Forget Me Not Cafe — Restaurant in Buffalo

My wife and I went there on a Saturday morning. We first arrived and asked for a table for 2. The hostess informed us of a 20-25 min wait. Expecting a busy Saturday morning, we agreed to wait. We sat outside and waited for about 25 minutes.

Our buzzer went off around the expected wait time and we proceeded to return to the host stand expecting a table to be ready like we were told. Very standard.

The hostess informed us that all they had available was a 6-top and that we would be seated with 2 complete strangers at the table with us and they “hoped that would be OK”.

Surprised by this unusual request we immediately objected. We didn’t want to be seated at a table with strangers…

We were then informed that we would have to keep waiting then for a table to open up and we agree… we were told it wouldn’t be long maybe 10 more minutes.

At this point we had been there for a total of about 35-40 minutes now we were starting our second “wait”. For a simple table for 2.

10 minutes later our buzzer goes off again and we go back in to be seated.

This is where it went really weird. We walk up to the host stand to find one of the servers standing there.. not the hostess as before. The waitress is immediately hostile towards us and we are told in a very patronizing sarcastic way “ok your table is ready- so sorry… I hope this one is better for you..”

She then walks us over to the middle of the busy dining area and seats us at a large 5-top table.. (only 2 of us) and starts sarcastically asking us “is this table better for you guys??- I’m really sorry the other table wasn’t good enough… I really hope this is better for you..”

We asked her if they typically seat people together at tables, who don’t know eachother? She then (in the same snarky attitude) starts telling us: “that’s our policy because some people just want to eat and don’t care where they sit”.

We tell her that we’ve never seen a policy like that before in ANY restaurant EVER… and that we just wanted to get a table for two and not be seated with strangers. (Simple request you’d think at a restaurant..)

This waitress then begins to attack us and berate us.. telling us “you know what, you guys came of as extremely hostile.”

All we did was tell the hostess no, that we didn’t want to share a table with random strangers.. not hostile.

She then proceeds to tell us repeatedly speaking to us as if we are misbehaving children that “next time you come here I ask that you aren’t so hostile.” and “next time you guys need to try to show a little bit of kindness” and that “They’re just high schoolers”

After being scolded like children. By a waitress that was probably 15 years younger than us… and honestly publicly humiliated in the middle of a busy dining area. My wife and I felt so awkward, outright embarrassed, and unwelcome in this establishment. We got up and left. We took our money elsewhere.

We are locals and this was our first time here. We go out for breakfast almost every weekend and we were excited to try this place and hoped to add it to our rotation of local breakfast spots!

I wish I could say how the food was, but after about an hour+ ordeal of waiting outside, objecting to sharing a table with complete strangers and then getting scolded like children and berated by a waitress when we finally got seated…to the point where we literally got up and walked out… we never even got to look at a menu.

There will be no next time for us… I felt like we were in an episode of Seinfeld or something it was...

Wanted to have a few visits under the belt before I poured some thought into a review. I've dined here with a few different people over the past month and a half. I have been pleased with the food! I can see the attention to detail that has been paid to menu assortment, food presentation, and design concept of the restaurant. Although, with this nice-ish weather (heavy on the ish, sometimes) it would be lovely to see a bench or two outside the windows so waiting patrons aren't clustered at the entry. As a passerby, I'd much rather see happy folks sitting outside chatting and visiting versus seen through the window standing around making it look crowded and uninviting. CUZ it's DEFINITELY worth the wait! Food: Fabulous. With being gluten-free, I could never go to a restaurant and get a yummy club. Here? I can! There is no 'one-trick-pony' vibe here. Their food quality and portions are great. As I write this, I'm strongly considering waking my daughter to head down there for breakfast. Haven't had breakfast there, yet! This is turning much more into a blog than a review (sorry!), but if you're anything like me- I get a lot out of reviews because what else do I have to go off of if I haven't been there before? Our family sincerely hopes the best for this family that has obviously poured their hearts into this business. Incredible thought has been placed in each facet of this obvious dream-come-true. Can't wait for our next visit! Thx...

So about once a week, I would walk a half mile from my house to forget-me-not Café. I would usually order breakfast and then walk back home and my wife .and I would eat that so much at all today my son and I walked down there ordered her food paid right away. We paid for it, and as soon as she ran the card, she said we can’t sit in there. But we can go to our car with the buzzer I asked are you kidding me no was the reply. So we stood by the door for just under 10 minutes waitresses actually looking at us like they were upset. Why isn’t my money is good if somebody else’s to sit down. Am I not also ordering food? I’m very disappointed with this place by the way, nobody said our forced out of seats. and made it to stand by the door. Or go out in our car and read the beginning of this I walk down there. Because I’m a disabled, veteran and the 1 mile round-trip walk has a lot of benefits, but mind you I’m in pain a lot especially just standing. So you might want to reconsider going to this place, especially if you don’t want to dine in because when you’re treated as second class Very...