The Carolina Dining Room

Wonderful restaurant at a beautiful resort! Snapper was amazing and came with a mushroom gnocchi in a creamy sauce.

We have 6 daughters and when each turned 13, we took them to the Carolina Dining Room for dinner. It's always an amazing experience, excellent food and service...and up until this year a very good solo rendition of "Happy Birthday" from a wonderful lady who could give Aretha Franklin a run for her money. Now looking for a new tradition to take us back!

Service was amazing! Beautiful location. The food was A+ plenty of gluten free options. The steak Diane was absolutely amazing! Highly recommend this place.

Breakfast buffet at The Carolina Dining room was top notch. We ate here 3 days and each dining experience was amazingly unique. The buffet had staple items but there were different selections everyday.The jalapeño sausage was by far my favorite item, the Southern grits with sausage and bacon bits is also a top recommendation.

Legit 5 start experience.On a guys golf weekend with 12 of us.We had the dining package at the hotel which included the breakfast buffet.It starts at 6am and it's very popular so get there early.They REQUIRE collar shirt.An amazing selection of fresh breakfast options to include a custom omelet station. They had three different types of sausages as well as bacon and ham.A wide selection of fresh fruits including kiwi and dragon fruit.Muffins, buns and bagels to include lox and cream cheese which was very fresh.The coffee pots are sat on the table when you arrive and they just keep them coming with fresh brewed and excellent coffee.We also had dinner there which was something of a mix review.Those that had the steak entree's were not favorable.The service is amazing!

Great service!! Our waitress was amazing & so hospitable. I would come back just to see her ha. We ordered some wine & an appetizer. The tuna was pretty bland but with the accompaniments, it was good. I ordered the trout & it was a large piece of fish that was very good. Cooked just how you want a trout to be cooked. Lots of flavor too! My fiancé got the tagliatelle & it was great. The short rib was so tender & flavorful. We'd come back & are wanting to plan a staycation at the inn.

Filet, lamb, fish all overcooked. Side dish of cornbread served burnt. Service unremarkable. Will not return. Pretty sad for the prices we paid for these meals. All at our table were disappointed with this restaurant.

Been coming to Pinehurst for 50 years and always go to the golfers breakfast several times a year . The Carolina serves MARGARINE for you breads and sweets ! MARGARINE ! This is at the $35 pp breakfast buffet ! Used toserve delicious whipped butter for the breads and biscuits ! What has happened to a quality restaurant that would serve "Buttery Flavor Spead" ... it's margarine !!!!!!Please serve real BUTTER ! Anything less is a mark against what was once an excellent venue !!!!

What a wonderful meal we had! Our server was amazing and we were treated very well! Will definitely revisit!

The Carolina Dining Room is a beautiful restaurant in a classic old South hotel. Most of the diners here, like our party, are probably resort guests on a meal plan. This means that most of their meals are prepaid and tips are automatically included. Our reservation was for 7:30 and we were seated promptly in a one-third full dining room. It's hard to understand why we couldn't get an earlier reservation. Our entire meal took 2 hours, and we got desserts to go. Now for the food. Variable, especially for the price ($42 for the steaks if not on the meal plan). The steaks were very good. Better than outback but not as good, per my party, as Texas Roadhouse. My wife's steak Diane was wonderful The salads were good, and the portions large. Disappointments were many among my fellow diners. One didn't like the salad dressings, my wife's fried green tomatoes were cold inside, my wings, though tasty, were lukewarm. The veggies with dinner were meh, as were the potatoes. We also upcharged $9 to cheese biscuits and they were totally ordinary. Bottom Line, if you are at pinehurst on a meal plan and you have a couple of hours to kill, you could do worse. We just expected better.