Hotel restaurants are often easy to overlook when you live in the same city or area as the hotel. It seems like most of the patrons are usually those in town for business or pleasure for only a short time.
BUT, those restaurants tucked away in hotels can sometimes be very good, sometimes be very bad and sometimes be just good enough. Last week we ate at the Dover Restaurant inside the DoubleTree by Hilton Park Place hotel in Minneapolis (St. Louis Park) and it fell into the latter category.
We started our meal with a couple of appetizers, which ended up being enough for an entire meal. We ordered the Frizzled Onions and the Pretzels with Cheese.
While I liked the concept of the Frizzled Onions, it was difficult to eat more than a few mouthfuls as they are mostly just yummy greasy batter.
While the pretzels themselves were just ok, the cheese sauce was very good and we ended up devouring the pretzels.
The service at Dover restaurant was very attentive and both our server and a manager checked on us many times, but the one thing we didn’t like service-wise was that our entrees were delivered only 2 or 3 minutes after our appetizers.
My husband ordered the Classic Dover Tuna Melt. It was served open-faced on an english muffin with tomatoes and dill havarti. Hubby said it was ok, but nothing he was too crazy about.
I ordered the Park Place Chicken Salad. It included mixed greens, grilled chicken, strawberries, bacon, soy nuts and red peppers. It was served with raspberry vinaigrette and orange curry dressings.
The salad was quite good. I have never had soy nuts in a salad before and it was an interesting change-up.
I do have to say that my favorite part of the whole meal was the frozen margarita I ordered.
It was nothing fancy, just your standard margarita with salt, but I ordered it weak (I know I’m strange, but I always order my mixed drinks light on the alcohol) and it was SO GOOD!
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Migdalia - @MsLatina says
The food looks delish. I really love the Park Place Chicken Salad! Yum!
Cassie @ Southeast by Midwest says
That tuna melt looks delicious. They have some great looking food!
Michelle Christopher says
I like the atmosphere and the food looks delish. I love soft pretzels and onion rings. I could demolish it all.
Joanna Sormunen says
That food looks really amazing! You made me hungry, lol
StacieinAtlanta says
It all looks good to me….Especially the onions. I could eat that whole basket!
Toni Patton says
Everything looks so good. I think those onions would be my favorite
Dawn says
I so love those kinds of pretzels. And I am hungry now, so that isn’t helping, lol.
Theresa says
We haven’t used Restaurant.com in a while. I think it is time for me to get on there and see what they have to offer. The food looks so amazing!
mary says
Oh wow this food looks amazing. Are those onion rings?? YUMMO!
Amy Desrosiers says
Wow, this looks like just my kind of place to eat! To think I was right near this place just one month ago!!
Jeanine @ sixtimemommy.com says
Oh yum, looks fantastic!! I don’t get out to eat much, but this looks like it would be worth it!
Rachael says
Those onion straws look so yummy. I’m hungry now!!!
Jessica (Savory Experiments) says
You are making me hungry! I want a big plate of onion straws right now!
Autumn says
The food looks really good there – especially that cheese sauce with the pretzels! But I’m with you – I don’t like when my food arrives to close to the appetizers. I mean, you need a few minutes to start digesting your apps!
Janel (A Moms Take) says
Hello pretzels. I love a good pretzel. If I’m ever in Dover I’m stopping here, that’s for sure.