Crystal Dining Room

Allison was the best server. How can you not enjoy the ambiance of one of the most haunted hotels in the world?? I had the brunch buffet with a made to order omelet. It was delicious. The potatoes were typical of buffet potatoes, meh. My husband ordered eggs Benedict off the menu. It was worth the price.

Good breakfast buffet; we enjoyed a relaxed meal in the historic dining room. The small Waffles were the highpoint of our meal; excellent! The only type of eggs on buffet were a fluffy Egg Fritata, but they were good. Bacon & Sausage were both tasty, as was the Fruit/Yoghurt dish. Service was average. Reasonable pricing for a tourist town.

My notes from a couple months ago:Crystal Dining Rm , Crescent HImmaculate room, glowing silverware. Slow to clear tables. Ordered off menu, buffet was abused by 10:15. Lots of choices but not appetizing-- usual dried out gravy, burned biscuits, cold pastries, ambrosia, 2" waffles, yogurt, etc. Wed morn, empty dining room. Service overall--slow. . . Had to ask for coffee refill, still not hot.Eggs Benedict, undercooked2nd try, not badDecoded: My order (off menu as the huge buffet was gross. They weren't refreshing, replenishing or cleaning up anything) was eggs Benedict. First time around they were raw. And came w/ hash browns I don't eat. Second offering (wait, wait, wait) was cooked and the potatoes were swapped for fruit, which they CHARGED me for!I know better. But ya know, you're there, you're hungry, your stomach beckons and you give in to the convenience.

Great food and the service was good. My wife was excited that they had Coke products! My kids and I did the buffet and my wife had the Eggs Benedict. The buffet had a great selection of good food. The Eggs Benedict wasn't the best but it wasn't bad either. The hotel is really neat given its age and it is apparently haunted.

WOW, we finally got to eat at the infamous 1886 Crescent Hotel! And even on my wife's birthday too! All while driving across the country from Utah to NC. Check this one off the bucket list!So yes, for my wife's birthday I took her, her brother and his wife, and I to the Crystal Dining Room for a wonderful brunch on August 23rd of 2020, and we had an excellent time. Yes, we had to mask-up, but once seated off came the masks. The Crystal Dining Room has a very unique menu to say the least...and I since I wasn't driving, I ordered the rather unique "Dr. Baker's Spicey Bloody Mary"...and WOW was that good.A photo of my Bloody Mary and the breakfast menu is embedded below. Truly a wonderful experience at a very nice, classic, and spooky hotel!Five Stars for excellent food and service!

Service: The waitstaff here is excellent! They alone would receive five stars. We were fortunate enough to have both Elissa and Robert serve us during our visits. Friendly with helpful information and funny quips. These two were amazing!Dinner: We first ate dinner, which is Italian food served family-style. We started with the field green salad and then ordered the Chicken Carbanara-ish and Cioppino, both of which were served with breadsticks. The food tasted okay - nothing earth-shattering, especially for the price.Breakfast: We ate here twice for breakfast out of convenience. Both times, the food was pretty terrible. Eggs are bland, bacon flavorful but with a weird texture, biscuits burnt. Even the stuffed French toast, which is the prize dish, was only okay. Nearly all dishes are served with breakfast potatoes and toast. The potatoes are hard and flavorless! Seriously, I've never met a breakfast potato I didn't like - until now. The first morning, I could hardly puncture the potatoes with my fork! And there's zero seasoning on them. They went entirely uneaten by all parties. The toast is served barely warm and four huge slices stacked up. I can't imagine who would eat so much bread with their breakfast. It's a shame so much food goes to waste because of poor preparation!

Breakfast at the Creasant Hotel was amazing! 8 bucks got me 2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausage and 4 toast, outstanding service , a really good guy playing guitar, dang you can't beat that, the coffee was good , the milk was cold, sun shinning , birds chirping , what a great day! My wife used the restroom and said it was very clean, COVID rules are being followed here, even got to see a picture of a ghost from the ghost tour! Highly recommend for breakfast

It is now an Italian restaurant, Le Cena, that is awful. I hear that the brunch is good, but we weren't going to risk it. And it's expensive. It tastes like bland cafeteria food

Went here for dinner and breakfast. The dinner was Italian. For both meals, the service was very good. The food was also good. Very attentive. Would recommend.

So I ate here because the original place I chose for breakfast was closed. I ordered the Farmhand Breakfast. My toast was hard and crusted all over the place. The eggs were dry (even though I request cooked easy) and flavorless. The bacon was a little hard. I wondered if they just put my stuff together off the buffet until I overhead staff say to another guest that the buffet was not open today. Overall it was edible and would do the trick but I'm on vacation and want more than just edible. My waiter was nice but I was a little grossed out when I could see his bare hands touching my food as he brought it to the table. I'm from Louisiana and so I appreciated the music, but this is not a restaurant we would want associated with the Crescent City.