Garden Cafe Lounge - Saskatoon

Since kovid, her menu has much shorter, understandable. However, eating, service and atmosphere is as great as ever. this is our breakfast date location.

Can't beat the decor, it always feels like going on vacation just being in there. Great service. Food is okay too.

Great mother's day buffet. Unfortunately, we made what we thought was a reservation for 1230. We got there at 1225 and the line up took us 45 minutes to get through...? Uh, not how other restaurants treat reservations... In my experiences

I will preface this review by saying: 1) I'm not a person who generally goes out of my way to leave bad reviews 2) I have eaten here one time prior to this experience and it was good However, I would advise against going on a stat holiday as it seemed to me they were short staffed as to not have to stat pay to too many staff. I also would NOT recommend ordering the Meazers ceaser with a food slider on top). We ordered 3 meazers and an iced tea, no additional food. We waited 15 minutes just to order, we were there 55 minutes and hadn't had our waters topped up and had to flag someone down to get out server to ask about our drink order! Somewhere between the server and the kitchen our order appeared to be missed. Our server made a lot of excuses that didn't make sense and 10 minutes after that, we got one of our drinks. The other 2 came as just a ceaser without the food. When the food finally came, it was visibly very burned and cold. The flavors were just ok but ultimately bland from what we tasted before we sent it back. The ceasers were good but one had what appeared to be cherry chunks in the bottom, maybe thats how they make them? When we asked to talk to the manager, he said they weren't expecting to be so busy there were 2 larger groups and one small table besides us). He was polite and did take off a portion of our bill. I was a server and I understand that mistakes happen but it was the lack of accountability that really frustrated us. It was laughable to wait over an hour to have a drink and and a couple bites of terrible good just to be met with excuses. The restaurant being understaffed doesn't seem like it should be made to be my problem. Ultimately, our evening was pretty ruined by the poor experience and our daughter didn't get to go swimming because by the time we finished dealing with this all she had to go to bed. I hear good things about the brunch though.

Don't waste your money here and only eat here if you are starving and too lazy to go out. They have the dryest burgers here and the nachos were made without any care. Just order takeout at the hotel instead. The server was really polite so I appreciated that though.