Lunch is either buffet or seated, and is equally plentiful with hot and cold choices. There's a huge table full of desserts and an icecream bar. A poolside grill serves sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs until late afternoon, so there's almost always something to eat. Dinner, as mentioned above, uses assigned seating in the formal Manhattan Dining Room. Meal service is the biggest obstacle to enjoying the Patriot.
Service is decidedly substandard.
We thought perhaps it was just our waiter who was hopelessly slow, arrogant and inattentive, but nearly everyone we talked to had the same complaint about the dining experience. The beef was uniformly well-prepared, while the poultry, vegetarian and other entrees were iffy. Salads, regardless of what they were called, consisted mainly of iceberg lettuce. The service was so slow, soups seldom arrived hot. Desserts were, on the whole, OK but ordinary.