The Blue Berry Café Bellbrook — Restaurant in Bellbrook

It’s not good. I have no idea why it’s rated the best thing ever. Update: I was greeted with ‘How can I help you’ and side-eye. I want to eat? The benches are very uncomfortable. The service is slow. Sitting by the kitchen is loud and sucks. Parking is horrible. I had the cowboy plate and it looked awful and tasted worse—blandest breakfast of all time. Gravy on the side would not have saved this dish but it would have been better I was offered jalapeños and accepted Mistake They are pickled If you like pickled jalapeños like you get on bar nachos then go for it They charged $1.30 for pickled jalapeños extra There were maybe 12 slices and, again, they were pickled. Gross I added a pic of a 1 gallon jug of jalapeños from Amazon for 15 bucks For the price and pretentiousness, I expected fresh jalapeños They should tell you there is an up charge and that the jalapeños are from a 5 gallon GFS jar they bought for $30 dollars and not fresh The food was bland If you want any black pepper you will need to unscrew the shaker or risk a wrist sprain The gravy was soulless. Utterly tasteless. There is no sausage in the ‘sausage gravy’ to speak of The eggs were okay Hashbrowns were meh because they were soaking in tasteless gravy Biscuits were just okay Sausage patties were okay Coffee was fine They should call this dish the ‘slop trough for pigs.’ Go to ‘Another Broken Egg.’ Service is better, food is better, parking is plentiful I want to like the blueberry cafe because it’s close to my home They did offer a free thimbleful of to go coffee in a crappy styrofoam cup Go to ‘Another Broken Egg.’ They’ll hook you up with a nice to go coffee that you can feel good about. Update: I stupidly tried the restaurant again.” Ordered toast, 2 runny eggs, hashbrowns and sausage links with coffee It was just after opening and there were not many customers Food came out fast Never got checked on once This is not the first time I guess when you eat alone you will be ignored No coffee refill No ‘how is your meal?’ or ‘do you need anything?’ The toast was burnt then flipped upside down to try to hide it The waitress never showed up and I wasn’t going to the kitchen to find her I ate the eggs without toast because I didn’t want to eat cold eggs. The hashbrowns were good The coffee was good, what little I had of it The sausage links were not good The bathroom was colder than a meat locker and the toilet paper was thinner than my hair The toilet paper holder is coming out of the wall The toilet stall door does not lock The manager asked me what why I was unsatisfied and I explained all of this. No offer of a refund No apology Just excuses Then I get slammed on the Facebook page for complaining. ‘Why didn’t you ask for different toast?’ How? Search the building and property for the waitress? ‘The manager tried to help you!’ No. They did not The asked why I was unsatisfied then stared at me dully when I gave them the entire list of problems There was no offer for my money back or a gift certificate or any kind of apology, just stared and made excuses. What am I supposed to do? Go into the kitchen and out the alley to find the waitress on her phone? I had no idea where to find her I was told I could have got a refund. For what? To blackmail me into a dishonest review? I’ll never eat here again or bring friends or family here or recommend this place I guess the truth is not what is wanted Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave Update: I initially posted in Facebook Blue Berry Cafe on another post. This seems to have got the owners attention Owner offered a refund on Facebook after the fact I removed the Facebook post because it was in the wrong place My review is still there I offered detailed problems whose solutions are obvious These problems relate directly to food, service, and atmosphere That is the PURPOSE of a review The owner may, of course, choose to remain happily ignorant or angry or whatever they like That is not my call The truth is the truth Do better, owner. Your response should be: ‘Thank you. We will do better!’ Go...

I LOVE this place!! It's a small place that is sooo worth the wait!!

First, the food: the portion sizes are big with reasonable prices. I enjoy that they serve Highland Grogg coffee and Queen's City Sausage. My favorite mess of a dish is the Cowboy Bennies, which are also a large portion containing hashbrowns, biscuit, egg, sausage, and gravy. Looked kind of messy when I first saw them, but just wow, the flavors are perfect! Everything we have tried is fantastic, and they're made right there and to order. I don't think anything they serve is pre-made and reheated, like at some restaurants. The food always is fresh and tasty. As a diabetic, I can't enjoy their pancakes, but for those who like them, they are huge and look fluffy. Their platter combos are good combos, and their hasbrowns are shredded, the way they should be, and you can add stuff to them if you want. I love the customization.

The only "con" is the wait time and parking. It is not uncommon to have an hour plus wait time, especially on Sunday. They have call-ahead seating, but you can only call ahead 30-minutes and then have to wait the remaining time, which I am serious about wait times being an hour to hour and thirty minutes addition wait. Also, your entire party has to be there. And, my understanding is that you can make reservations for parties of 6, but only for 1-hr of dining, and if your party drops below 6-people, you lose the reservation. From the seating, I can understand that, as the larger tables are very limited. Plus, with how busy they are, it can get complicated. Which makes parking a bit of a pain, as well, since people are coming here and/or meeting here. It's very easy to check into the restaurant and hang around outside or wait in your car until it's your turn. There is no waiting in the restaurant, which allows them to dedicate more floorspace to dining and makes it easy to get to the person checking people in. I actually enjoy that part. But, someone who is disabled may find it difficult to get inside to check-in, back out to wait, and then back in to eat due to just those activities.

But, despite the long wait, this place is just fantastic. I mean, from the food to the best, friendly servers you will ever meet. I have never experienced any negatives with this place. Every single server we have had is fantastic. Every single employee we have encountered there has been friendly. Service is fast, without ever feeling rushed. Some places that get super busy seem to drop off the check as soon as your food arrives, and those places make you feel like they are rushing you out the door. This place, never makes you feel like that. Even if you yourself are in a rush, you just don't feel rushed and hurried out the door.

Whatever the management is doing, they are doing it so so so very well. Every time we come here, we instantly feel stress just melting off. It is so relaxing and enjoyable!

And the best bonus part-- The Muffin Man! Randomly, they have the Muffin Man pop in with a variety of gourmet muffins he makes to sell to the customers. I think he may also be the cook, as he's there working in the kitchen area even when he's not the Muffin Man. But, when he comes in as the Muffin Man, he'll walk around the entire restaurant, actually showing the muffins to everyone while telling them what type they are and what's inside them. And then, you let your server know which one you want, and they'll box it up to-go. He has a great personality for this and the muffins are fantastic! My family always looks forward to when the Muffin Man brings those fantastic muffins.

Overall, long waits but well worth the waiting! It's a great treat to enjoy coming here. Food is delicious, with...

My fiance and I decided to try out the Blue Berry Cafe after coworkers recommended it. The first time we went there was an hour wait so we left and decided to try on a different weekend earlier in the morning.

So we arrived this morning at 9:30. They told us it would be about a 20 minute wait for two of us and since I'd heard it was so good, we decided to wait. An hour later we sat down at our table. They have a ton of Vera Bradley purses in their waiting area and people stand shoulder to shoulder waiting for their table to be called. The restaurant is very small with a ton of tables crammed really close together.

Our waiter was abrasive when he took our order. The coffee was terrible. It tasted like stale Folgers Coffee. When we got our food I got something similar to what I ordered, but it wasn't what I ordered. Since I was starving after the hour and fifteen minute wait to get my food, I decided to stick with it. The pancake was really good - they used some fall-esc spices like nutmeg in it. Other than that the food was all pretty standard. It is cooked in real butter and a lot of it, which I think is a good thing, but health conscious people may not.

The muffin man was the highlight of the breakfast. He came around with a tray of muffins that he had made and was pretty entertaining. We got a huge pumpkin cream cheese muffin and it was only $2.99. When we were ready to leave we sat there for 10 minutes trying to get someone's attention for a to go box (The serving sizes are about 3 times what I can comfortably eat in one sitting so I have breakfast for the next couple days). The prices are really good for how much food you get.

I left thinking "I don't get it." The food was good, but it wasn't amazing. The service was terrible, the coffee was terrible, and the wait was terrible. Why do people wait more than an hour for food here? Maybe we ordered the wrong things. I simply...