American Tavern Eatery And Drink

We ate here while on a staycation to Disneyland. We got a coupon for $10 off when checking into the hotel that this restaurant was located at and decided to check it out. Things started off on the wrong foot because we thought that we were getting $10 off our bill, when it was actually for a dish that was for under $10. So basically what the coupon should have said was "free appetizer."

Anyway... This place is a solid 3. After a long day at the "Happiest Place on Earth" and it's California counterpart, my wife and I wanted carbs. She got spaghetti with meatballs. The pasta was way past al dente and the sauce was very tomato-y. I got a grilled cheese which they put a gastropub twist on by adding tomato, bacon, and carmelized onion spread (which made the bread a little soggy). It came with freshly made potato chips, which were a bit oily but a nice touch.

While I miss K'ya, the restaurant that occupied this space prior to American Tavern Eatery And Drink taking over, it's still nice and convenient that there is a restaurant here. The flight of beer is their best deal and the food is not bad. There are not many people that seem to come here to eat, and there is a lot of empty space. The best part of the restaurant is the convenience in being able to watch the Disney fireworks outside. It's a good spot, but the food is just okay, and the usual emptiness whenever I visit kind of reflects that. For a restaurant that has valet outside, I would expect a little more.

We've eaten here 3 or 4 times over the last few years while staying at The Menage. Whether you go for breakfast or dinner you are in for an above average experience.

The service is really good. The employees are attentive and curteous.

I recommend the Messy Burger or if you want a salad, the Cobb salad is really good. My wife ordered the vegetarian wrap with fries and went on about how great both were, she was pleasantly surprised.

As far as lobby resturants go, I was impressed with this one.

Delicious "Messy" Cheddar Burger ($10.95) - messy because it has cheese sauce on it! The burgers are really good here. I also like this new trend that's happening at a couple places - bacon wrapped dates!!! ($4.95) Very rich and tasty. The food is definitely 5 stars.

I took off a star because the table we were sat at was really exposed - kind of like sitting in the middle of a hotel lobby, with other guests and customers walking by. This place is huge so I'm sure we could find a much more comfortable table next time.

I decided to try the food here as I was already staying at the hotel and they entice you with $5 specials for happy hour which is from 4 - 7 pm, why not check it out after a long day at Disneyland park!

When I first arrived, I noticed that the restaurant section was fairly empty, hhmm, maybe not the best of signs. There was no one greeting patrons at the front, it seemed like they had about 3 servers running around the restaurant, each assisting guests but again it was very slow. A person from the front desk of the restaurant came over to assist. I was given a menu and told about the happy hour currently going on. They had drink specials that's were 1 dollar off of beer and 5 dollar well drinks. I ordered a Lime Rickey that was a vodka drink. The server highly recommended it so I figured I would try it. It took about 15 minutes for me to get my water and drink, being told that the bar was backed up I figured ordering food would be good so I could get everything hopefully at the same time. Mac n cheese, 4 cheese Flatbread, nachos, calimari and lobster Sliders were ordered. The nachos, mac and Flatbread arrived at the same time. The mac was tasty but something you can easily find at a generic buffet, next! The nachos were cold. They topped the hot cheese with so many cold ingredients that everything arrived cold and soggy to the table. The Flatbread, wow, are they really calling it that?? It looked and tasted like a small, square frozen Totinos pizza, literally your supermarket frozen pizza. Not crisp to the dough, just soggy and soft as though microwaved which I'm sure they did. The calimari arrived and was very oily. Dipping sauce was a marinara and a "chipotle" mayo which literally looks and tasted like dyed mayo, not even spicy. The lobster Sliders were nothing to rave about. The crab was almost minced, not even a lump crab. It was served on a buttery sweet roll that tasted like a Kings Hawaiian roll. The crab was not seasoned well and had a lot of lemon which did not taste well with the really sweet roll. Now for the drinks. The lime Rickey I ordered was horrible. It literally tasted like a premixed horrible drink. I literally had to order a coke to finish my meal.

Nothing here to say that I would want to try this place again. Needs some improvement in the kitchen department.

Only ate here for the breakfast buffet, it opens at 6:30 am and closes at 11:30 am. It costs $13 and you can have them bill it to your room.
I got there about 7 am and there was nobody there, so basically I had the buffet all to myself! The food was pretty good, they had French toast, sausage, bacon, eggs, cereal, fruit...
I enjoyed the food, however some of it was a little too salty for me and left this taste in my mouth for a while.

An employee was telling me that around 10 am it starts to get busy so GET THERE EARLY!

New menu and a lot of cool new food and drinks. Would 120% suggest coming here if you had a bad experience prior. We got the burger, lamp chops, and half chicken. For salad, we got the heirloom salad and a cobb salad.

Burger: Huge ass burger with very succulent meat. Comes with fries that are seasoned well and crispy (but not too crispy). Sharp flavors, but not overwhelming.

Lamp Chops and Half Chicken: Cooked very tenderly with lots of flavor. The lamp chops had a bed of flavorful and beautifully presented sliced potatoes at the bottom. Chicken came with some greens that balanced the dish out well. Both are great comfort food.

Heirloom Salad: Has watermelon and a bunch of different tomatoes in the salad. Definitely very unique. Wish I had a pic for Yelp.. but it was so yummy we literally sniffed the salad in seconds. Used VERY FRESH herbs on it. The combination of flavors from the herb and the sweet watermelon and sweet tomato is just AMAZING.

Cobb salad: Literally cut the freshest part of an iceberg cabbage and sprinkled in goodness (cheese and meat). Not too much dressing where you feel like the dressing is wearing the salad. Fantastic.

Again, would recommend here if this place was a no-no before (because I also think it wasn't so good before)... New menu... think they will change their name soon... They might have more stuff in the future since there is a cute "preview" on the top of the menu.

Horrible service, and there were only 2 tables of ppl!!! Ugh!!

We stayed here (Hotel Menage) for President's Day wknd @ Disneyland... upon check in we were given a two groupon deals. One was for "buy 1 entre get the 2nd one free" and another one was "buy 1 entree get 2 drinks free" - so, we decided to come check this place out and use one of those.

It's open seating.. so we picked one of like twenty open tables, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE SERVER. It took him about 10 minutes to come greet us, and give us a freaking menu. Then it took him another 10-15 mins to come back to take our order.... The food proceeded to take about 10-15 minutes to come out.

The food itself was probably worth 3, maybe 4 stars. However the fact that it took 45 mins to an hour for a meal that SHOULD HAVE took 20 minutes... not cool. And it wasn't busy, so there was NO excuse.

Groupon or not, I wont ever come here or recommend this place. The hotel however is great. Just not this restaurant staff/service.

If you're thinking about eating here, chances are you're probably staying at Hotel Menage, and if you're staying at Hotel Menage you're probably getting ready to start a magical day at Disneyland or California Adventure!

Don't ruin that magical day by starting your day off eating here.

Just don't.

We have been here many, many times over the past couple of years, and much like the Hotel this restaurant resides in, this place has gone very downhill.

I used to look forward to my morning breakfasts here. They do a breakfast buffet for $15.00 a person and they used to have delicious omelettes and a wonderful Belgium Waffle maker with lots of fun sides like chocolate chips, walnuts and mixed berries.

All of that is gone now. And so is all my hopes and dreams for this place.

It was a horrible, horrible breakfast. Plain boring scrambled eggs, rubbery bacon, sausage and dried up potatoes... Not worth your $15.00 people. Barely worth $5.00.

Do yourself a favor and eat at the Denny's across the street from the park. Better food, way better prices.

This place is really a lobby bar more than a "Tavern". Review is for HH only.

Does anyone else think it's odd that when ordering 2 glasses of cab and 2 glasses of water, the wine is served in nice quality stemmed wine glasses; the water is served in plastic cups? We're not on the beach, we're in a hotel lobby, sitting at the bar. We're not going to walk away with your glassware. Did you not want to have to wash it?

We ordered HH menu of wings, nachos, and mac n cheese. We did appreciate the bartender offering to put nachos toppings on the side. Wings were very good; not crazy about cheese "sauce" vs. actual cheese on mac n mac and nachos. Place was fine.