Celia's Garden Café — Restaurant in California

Dog-friendly charming restaurant that is - bigger on inside! There is dog-friendly garden patio with umbrella tables and fantastic trickling fountain, a main dining room with second sunken dining area, a private area facing the patio for large party, as well as spacious seating facing parking lot.

Conveniently located opposite strip center with grocery store, Starbucks and several other retail stores.

There are a number of breakfast specialties, including pork chop and eggs, homemade beef hash, New York steak and eggs and chile relleno. Omelettes range from traditional Denver, vegetable and seafood, to eggplant, bacon and Florentine. If you prefer something sweet for breakfast, you may indulge your sweet tooth with blintzes, waffles, hotcakes, fresh fruit or parfait. Local favorites include 5 different varieties of eggs benedict, crab cakes and lox and bagels. Lunch selections include burgers, hot sandwiches, melts and soup.

Wine served here are from local wineries. There ids an interesting selection of beer, as well as SLO Roasted coffee and juices.

In addition to wonderful breakfast and lunch choices (they are only open until 2PM), we found that the servers were very friendly, and willing to share places to see and visit (conversation was triggered by a page on the menu highlighting attractions in the area). We also spoke with a fellow patron, who was also willing to share best places to shop. (We were in the area looking for housing and were hungry, so stopped for bite to eat to discuss).

Highly recommend this place not only for the food, but the service and the ambience. As we experienced at other restaurants across the area, this appears to be place of loyal customers. Fantastic place to gather with family, friends or business meetings.

We are looking forward to our next visit when we are...

Ok so, Celia’s Garden Cafe truly deserves Five Stars for the food and environment, and is still on my list of favorites.

But the service always seems to fall a little short here. The wait staff often forgets what you’ve ordered and will “ghost” your table after they drop your food off. This can be a hassle, especially if they bring you the wrong dish. I’ve even had to find us some silverware before our food got cold.

Even with this, they could have been worthy of Four Stars, considering how friendly they all are.

HOWEVER….. On Sunday, 5/19/2024, after having breakfast here, my sister and I went to a local bar to see a band play. And one of the staff from Celia’s Garden Cafe showed up, still dressed in their work clothes, was drunk and began to harass my sister, speaking lewdly, and refused to leave us along when politely asked. The bar owner had to ask this person to leave. I was very disappointed because this person is always very friendly and helpful at the cafe, and very amiable. It really was a Dr. Jekyll scenario and we are pretty shocked. I know people are going to live their lives outside of work, but it’s probably best not to get too crazy when you’re wearing your work clothes and maybe try to remember the value of your customers when you see them around. This person’s behavior was unacceptable, drunk or not, and owes my sister a huge apology. But we’re not going to let that bad experience keep us from enjoying one of our favorite breakfast places, albeit might dictate the frequency of eating here for a...

On Saturday, September 14th, my wife and I came to Celia’s after a great hike at Montana de Oro. We had breakfast here before and had a great experience so we were looking forward to try their lunch. Unfortunately, this next go around was the worst experience we’ve ever had at a restaurant. We were completely ignored by the male waiter who worked the patio that day. We sat for 15-20 minutes waiting for him to take our order. A kind female waitress came by and asked what we’d like to drink so she took our drink order. Meanwhile, I observed an elderly couple leave their table and leave the restaurant. Another couple sat at that table shortly thereafter and the male waiter did not hesitate to take their order! We made eye contact a couple times and he just walked away. I even raised my hand but no response knowing we still had menus in hand! After that instance, we had enough! My wife and I went to the cash register to pay for our drinks but they decided they were complimentary understanding what had happened. We walked out wondering what was that waiter’s problem! We just wanted to enjoy a nice lunch in the patio on such a great sunny day. It took a while to write this review because it was very upsetting since we never experienced such blatant ignorance by any restaurant waiter in our lives. You guys have pretty good food and ambience but no customer should ever be treated this way! Sorry Celia’s but I don’t think we will...