Crepe Town European Café & Grill — Restaurant in California

Sunday, 10/15/2013 - We wew in the Shingle Springs area and decided to try CT European Cafe & Grill for lunch. Address is 4064 Mother Lode Dr, Shingle Springs, CA 95682. They are open 8am to 3pm. Located close to HWY 50E. Parking in the front is small. But when we arrived, there were plenty of parking spots. Restaurant was very quiet. I only saw 3 people working. Upon arrival....

Pros:

1. they have seating inside and outside restaurant.
2. there is alcohol, sodas, coffee, water if you want to drink.
3. water tasted good. No metal or funky taste.
4. table, chairs, utensils, plates, cups all looked clean.
5. the lady who took our orders was the same person who served us and cleaned the table. She's very nice. Her mom worked there too and she is just as sweet.
6. Foods were all delicious!!! Biscuits were nice and soft, gravy perfect, & eggs cooked perfectly over-medium. Crab cake Benedict was delicious! Crab cake actually is crabby and yummy! Eggs perfect, hollandaise sauce perfect. I had it with crepe and it was good. Hashbrown were perfectly cooked! Crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. Kids chicken alfredo was good. Fettuccine Alfredo was $11.00 & we added chicken for $4.00 for our little one. Chicken was juicy and the fish itself was great. Nutella crepe is $11.00 and we added strawberry to it for $2.00.
7. bathroom clean.

Cons

1. we sat in the outside patio. I think they may have forgotten we were out there. Cus we sat out there for quite some time. I had to let the mother know we were ready to order and was wondering when someone will come help us. Lol. She went and got her daughter.

Conclusion We are really glad we found this restaurant. It was pretty good. Staffs were very friendly and professional. Restaurant was clean. Menu said to please give them about 20 to 30 minutes to make your food cus everything is made fresh. It really is! Even the whip cream on the dessert crepe is not from a bottle. You sure can tell. And it was good! Try this place if you haven't yet. It's pretty good...

Good breakfast place. Although I saw as we were going in that they serve dinner every Friday, Saturday and Sunday too.

Parking is ample, but when we came in at 1030AM on a Saturday, Hubby had to wait a few mins for a spot. When we went in, we got seated right away. Yelp says that this restaurant take reservation though.

There's music playing in the background, but the noise from other customers were drowning it. No biggie, we came here for breakfast and not music.

Menu has a lot of choices: Alcoholic cocktails (Mimosas, Sangria, Bloody Mary), Coffee, Breakfast food (Benedicts, Crepes - savory and sweet, omelettes, egg scambles,

We ordered: Cafe Mocha, Pomegranate & Mango Mimosa, Salmon Benedict on Crepe, Denver Scramble, Chicken Pesto Crepe, Nutella and Creamy Delight Sweet Crepes. We waited about 25mins for the food to be served, kinda very long wait, but it did say in the menu that "All food is prepared fresh to order and please allow 20 to 30 minutes to be prepared".

When the food came, it was worth the wait. Mocha - perfectly made, (not too sweet),and we had options for almond or oat for the milk. Pomegrante & Mango Mimosa - happy with it too, but the alcohol in it was kinda very light. Salmon Benedict - a lot of Salmon on it. Hollandaise sauce tasted ok, poached eggs were perfect. But what made it a bomb was the option of the Crepe instead of English muffin. Denver Scramble - tasted ok. Nothing Special Chicken Pesto savory crepe - I didn't get to taste this. But Hubby says chicken was kinda dry Nutella and Creamy Delight (Sweet Crepes) - were perfect. The Creamy Delight have a lot of fruits (strawberry and blueberries) in it. Tasted light and not too sweet, but very flavorful.

Service: Excellent. The server was very attentive and checked with us more than 5x while we were there.

This restaurant is suited for families. Clean, delicious food, appealing atmosphere, helpful staff, and brilliant service are just a few reasons that I'll...

Staff was friendly and all the food coming out of the kitchen looked amazing. The place was busy, they had a lot of customers and a few flies. I ordered our food to go. It might be my fault for not checking the food prior to leaving but I expected them to give me what I ordered. I was missing a side of fruit that was nowhere in sight and they gave me fries instead of hash browns. I ordered 3 crepes for my family and not one tasted like it had flavor or seasoning aside from the 2 "sweet" crepes themselves tasting salty and not very sweet. The walnuts are definitely not necessary and dont go well with the "sweet" crepes. I also ordered the lemon delight crepe which is supposed to have sweet ricotta cheese and lemon sauce with powdered sugar, it had very grainy ricotta cheese "not sweet at all" and not a hint of lemon sauce or powdered sugar. The closest to lemon crepe was the 2 round slices of lemons on top that tasted like they were cut a couple days ago. Overall I spent 50$ and didnt get what I paid for (literally left out food I ordered). I dont normally leave bad reviews and I absolutely love crepes and expected it to taste good but in the end it was a disappointing experience, dont think I'll be going back for crepes there. Maybe the other food tastes good but everything I...