365 Restaurants, 2 Kids, 1 Giant Fiasco
Lose the Loose Moose Cottage
13Jan2009 Filed under: 1 star, American, Breakfast, Buffet, Dinner, Grapevine, Lunch Author: graceThe experience
It’s Day 2 of our “Great Wolf Adventure.” Mina woke up at around 7am. Benji did not wake up until, oh, 9am. So, she and Papa went to get a breakfast snack. Once, all of Team Phipps was up and at ‘em, we headed to the breakfast buffet at the Loose Moose Cottage. We requested a booth and got a nice cozy one.
The kids initially wanted to just have us bring them breakfast. I checked things out and they had a little child sized tray and plastic kiddie plate. I brought it over to show Mina and she was now “in” for going up to the buffet with me.
We picked out some food for her and Benji. Then Ogre and I got ours and headed back to the table.
Mina noted that the waffles were hard as a rock. No one was overly thrilled with breakfast and we muddled through it. Benji had the right idea and wandered off and almost out of the restaurant. Mina asked if she could go to. I empathized her pain and let her go with Papa and Benji while I finished up my breakfast.
The food
It’s a breakfast buffet. A not very good breakfast buffet.
On the buffet, they had waffles, pancakes, eggs, bacon, cheese blintzes, breakfast burritos, oatmeal, potatoes, fruit.
None of it was very good, a lot of it was, well, just bad. Even Mina knew it. The best things were the oatmeal and the fruit. And you can’t mess up fruit too bad unless you serve it after it’s gone bad and thankfully, this restaurant didn’t stoop that low.
The service
Our service was average. No complaints. It’s a buffet.
The kids
It has some kid friendliness with the trays and plates, and there are a lot of choices on the buffet that would be appealing to kids, but even the kids aren’t fooled by bad food.
And $8.95 for the kid’s breakfast buffet??? Seriously?? That hurt, it really hurt.
The total: $36.64! Yikes!!!!
Rants, Raves, and Ramblings
We also went there for lunch because the Camp Critter Bar and Grille was closed and I didn’t know they had a little cabana downstairs. They have the same kids menu choices (but didn’t have tomato soup) and some bar type food. I had the kids spaghetti and meatballs and ate it, but didn’t particularly like it. Mina had mac and cheese again (she wanted a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup, but they didn’t have that). Ogre had the smoked chicken quesadillas, and those were actually quite tasty!
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Kellie
January 14th, 2009 at 7:35 am
This is such great timing. We’re heading to the Lodge this weekend with CC and Grand dad! Is room service an option for breakfast? And tell me more about the cabana downstairs. Is it in the water park area? Any input is appreciated.
grace
January 14th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
I’m not sure if they have room service or not, sorry we didn’t look into that. if your kids don’t mind just some cereal and milk for breakfast, i’d seriously consider bringing that with you and using the in-room fridge and some small boxes of cereal!! for a hot breakfast, i would seriously consider going out and coming back or sending someone of a mission to bring it back!
there is a little, i call it a cabana, but it’s really just a place to get hamburgers, hot dogs, quesadillas, nachos, fries, stuff like that. the prices were about the same as upstairs (~6 bucks for a burger) and it is in the waterpark. you can bring food from upstairs into the waterpark, but no outside food or drink.
if you don’t mind the type of food in the waterpark, i’d recommend that over bringing the food downstairs, just to make things less complicated. they were nice and gave me a drink carrier and put the meals in large plastic bags, which made it easier to handle.
we had a great time, once i get my pictures in the post, there will be a post about our whole adventure on “my other blog”: mommysplate.com (hopefully up by tomorrow).