Bumper Bob's

for now let me just say "YUM!!!"

Easter Dinner at Bumper Bob's
(written well after Easter - June 11, 2007)
Menu: Limited fixed price.
$$:  $17.95 each incl. some beverages

     It was a disaster. We had reservations, but still had a 45 minute wait. Apparently we were only allowed to sit at one specific table and those people weren't moving. So people with reservations after us, were being seated ahead of us. That is just bad organization.

     There were pushing a fixed menu. They called it a "served" all you can eat buffet. Now I admit, we should have asked when we called but they should also have said something. Two of our company had gone specifically to get the crab cakes... which were not on the buffet.

     The menu inluded several courses. The first course was a salad course. Tossed salad was all that was offered. This turned out to be a bowl of iceberg lettuce and scraps of orange and purple vegetable matter (salad from a bag?). There were cherry tomatoes and... a couple of cucumber slices? mebbe?

      Entree's included choices of Roast Pork, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken and sides - mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes, oyster stuffing, "regular" bread stuffing, a third stuffing which I forget, gravy, and some other potato choices. Sorry.. everyone at my table got the mashed.     

     I believe all of the desserts were some form of pie. After seeing them served to my companions, let me just say... commercially prepared pie. One was a mixed fruit pie and the others were fairly unimaginative fare.

      The food was horrible. I could not even eat mine. Everything tasted like it came out of a box or tin. The only seasoning used on the meat was salt.. and used heavily. Could it have been a pre-cooked bagged pork roast? The  potatoes too tasted like they were from a box or bag and there was even a dusting of some kind of white powder across them according to my dinner companions.

     While I expected the crusts on the pies to be inedible, my companions said the pies themselves were tasteless. If you had been blindfolded, you'd have no idea what kind of fruit it was supposed to be.

     Now the real capper to this disaster for me was finding out that if you really complained about the buffet menu, you could order from the regular menu. Several of the tables around me had the force of will and foresight to do so. It was never even mentioned when we questioned our waitress limply with a, "This is it?" when handed the one sheet menu.

      In short, my holiday recommendation is: AVOID AVOID AVOID!! Although it's looking a lot like I won't be getting anyone to go back there again for a regular meal either.