Bennet Yee

Review of Heathman Hotel Portland

Summary: rude waiter in cafe. Not recommended.

Summary: rude waiter in cafe. Not recommended.

My wife, 4 yr old child, and I stopped at the Heathman Hotel's restaurant on the morning of Thanksgiving day. We just wanted some tea and some pastries, and told the hostess so. She told us that'd be fine, to sit in the cafe area rather than the main dining area, and gave us their breakfast menus, which had several teas that looked interesting, plus some breakfast items that would have suited. Less than five minutes after we sat down, while I had the menu still in hand, a waiter came by and grabbed those menus, saying that those were the "old menus" and here were the "new menus". That he snatched those so abruptly was rude. What was worse was that he replaced them with a prix fixe menu for a Thanksgiving lunch -- $45 per adult and $18 per child. Much heavier dishes than just tea and pastries that we wanted. By the time we realized what happened, the waiter was gone. Anyway, we ended up just leaving. It was rude, and made for a poor start of Thanksgiving for us!