Mahauganee S.
Yelp
Nothing about this experience was desirable, but the service was the worst part so let's begin there.
There was no wait when we arrived, and we asked for a table for 6 including a high chair and a booster seat. The hostess noted that because they have wooden booster seats, the seats will only fit in chairs but not in booths. She said we would need to wait 30 minutes for her to push two tables together to seat 6. So, we opted for a booth. She then led us to a booth in the middle of the dining room and said that we could not put a high chair on the end because it was in the walkway. Understandable. So we asked if she could seat us at the booth toward the very front of the restaurant where there was no walkway and we could have a high chair. She obliged and we thanked her for working with us.
We then waited so long for someone to come take our order that we were discussing leaving and looking up where we would go. (for context, we were just passing through town so don't know the area) A server finally graced our section and paused to greet the table of customers who arrived after us before making his way to us. He offered to take drink orders, and we asked that he take our full order. As long as we'd already waited, we had already culled the internet reviews on our selections and viewed every possible yelp photo.
Most of the food came fairly swiftly. My vegetarian mother constructed a meal by ordering 3 sides. They forgot her food so she had a long wait. Spoiler alert: many items were subpar at best. The fries were cool, the broccoli was actually cold (like refrigerated) to the touch, the buttered carrots just seemed to be plain slices of lightly steamed carrot that were still crisp.
The only food items enjoyed were:
--the appetizer nachos (that had bison chili on top). Warning that there are huge slices on jalapeño that were much too spicy for most at our table.
--the Avalon burger
--onion rings
We will be passing through here regularly for at least the next four years, but we will NOT be stopping at this place again. There was a large party in having a birthday dinner and as we were wrapping up, they were complaining about their wait and the service.
Tl;dr I do not recommend this place.