The Garden View Oregon Garden Resort

Good food, well prepared pleasantly served; nice tiered seating/setting with a garden view from almost every table

This is a cool resort but the restaurant is a bit sad. We had a 6:00 pm reservation and our food didn 't come till after 7:00. The description of wild caught salmon didn 't square with what was a freezer burned piece of salmon. My wife liked her salad, but that was about it. Friendly service but not a good meal.

Much better than expected. My sirloin was cooked to perfection, my wife loved the seafood linguini. Service was very good and prices are very reasonable.

The time here was for breakfast as part of our hotel stay. The view was ok on a foggy morning as all of the tables are booths and look out over the gardens. The lights for the festival can't be seen in the morning, but probably cool to be there at night for that. Breakfast consisted of sausage, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, yogurt by the spoonful not individual containers, and toast. You serve yourself buffet style. We were there at 8 am on a Saturday and the ketchup and salsa were out as well as the sausage and toast. Give one of the employees a heads up on the sausage as the line was out the door. Food was mediocre and not hot. Plastic spoons were offered. There's one door to enter/exit the restaurant which is a bit tight when there are kids running around and people standing in line to enter. Saw one busser without a tub running around with small plates in her hands. Most of the tables needed to be cleared.

I 'm writing about the Thanksgiving buffet; we 've been here before and we usually hit the main holidays if not dining w/relatives so we 've been here for Easter, T Giving(4x), Christmas, our anniversary(March) and Valentines Day. The food is always excellent but esp the buffet at Thanksgiving. The quality of the food is spectacular, the variety, the people are so friendly and helpful esp now that I 'm walking most of the time w/a cane. I don 't usually eat cooked carrots but these carmelized are fantastic....gravy, turkey, shrimp, ham, chicken, salad, rolls, great butter packets, turkey, breakfast goodies, and pies are all delicious...part of your payment covers OJ(excellent), Cranberry juice, water, soda, and then you can order drinks which I do if we 're staying overnight....nice decorations, love the lights in the regular dining room, bathrooms are very clean(due to age/prostate problems I usually go twice). I ate so many things(2 plates full)that I didn 't have room for dessert but my wife had some delicious pie. I don 't usually eat g bean cass but it was delicious, too.