Wildflowers

Bring my wife here for special dinners - at least once a year. The closest we could get to Nick's Fish Market in Waikiki.

Excellent service and meal. Wildflower salad and Elk perfect.

With plenty of natural light, and beautiful views of the adjacent golf course, Wildflowers is a great spot for an upscale breakfast or lunch.  We came here for the latter.

I recently attended a four-day conference at the Turning Stone, and was fortunate enough to stay in "The Lodge," Turning Stone's all-suites luxury property.  It's connected to the rest of the hotel and casino via indoor bridge, and Wildflowers is the flagship restaurant at The Lodge.

Wildflowers offers a "traditional continental" menu, with rotating, seasonal selections, and a few items that stay put throughout the year.  My colleague and I split a plate of edamame and had a half each of the Asian chicken flatbread and carved turkey club sandwiches.

While the edamame was your typical steamed and salted kind, the sandwiches really stood out.  The turkey club was made with roast turkey meat, not cold cuts, and topped with crisp bacon, cranberry-infused bleu cheese and a delicious garlic aioli, while the Asian chicken flatbread was topped with a spicy slaw, seasoned hummus, and a chili-lime vinaigrette.  Both sandwiches were neatly but generously filled, and extremely saucy, but not overpoweringly so.

I think pricing is the only thing keeping this place from five stars... although our sandwiches were fairly priced between $12 and $14, some of the $30-$40 entree plates we saw coming out were pretty small for the price.  Service was fine, although there weren't too many people here on the Thursday afternoon that we came here.

This place seems to have mixed reviews, mostly stemming from the dinner and seafood selections.  While this may be an upscale continental restaurant, I don't see any oceans nearby, so I might be a bit more hesitant to order the tuna/lobster/trout/etc. here.