Wayward is a good name for this restaurant. As in the service went wayward. Or the food order went wayward.
I ate here at least five times since I was staying at the Canopy Hilton. One of the hostesses is very nice and over the week she knew instinctively which tables I preferred. I’ve eaten here mid afternoon, breakfast, brunch, dinner, and lunch. I had free meal vouchers as a Hilton member.
The first time I ate here there was a food item missing from the burger. The staff was very accommodating and retrieved the missing ingredient.
I received an entrée and a salad at the same time even though I specifically asked for the salad first. I was told that since I had ordered from the bar menu, my instructions were ignored because all dishes are supposed to come out on the table at the same time.
The last time I visited, I ordered the smoked salmon Benedict, but the server brought out the ham Benedict, then claimed that she had entered the correct salmon order into the system and that the kitchen had erred. There was a 45 minute wait for the correct order to arrive. The restaurant the way of accommodating me was to charge me for only the price of the ham Benedict, which was a whopping two dollars savings. It was that that point that I found out from a different lady that my server had entered the order incorrectly.
The two people at the table next to me smirked when I had gotten the wrong order. However, they asked their server how they could use their meal vouchers and a server said she didn’t know anything about that, that she just worked at the restaurant. I know that you’re supposed to charge to the room to be able to have the hotel apply the meal credits to the meals, but I decided to say nothing. The two people ended up charging their breakfast individually on their respective credit cards.
The Wayward is a beautiful restaurant. The furniture is comfortable and the decoration is meticulous.
The stuffed French toast was inedible. The mixed green salad was fantastic. The meatballs were very good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: The Wayward Burger
J Nelson
Great location with a beautiful interior. Staff were very friendly, drink recommendations were delicious! The Girard was a light and refreshing drink, highly recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
Leona Preston
I came in to a server cleaning even though the place was empty! I was impressed. The food is absolutely delicious and the drinks are well crafted. I got the sweet Dee’s French 75 and the smash burger!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fiona Ereman
I came in for breakfast, and checked the hours. Google says the dining area opens at 11:00 AM. I then awkwardly stood around waiting for a hostess. I finally went to the man behind the bar and asked where to check in for dining and he said “I don’t work here, ask the front desk”. When I greeted the front desk I informed her that I was looking to dine in, and she told me I’d need to go back to where I entered. I let her know nobody was there. She led me back to the dining room where she conversed with someone shortly and then returns to me letting me know the restaurant does not open until 11:30, but since it was 11:25 they’d seat me anyways. The hostess then greets me and lets me know their restaurant opens at 11:30 so I couldn’t sit in the dining area. If I wanted to sit in the dining area I would have had to stand around and wait for another 5 minutes. I didn’t argue or let her know their Google page is incorrect because at this point I was just frustrated, but I did leave immediately and didn’t get to try the food. I hope the food is better than the customer service experience!
Laura Jenkins
The food was amazing it's a shame the service isn't up to par
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 1
Cristina Catana
TLDR: The total 80 minute $45 breakfast with food that was nothing to write home about and poor service was not worth it at all. For a hotel restaurant I would have expected a much better breakfast dining experience.
To start with the positive, the potatoes are very good, they’re crispy and well seasoned. The cappuccino was also quite tasty. That’s where the good things end, though.
We were seated and waited close to 10 min before the host kindly came over to take our drink order. Despite a relatively empty dining room, another 10 min later our waitress came over to take our food order. We waited at least 30 min for our food to come out, seeing people who had been seated much later than us getting their food before us.
We had ordered an omelette and a parfait. The omelette came out with a filling I had not ordered, and the parfait is half full of coconut shreds (not listed on the menu, people with allergies or a dislike for coconut be aware.) While we ate we actively tried for several minutes to catch any of the waitstaff’s attention, it seemed as though they were purposely ignoring us. Eventually I had to get up and approach them at the bar to have my request for an extra glass of water fulfilled. Then after our table had been cleared we had to wait for several minutes to flag down our waitress again to get the check. The staff were nice people but the service was simply terrible.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 1
José Incio
It was too crowded and the waitresses were a bit rude .
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
Ikeem Jones
Great place for a date
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Eric M
The specialty cocktails are very good. The happy hour menu has many good options, and the service was excellent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jason Rottenberg
4/25/24 Weak.....NY strip was not a NY strip. Overcooked, no flavor. Salad and salmon was ok. Small portions. Beer was good.
The atmosphere and staff were great... however the food, not so much. First of all, it is extremely overpriced. There is a daily bread service.. for $10!! For 3 pieces of bread? And I'm not talking big pieces of nice fresh sourdough bread - I'm talking dry baguette bread. It was ridiculous. Like the type of bread you would get at olive garden.And the rest of the food was just ok. Quite salty. I wouldn't come here for a big meal. Come for the drinks and a few apps.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Tiger
Outstanding food and service. Thank you, Sherwin and Lamar. Much appreciated.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joe Dolchan
Great place to work good friends good management especially debbie and
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Mickel Lewis
The food was delicious, albeit pricy, and was neatly complemented by the DJ set as part of their spring happy hour celebrations. I enjoyed just about every part of my experience, aside from moderately slow service. I'd still recommend this hotel-lobby-bar to anyone looking for a lightly upscale good time.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Nicholas Carfagno
First things first, the atmosphere. Very nice place. A bit hard to find, the hostess stand is in the middle of the restaurant but you enter from the hotel.Atmosphere was beautiful. Very nice decorations and very clean.Food was pretty good, but definitely didn’t wow. The onion gratin soup was under-salted. Very good onion flavor but again, needed salt. The daily bread service appetizer was just ok and only contained two small pieces of bread.My girlfriend had the sweet potato gnocchi. They were pretty flavorless but did have a tasty sauce but there wasn’t enough of it. She added grilled shrimp to her dish and they were pretty goodI got the steak frites. It was cooked very nicely. Seasoning was decent and the meat tasted like a quality piece, but nothing about it really “wowed” me. Fries were very good.For desert, we had a basque cheesecake. It was just ok. Didn’t really seem like a true basque cheesecake, the top only had some leapording and not a full brown carmelized top like you expect on a basque cheesecake.The drinks were very good but a bit pricey.Overall, the food was good but not a good value. I feel for $130 per person (260 total), I want to feel wowed and this experience was not a wow experience. It was not worth the value and I would not come back.
Wayward is a good name for this restaurant. As in the service went wayward. Or the food order went wayward.
I ate here at least five times since I was staying at the Canopy Hilton. One of the hostesses is very nice and over the week she knew instinctively which tables I preferred. I’ve eaten here mid afternoon, breakfast, brunch, dinner, and lunch. I had free meal vouchers as a Hilton member.
The first time I ate here there was a food item missing from the burger. The staff was very accommodating and retrieved the missing ingredient.
I received an entrée and a salad at the same time even though I specifically asked for the salad first. I was told that since I had ordered from the bar menu, my instructions were ignored because all dishes are supposed to come out on the table at the same time.
The last time I visited, I ordered the smoked salmon Benedict, but the server brought out the ham Benedict, then claimed that she had entered the correct salmon order into the system and that the kitchen had erred. There was a 45 minute wait for the correct order to arrive. The restaurant the way of accommodating me was to charge me for only the price of the ham Benedict, which was a whopping two dollars savings. It was that that point that I found out from a different lady that my server had entered the order incorrectly.
The two people at the table next to me smirked when I had gotten the wrong order. However, they asked their server how they could use their meal vouchers and a server said she didn’t know anything about that, that she just worked at the restaurant. I know that you’re supposed to charge to the room to be able to have the hotel apply the meal credits to the meals, but I decided to say nothing. The two people ended up charging their breakfast individually on their respective credit cards.
The Wayward is a beautiful restaurant. The furniture is comfortable and the decoration is meticulous.
The stuffed French toast was inedible. The mixed green salad was fantastic. The meatballs were very good.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: The Wayward Burger
Great location with a beautiful interior. Staff were very friendly, drink recommendations were delicious! The Girard was a light and refreshing drink, highly recommend.
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 5
I came in to a server cleaning even though the place was empty! I was impressed. The food is absolutely delicious and the drinks are well crafted. I got the sweet Dee’s French 75 and the smash burger!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I came in for breakfast, and checked the hours. Google says the dining area opens at 11:00 AM. I then awkwardly stood around waiting for a hostess. I finally went to the man behind the bar and asked where to check in for dining and he said “I don’t work here, ask the front desk”. When I greeted the front desk I informed her that I was looking to dine in, and she told me I’d need to go back to where I entered. I let her know nobody was there. She led me back to the dining room where she conversed with someone shortly and then returns to me letting me know the restaurant does not open until 11:30, but since it was 11:25 they’d seat me anyways. The hostess then greets me and lets me know their restaurant opens at 11:30 so I couldn’t sit in the dining area. If I wanted to sit in the dining area I would have had to stand around and wait for another 5 minutes. I didn’t argue or let her know their Google page is incorrect because at this point I was just frustrated, but I did leave immediately and didn’t get to try the food. I hope the food is better than the customer service experience!
The food was amazing it's a shame the service isn't up to par
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 1
TLDR: The total 80 minute $45 breakfast with food that was nothing to write home about and poor service was not worth it at all. For a hotel restaurant I would have expected a much better breakfast dining experience.
To start with the positive, the potatoes are very good, they’re crispy and well seasoned. The cappuccino was also quite tasty. That’s where the good things end, though.
We were seated and waited close to 10 min before the host kindly came over to take our drink order. Despite a relatively empty dining room, another 10 min later our waitress came over to take our food order. We waited at least 30 min for our food to come out, seeing people who had been seated much later than us getting their food before us.
We had ordered an omelette and a parfait. The omelette came out with a filling I had not ordered, and the parfait is half full of coconut shreds (not listed on the menu, people with allergies or a dislike for coconut be aware.) While we ate we actively tried for several minutes to catch any of the waitstaff’s attention, it seemed as though they were purposely ignoring us. Eventually I had to get up and approach them at the bar to have my request for an extra glass of water fulfilled. Then after our table had been cleared we had to wait for several minutes to flag down our waitress again to get the check. The staff were nice people but the service was simply terrible.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 1
It was too crowded and the waitresses were a bit rude .
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
Great place for a date
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The specialty cocktails are very good. The happy hour menu has many good options, and the service was excellent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
4/25/24 Weak.....NY strip was not a NY strip. Overcooked, no flavor. Salad and salmon was ok. Small portions. Beer was good.
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The atmosphere and staff were great... however the food, not so much. First of all, it is extremely overpriced. There is a daily bread service.. for $10!! For 3 pieces of bread? And I'm not talking big pieces of nice fresh sourdough bread - I'm talking dry baguette bread. It was ridiculous. Like the type of bread you would get at olive garden.And the rest of the food was just ok. Quite salty. I wouldn't come here for a big meal. Come for the drinks and a few apps.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
Outstanding food and service. Thank you, Sherwin and Lamar. Much appreciated.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great place to work good friends good management especially debbie and
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was delicious, albeit pricy, and was neatly complemented by the DJ set as part of their spring happy hour celebrations. I enjoyed just about every part of my experience, aside from moderately slow service. I'd still recommend this hotel-lobby-bar to anyone looking for a lightly upscale good time.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
First things first, the atmosphere. Very nice place. A bit hard to find, the hostess stand is in the middle of the restaurant but you enter from the hotel.Atmosphere was beautiful. Very nice decorations and very clean.Food was pretty good, but definitely didn’t wow. The onion gratin soup was under-salted. Very good onion flavor but again, needed salt. The daily bread service appetizer was just ok and only contained two small pieces of bread.My girlfriend had the sweet potato gnocchi. They were pretty flavorless but did have a tasty sauce but there wasn’t enough of it. She added grilled shrimp to her dish and they were pretty goodI got the steak frites. It was cooked very nicely. Seasoning was decent and the meat tasted like a quality piece, but nothing about it really “wowed” me. Fries were very good.For desert, we had a basque cheesecake. It was just ok. Didn’t really seem like a true basque cheesecake, the top only had some leapording and not a full brown carmelized top like you expect on a basque cheesecake.The drinks were very good but a bit pricey.Overall, the food was good but not a good value. I feel for $130 per person (260 total), I want to feel wowed and this experience was not a wow experience. It was not worth the value and I would not come back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 4
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