We made a special trip to Pepper Market 2 nights ago as it was raining, and we wanted to eat inside. We enjoyed Pepper Market last time we ate there, but not so much this time:
1. Dirty - Yuck! It was very gross - fingerprints all over all display cases and food on floor/tables/chairs. There was an over all yuck feeling for us, that made for a not so pleasant eating experience.
2. Kids food area - Double yuck! The nastiest, dried up chicken fingers we have ever seen, dried up orange slice (comes with the kids' meal), and super greasy pizza. Again, it was not appealing at all.
3. Adult meals - Hubby and I got the steak special, so for a CS credit, this was great, as it comes with veggies, rice or potatoes. The area was chaotic though as the sous chef messed up all orders, so we had to wait forever for our steaks. Although they were cooked well, they were tasteless and fries were hard and crispy. They were basically unedible - rice and potatoes were lukewarm, so not that great either. Desserts were dry and not that tasty either.
It was not busy in here at all, in fact, we had several servers to ourselves. Basically, we won't eat here again - food stations were not well kept up, pasta was dried and congealed (disgusting), and areas were dirty and scattered.
I constantly see people praise Pepper Market as a great deal on CS credits for Dining Plan, but for us, a dirty restaurant, very slow service and tasteless/bland food is not worth it.
Just wanted to report our experience - we were disappointed as the concept is a great one, as it serves to accommodate many family members, but they have a lot of work to do, IMHO, to improve Pepper Market. We threw a good amount of food in the garbage as it just was not good - this really pained us to do this, but we had no choice. We didn't speak to anyone about it, as we looked around to the few tables around us, and the food was the same. We won't be returning.
Hopefully, this was just isolated, but we took a good look around (we come from a restaurant family), and it didn't look isolated to us.
Tiger
1. Dirty - Yuck! It was very gross - fingerprints all over all display cases and food on floor/tables/chairs. There was an over all yuck feeling for us, that made for a not so pleasant eating experience.
2. Kids food area - Double yuck! The nastiest, dried up chicken fingers we have ever seen, dried up orange slice (comes with the kids' meal), and super greasy pizza. Again, it was not appealing at all.
3. Adult meals - Hubby and I got the steak special, so for a CS credit, this was great, as it comes with veggies, rice or potatoes. The area was chaotic though as the sous chef messed up all orders, so we had to wait forever for our steaks. Although they were cooked well, they were tasteless and fries were hard and crispy. They were basically unedible - rice and potatoes were lukewarm, so not that great either. Desserts were dry and not that tasty either.
It was not busy in here at all, in fact, we had several servers to ourselves. Basically, we won't eat here again - food stations were not well kept up, pasta was dried and congealed (disgusting), and areas were dirty and scattered.
I constantly see people praise Pepper Market as a great deal on CS credits for Dining Plan, but for us, a dirty restaurant, very slow service and tasteless/bland food is not worth it.
Just wanted to report our experience - we were disappointed as the concept is a great one, as it serves to accommodate many family members, but they have a lot of work to do, IMHO, to improve Pepper Market. We threw a good amount of food in the garbage as it just was not good - this really pained us to do this, but we had no choice. We didn't speak to anyone about it, as we looked around to the few tables around us, and the food was the same. We won't be returning.
Hopefully, this was just isolated, but we took a good look around (we come from a restaurant family), and it didn't look isolated to us.
Tiger
It was LONG waits for everything. The seating area was clean at that time, but getting a refill at dinner was next to impossible!
