I called Monday and made reservations on the phone for my two children and I for Father’s Day champagne brunch at the Tinker Air Force Base Officer/Enlisted club. The Air Force is smart in that they take advance reservations secured with a credit card. This is brilliant because it tends to weed out a bunch of people making reservations and not showing which causes food waste and a lot of people being turned away that don’t normally no show and feel bad when they can’t acquire reservations! Brilliant! It’s the way restaurants should do business instead of not taking reservations and herding people around like cattle(red rock, cheese cake factory, etc you know who you are) just tie a flat fee to every person that reservations are made for, and if they don’t show or call to cancel, tell them ahead of time you collect the fee. We arrived at 1020 which was ten minutes prior to our reservation and the opening time for the buffet and we were seated immediately. Great wait staff brought me a weak champagne orange juice/strawberry Mimosa(I ordered it that way) and brought the children orange juice. On the buffet they had perfectly cooked sliced to your liking round of roast beef and a ham, made to order while you wait omelettes, eggs custom prepared while you wait, freshly cooked thick waffles with accessories which included five types of fresh fruit, maple syrup, freshly whipped cream, and different nuts. There was also a ready prepared breakfast line with thick cut bacon, sausage, diced potatoes, biscuits, biscuit gravy, and many other items. There was a fresh salad table with different types of lettuce, and several items to complete the salad exactly the way you like yours. The seafood table had Alaskan King Crab legs, boiled super jumbo shrimp, smoked salmon actually prepared in the shape of a huge 30LB salmon laying on the table, drawn butter, and several standard seafood sauces. The lunch line had several items to include baked tilapia, baked chicken, grilled chicken, fried rice, and ten other items too many to mention/remember. Fresh baked rolls with real butter and jams. Full service cocktail bar, and bottomless Mimosas included choices of orange juice, strawberry, blackberry, kiwi, or pineapple mimosas. There was a huge fresh fruit(I stopped counting after fifteen types) table with the fruit all sliced in separate plates. Dessert table had about thirty different desserts, some full cakes sized all the way down to petit fours bite sized delectable dark chocolate, candy cane, cocoanut, and many other small oral explosions! My three year old loved these! I’ve paced myself with the bottomless samoans and we all three enjoyed the delectable teats. Was it as fabulous as the Colcord formal special occasion buffets, no not quite, but when it costs less than half the usual adult fee of $ 50, and 75% less than their fees for children, and bottomless simians(wow they were great and NOONE does that downtown!) I’m really thinking it’s definitely worth imbibing in for people who have access to the base or freinds that do. Did I mention the bottomless Samoans!!! parking was ample and free, building including restrooms are spotless, well maintained, and very fancy oak and tile.
