage after that first interaction, though the restaurant was mostly empty. Busboys came occasionally to take plates, but it was hard to figure out why they'd take one but not another, even when we told them we were done with a plate. I also had to get fresh silverware off another table once when mine were taken and no fresh ones were brought.

There really wasn't a single positive to the meal, and I'm crossing it off my list for good. Irredeemable.