Thurmont
Mountain Gate Family

Mountain Gate Family

133 Frederick Rd, 21788, Thurmont, United States

Cafés • Pizza • American • Fast Food


"A throwback to the 50s!!. The restaurant is a throwback to the 50s when there were few places to stop on the road to Gettysburg. The restaurant is quite large with a small gift shop at the entrance and a large buffet combined with several dining rooms that can be sectioned into private rooms. The daily specials are listed at the front door but the focus is on the buffet. The buffet is available as both soup salad only and the full buffet something I learned only after the fact. The big focus on the buffet is dessert with 2 1/2 of the 5 buffet tables dedicated to pies, puddings and other sweet treats. As a whole, the buffet isn't very inspired the majority of the patrons appeared to be retirees, either local or passing thru town. The hot food is standard fare relatively bland steam table vegetables, meatloaf, sausage and fish sticks (visited on a Friday). The fried chicken was surprisingly good especially for a buffet with a minimal amount of breading and surprising non greasy. The salad bar is quite large with one section of the usual salad bar fixings plus a myriad of prepared salads (tuna and chicken), potato and macaroni. The dessert bar is extensive. For the heath conscious, there are even some sugar free options for pies and even sugar free Jello which was a nice touch. All told, this is road food and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The service is pleasant, the atmosphere is older and it allows an opportunity to slow down."