holy mother-load of all that is deliciousness. Where do I begin? This is your one stop shop for all sites, smells and tastes of the Amish. And let me tell you, that is a good thing. It looks like a place you would see on the travel channels "Best unexpected rest-stops in the country part 2!" - When you come here, expect to eat, and then eat some more and oh wait, eat again. Make sure you have your game plan because there sure is alot to choose from. Beginning with the "appetizer" selection, they have salad, soup, breads and some fried balls of corn and other goodies. Amaze. Moving on to meat, they had chicken pot pie, bbq chicken, plain fried chicken, honeybaked ham, a carving station with some other meat, and a wide variety of different fish as well. Then comes the best part, the sides. Mac and cheese, crab au gratin, traditional amish stuffing, veggies, traditional mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and so much more. The sides are probably the best part in my book. Everything was fresh, from the earth and delicious. The finish off a wonderful meal, they have a variety of desserts like pies, cakes, their world famous "whoopie pie" and my personal favorite - hot PREZELS. Dont even ask how that is a dessert, just eat one and love it. Afterwards make sure you parooze (is this a word?) the general store for all of your chochtski-esque needs. Take a picture with the giant amish man outside and just enjoy because this truly is a once in a lifetime experience. read more

This is a nice little Hotel on Route 896 AKA Lancaster Turnpike (I think). It is situated just a short drive down from the outlets and main shops and restaurants. The rooms are modern but have elegant, simple Amish charm. The restaurant portion has never been dull. Fresh and hot buffet or menu breakfast, lunch and dinner. It offers a large selection, plentiful portions and quick rotation of empty trays. A large selection too of fresh juice, coffee and fruit. read more

I went last weekend with high expectations, but sadly experienced an average breakfast buffet. Maybe it's because Lancaster County has some superior buffets, but I found the offerings underwhelming in terms of quality. The establishment is very clean and the wait staff helpful, but the food offerings were pedestrian. I have been visiting all the local buffet establishments, and so far feel the Bird in Hand buffet the best in all categories. read more

RIPOFF! A tourist trap IMHO. Not worth all the wait to get in here. Actually, we waited 40 minutes to be seated! When we got our table I noticed there were quite a few empty tables in our area. What's that about? Dry fried chicken was the best thing they had , a meager and very limited salad bar, and similarly sad fare do not constitute a 'Grand Buffet' at 23 bucks a person. Honestly, most of the items they offered didn't look very good and tasted only so-so. The salad bar at my office has more options than this place! Including a soft drink and tip it was 30 bucks for just me! I left feeling like I just got ripped of. Usually when I spend that much for dinner, I really enjoy the meal. read more

My husband Rick and I took our niece Allison and our nephew Brian to Strasburg for the weekend. After riding the Strasburg RR, and eating lunch in their dining car, Allison and I let the two railfans go explore the other railfan locations here while we did some sightseeing on our own. We decided to stop here for dinner. I would have loved the Iron Horse Inn, but we decided that was too advanced for the kids. Really, I give this place five stars simply for the ambiance and experience. The food itself is quite standard for a buffet style place. But it was definitely a cut above what you'd get at Old Country Buffet. This http://www.hersheyfarm.com/grandsmorgasbord/ will give you an idea of their offerings. The fried chicken was quite good, although nowhere near my husband Rick's homemade though! (Do I get brownie points from my hubby for praising his culinary skills?). The desserts here are scrumptious! So all in all, if you're traveling with kids like we were, it's a good place to stop for dinner. Especially when those kids have come to the conclusion that they've outgrown the children's menu! read more

After checking in at the Hershey Farm Restaurant & Inn, which is not related to the candy company, we needed to eat lunch. Unfortunately, most locally owned restaurants are closed on Sundays, so we sat down for a picnic on the hotel's property, enjoying the pretty views, and put the kids down for naps. We had hoped for a room with two full beds, but it worked out better having a king and then a cot for Jonah. This allowed us to rearrange the furniture and our pack-n-play (for Leah) to suit our needs best. We hit the pool after nap and then made our way to what ended up being our best dinner of the trip at Lancaster Brewing Company. read more

Was in the Lancaster PA area for work. We stopped at Hershey Farm Restaurant after work for dinner. Great place. It's a 'smorgasbord' with a wide variety of salads, hot and cold entrees, bread and desserts. They even had a very tasty sliced tenderloin at a carving station and boiled shrimp. Service was pretty good - kind of unneeded since its really a buffet - and the prices were not too bad for the food served. read more

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Last month I enjoyed two days at the Hershey Hotel. Yesterday, July 4th we visited the buffett at the Hersehy Farm property. Simply put they were polar opposites. The carving Station offerings tasted of burned aluminum. Most of the other offerings were average to mediocre. BUT THEY CARRY THE HERSHEY NAME! I was annoyed to pay double the average meal price in the area for poor product and indifferent execution. Save your money, avoid Hershey Farm Restaurant. read more

I've been coming here for years. I like that the buffet is not spread out all over the room and I'm not walking around everyone with my plate of food. It's nice that there are some farm animals outside. read more

This is a large place that also offers lodging. The have a gift shop, bakery and nursery. They cater to large tours that come to see the local shows at the Sight & Sound Theater which it's located adjacent to. The seating area is somewhat in three sections, a smaller area for groups of twos and threes, another area for families and much larger area that can hold big groups. I've never had to wait here and they always do a good job getting people seated (sat), even during busy times. Breaskfast The hours on breakfast change depending on the day so be sure to check but it's roughly from 8am to 10:30am. In the back of the buffet area you'll find the breads, wheat, white, muffins, donuts, fruit salad, cold cereal (Cherrios and Raisin Bran), cottage cheese, bagels and cream cheese. There is also some cookies and shoofly pie. The hot foods serving table has the potatoes, eggs, hash browns, biscuits, gravy, crispy bacon, tender bacon, scrapple, sausage, ham, baked oatmeal, oatmeal, syrup, blueberry & strawberry toppings, pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, French toast, baked French toast and sticky buns. All the food here was really good. I especially liked the eggs, potatoes, bacon, biscuits and gravy, baked French toast and oatmeal. The others were all good too but those things stood out for me.The food was always hot and they refill empty trays immediately. The staff is extremely friendly and does a terrific job of clearing plates and refilling drinks. The place is spotless and there is never a problem with clean utensils, plates and bowls. The bathrooms are equally as clean. Dinner They dinner space is twice as large as the breakfast. There are two buffet tables set up. The left starts with the soups (corn soup, beef vegetable soup, cream of potato soup), breads (wheat & white), salad fixings (peas, carrots, onions, corn, beets, etc) and dressings (Ranch, Thousand Island, blue cheese, hot bacon, etc), pasta salad, potato salad, cole slaw, chow chow, red beet eggs, cranberry relish, chicken salad, tuna salad and macaroni salad. At the end of this serving table are the puddings, eclair pudding, chocolate and vanilla pudding, rice pudding, bread pudding, Jell-O and mixed fruit. On the other side of this is the hot foods buffet with mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, Amish stuffing, brown buttered noodles, green beans, corn, broccoli, corn fritters, baked beans, macaroni & cheese, stewed tomatoes, fried chicken, honey BBQ chicken, chicken pot pie, broiled flounder, PA Dutch ham balls, beef stew, pot roast, pork and sauerkraut, meatloaf, turkey gravy, beef gravy, baked ham, prime rib and cocktail shrimp. To the rear of the buffet area is where you'll find the desserts. They have shoofly pie, coconut custard pie, cherry pie, pumpkin pie, blueberry pie, triple layer chocolate cake, yellow cake, strawberry cake, mini whoopie pies, fresh baked chocolate chip, peanut butter, or oatmeal raisin cookies. They also have hand-dipped Turkey Hill ice cream but you have to ask your server to bring this to you. They have vanilla, chocolate, peanut butter swirl and min chocolate chip. I have a much more in-depth review on my personal blog. read more

We stayed at the Hershey Farm Inn from 7/5/16 - 7/9/16. The room was ok. It had 2 queen beds and an outside porch area overlooking the pool. The bathroom was small but that is too be expected for a hotel. My main complaint with the room was the bugs. Not sure what kind they are since I'm no expert but they were all over the place, both alive ones and dead ones. They need to get an exterminator out there ASAP. We went with another family and my sister in law and their rooms were infested as well. The second day of our stay, we had our room cleaned by housekeeping. My wife had some expensive makeup STOLEN out of her makeup bag. We noticed the following morning when my wife went to get her makeup after showering. I went to the front desk at approximately 7:30am and was told that they did not think she would have done it because they never had any issues in the past and was a long time employee. I was told to send an email of what was stolen and they would let the housekeeping supervisor know when they got in at 9am. I did as requested and went on with my day. Around 3pm I had not been contacted so I sent a follow up email and was contacted within the hour. Maybe they were hoping I would forget. I was told that the housekeeper denied it but was willing to pay for what was stolen if it didn't turn up be checkout. Seems odd because if someone accused me of stealing something, I wouldn't offer to replace it unless I was guilty. Needless to say, I received a credit for the cost of the stolen item. Also, please beware of the benches and chairs by the playground equipment. They are so brittle that a 40 lb child would probably break it if they sat on it. Some other issues: the outside was filthy (see photos) Don't use the ice from the machine for anything other than filling a cooler. The filter is overdue for a change. (See photo) read more

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Very good country breakfast. You want to fill up on breakfast delights this is the place!!

Decently quality buffet in a place that hasn't been renovated since the 1940s. As part of a Lancaster weekend visiting some friends, we had buffet lunch here. The price for the buffet was a bit more than I expected, but we ended up eating enough, comfortably, to make it all the way back to NYC without needing dinner. So there's that. Seating is a bit more formalized than I would have expected, but there's a crazy catch-all shop in the entry with some insanely random items. If you want crappy gifts, farm items or anything that makes no sense, then this is a shopping destination. The dining was pretty good - solid fried chicken, good mac & cheese, decent meat, solid desserts, chocolate fountain. . yeah, it's pretty solid. Better food than what I recall from Sizzler or Old Country Buffet or my freshman dorms, but not significantly. At the price, I would have expected a bit better quality for the buffet. It's a bit high price for lunch for what I would have expected, but with a group it works. And the style of this place . . .yeah it's old school. It's what you'd expect for Amish Country I guess. Service is pretty good as well. read more

My family and I just returned home from a weekend getaway to Strasburg and overnight stay at the Hershey Farm inn. Overall it was a very pleasant stay. Staff was friendly, rooms were very clean and roomy. Only negative is the bathrooms are a little small and you could hear your "neighbors" bathrooms after they flushed/used shower. Didn't bother us though, I would def stay here again. We ate at the restaurant twice and both times were great. Lunch was very good we ordered off the menus. Chicken pot pie was amazing and the stuffing. Breakfast buffet was included with our stay and was delicious as well with a lot of options. Loved the little stores too. The boutique has some really cute clothes, very reasonably priced. Will def be returning to Hershey farm inn on my next Strasburg getaway. read more

We've been coming here for years this experience this week was a disappointment... food was not up to par,,, Parking lot at 6pm on Sunday being not Amish owned we figured it would be packed I can see why i wasn't food has gone down hill... Sorry Hershey farm but we wont be back. read more

This is the restaurant on the hotel grounds... Do. Not. Eat. Here! The food was some of the worst I have ever had at a restaurant. Probably in my top 5 and number 2 for the most expensive. I would never recommend this place To anyone. read more

Awful just absolutely awful. Tasted like cafeteria food, the chicken was raw, and the baked beans weren't cooked all the way. We couldn't wait to leave. Don't eat here. read more

I really liked our server, she was very friendly and efficiently explained to us all our choices. My husband ordered the full smorgasbord and my daughter could eat free as an add onto that. I had the turkey from the kitchen menu and then added the dessert bar for $5 extra. The chocolate fountain was a big hit with my daughter read more

Small buffet, but top notch food. I'm not usually a fan of buffet restaurants as they don't sit well with me, but not at Hershey Farm. Fresh options from the grill, and well maintained buffet food. A bit pricey though. Great option if you're in Lancaster! read more

I agree with some of the other reviewer's that the price charged for the dinner buffet is for the tourist trade. I opted for just the soup and salad portion of this limited selection buffet. The soup and bread were fine but when I go out to eat, I don't want to eat like I am in a prison. The salad bar could be called a "salad-ette". It was very small and had limited selections. The service here was beyond repair. My server brought the wrong beverages to my table throughout the evening. If I do ever make it back,perhaps just for breakfast. read more

I've been coming here since I was a kid with my grandma and aunt on family vacations. This review is for the restaurant this trip. We came here not feeling too hungry and didn't intend to get the entire smorgasbord. We were going to order an entree and add the soup / salad bar and the desert bar. However, we misread that those 2 things were just one additional price and when we added both of those prices to any entree it made much more sense to go for the whole shebang smorgasbord. I started with some soup and salad which was good. This place has options galore and there is definitely something for everyone. I followed that up with some chicken and other entree items. One awesome surprise was that there is a grill station with a menu where a gentleman working the grill will whip anything up. I had a plain quesadilla which got the job done! The desert bar definitely delivered! I had a slide of pie, some iced cream and dipped some strawberries in their chocolate fountain - awesome! Service was friendly, attentive and honest! Can't beat that! If you're looking for a giant buffet of options, this is a great spot. read more

I've never had their dinner buffet but the breakfast buffet is out of this world. the omelet station is fantastic and everything is so fresh and delicious I am anxious to try their dinner buffet one time. read more

Yummm lots of mix in flavors. You can order from the menu and get a huge serving and just get the salad bar for less. Vs. ordering the $25 full buffet. If you get past the busses of truest it's a nice fun stop as you visit this lovely country side. So yes stop and get some good food. read more

Before watching Jonah at the Sight and Sound theater, my best friend and I were supposed to eat lunch at another place but it was closed for a holiday so ended up here and sure enough I was glad to have dined here! We went for the buffet and everything was awesome. I stuffed my stomach too much and over ate because the food was just so homey and just smelled good. They also have a big souvenir store with a variety of Lancaster trinkets. My best friend even bought a cool jacket for a great price. read more

This is a solid 3 stat hotel but I have it 4 because it was exactly what I was looking for for a weekend away. We stayed in room 650 in the farmhouse. You have to go through a room with the ice machine and then another to our room. But our room was lovely and large compared to a city hotel room. It had a love seat which converted to a small bed which my friend said was comfortable One note on the farm house rooms, they all have ledges you need to to need to step up or down to get into the room. The room came with the buffet breakfast. It was pretty good and I would have paid for it if I stayed nearby. We had the dinner buffet but we didn't get there until 7 and some of the options suffered from sitting for too long. read more

A bit pricey but the food is fantastic. The prime rib was outstanding. The sides and desserts were equally scrumptious. The desert bar features a chocolate fountain which was simply too tempting read more

The food isn't that great, it's average at best and with a hefty price on the weekends. Must've read the menu wrong but I thought it said $11.99 per person for the smorgasbord lunch buffet but it ended up being $25.99 per person. Kids under 3 do eat free. They do have a carve and made to order section. Got a cheese burger and it was soooooooo salty. The only thing have have going is their desserts. Shady Maple still has the best smorgasbord. Unfortunately, the waitresses refill ur drinks and there's no wells to refill. We never saw our waitress, we had to flag another waitress to get ours to come out. read more

We stayed overnight at the hotel and out of all tge hotels in Lancaster county this is my least favorite. Very small room and dirty bare minimum very bare bathroom is tge size of a phone booth. Breakfast was only open to hotel guests and was typical and cold read more

The worst restaurant i have ever been to. There is very little selection and the selection is terrible! Nothing is good and it's wayyy over priced. If i could put no stars i would. read more

Buffet style restaurant with a lot of selection. The food was nothing to write home about but the service from our waiter Josiah was excellent. I like the MTO bar where you could order things just the way you liked them from quesadillas to Philly cheesesteak to pastas to burgers to tacos and a few other things. This restaurant is a great alternative if you aren't a fan of the family styles meals. The dessert selection was pretty good too. read more

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My wife and I have four children ages 13, 11, 9, and 6 (1 Girl, 3 Boys). We love the Lancaster area and frequently have a challenging time trying to find a economical way to obtain lodging for the six of us. We had our first stay this week at the Farmhouse section of the Hershey Farm Restaurant & Inn. The large room was perfect for us with two beds and a pullout out couch. We all fit with room to spare and the refrigerator/freezer fit our needs, the room was clean, the air conditioner worked perfectly and the staff serviced the room perfectly. We took advantage of the generous free buffet breakfast which offered a tremendous variety and great quality. Our children really enjoyed the pool and walking the grounds. The shops and market are great! We loaded up on local produce before heading home. Each and every staff member from the Inn, to the shops, to the servers in the restaurant are friendly, helpful, and courteous. This is our go to location to stay in the Lancaster area. read more

We frequent this place every time we are in Hershey! There's so much food here and it's all absolutely delicious! And they have fantastic dessert options. Keep your belt loosened if you're planning to come by. Great for families, too! read more

My family and I stopped in last Saturday on a whim. We had never been there before but thought we would try something new. I can honestly say that between the three of us there wasn't a single thing we didn't love on the buffet. I really enjoyed the chicken pot pie and my sister loved the carved ham. Even my "hard to please" husband liked everything, especially the corn fritters. The only thing that wasn't great was the sliding table. Every time someone leaned on it the table would slide over and move everyone's meals and with a 5 year old in attendance it could make you a little crazy. However, I would definitely recommend this establishment and I am already looking forward to our next trip there! read more

Perhaps the most overpriced buffet for the quality and taste of food that I've ever eaten. Four (4) adults, three (3) waters, one (1) coke, with one (1) Senior Citizen discount and the bill was $100.84 without the tip. The food was OK at best but nothing to write home about. We ordered nothing from the menu and we were dumbfounded when the waitress brought us the bill. The service and atmosphere were good, it was clean, and quick seating but that's really the only positive thing I can say about the place. Thomas S. White, Chief Petty Officer, United States Navy (retired). read more

Stayed for a weekend in January. Just a heads up, this facility is not handicapped friendly. The buildings are very spread out and there is only one handicapped bath public bathroom in the restaurant. The lobby has NO bathroom at all and you either have to go very far to your room or across the parking lot to the restaurant to use the restroom facilities. Very inconvenient. The staff was wonderful and friendly. read more

Best buffet by far. Always clean and a good variety of food. Everything tastes so gresh.

The buffet is very good if you catch it at the right time. Buses dump off people in the hundreds so you want to catch the buffet between drop offs. Fortunately we timed it perfectly and were able to make trips to the salad bar, 2 trips to the buffet and one more to the dessert bar without waiting. The waitress was very nice but a little slow on the drink refills but not terribly slow. I advise that you should not eat for at least a day to take optimize the ratio of cost to amount of food consumed. read more

Delicious meal with amazing options. Enjoy a bountiful buffet at a great price. Must try the ham balls, corn bread and fresh mashed potatoes. The ice cream is a real treat. Need I say more? read more

Ate at restaurant, buffet was just ok not impressed. Very pretty area. Staff were friendly.

I received a very nice email from the manager. A few days later arrived another box of properly wrapped whoopie pies. They even included deserts that I hadn't requested. While the initial experience was awful, they were able to rectify it wonderfully! read more