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| - Let me say that this is a review only for Sunday brunch buffet.
A and I show up at like 10:30 and decide to sit outside which is beautiful. Nice deck overlooking the street. We had Jared as a waiter. If this review were just about how awesome Jared was, it would get like 10 billion stars. We often go out for breakfast and generally spend several hours gabbing. Most waiters don't know what to do with us. Either they ignore us or hover making it known that we need to move it along. Jared did neither of those things - he refilled out coffee and waters a billion times. He asked if we wanted anything and when we said that we were going to take out time, he had no problem. When we finally did get up to go upstairs for the buffet, we took our purses cause 1. who doesn't take their purse when they have to walk from outside to inside and up stairs and no one will be sitting at their table anymore and 2. it's Mt Washington. The busboy came and cleared out entire table! Jared quickly got us new waters, new coffees, new silverware, creamers, sugars, salt and pepper, etc.
The food, however, is where this place was lacking. If you have a buffet at a busy restaurant on Sunday morning, there are a few things that you need to get right: 1. HAVE FOOD. Over half the containers were completely empty! And when the people would come re-fill, they seemed to only re-fill the ones that already had food in them. 2. Have mac n cheese. If you are known for your mac n cheese, which Shiloh is, you should actually have pans and pans pre-made and ready for re-fills. 3. Have the food HOT. How on earth was everything flying out of there so fast that most of the stuff was empty, but also nothing was hot - some of it was barely lukewarm.
There were some highlights - the pulled jerk pork was amazing. No idea what you were supposed to do with it alone, but it was really good. The stuffed peppers, also an odd choice, were very tasty. The best in my opinion was the carmelized onion and gruyere quiche. It was very onion-y, but sadly barely warm at all.
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