Jamisons Restaurant

Dinner buffet way overpriced for average only food, however seafood section & desserts decent. Much better dinner options short drive away in Katoomba & Leura. Breakfast is the standard buffet fare, your choice of full English, continental, cereal etc. & was much better (included in our room booking). Kudos for a human barista making real coffee too

Had the high tea today with partner. I’ve had a fair few high teas elsewhere before and they were always great, this however was the worse I’ve had. I had the vegan option, for some reason they had rolled the vegan and gluten free options into one combination. The scones were so tough and chewy and practically inedible, looked around at the other tables and saw no one else touched those too. The top tier of desserts were also terrible, one was like a mousse thing but had so much gelatine it was rubber, no one ate this either, then the rest was just very flavourless. They charge too much for this for sure, the staff however were very lovely and kind and took on some feedback. Would recommend the chefs to try what they are serving and put more effort into making vegan options worth while. Overall do not recommend.

Was here for breakfast while staying at Fairmont, the coffee we ordered was so bad it was not fit for drinking at all, my wife took one sip and gave up, we ended up getting coffee from a local coffee cart instead, we both ordered the eggs Benedict. The poached eggs were very over cooked, hard all the way through, muffin was slightly burnt, the ham was very obviously straight out of the fridge and still very cold when it got to our table which made the whole dish cold in minutes, the very small amount of food service hollandaise sauce added had very little taste to it, this is actually a pretty easy sauce to make, if your chefs can't do it, you need new ones as it should also have a touch of lemon in it. The only thing done correctly (the wilted spinach) was not listed on the menu, probably because wilted spinach is part of an eggs Florentine dish, not Benedict. Needless to say, we both had a mouthful or 2 and left immediately, were not asked why we left, went to reception and cancelled the breakfasts for the rest of our stay but unfortunately were not asked why, we then went to a local cafe in Leura which was very nice.