Tabor Hill Winery & Restaurant

185 Mt Tabor Rd, Buchanan, MI 49107, USA

Address:	185 Mt Tabor Rd, Buchanan, MI 49107, USA
Phone:	+1 269-422-1161
Site:	taborhill.com
Rating:	3.9
Working:	11AM–5PM 11AM–5PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 11AM–9PM 12–9PM

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Reviews 5

Ireena Keeslar

The first time I ate here was in October of 2016. It was a wonderful experience! Great service and food. Ate with my friends who were from out of town and here for a conference. We really enjoyed our meal and visit. I wanted to take my husband here so one day we drove up there (about 2 hours from our home). Service was awful! First there was no one was around to seat us so we assumed we just seated ourselves (which is what we had done when there with my friends from out of the area). After my husband and I sat down, a waitress came in and told us we had to leave the table and wait to be seated by the hostess. wow! really?! The hostess eventually came and -re-seated us. Terribly embarrassing to have to do this. Even though there was only ONE other table with guests at it at this time. She sat us at a table with not the best view, and when we asked to sit closer to the window to enjoy the view, she sighed and complained about it not being the waitresses table- but did it. Then she made a point to complain to the waitress about it which we over heard since she was not talking back in a private area. Then the waitress gave poor service. My husband is gluten free, she kept bringing the wrong items, and even though they were not busy,-we waited and waited for food. When she would bring the wrong item, if we waited for the right one-the other food would have gotten cold. So not everything was brought at the same time, to enjoy the whole meal together. The waitress seemed more worried about setting the tables up for the dinner (evening) meals. She was working on setting cups and stuff out on the tables in the dinning room, and worked on that more than waiting on us and the other guest in the restaurant. It was early afternoon so there was not a dinner rush -yet! We also did not get drink refills...until we were done eating and only after asking and waiting and waiting...we paid a good amount for terrible service. Very disappointing meal....

Fred Wright

What happened to my favorite winery? I’ve been going to Tabor Hill for years and have truly enjoyed the experience, however the last few times I’ve begun to see a decline. This past Saturday I took a group of family and friends on a tour of my favorite SW Michigan wineries, at each stop we were greeted warmly by a smiling happy staff eager to make us feel at home and tell us about their wine. As is usual the last stop was at Tabor Hill for wine tasting and dinner, upon checking in at the restaurant we were told it might be quite a wait despite our reservations and the half empty dining room. No problem… off to taste some wine. We entered the mostly empty wine tasting room and, after politely waiting for the three servers to finish talking for 10 minutes to the two 20 something blonde girls, were told we had to first go back into the main room to purchase our glass… OKAY. Back to where we started and another wait for three or four people to purchase their wine, still all good. When we reached the cashier we were told, “I’ll have to go check to see if there is enough room, give me a few minutes. Oh and those people over there are also waiting and since they were here before you, I’ll have to take care of them first… I hope you understand.” At this point I asked if they were interested in selling any wine at all, the wine tasting room was almost empty, the room we were in was now empty and dining room we were waiting to eat in was half empty. We were able to get into the tasting room but the overall happiness and fun of the experience was terrible and all of the tasting staff looked disinterested and uninvolved. The meal was good and our waitress was wonderful but nobody could explain our 45 minute wait with reservations and a half empty dining room. I have seen Tabor Hill declining over my last few visits and it’s a terrible loss to a great area. Come on guys pull it together!

A Private User

The drive there from Chicago is pretty easy and its a nice countryside area. The Tabor Hill grounds an well kept and quite pretty. That is where the good ends... I am reviewing the Tabor Hill Winery as a tour and restaurant, not specifically their wine. Food- Terrible, premade and poorly cooked. The coveted rasberry chicked was basically chicken jerky smothered in hot Smuckers rasberry jam. Squash Blossom was no more tasteful than flour fried. The cold tomato soup was bland and unseasoned. Wild mushroom tart was inadequetly cooked and a mess of bland sauce and canned mushrooms. I am not picky. I eat anywhere and everywhere. This was truly that bad. Wine- My only gripe was we were surcharged 33% per bottle for wine at our table for lunch over what it was at the on site wine shop. Tacky. Tour- Pretty apathetic. Quick and uninspired, if youve seen a large stainless steel tank you have seen the tour, it probably had more personality too. Tour guide could not answer question about what grape is used for their Sherry. Overall- Yes take a trip, their wine is good (too my non-professional palette). We bought a number of bottles. DO- pack a lunch/picnic and eat on the patio after you buy a bottle from the shop. DONT eat at the restaurant. EH? Wine tour at least doesnt take long... But the grounds and scenery are beautiful.

Mark Guzicki

Have dined at Tabor Hill numerous times over last decade. In late 1970s actually worked there. Food and service has steadily and modestly declined. Arrived Saturday, January 9, 2016 @ 4 p.m. with reservation for 7. Only 2 of 30+ tables were taken but yet we were seated at small round table (square 4 with leafs extended). I asked politely if there were a larger table option and was given a rude and non-apologetic "no" reply by the hostess and she walked away. I waited 5 minutes, walked the restaurant and noted again we were only 1 of 2 tables of guests having dinner and frustrated, reapproached the hostess table, this time speaking to a woman I assume the manager. The manager offered to pull a squared table next to our round table (huh?) and I politely declined and asked why other tables couldnt be pulled together - sharing my observation re: their lack of traffic. Manager commented if would take some work and looked at me as if to suggest I reconsider. I didnt. Eventually and grudgingly we were reseated at a bigger table. Note at time we left place was less than 1/3 full so not sure why the tables not available to us all along. Waitress was great, food was average (a year ago great but trending over time to average) and management somewhere between ambivalent and cavalier at best. Once a favorite but failing of late.

Frank Scalet

I should have known that the meal was going to go go south when the waitress came over to our table and said that her name was (........) and that she was here "to take care of us". Our table had 2 pieces of dirty dinnerware-which was replaced at our request.The aged blue cheese burger was medium rare rather than medium well as I had ordered. I sent it back for more cooking and it came back raw in one place. The coffee was lukewarm and the first order of pollenta fries were most likely left over from the lunch crowd. I will not be going back. The bread rolls were decent, but the butter flower was frozen. When we were served dessert, my fork was wet with some liquid. The key lime pie at $9.00 per slice had an acrid taste to the grahm cracker crust, I could not eat all of the crust.