A friendly reader just wrote to tell me about a new restaurant that has just opened in Nazareth. It’s called Peter’s Family Restaurant and is located in Nazareth on Route 248, formerly the Peking Garden.
She writes:
“…We got there at 12. We were in between the breakfast and lunch buffet. We were able to eat from both and the food choices were excellent. Can’t wait to go back for the dinner buffet. Mon-Fri breakfast is ordered off a menu, but there is a buffet for lunch 11-3 and a dinner buffet from 3-9pm daily. Saturday and Sunday there is also a breakfast buffet. I believe they just opened a week ago so the staff is still getting use to things, but the food in great. If you are in the area I think it is worth a try.”
Thanks so much for the tip and mini-review about Peter’s Family Restaurant, Nicole! I really appreciate the information, and I’m sure other readers do also. We’ll certainly stop by there for breakfast sometime in the coming weeks.
In addition to Peter’s, I see that a few months ago Copiers Inc. Internet Deli and Cafe opened their doors at 6 S. Broad Street in Nazareth. Their ad in the US newspaper says they open at 7 AM daily through the early afternoon and serve coffee, cappucchino, breakfast bagels and pastries, and luncheon foods. Every Friday is an Open Mic Night. We’ve also placed them on our growing list of spots to visit in and around the Lehigh Valley.
Sara
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June 1, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Will
The hot food buffet is not new in Nazareth since Peter’s replaced Peking Garden which offered a hot Chinese food Buffet. I have not eaten at Peter’s so I can not comment on the food but I would expect my food to be fresh and hot if I would visit Peter’s.
May 9, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Sara
Cherie and Jimmy, it sounds like your experiences were mostly relating to the buffet food.
The owner should be commended for trying something new in Nazareth. However, from your experiences, I wonder if serving a hot food buffet is workable unless the restaurant does a steady/heavy business and can keep the food fresh and refilled.
Salad bars work because the salad fixings are kept iced, and soup is in large crock pot style warmers. But hot food dries out quickly on steam tables if not constantly replenished. Keeping foods like eggs and pancakes hot and fresh, unless there’s a steady stream of people eating it so it can be replaced, doesn’t seem possible. Perhaps it might work better if the buffet was only offered during high traffic times. Other times people could order direct from the menu.
Just my two cents (and very glad I’m not a restaurant owner).
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate them, and I hope Peter’s does also.
Sara
May 9, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Jimmy
When we arrived the restaurant looked clean and bright. The staff was very nice and the waitress was friendly. We arrived on the weekend for breakfast and the buffet was the choice of the day. We sampled some pancakes, hard as a rock. Sausage, cold and shriveled. Scrambled eggs were cold and tasteless. We were not impressed with the food. We spoke to the waitress and she had the cook make new pancakes. They were fine, but at a buffet I’m not going to order every item and then wait. Besides I could have just gone to the Nazareth Diner, ordered breakfast, served hot & fresh, and saved five dollars each.
I hope the owners read this and do something to change the food quality. I do not think my wife and I will return; first impressions are hard to change, and I do not like wasting time and money on bad food.
April 18, 2009 at 9:15 pm
cherie
I had a bad feeling as soon as we walked into this place. The owners were standing at the door and there was nobody there but maybe that was because we went around 2:00. The food (what food was left!) was cold; the fish and chicken fingers were hard; the carrots were dried out; the filling I never tasted anything like it. We could not eat it. We did like the ice cream, though.
The owner asked us how we liked it and my mother told him it was cold. He said sorry and gave us 10% off. For four of us to eat it came to $37.00; it wasn’t worth $10.00. I don’t know how long this place will stay in business if they serve (food) like that but then maybe it was left over from noon and they didn’t want to waste food and throw it out. It is a clean place and nice; I don’t totally want to trash the place and maybe they need more help (like a good cook) but what we paid was not worth it.
Two other people walked out with us (they came after us). They said to us “Never again.” Our thoughts exactly!
January 28, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Sara
Thanks for your comments, Capri, and for adding my link to your blog! I’m honored and would like to reciprocate. I put you under Voices in the Valley. OK? I agree about breakfast — obviously.
Part of why I started the blog. It seemed natural. We eat breakfast for dinner at least once a month. French Toast is always a favorite.
Thanks to you, too, Jess. I’m so glad you wrote. Helping people find new spots to enjoy breakfast is another reason I started the blog. Be sure to let me know your favorites. Maybe you can comment on some about your experience. It always helps to have more than just my own opinion. Thanks again!
January 12, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Jess
Thanks so much for the info on Peter’s. I heard about it and wondered if anyone else was there. I’ve been trying out some other places thanks to your blog….thank you!!!
January 12, 2009 at 9:45 am
capri
I just stumbled upon your blog – yum! Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, in fact, last night I had a french toast dinner with my grandmother and thought “I need to do this more often!” I wanted to let you know I’m putting a link up to your blog on my blogroll, if you have any objections please let me know and I’ll remove it promptly.
http://notlikethepants.wordpress.com