Afternoon Tea at The Westgate Hotel — Restaurant in San Diego

Bizarre experience. My wife and I were literally the only diners our entire hour and 15 minutes dining at 6pm on a Sunday evening. Super kind and pleasant staff. Building was gorgeous and super clean with great music in the dining room (Ella Fitzgerald etc). It did take almost a full half hour for us to get our soup and salad. And NO BREAD!!! What?!?! The rest of the meal was delivered in a timely manner. Sad to say, the food was super underwhelming. My steak and my wife’s chicken were incredibly bland, the fries that accompanied my steak were 10 times worse than any fast food fries. The mashed potatoes were also super blah, and the asparagus had to have been canned with how limp and discolored it was. And for the price??? Missed the mark big time. This was a company paid dinner, luckily. Such a weird, perplexing, fun night out with my wife (and no kids with us...

WOW, where do I start. My Daughter and Son-in-law treated his Mom and I to a Mother's Day Tea. "Beautiful" Breathtakingly Gorgeous. From the time we arrived to the very end everything was perfect. There was a Lovely Lady playing the harp throughout the afternoon setting an elegant tone and ambience. The moment we arrived we were seated at a beautiful table and given menus with an introduction to the afternoon's courses and choice of refreshments. The staff was wonderful, knowledgeable, attentive and very polite. There was a wide variety of teas to choose from and the most tasty 3 course selection of appetizers, sandwiches and desserts. Each person received their own tea pot full of their choice of tea. Beautiful...

We chose the Westgate Hotel for our Mother's Day brunch, and it exceeded our expectations. The menu offered a selection of carefully crafted American and other dishes. I'm writing this review with the hope that the Westgate will reinstate its pre-COVID Mother's Day buffet brunch, which was one of the best buffets our family ever experienced. The buffet featured a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional breakfast foods, with multiple stations, all presented in a classically European decor. Although this time we ordered a la carte, the food was still delicious, and we left the restaurant feeling satisfied. Westgate, we eagerly anticipate the return of your buffet when it is...