Garden Café — Restaurant in Niagara Falls

$7 for an ice cream cone? Seriously? Electric cyclists avoid this café if you do not want to be embarrassed and kicked out after paying for snacks, charging your bikes or PEVs.

Our group of 12 electric skate riders arrived to buy drinks and ice cream. 7 of us plugged into outdoor AC outlets to charge our e-skateboards. About 10 minutes after we bought our overpriced snacks, a visibly angry manager comes out to shout at us. Asking “who owns these things, I don’t care if you were customers! you didn’t ask permission to use my power, you must leave right now, I am turning off the circuit breaker”

Had he given us the chance, we would have explained that we never charge anywhere unless we purchase something. And, that the chargers draw between 100 and 200 watts. Since we were planning on staying 30 minutes, at most we would use 0.7 kWh of electricity, which on that Sunday, would cost them an additional 6 cents on their...

Very chaotic. This space, I believe, was designed to be a simple coffee shop. They try to offer lots of options and end up with chaos. We ordered 2 gluten free sandwiches, a chicken salad and 2 kids hot dogs. Waited about 40 minutes to get part of the order. Kids started to eat and the hot dogs were cold. Went in to address it and the manager assured us it would be corrected. She then started orders and handing out other hotdogs before even starting our replacements. In total it took over an hour to get edible food. The only corrective action was free ice cream treats...

Look...you're in a tourist area, if you want Mcdonalds pricing....go to McDonalds. This place had tasty sandwiches for tourist food prices (which, in USD really isn't all that bad anyway).

We were very happy with the food selection, and a kids menu is good as well. We even went back in for ice cream.

Also, they deserve a bravo for handling tour groups well. While we were eating, a tour group of 30-40 people came in, and they made a dedicated line for the group, and kept another line open for everyone not in the group. Very considerate to allow the rest of us to get...