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    Hawley Lumber Yard Restaurant

    3.9 (83 reviews)
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    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Seafood au gratin, so delicious!
    Linda R.

    So, my husband goes every Wednesday night, they have a prime rib special for $21, includes side and salad bar. We arrived at 4:45 pm, sat down , and we had to wait for our drinks to order our meal. Party of 6. We told her we were there for the earlybird special upon arrival. By the time she brought our drinks and took our order It was 4:59 PM. She refused to give us the early bird special. She says it ends at 5 o'clock, however, we were there and I did bring that up. She said sorry they won't let her do anything about it. We were bringing company there, so as not to embarrass ourselves instead of it being $126 for food , not including tip for 6, plus we all had drinks, it was $400. Based on that we won't be going back. We have company that comes about every couple of months and we often go to this restaurant. Not anymore.

    Good quality napkins!! We all know nothing worse than crappie napkins.
    Mark B.

    Camping at Letchworth, had a busy day, missed lunch. Walked in, if you're hungry, this is the place to be. Really fresh, clean salad bar. This also includes 3 soups.

    Seafood Prime Rib.
    Bruce J.

    This place is a hidden gem. Our waiter is Morgan was very attentive and was super nice. Our meals were fantastic. The atmosphere is very cool and you feel like your sitting in the old lumber mill. I had the Seafood Prime Rib which is a 10 Oz prime rib smothered in shrimp, scallops and crab meat along with sautéed peppers and onions served with a twice baked potato. You also get soup and salad with your dinner. I promise you won't go home hungry. It was delicious. This is one of their more expensive meals, $32, but well worth every penny. While your down there be sure to stop in the Silver Lake Brewery for a beer. They are just around the corner.

    View from our table
    Daymis A.

    Prompt service, friendly, kind voice. The salad bar & soup station was a plus ...less waste & you can get what you like . The ambiance is different. This is a restored lumber yard. Apparently train ran thru it at one once. The beans are all reclaimed wood. It's got a good vibe. The bar is ample & looks like people come to stay & chat. Looks like reservations are the norm except for the tavern part but we came early & had no issues with seating. Drank Rose & Pino both were fresh and not acidic. Worth the stop!

    broccoli and fish
    Brian G.

    Don't let the outside of this establishment fool you, the inside is delicious! The four of us enjoyed the salad bar and the great service. The food was plentiful and delicious! Enjoy the pictures.

    Marqus R.

    I found Hawley Lumber Yard Restaurant to be a really excellent restaurant. I must say it is surprising to find a good place like this in the City of Perry, New York. From the looks of the crowd I'm sure it attracts customers from all over the area. As I had heard that they had a really great prime rib, I ordered their Prime Rib Oscar, $30.99, and indeed it was totally excellent. It was rare as ordered and exceptionally tasty as the cheese sauce was of a smoked Gouda that not only paired well but actually enhanced.

    Chips, thick-cut, salty sauce, shredded cheese, toms & chives (missing ? for $15, maybe bacon or shredded prime rib, focal menu item).
    Sandy R.

    Our order: ice waters w/ lemon, unsweetened iced tea, zinfandel, Lumberyard Chips, bread, 2 crocks of French onion soup, 2 salads w/ crumbly bleu cheese & Italian dressing, the prime rib and scallops, the seafood platter, brownie cheesecake, and peanut butter cake. *The soup-salad-bread bar is gone, a casualty of covid but may make a return closer to the holidays. The building has been landscaped since our last visit, and it looks nice. The entrance has a few benches in case you have to wait and a few shelves but decorating is an afterthought, the pillow looks like someone left it behind. The dining room is spacious with a high ceiling and the possibilities are endless for lighting, seating and decorations, maybe some day. A big plus, tables are in general not on top of each other. While dimly lighted, what could be a romantic restaurant is not. We had a reservation, but as we are walked to the table she carries paper placemats and silverware wrapped in a paper napkin with a paper strap around it. No tablecloths, no candle, diner style pepper and salt shakers, sorry but steaks need ground pepper even if it's performed by the server. On to the food... beverages were prompt. Barware has a custom logo, but the iced tea was served in a plastic Pepsi logo glass, not at these prices! Soup arrived, small crock and noticeably less in one bowl than the other, my companion wasn't happy. It was hot, salty and the cheese had sizzled to the cup. He likes to eat the cheese, anything on the cup was staying there. The signature chips were thick-cut, with both a salty cheese sauce and shredded cheese, tomatoes and chives, served with sour cream on the side. For $15 dollars, it was missing something, bacon or maybe some of the prime rib shredded? And the richness and saltiness needs an acid to balance it, create a house sauce or a salsa instead of putting tomatoes on top? Salads were obviously a bag, served with 2 slices of cucumber and 2 cherry tomatoes, one orange and one red. No croutons, even though they serve bread at the table. The bread was served cold, unremarkable, in a paper french fry tray with a mixture of frozen and room temperature butter in foils. Some were misshapen, obviously unused earlier. The sour cream, dressing and crumbly bleu all arrive in lidded one ounce plastic take-out containers, again, not at these prices! Dinner arrives, plating is not a priority. His seafood platter had no color from the broiler and my concern was under cooked seafood. He assured me that it wasn't, his first reaction was that it didn't look like much but said it was enough. (I may have been right, there was a lot of footwork between the living room and bathroom later that night ) The clams casino looked prepared beforehand, the stuffing was completely smooth across the top like it had been wrapped up in plastic wrap, as were the twice baked potatoes which were dry and pasty. With mashed potatoes on the menu, a piping bag and a few seconds could fix this and fool most people! My scallops were served in a small er dish on the dry plate with my prime rib and a just. (maybe 1.5 ounces) silver pitcher of au jus. There were 5 scallops that were supposed to be garlic and parmesan crusted, but there was no crust it was gooey, like soggy bread crumbs sitting in butter. The prime rib was the star of the entire meal! It was slightly under medium-rare, which is what I ordered, but I was OK with that. The au jus should have been hotter, but it had a nice flavor and I believe it was actual juice and not bouillon. A nice portion, well flavored, not overly spiced or salted and exceptionally tender! Absolutely the star of the entire meal. The server was nice, not intrusively present, but accommodating. A pitcher of water would have been great, as the glasses are small and the ice meant there's not much in them. It seemed there were 2 servers for the entire dining room, and although it was earlier in the dinner service, they had 3-4 large parties of 8-14 people and 3-5 tables of 2-4 people, so they were buzzing around the dining room! We had an evening event so we ordered our dessert to go, they had between 7 and 10 selections on a covered tray brought tableside, once home we opened them, the tables had turned! While his peanut butter chocolate cake filled his container, my slice of brownie cheesecake looked underwhelming. The flowerette of fake canned spray-cream was another downer, not at those prices! Whipped cream not foam please! Just say no to the store bought desserts UNLESS it's a prop in your marriage proposal! Then I'd ask, why here? Would we go again? French onion and prime rib! And we'll wait for the soup, salad and bread bar's return! Our last visit, pre-covid, was much better! I hope those days return!

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    Ambiance and service were decent. Food was just OK. We were here on a rainy Sunday evening, it was not busy. Looks like a local favorite.

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    Great service, great food. We had an excellent dinner when visiting the area. Well worth your time and money.

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