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| - Today, my friend took me for a Birthday meal and we both ordered the Roast Turkey Dinner ($21/plate) off the Fall menu, since its Thanksgiving. We were very disappointed with the food. My friend, who's easy-going and non-picky said it was like a frozen TV dinner meal, that she's actually had better frozen turkey dinners. Her comments: the white meat was tasteless, too thinly sliced and looked processed. Felt ripped off as there was no stuffing. Swiss Chalet would have been better.
My comments: how can you mess up gravy? Its just basically drippings and flour, but they managed to. My plate hardly had any gravy so I asked for extra and I got a thin, runny, salty brown liquid that was NOT turkey gravy. The 'seasonal' vegetables were sparse and bland, (My carrots were mostly raw and unpeeled... muddy veins... really??). The brown meat was not too terrible (the white was) but once I poured the salted-dishwater gravy over it, it was all ruined anyway. Cranberry was the only decent thing on that plate, but still I regretted the entire meal. Had the Apple and Sour Cherry Crumble for dessert. The topping was nice, but the apples were the wrong kind i think and too sparse to be called apple crumble. Oh, and I found *one* sour cherry amidst the chintzy apples.
This was our first time eating at Miller Tavern and perhaps we expected too much, but we shall NOT be returning. The food was worth one star but I'm throwing in an extra star because our waiter was nice. He referred to the food as "casual fine dining, one step above Jack Astors". No, you're not. Jack Astors makes a wicked crumble.
I read some other reviews on here that said to just drink and not eat at Miller. Wish I read them before our ruined Birthday and Thanksgiving meal.
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