MisterBill:
Did you go for lunch or dinner? The instructors and menu are different. And did you not like the food, or the service, or everything? We had both lunch and dinner there for HVRW last March and enjoyed both, although the lunch menu doesn’t look as good this time as it did then (and I missed reservations in the fall). Obviously the service and food are only as good as that sessions students are, although we haven’t had problems with that, either. I could see being more tolerant of any problems at HVRW prices than at regular price.
Here is my write up from the visit. It was a general feeling of Disney World. I do agree, I would have been much more tolerant at HVRW prices, though if I were to go up that far I’d hit Petit Bistro in Rhinebeck!
We just came back from a short trip up to Rhinebeck and had dinner at CIA - American Bounty. I never wanted to go there but went because someone we knew who had been a manager at a restaurant we love in our area is now managing all the CIA places and told us come up. Also, people seem to like American Bounty. Let’s start with when we got there and could not find the visitor parking lot, which was not very clearly marked. Finally found it and took the elevator from the lot to the top floor, as …