Club Car — Restaurant in Winter Park

Table for 5, 15mins wait. Decent! Ordered some drinks, and food for everyone. Waiter seems kinda unfamiliar with the menu and asks to read it several times. Ok. 30mins later, everyone gets their food except 1. The Reuben this person ordered never comes. We ask the waiter about it and he checks. 20mins later he comes back and says it got lost, they're gonna make it now. 20mins later - everyone's finished, no Reuben. Waiter says he's gonna check again and also let the manager know. 10mins later - waiter is now avoiding eye contact as we're quite annoyed. We ask the hostess to see the manager. Also ask the waiter when we flag him down - he says he's already talked to him 3 times. It's now been 1.5 hours since we sat down. Finally a manager comes down to talk to us. At the same time, the Reuben finally comes - we get it in a to-go box. Manager seems disinterested in the level of service we're describing and offers a general apology, and offers to comp the meal. We describe the entire process to get to this point outlined above and he then elevates to comping the entire meal. So, end result - we got the meal for free, although our Reuben guy didn't eat yet. And the food itself was pretty good, no complaints there whatsoever. So why is this a 1-star review?

Our Reuben guy got food poisoning...

My friend and I sat at high-tops near bar and ordered burger and bloody mary at bar. Sat and soaked up vibes of a busy sunday lunchtime while enjoying my big, beautiful, and tasty Bloody Mary.

Food came out after about 15 minutes and initially when the server came out and asked if the burgers he had were for us, I (in confusion) turned him away because I had forgot that I had ordered a burger. The bartender then checked to see why my burger hadn’t arrived yet, and he gave me a tender arm touch that showed me he cared and wanted to make sure I was comfortable, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I got my burger after a couple minutes and the world was at peace.

We ate our burgers and drank our drinks and enjoyed them. My friend thought his Margarita was delish though for the price wish there was slightly less ice and more marg. I joined the clean plate club, but my friend couldn’t handle the tots and left them half finished. However, once we started skiing again I wished I had followed his lead because I was FULL and mega sleepy.

Anyways, Club Car was good.

Couple extra notes: Hefty napkins for a manly man Tot got lodged in friends throat while we were eating and messed up conversation, no blame to Club Car but...

It is almost criminal that Club Car stays so busy with such a bad menu & marginal service, but I guess location is everything when you are on the mountain. Stopping here for lunch on one our ski days to Winter Park used to be a highlight for us, but now the menu is so bad, we are relegated to ordering kids meals for us adults! (We used to order a cup of soup w/our pick of half sandwiches, but that’s all gone now. 😞) Heck, they even took glasses of Chardonnay off the menu! Who does that? 😬 We’ll likely be back, but if there was a better choice in the mountain, we absolutely...