I mean, it's overpriced basic food in a resort. So you may wonder why four stars??? Well, they do those two things well. We had lunch there, so we were stuck with the regular menu, no buffet option like at breakfast and dinner. The menu is small, but basic, so there's not much to screw up. We had soup and salads, probably canned soups...it was super salty, but fine. The salad was big and it seemed fresh, great, all I needed for a lite lunch. Our son even ate for free! This is an excellent feature for hotel guests. He had spaghetti and meatballs. The sauce was runny, but he is eight and did not complain. The best part...I ordered a Bloody Mary, I asked for no olives and a lime, I got two pickles and a lemon...close enough. She asked me if I wanted a shooter, I said sure, why not. I literally got an 8oz Miller lite. What?!?!? Surely I thought it would cost $10+...it was $9 and my husband's 16oz Miller lite was $8...what a steal! read more

Wild Canyon Cafe - a cold beverage and a bloody drink - American Near Me - Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Ok I must be honest to help others. This is inside the resort but not the best place for dinner. I suggest you grab a pizza if you don't want to drive In town to all the other places to explore. There is also a yogurt place that has yummy yogurt. This place struggle to meet our needs. The fish was the best meat. The bums were edible. The people were nice but the food just didn't cut it If you are starving this will do but not preferred. read more

I was not expecting much from our in-hotel cafe, but it still somehow fell short. While staying at the Wilderness for a wedding, we opted to hit up the breakfast buffet because we wanted some quality pool time and it was early in the morning and rolling down the hallway seemed much easier than driving and parking and paying Dells prices somewhere else where we'd have to wait for a table. We were the second group to come into the cafe after it opened, and the food was hot and fresh - but unfortunately only in the way of having just been heated up and placed out, not in the way of being freshly prepared and light and flavorful. The buffet was carb heavy, and while that is usually my favorite part of breakfast, I want my bread products to be worth the calories. The french toast: awful. The biscuits: dry and flavorless. The mini waffles: spongy and flavorless. Luckily everything was in small portions so I didn't feel bad taking a bite or two, deciding it was just not worth it, and moving on to the next item. I usually feel terrible wasting things, but here...not so much. There were two highlights: the bacon, and what we guessed was a baked french toast. The dish had a custard-like interior, a sweet, syrup-y sauce, and notes of vanilla. Crazy rich, but far and away the best thing on the entire buffet. The bacon was stacked up literally a foot tall and was a good balance between crispy and chewy - not burnt, but not fatty either. Wild Canyon isn't a terrible option if you've got a lot of people in tow (especially kiddos), but you're definitely paying more for ease and immediate service than you are for quality. read more

Wild Canyon Cafe - Pile o' bacon. - American Near Me - Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

If you value your taste buds, your wallet, and your pride, please skip this buffet. Is the location convenient if you're staying in the Dells? Yes. That's about the only positive I can muster. If you can't even do scrambled eggs right, then there's a problem. The breakfast sandwiches are tasteless, the sausages tastes of processed meat, and the variety of food for this price buffet is not worth it in any way. Sure there is a tantalizing mountain of bacon at the end of this buffet line, but this is not a mountain you want to traverse. Just drive 10-15 minutes and find something better for everyone. read more

Wild Canyon cafe is for families with not a lot of dining expectations. You get in you get out. You get your food that is school cafeteria quality for a price that I was not worth the breakfast buffet they offer to the diners. Their customer service is friendly and nice. The food I wish it was better. Serving pancakes, danishes, fruit, omelet station and hot and cold cereal. It was okay it kind of feels like camp food. Which is okay if you were at camp. But we were at Wisconsin Dells paying Wisconsin Dell prices for the food and experience. Hey for some families they probably find to be good and quality for us it didn't hit the mark. We probably would never go back because it's not our style. I hope your dining experience will be better than ours. read more

We needed a quick breakfast before we hit up the water parks at the Wilderness so we stopped in at the Wild Canyon Cafe. The breakfast has both a buffet and a menu. If you're staying at the Wilderness, kids eat at the buffet for free. Adults were like $14 for breakfast so it was a decent deal for a family of 4. The food was ok. You know, typical breakfast buffet stuff. Not bad. I think better breakfasts can be had just down the street but if you're just in a hurry to grab a bite and don't feel like leaving the resort, this is a good call. read more

Our family stopped here to have a quick dinner on-site so we could get back in the pool without losing too much time. You can order from the menu, but we walked by the buffet and thought we would try it. Kids under 8 were free, under 12 were $8.99 (with an adult buffet purchase). Salad bar and soup were good. Alot of us had fried chicken and it was really good. Kids were happy with the usual kid stuff - mac n cheese, chicken nugget, etc. Pretty good overall, and we got back in the pool quick. read more

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While staying at the Wilderness Hotel this weekend, we had the breakfast buffet at the Wild Canyon Cafe. We arrived around 8:30 am and must have beat the rush. Lots of places to sit. The buffet includes an omelette station, some donuts, muffins, bagels, cereal, oatmeal and toast options. There was a mountain of bacon followed by breakfast sausages, sausage chunks, pancakes, french toast, biscuits and gravy, eggs benedict, potatoes, hash-browns, eggs, etc. I had an egg benedict. The hollandiaise sauce on top had pretty much dried up and I literally was unable to cut through the English muffin using my knife and fork. It was that hard and dry. The texture of the gravy and biscuits were good but it was completely bland with no flavor. The sausage chunks were good. In general the quality was just lacking and the price was definitely high for what you get. It cost $40 w/tip for two people. The price for everything at the Wilderness Resort was high so this was not a surprise. You're really paying for the convenience of not leaving the resort. I really don't recommend eating here. For us, the convenience was just not worth the price and the lack of quality. read more

For a resort breakfast and brunch place it's delicious 5 stars. I was seriously not expecting to be as good as it is based from reading the other reviews I still decided to give them a try. And to my surprise people were just being cheap because most of the reviews are complaining about the price lol. Try their new breakfast menu the bagel with lox and cream cheese amazing read more

Wild Canyon Cafe - Deliciousness - American Near Me - Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin

Lousy After being seated, it took 15 minutes for our waitress to appear. We finally received our drinks well into dinner and ended up waiting forever for the refill. Waiting for the check also took forever. I can't imagine they were understaffed as there were hardly any other patrons. The food selection of the buffet was limited and the food was mediocre at best. The positive is that the kids eat free, but that's not enough to entice us to come back. read more

We stayed here 2 nights and waited til the last day to try this breakfast buffet. Prices are fair so we figured it should he descent cuisine. We were seated and proceeded to the buffet which looked impressive and clean. However once we were back at the table and dug in the food tasted old and gross. Stale bread, and most of the foods had no flavor, to top it the coffee in the carafe on the table was room temperature. Will not be going back. read more

We are here twice while staying at the Wilderness this year. Service is okay. Food is quite poor, especially for what you pay for it. I purchased a Chef Salad. This is a salad with an egg, ham, turkey, and a couple cheeses. Well first off they forgot the turkey. It was brought out with apologizes for not being on the salad, though it should of been apologizes for being used in the salad. It was cheep deli meat Julian cut. The cheddar cheese was grated cheese. For $14 the salad was a joke, it was more like a $7 salad. The kids and my wife got the buffet, which is a real joke in food quality and my poor wife suffered from heartburn all night, which she never gets. The second time we ate here was for breakfast and their breakfast buffet. Unfortunately we ended up with a really rude waitress who obviously didn't want to be there. The manager handled the situation very well. The breakfast buffet, on the other hand is pretty poor quality. Canned corned beef hash. Overcooked eggs in chafing dishes. At least the bacon was cooked in different done-ness. That was appreciated. The restaurant is right in the resort, so if you don't feel like going for a drive and losing your premium parking spot you nabbed the night before, you are stuck. I really just wish they didn't make me feel like they are trying to make as much money off of me as possible by charging a lot of money for simple, low quality food. read more

2 things good, the rest bad. Kids eat free....That was good. The other was the bacon. Delicious bacon stacked as high as you can see. The buffet food is typical, bland, boring fare. Nothing to set it apart. The biscuits taste like cardboard and the gravy is almost as bad. I didn't find any sausage or any meat in it at all. Just like a white pepper gravy. I didn't care for much of the food, but it sure would help to get some fresher ingredients on there. It would also be nice to get some actual stuff with flavor. There are much better places to go. I'd visit Baraboo and look up The Log Cabin. It has the best breakfast food I've ever eaten and is only a 10 minute drive from the Dells. read more

I have tried all the restaurants in the Wilderness Resort in my search for something palatable. It took be four meals to realize that they must be ordering mass quantities of the same very poor quality food to serve at all their restaurants. It doesn't matter how good your chef or waitstaff are if you are starting with sh*t quality food. If you find institutional food good (ie hospital and school food), then you will find the Wilderness Resort restaurants okay. And they are all expensive. I understand now why so many people bring their own food. read more

My wife ordered a lemon drop and I ordered a martini. This was the first time we ever returned cocktails. This was THE WORST MARTINI I ever ordered. The food was okay. Service was good. read more

Here over the weekend for brunch while staying at the Wilderness. The brunch selection was fairly good, however the food quality was pretty poor. I expected the prices to be elevated just for being in the WI dells, but this food was definitely not worth the $14.99 price tag. Would recommend getting off wilderness grounds and checking out a different option for brunch. read more

I wasn't sure about this place because of all he negative reviews. We ordered burgers and they were delicious! Fries were great. Kids likes their meals as well. We ordered off the menu not the Buffett and rally enjoyed it. read more

I wish I had read the reviews before choosing this place for dinner. We had a party of 12 and all had the dinner buffet. Only 4 of our party order soft drinks which was never refilled without us hunting down the "server" and requesting more. At the end of the meal they tacked on a mandatory 15% tip on top of an overpriced meal. read more

People say that this buffet has too many children,but DON'T LISTEN! What do you expect from a dinning place at a water park? The chicken here is the best! It's very juicy, The ribs were pretty good as well. Service here was great. The price was affordable. read more

This place is ok, good staff and decent food. I had the burger, it was fine, not great but not bad. The buffet looked ok too, variety of stuff to pick from and it looked like they rotate the food to keep it fresh. The staff was great, they were very helpful with our questions regarding a food allergy. Even the manager came over to check on us. The convenience of the restaurant is the big pro to this place. read more

All of the reviews are spot on. 15 dollars for a breakfast buffet that somethings were okay, but several downright awful. Ham tastes like plastic, and my daughter had mandarin oranges that tastes like they were soaked in alcohol (must've been sitting for a LONG time). Avoid at all costs. read more

My husband and I, along with two of our friends, came here for the breakfast buffet on a Saturday morning. We were seated pretty quickly and had a very nice server. The food that was served was decent. They had eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, potatoes, corned beef hash, quiche, and fruit. I do wish that they had a bit more variety in what they offer for the buffet. For example, I have been to breakfast buffets where smoked salmon is offered. It would have been nice to see something like that here, especially for what the Wilderness charges for you to stay there. This isn't the worst place that I've eaten at, though. I would eat here again. read more

Well we just spent $44 on the breakfast buffet for four of us, and we all left still hungry. The food was that bad. I wish I would've read the reviews first. Go off the resort and find a Denny's or something. The host was friendly. The bacon was good. The oatmeal was ok. The eggs were disgusting. The toast didn't even fit in the toaster. The biscuits and gravy were runny and lacked flavor. At least there was fresh fruit. For $15 I expect better. read more

Low quality food overall for how much you pay. The service is good and everyone was welcoming and friendly so that's a positive. Make your way down the street to the Kalahari's buffet as an alternative. It's open to the public for the same price and has much better quality food and more options! read more

Decided to come here with the family for dinner since kids eat for free. What a mistake. The food is TERRIBLE!!! At some point I thought I was getting punked because there is no way almost every option on the buffet could be so bad. Well turns out I wasn't getting punked and that was just reality. I would not recommend this place to anybody. read more

I came across these awful reviews while I was waiting to order, and thought "oh, great". I am very picky about food and braced myself for a horrible experience. To my surprise, breakfast was very good and only cost about $20 for my family of 5. I'd be happy to eat here again. read more

This is for the breakfast buffet. They have a pretty wide selection of food from fresh fruit, meats, cereal, eggs to order, desserts, all types of bread/ bagels. The price is fair if you have children, the food was really good, especially the bacon. The server we had was awesome & so polite (that in itself is worth the price) I say don't listen to the other people that think this should be a 5* place. It is nice, clean, & has good food. read more

Avoid this place at all cost. Super slow service and filled with crying children. Never again.

Over priced, food is so so, jump in the car and go to Pizza Ranch, you'll be happier!

Ugh. Seriously overpriced food that tastes just like the stuff you got from the school cafeteria. I should know better than to ever visit a hotel restaurant, but the MIL wanted to eat now and didn't want to drive anywhere. Thanks for reminding me why I shouldn't frequent hotel restaurants. read more

Did not want to leave the resort for breakfast so decided to try the buffet even after seeing the mostly 3* reviews. This buffet was terrible! The one star is for the bacon, the only tasty option. The scrambled eggs tasted like powdered eggs. On a busy Sat morn they only had one person cooking at the omelet station with a line of 8 people waiting, so I could not try a fresh omelet. When we were leaving, I noticed some of the same people were still in line. The potatoes were diced small and not fresh. The biscuits were doughy and the gravy had zero flavor. Melons were hard with no taste. French toast was not cooked long enough and soggy. Not close to being worth the $15pp price. Also, coffee and juice are extra. Next time will bring my own breakfast items to the resort. I have had better breakfasts at hotels that offer free breakfast with staying. read more

Terrible! The food is unbelievably bad. For 17.99 I would rather watch my money burn then eat here.

Had the dinner buffet and it was the worst buffet I've had probably ever. Bland, dried up, tough meat....wilted lettuce. Don't be tricked by the offer of a free kids meal... not worth it. read more

I felt the need to comment after all the negative reviews. Looks like they responded to the criticism. They ditched the buffet and went to a manageable menu. I went with a safe option being skeptical of the food quality, ordered the hot mess. It came out hot, and if you don't work in food service, this is probably more important than how it tastes. That said, it was pretty good. Portion size was plenty big. My server was polite, attentive and the food came out fast. Granted I was here when the place opened at 8. Prices probably a little high, but it's the Dells and I could walk here from my room. I also like the dinner style coffee, with a pot dropped at the table to refill. I would come back. read more

VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!!! I took my family there for Christmas dinner and was that a HUGE MISTAKE!!!! The buffet was empty most of the time we were there. We kept waiting for certain food items and when we would go back something else was empty!!!! The food we did have was awful!!! The kids only ate mac and cheese when they could get it!! I paid 216.00 for that!!!! It made me sick to my stomach! We had to get a pizza later that night cause everyone was still hungry!!!! We went down the road the next day to Moose Jaw and all of us at for 100.00 and it was awsome!! They even gave us a 30% military discount! I think I should get a refund!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more

Usually I wouldn't expect a good buffet from a resort actually surprised it was good. A huge pile of bacon who doesn't like bacon. A decent place if you don't want to leave the resort and get to enjoying the pool earlier. read more

Very poor service. Bland, overpriced food. Buffet was not available twice when we went. They really sock it to you knowing you really can't go anyplace else while there in winter months. Would not recommend to anyone and will not be going back. read more