This is the poolside restaurant at Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa. We ate and drank here several times during our stay. The restaurant itself has very little seating, but the waiters also roam the pool area taking and delivering orders. The misting fans at the bar area are nice.
The "pina colava" drink (pina colada mixed with strawberry something) is completely delicious but seemed to contain very little alcohol, especially for its $9 price tag (still making it one of the cheaper drinks on the menu). Pass on the margarita-pina colada drink, which we tried for novelty's sake...there's a reason you don't see drinks like this on more menus.
The brisket nachos come with a meager amount of brisket that's chopped into weird little cubes. The waiter raved about this dish, saying that all the brisket is smoked on-site, and it does have a great smoky flavor. Just wish there had been more substance to these nachos.
They have a salad with iceberg lettuce, avocado, cheese, and bacon to which you can add grilled chicken, making it about $15, I believe. The grilled chicken was great, and the "balsamic" dressing was tasty though not really balsamic. A decent poolside salad, especially with the addition of the chicken, but nothing to write home about. Without the chicken, it would have been a pretty sad salad.
Sweet potato fries are standard and tasty, but skip their regular fries unless you like bland, mushy, skinless fries -- they're targeting kids with those, not adult fry eaters. At $6, the fry basket was probably the largest quantity for the cost. It would be nice if they served the ketchup in little cups rather than packets, which left me squirting ketchup onto a napkin for lack of anywhere else to put it.
The waiters are incredibly friendly and helpful, but service was really slow no matter where we ordered and sat (at the bar, at the tables, and by the pool). Drinks were often half-melted by the time they reached us at the pool.
Tip is automatically included, and a pretty basic meal for two with drinks can quickly go into three figures. They know you're a captive audience at the pool (and at Lost Pines in general). read more
