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| - On a recent trip to Vegas I found myself in dire need of some breakfast one morning....and, strangely enough, breakfast was not easily found. It happened to be the middle of the week and apparently breakfast service at most places stops at 10 or 11am on weekdays. And we all know that in Vegas there aren't many times that you're up and about early enough for that! ; ) Now... To anyone that knows me, a dire need for breakfast is not a rare occurrence. Breakfast is a MUST for me, regardless of whether it's 7am or 1pm...if it's my first meal of the day it's gotta be breakfast....breakfast is KING. And, having said that, I was willing to go to the ends of the earth...err...the strip....looking for it. : )
I first checked out our hotel (Luxor) and, alas, we were too late to find breakfast there. But....according to our handy little travel booklet from the airport shuttle (btw, these things are VITAL) there was a place in Excalibur next door called Sherwood Forest Café that served breakfast 24 hours a day....WOOHOO! My kind of place... : ) Unfortunately for me, that 24 hour-a-day breakfast service was about ALL this place had going for it and my bubble would be quickly burst....
Our food arrived and I realized immediately that it wasn't very good at all...definitely subpar in my mind even to Denny's and the like. I ordered a belgian waffle, which was dense and kind of tough....not at all fluffy and light like I like them. It also had zero taste to it, so it was thoroughly disappointing. I tried to compensate by smothering it in butter and syrup, but even that didn't help much since the waffle was SO thick. It basically sucked everything up and still managed to stay dry and bland. My hubby ordered some kind of Mexican omelet, which arrived covered in a "salsa" that, to me, looked and smelled more like a marinara sauce or something. *blech* He said it tasted "alright"....maybe he was just really hungry. lol The ONLY thing that was really good here was my oj, which was fresh squeezed style, sweet and pulpy.
Service also pretty much sucked. Our waitress brought my husband his coffee without any kind of cream or milk, which he didn't notice until after she walked away...in part because he assumed it would already be on the table next to the sugar packets...as USUAL. Nope. We waited and waited for her to come back in the general area so we could ask for it but the place is so big that she seemed to completely disappear somewhere. He waited so long with his coffee getting cold that he eventually got up and walked around til he found a guy cleaning stuff over in the bar area of the restaurant. He asked the guy for some creamer and the guy had to actually go hunt it down somewhere. It took him like 5 minutes to finally reappear with it! WTF....shouldn't this stuff be around SOMEWHERE and not hidden away somewhere in the back of the kitchen?? Bizarre... The only real saving grace was that they do leave a whole carafe of coffee on your table...big plus since they never come back to ask you if you want a refill!
All in all, we could have saved money and also gotten some consistently more decent food over at the Denny's on the strip....and that's not sayin' much! I'd say skip this place if you can!
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