Editor Pick
Colonial Room Lunch Buffet at the Menger Hotel
- February 18, 2001
- Rated 3 of 5 by
Mary Louisa from Wilmington, Delaware
Because it is almost impossible to find Saturday and Sunday lunch in San Antonio, you need to know about lunch buffet at the Menger Hotel's Colonial Room. It's also worth wandering around in the Menger while you're there; it's a lovely historic hotel just behind the Alamo and near a pedestrian shopping area. For $10.95, you get the salad and soup bar, dessert table, carving table, omelet and waffle bar, and tea or coffee. Although none of the food was "Tex-Mex" in nature, it was still worth the price. The cream seafood sauce over herbed penne pasta was especially good. I found the garlic mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, and rice pilaf typical buffet fare and the dessert table uninspired, but the Belgian waffles were very light and tasty (even with pre-packaged syrup choices). I didn't get an omelet with choose-your-own fresh fillings, but many were enjoying those. The wait service was swift and friendly and the dining room atmosphere was typical gracious hotel style. Of course, no locals were dining there, only tourists.
From journal San Antonio in Brief