ABARNE — Restaurant in Örebro kommun

Parents, babies, children, do not enter this cafe. Dear folks! My family, including my husband, myself, my 4-year-old, and my baby (whom I will be carrying in my carrier), went to this ARNE café with the intent of having breakfast. The plan was to have a quick breakfast and leave for my girl’s class. I was one of the very first who supported this ARNE café, the boyfriend and girlfriend café, when they were newly opened. I had shared with many of my friends about their café and promoted it as encouragement, as they told me it was quiet and slow business back then. At that time, I was in the early stages of pregnancy and not visibly noticeable. I learned that the owner lady did not like children and mommies because she found them noisy and children to be messy. I knew that she did not like children, but I did not know she disliked them this much. First, my toddler eats well and there will be no throwing of food, and I have a sleeping baby with me. So, it started like this. Around 09:30 am, I entered the café first and the lady owner immediately came to me and said no child strollers are allowed. (My husband, toddler, and stroller were still outside; she saw it from a distance.) I wanted to tell her that we would not bring in the stroller in that case, but I would be using a carrier; my baby would be sleeping on my chest with my carrier, and I would be eating, so it should not be an issue. But she did not let me finish my sentence and told me that there is a place "at the theater." I thought she was telling me to put my stroller there and not outside her place, then I realized she actually wanted to get rid of us! I thought maybe I was mistaken about her tone and did not want to misunderstand her, so I asked her again, "I see you have many seats; I could sit there," pointing at a seat with plenty of space for my family. She did not say welcome or anything positive. I then realized that we are not welcome for real. Then I asked her, "Are you telling me to leave here and go to another café?” This was when my husband and my 4-year-old were entering the café (he left the stroller outside), and my husband heard what she said. She told me, "Our café is very busy on a Sunday and we have many customers; we cannot have babies." (This was the moment she realized how she sounded and immediately added the word “stuff.”) On a separate note, my husband still thought that if we put our stroller in the car and used a BabyBjörn baby carrier, it would be fine. I told her straight up, “Oh, so you are telling us to leave because we have children.” She then mentioned that we should take the conversation outside. Since there were two customers overhearing this conversation. There were plenty of seats for the three of us with mini baby that would be sleeping on me. My husband wanted to say that we would have a baby carrier and leave the stroller in the car, but he did not get the chance to say that either. She then demanded we listen to her as she said there was a fire hazard, so no stroller is allowed, and her attitude was very bad. Of course, we know about the Swedish laws as my husband grew up in this town and I am a facility manager. We are fine with putting our stroller in the car (initially, we thought we could just leave it outside), like at other places, but we learned what she really wanted was to get rid of us because we have children. Her tone of voice was assertive and unwelcome; my husband realized that she does not want to have children in there. I told her again that basically, you just don't want children to be in your café. And she demanded that we “listen to her” and not interrupt her, and my husband said we are not interested in hearing this. We told her we really have no time to hear all these lectures. She has made it very clear to us: she doesn't want children. If a stroller is an issue, it will be parked in the car, and she could have just welcomed us in and given us a seat? No she didn’t. She expects my toddler and us to stand outside in THE COLD listen to her lecture of why we are not welcome into her...

This place is very slow, be mindful of that before you go here. We're talking "30min wait for a coffee"-slow. If you ask about the wait time (politely, explaining that we might need to extend the car rental period depending on their answer, they get extremely defensive to the point that you feel sorry for asking). This plus the very long wait (which they did not warn us about) contributed to a not great experience. They could easily have put up a sign or informed of the extended wait time, to put costumer's expectations right from the start.

It's clean and fresh looking, with a huge menu. Dogs are not allowed indoors. Chairs are a fall risk due to their design, so be careful. Pitaya and pineapple lemonade was very watery, couldn't even taste the flavour or acidity of the pineapple. (Haven't had a lot of Pitaya tho maybe that's common?) Had their version of eggs Benedict with smoked river salmon. While the produce was good quality, the home made hollandaise was incredibly acidic and the overall composition didn't go together as well as one might hope for the price, but it wasn't BAD. Their version of croque Monsieur however...

First time I went luckily I had time because I had to wait for my matcha for about 30 minutes and my food over 1 hour. The food was not as nice as expected but I liked the experience and my matcha (that I came for). The female waitress was very sweet and friendly, she made up for the bad service. Strange to get celery on my smoothie bowl (they were out of kiwi), it didn’t taste great.

I was very excited about finding a different kind of cafe in this town and brought my mother and son with me next time. We had walked far to get there and when we finally arrived it was very clear that children were not welcome.

It was the most unpleasant welcoming I ever experienced at a cafe and we left feeling disappointed and very upset after he hinted three times that my son was a issue even though he hadn’t done anything to be disturbing to other customers, and we kept an eye on him.

Never felt so mistreated in a cafe or restaurant before because of the waiters rudeness and attitude, never...