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| - The pies alone, get 5 starts. The restaurant gets minus stars.
We ate off their buffet. Had extensive salad bar; interestingly, many items on salad bar not home made. Most amazingly, fake bacon bits! Talking the bright red fake crunchy stuff, that barely resembles bacon. Dressings not home made either. I don't mind store bought dressing, but at least buy good stuff.
Hot buffet: home made (and tasty) mashed potatoes, excellent stuffing. That's where the positive ends. Everything else bland, under seasoned, and just not good. Lots of gravies and sauces. Had 4 meats: roast pork, pulled beef, ribs, and fried chicken. Pork and beef watery, bland, and kind of gross. Properly cooked, but flavorless. Fried chicken weird: think pan fried, with skin mushy and falling off, so not really fried. Bland and flavorless. Had to ask for bbq sauce to make all meats edible. Ribs really fatty and not slow roasted. Toothy meat, but dowsed in bbq sauce, so had some flavor. Weird thing is buffet had chicken noodle soup and beef noodle soup, but no bowls. Was told to be used as a sauce. Again, both bland and under seasoned.
Service: some Amish staff. Servers slow and not very good. Not professional servers. Don't be in a hurry, even if ordering buffet.
Now onto the only reason to come here: the pies. Had the bumble berry and banana cream pie. WOW! Superb. Bumble berry is mixture of blueberry, raspberry, and cherry. Fantastic. Banana cream pie best I ever had. One slice in the restaurant is $4. A whole pie in the attached store is $10. A bargain!
Bottom line: skip the restaurant and just get a whole pie to take with you.
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