Sundance Cafe

Will never be wasting my $$ in thus café. the only decent tasting food was the fries that came with my steakhouse burger. The burger was asked to be medium done but all I got was charred to the extent of burnt burger with tasteless cheese n tasteless sautéed mushrooms. Overall the burger was completely tasteless n oily n gross. Fastfood burgers taste way better and cheaper. Mimosa was another joke. This was the worst tasting mimosa I ever had. The chimchurri steak was not bad for the price. The waiter who served us seemed impatient n will always be turning to move away while asking us if we need anything else. completely not intending to be of service. Water was never filled while we were there for almost 1 hr. Food took 30 mins to arrive for a restaurant with 3 tables of customers (6pax). Overall, bad bad experience n start to my Sunday!

Sundance Café is located inside the Hilton Hotel. I have only been here for breakfast so I can not comment on the other meals of the day. I have had their breakfast buffet twice now, and I am sure I will be back again for their Pazole. This was the best thing for breakfast after a night of drinking! Meat, corn, and spices in a savory broth is just what the doctor ordered! They also have the staples, like sausage, bacon, pancakes, omelette station, fruits, and bakery. The thing that I loved was the vegetable juice shot. Another recovery treatment! The staff was nice and the view of the mountains was beautiful.

We ate at the Sundance Café for breakfast for two days in a row while celebrating my grandparents 90^th b-​day. You can choose from the $ 13 continental breakfast or $ 20 for the whole package. I tried them both and there is a quite a difference. The continental had many pastry options, a variety of fruits, breads, yogurts and granola. It was all really good with raspberries, blackberries, Greek yogurt and really tasty granola making a nice breakfast. They also had green smoothie shots for a health boost! The $ 20 meal had many more hearty options. They included scrambled eggs, applewood bacon, sausage, pancakes, roasted potatoes and posole. It also included an omelet station. The bacon was nice and crispy cooked to perfection. I had everything but the sausage and the pancakes and it was really good. If you are hungry and you want endless meat I would definitely go with the $ 20 option. If you are staying for a week the continental breakfast is a nice option for a little healthier option. Also juice and coffee is included and the service was very good.

We had the basic breakfast buffet for $ 13…not a bad deal since it comes with coffee, juice, and all you can eat oatmeal, toast, cereal, pastries, yoghurt, and fruit which was really good and fresh! I topped fruit with yougourt and some really nice granola that they had for the oatmeal. For 20 you could upgrade to the hot breakfast which included bacon, eggs, sausage, potatoes and an omelet bar. Very good for a hotel breakfast!

Lovely breakfast of eggs benedict which had a twist of siracha sauce on the top. Fruit and coffee topped it off. Excellent service and accommodated my special request.

The $ 24 brunch at the Sundance Café is a steal! It is all you can eat buffet style. They also hold it at the same time as their special occasion brunches, which is nice if you don’t want to shell out $ 65 a head. For $ 8 you can add on three mimosas. I was hoping they wouldn’t keep track, but they do. It is a BBQ theme. The beer braised chicken was heavenly! BUT the star of the show was the chorizo gravy… OHHHH MY. I want to drink it. They had a really nice selection of bbq sauces-​white, house, agave, orange, ghost pepper, etc. They also had some cool pickling going on. Another offering was a play on chicken and waffles done eggs bene style. Ribs, corn, smoked salmon, omelets, waffles, deserts, cheese plates, bagels, Sonoran dogs… plenty of food. They even had green smoothies! All of it was really good. For the price, this is where it’s at in the brunch world.

This place was a treat! As a tucson local, I never think to dine at a hotel. I always think that brunch needs to be downtown. Not so — I dined here for a sunday late-​morning brunch, and I’m looking forward to returning. We ate outside on the patio, which has gorgeous views of Pusch Ridge. The brunch selection is quite as massive as other buffets at other resorts, but everything was top quality. They offer breakfast delights — baked goods and bagels, omelets, pancakes bacon & sausage. I tried the croissants and a couple little baked treats which were sublime! I was expecting them to be pretty run-​of-​the-​mill, but was really surprised at their quality. They had these little juice shots that we could not get enough of!
The main feature is the barbeque — chicken, ribs and brisket. They offer several different styles of barbeque sauce, but I liked their own Sundance sauce. They also offer a mini sonoran hot-​dog station! They offered three desserts, a margarita mousse, a horchata custard and a raspberry cake (I think!). I loved the horchata treat, it was unlike anything I’ve had before.
Full disclosure: we went on a gift certificate we won from a Unilocal elite event. But, both my date and I agreed that the regular price for brunch is well worth the value! The price does not include alcohol, but we really did enjoy the tasty coffee!

I had the eggs benedict and can honestly say it was the best breakfast I’ve ever had. Had I not been in a hurry to catch a flight I would have ordered seconds. When I travel back to Tucson I will definitely stop in just for the eggs benedict. The outdoor seating is nice too.