Madeline Hatter

Review of Bloomingdale's

This review is for the Thanksgiving 149 dollar so-...

This review is for the Thanksgiving 149 dollar so-called "deal" dinner for 10. There was nothing right about this meal. The food was mediocre. In no way would it have served 10 maybe at best 6 (when we saw how much food they actually gave, we had to go out and buy more). The best element was the turkey, which, of course we cooked ourselves, although the cranberry sauce was respectable. You could easily have prepared the same meal for about $50 dollars and had much better quality food (which we ended up doing anyway -- making the stuffing and gravy ourselves). No mashed potatoes included, and the bread was not fresh, the butternut squash soup was tasteless, and the sweetpotatoes were over-sweetened. This was a huge disappointment, and to top it off, they had the nerve to charge tax on top of it -- not stated in the advertisement. In addition, you would find out when you picked up the meal, that each dish could have been purchased separately for about the same price as the combined "deal". Although the wait staff at Burkes are pleasant enough, there is hardly anything good I have to say about the acutal product .. from the deceptive advertising to the mediocre food.