Coast

Very good price and taste for a buffet. $ 11.95 is quite decent for the choices which include cheese blintz (see my plate). The cheese blintz is a pancake/​crêpe-​like pastry filled with ricotta cheese, cream cheese and confectioner’s sugar. Like I said, nice to see in a buffet. Lots of flavored bagels like blueberry, cinnamon, oatmeal, etc… Bowls of pre-​cut grapefruit that are covered with Saran Wrap so nice to transport to table. Individual cereal boxes, scrambled eggs, thick sausage, thick bacon, huge potatoes with bell peppers and onions, fruit, oatmeal and do not forget your cooked-​to-​order options: French toast, pancakes and omelets. So as far as my French toAst, do not expect NYC challah bread yummy. Expect wheat bread dipped in egg and fried normal. Again it is a buffet and we are south not North so my quest for a decent French toast in the Southern states, Western States and Mid-​Western states will continue. Hint for French Toast: use yellowish Challah bread… it will look like Egg bread. Eat in a NYC diner and you will get it! I digress, this Hilton breakfast is so reasonable in price and quality so despite the French T not being NYC-grade…5 stars for even the nice male host named Jason.

Agree with the other post… hands down best hotel restaurant. Ate here a couple times… breakfast is nothing special but dinner has been wonderful. One night had the grouper that came with a broccoli side that had some type of seasoning that was wonderful. Tonight my side is some type of potato that seems to have some type of cornmeal flavor… really different and really good.

We ate here while staying at the Hilton Garden Inn. I would agree with the prior posts, this was some of the best food I have ever eaten in a hotel. I would certainly recommend if you are staying in the area. Otherwise, there are better options out there.

I found this place on Unilocal.I am interested in walking to lunch places near my job which leads me to interesting and new places. Plus, a nice brisk walk does wonders for my attention span in the after noon. Anyway, I called ahead of time and was quoted 10 minutes for the food which was accurate. Also the staff was very friendly. The restaurant is small and quite. I might just stay and dine next time.
I had the herb chicken sandwich with garlic truffle fries. The sandwich was ok. There was a nice combined flavor of the chicken with the arugula. I thought the bread was a little on the thick side. I’m a fan of good bread to meat ratio. The garlic truffle fries were good but I didn’t find them terribly different than any other garlic flavored fries.
The price is on the $ 10+ range. I wouldn’t go out of my way to go here but it was a nice change of pace from other places in the area.

The food was ok, not great. It has such potential, the dishes sound delicious but it just missed the mark. It does have a nice atmosphere and the staff was nice and attentive. But for the price, the food just didn’t cut it.

Soggy chips but great turkey club!

Tried during Tampa’s «Restaurant Week» large amount of food for the cost $ 25 per person, excluding drinks.
Dining on Sunday night gave us the who restaurant for just my family and I. We had a lovely waitress and really really good food.
I’d eat there again.

Best hotel restaurant food I can recall. Located in the Hilton Gardens off O’Brien just south of the Airport. Went there after trying some samples at the Dine Tampa Bay kick-off…and wanting to have more from their $ 25 three course special menu.
There were 3 options in each category, so we shared great beef satay and generous fried calamari apps, good salmon with rich salad as well as tender filet with mashed taters, followed by bourbon bread pudding and chocolate mousse that we intended to take home but somehow consumed before boxing. The portions were perfect, so we left satisfied without stuffing. Nice upscale touches such as a fine corn/​avocado relish with the satays, great calamari toppings, and a cinnamon-​shaker outline of a fork on the dessert plate. Service by Catrina was unusually attentive and skillful as we arrived early and had nearly her entire attention.
We also checked out the regular menu that offered other items of interest, and a good beer/​wine list. Prices on some items are a bit high, but not for hotel food. And the $ 25 special was a real deal. We may get back again to sample more. This is a fine illustration of the usefulness of Dine Tampa Bay… esp. in the Summer doldrums before the Elephants arrive.

The Homewood Suites across the street doesn’t have a full restaurant, but luckily, the Hilton Garden Inn across the street does, and they’ve worked it out so that Homewood guests can order room service from Coast. I took advantage the one night that the Homewood didn’t have free dinner, and I’m glad I did.
It took me a while to decide what to order, because several of the menu items looked amazing. I eventually decided on a salad and a half pizza. Yes, they sell half pizzas, which is the best idea ever. More pizza places should do this. Mostly so I don’t order a whole one and ending up eating the entire thing. But that’s beside the point.
I had the house salad, described on the menu as iced greens, roasted peppers, pine nuts, red onion, smoked bacon and sweet pepper vinaigrette. The iced greens were very heavy on the dandelion greens, which I can’t stand. So that made me a little sad. But everything else about the salad was excellent. The pepper vinaigrette was perfect — similar to a catalina or french dressing but a little thicker and a little sweeter. The pine nuts just added a little something different. I would have loved to have had more greens — if I get the chance to order it again, I may ask for it on spinach instead.
The half pizza was probably about a 10 or 12 inch pizza — not big slices, but not tiny. The crust was crisp, and the sauce was very tasty. All in all, a mighty tasty pizza, but nothing super special or different about it. It was pretty much what I was hoping for.
Apparently the entire menu is that good — I got back one night and there were a few cops hanging out that apparently come into the Homewood and order dinner from Coast on a regular basis. Definitely better food than I’ve experienced in the past in hotels of a Hilton Garden Inn type — more along the lines of what I would have expected at a regular Hilton. And that’s a good thing, as far as I’m concerned.