PAS#5: NIttany Lion Inn Sunday Brunch

An iconic location at Penn State is the Nittany Lion Inn.  This Inn has been operating on Penn State campus since 1931.   As a special treat for my birthday my grandparents who live in nearby in Woodward Pa took me to Sunday brunch at the Nittany Lion Inn. 

It was a great experience not only eating at the Inn but walking around inside.  The building is amazing.  It is mainly a hotel that harkens back to the late 1800’s early 1900’s.  There are big wood burning fireplaces, beautiful columns and even real trees growing from the ground inside.... that was pretty neat.   I was unable to explore everywhere... but the building is huge.  Everywhere I went did not disappoint.

Now back to the Sunday Brunch.  For the brunch you could either do the buffet or order off a menu, of course my grandparents and I did the buffet.  I can honestly say this buffet was the highest quality buffet I have ever eaten at.  There was not a huge amount of choices for breakfast or lunch, but what they did have was all amazing and high quality. The bacon was without a doubt the best bacon I have ever had. 

The breakfast part of the buffet consist of waffles, pancakes, French toast breakfast burritos a few types of eggs and different types of meat.  I of course had to take a few rounds through to adequately sample everything, something more than once.

 

The lunch part was great with a four or five different types of pasta roast beef and other stuff. The best part of the lunch section in my opinion was they had smoked salmon, which I could honestly come and eat exclusively, but that would be a shame. 

To finish off there was a desert table.  Of course in the dinning halls there are desert tables, but this ones quality was vastly superior.  There was traditional cheesecake (My favorite), apple cobbler, and mint cheesecake, Pecan pie just to name a few.  It was amazing food; I probably ate more in that sitting than I had in the last week combined. 

Of course this breakfast buffet is not cheap in about 20$ a person, but it is defiantly worth it once in a while if you are going for quantity or quality.  It would even be worth it if you do not intend to gorge yourself.  I will be going back again at some point.  It might have been a bad thing that my grandparent introduced me to this place.  It will take real self-control to not just wake up on Sunday morning and walk over to the inn. 

The Inn does more than just the Sunday brunch buffet.  There is breakfast lunch and dinner everyday if you would like which is of course amazing as well.  It is a nice option to have on campus if you are ever in the mode for a more upscale eating experience than the dinning halls or Panera.