Red Rose Cafe — Restaurant in Colchester

We loved the cakes before they changed bakers. Last year my daughter designed her own cake and the baker thought it was amazing and did it flawlessly for $26. My husband’s cake back in July was horrible and dry. They changed bakers and she said she was away, and someone stepped in for her and they must have forgotten an ingredient. Gave them one more chance with my daughter's cake that she designed once again. Showed the baker last year’s picture and how it was designed and the price we paid. Showed her my daughter's design this year and she said no problem at all that she could do it. We went to get the cake and #1 she couldn't remember what side the strawberry and what side the lemon filling was on. OK. #2 the cashier said she gave us a credit for my husband’s cake, but it was still $26. I asked what discount? She said the cake would have been $50 so she gave us a credit for the other cake. My mind was BLOWN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! $50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If that was the case, I would have left the cake there and went to Stop & Shop. The thing is we MET WITH HER and gave the pricing and NO WHERE did she EVER correct the price and say it would be that much!!!...

My friend and I came here for brunch on a Saturday. It was pretty busy and overall a decent experience.

Parking is pretty tight, but we found a spot pretty quickly. Once walking in, it is a very small area, kind of like a slightly wide hallway in the shape of a U. The counter to order is right in front of the door and there were a bunch of people waiting around the area, but no distinct line. We ordered at the counter, but I think you can order at a table too if you want? While waiting for a table, I poured my own hot coffee around the corner to the right of the ordering counter. This was right across from the pastry/dessert case. Coffee was pretty good. To the left of the ordering counter are the tables to sit at and each has a number. We found an open one and sat down, letting the waitstaff, who are extremely friendly and knowledgeable, know which number was at our table. (I assume that is how they know where to bring the food.) We did wait quite a while for our food and at some point the waitstaff came over to ask us what we had ordered. We got the fig-eta 'bout it panini and the aqua bowl smoothie bowl. They were delicious.

My friend absolutely...

I don’t post Reviews but lately I’ve been offering more feedback as we want to continue to support small business and understand things are getting more expensive for everyone, however today was a disappointment and rather insulting to pay $15.99 for this “Greek salad”- add chicken, there was barely any feta cheese or veggies, olives were scarce and dressing wasn't very good The waitress had an amazing personality and was doing her beat- they are very busy and could use more then two people behind the counter during lunch time rush- we ordered, paid and decided to sit down and eat our lunch rather then take it to go, but after waiting 45+ mins we had to get back to work so I asked for it to go and thankfully when I got in the car I looked at our order to find out that this $15.99 salad was missing my grilled chicken- more of my lunch time wasted to go back in and have it added to this very sad salad. So a recommendation would be to skip the salads unless you want a hand full of lettuce with the sad amount of items that are seen right in the middle of this pic😩 I’m totally ok with paying a high price but the quality really...