Brunch Buffet at a Reasonable Price
With two new chefs, the restaurant at the Grand Ely Lodge gets better marks for their Sunday brunch in 2003. They've restyled the buffet table, adding freshly carved tender prime rib, and served up a combination of breakfast and lunch items like scrambled eggs and bacon (with optional salsa), home fries, salad, fried chicken, ravioli, a bean dish and mashed potatoes and gravy.

Their famous bread pudding and assorted desserts round out the $13.00 buffet, complete with a live electronic keyboardist playing and singing standard fare. Right outside of Ely with a beautiful view of Shagawa Lake, this is a very pleasant place for a Sunday brunch.    [15 Jun 2003 15:37:46]

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Recommended Dishes: prime rib, bread pudding

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I've been here 4 times at differnet times of the day, and each time the meal was substandard. Getting a replacement was no problem (to the servers' credit), but the second meal was as dissappointing as the first. Not worth the price, which was noticably higher than other local restaurants. The bar was fun, though, and the food went down easier with some drinks.    [08 Apr 2005 22:17:41]

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Wasn't the greatest
We got the Romantic package which included two dinners and four breakfasts at the Evergreen Restaurant. Our first night there we used our dinner vouchers -- and there was a hair in my pasta. The next morning I got coffee and the waitress provided a surprising variety of individually-portioned creamers. I picked a few up to look at the flavors and one looked as if something icky had dried on the side of it. Our final morning there I went to use my spoon to stir creamer into my coffee and there was something green dried to the tip of the spoon. The silver was rolled into the cloth napkins so there's NO WAY that someone should have missed this. The staff was pleasant but the food wasn't the best. Breakfast food was good -- but dinner was disappointing. The pasta was served on a dinner plate and not in a pasta bowl. It had drippy sauce and no "twirling spoon." I'm no food snob, but it felt like it was just flung onto a plate and a shred of curly lettuce thrown onto the side for color. My husband got pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon -- the Calypso Tenderloin. The meat was very dry. You'd figure for being in a marinade and wrapped in bacon that it would retain some moisture -- but it was not the greatest. Overall I would not recommend this place unless you want good blueberry pancakes or a Belgian waffle. That's about it.    [27 Jun 2005 22:40:21]

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Recommended Dishes: Blueberry pancakes or Belgian waffle

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