Blue Heron Cafe — Restaurant in Cadillac

FUTURE BRIDES BEWARE! I have been in conversation with their catering department for a few weeks in regards to catering cupcakes for my upcoming wedding. I had reached out and asked if it was possible to have the specific flavors along with the frosting design put into a sample box to try. I was told it was possible and I would be able to pick up my sample box on Friday August 9th. Since I live out of town (1 1/2 hours away) I called Thursday to confirm a sample box would indeed be there for me to pick up. As I made the 1 1/2 hour drive to pick up my sample box I was extremely disappointed. I went up to double check and make sure the box I did receive was indeed mine, the ladies working said it was.

The sample box I received looked like a thrown together box of cupcakes poorly frosted. There were cupcakes on their sides when they handed me the box! Not a single flavor or frosting design I was told I would have was in the box. The ladies working that day were BEYOND kind towards me during this situation and got right on the phone to figure out what happened. The office was closed so there was nothing they could do for me. I made my 1 1/2 hour drive back home with a box of messy cupcakes which when I did sample tasted like cornbread muffins with the same frosting flavor on all of them.

It's now August 15th and I still haven't even received a call from the company about the incident or an explanation of what happened. Remember I drove a 3 hour round trip for this sample box! Due to this experience I would not recommend anyone use them for catering their wedding, it's obvious they didn't care about my business to send me home with a box of cupcakes that look the way they did. A wedding is a very important day, you would think a business who is interested in catering for it would be putting out the best of the best for you to gain your trust and business. Very...

When a place does something right, they don't need a menu that is 4 pages. That is the quality of Blue Heron Cafe. First of all, they source much of their food from local farms. Win #1. I got the Dearborn ham sandwich. The homemade sourdough bread was grilled, the ham was cut from a ham ( not shavedvham) & it was grilled. Between the bread was herb flavored mayo and a cherry spread with spinach. Win #2. I ordered the lunch special which was a half sandwich, a salad that was lightly dressed in a deliciously sweet vinaigrette, and a cup of cheesy onion soup that was utter perfection for $11.95. Wins#3, 4 & 5. It was supposed to finish with a cookie, but they were out of cookies and allowed us to choose anything out of their bakery case. We had the choice of muffins, cinnamon rolls or donuts. I chose a cranberry almond muffin that had great presentation but fell flat on flavor. Wait staff was spot on and incredibly helpful. I will definitely go back there to try the chicken sandwich my brother in law got that had apple butter on it. I sampled my sister's chicken soup that was very flavorful and I would...

I have mixed reviews about my experience here. I hate to admit it, but my lunch was pretty good...not anything too impressive, but definitely not bad either. Service was lackluster. My waitress, Barb, was not the most friendly, but she didn't ignore me and everything came to my table in a timely order. My issue with my experience, hence reason for writing this, is that at the end of my lunch I witnessed about half of the restaurant clear out. (Mind you this was at 1:30pm, so past prime lunch time) I figured it wouldn't be a bother if I got a little work done on my laptop. When I requested the wifi password, my waitress told me that they "aren't allowed to give that out to customers". Mind you, I'd just ordered a tea and had every plan to order dessert as well.

I think it odd that A. a "cafe" wouldn't share their wifi....but when my waitress explained to me that "they wouldn't be able rotate tables" it made more sense... No, not really.

Anyway, it is what it is....but if any of you are wanting to sit, relax, have a coffee or dessert and use wifi you should check out Kahvi down the road. The lattes...