Writer's Bistro in Asheville

We usually don't eat at hotel restaurants, because we like to venture out into the streets. However during the dark days of COVID, we decided to go downstairs from our wonderful suite at the Marriott Renaissance to eat at Writer's Bistro. To be clear, this was for breakfast and, typically, breakfast was a buffet. First, the service was pleasantly efficient, the seating arrangements were sympathetic to the virus outbreak, and servers were dispensing food so that the ordinary mortals couldn't contaminate the food areas. So far, so good. The coffee was plentiful and came with real cream, but it was not great coffee. No matter...after all this is a hotel eatery. We went to the food line and were met with all the usual suspects. Scrambled eggs, sausage links, bacon, biscuits and gravy and potato hash browns. Beside all of this was a selection of fruit. The scrambled eggs were awful and obviously made from powder rather from fresh cackle-fruit. The sausages were excellent. The bacon was cold dry and greasy, the hash browns were indescribably bad (soft, old, greasy and cold) the biscuits, made offsite were, according to my wife, dry and bland and as such a perfect accompaniment for the equally tasteless gravy.The fruit was nice. All-in-all, this was a very predictable setup. We become used to this sort of trash for breakfast when on a road trip. It would have been easier to accept if it had been available gratis with our...

Such a nice Christmas dinner for our book club. The food was delicious, very friendly service, great private room. Thank you.

I'm always surprised at the questionable ratings of Marriott properties restaurants!  For hotel restaurants they can be fantastic!  They're always well decorated, typically going with a theme of the local area, and their food is always quite good!  No, it's not going to be a 5 star locals bistro that you talk about for years to come, but it's always going to be quite tasty! Writer's Bistro is no different as they went with the theme of authors from the Asheville area!  A beautiful little Bistro that's right off the front entrance lobby that's worth a morning visit for breakfast!