Comments on: New Nazareth Restaurants

By: Will

Will — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:07:28 +0000

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.

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 10 May 2009 00:31:43 +0000

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

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:05:16 +0000

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.

By: cherie

cherie — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:15:18 +0000

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!

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:10:52 +0000

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!

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:21:45 +0000

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!!!

By: capri

capri — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:45:17 +0000

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