Milk & Honey Southern Inspired Kitchen — Restaurant in College Park

During my recent visit, I experienced a less than pleasurable experience that left me feeling underwhelmed. Despite the restaurant's hype, I would not return. I wouldn’t though turn others from visiting, to each their own.

Firstly, the two-hour wait was not worth it. Although the small size of the restaurant might have contributed to the wait time, it was not a pleasant experience. Once inside, we noticed that the glasses for our mimosas were dirty. However, our waitress was kind and immediately took them back, and saved us some funds by recommending the bottle.

A few of us inquired about the crab Benedict, it’s a popular item in reviews but we didn’t see it on the menu. Our waitress told us it was available and took everyone's order, only to come back ten minutes later and tell us they did not have it. I ended up getting the shrimp and grits, which was good, but nothing to rave about. Another member of my group got the catfish and grits, but we realized too late that it was not the same meal as mine. Instead, it was literally just catfish with a side of grits. It was supposed to come with cheese grits, but she received regular grits after they told my friend she couldn't get regular grits because “it’s premade.” It was also missing the fried green tomatoes. We assumed they made everything fresh, but that was not the case. Two of us would have liked to have a little side of crab on top of the meal we ordered since the Benedict wasn’t available but were left confused when the manager told us it would be $24 to add crab?! My meal wasn’t even $24?? I wish that she would have maybe taken a second to explain the cost like was it going to be a whole crab cake on the side? My friend got the rum chata French toast and said it was underwhelming and that if she didn’t know she ordered it she would have assumed it was a regular French toast. We found it interesting that the French toast came with no sides.

The young lady who brought our food out did not know what was what and had no idea which plate belonged to whom. When we asked her, she replied that she didn't know and was just bringing the food over. Additionally, when she brought out one of the plates, she did not walk around the table and hand it to my friend; instead, she wanted us to pass the plate around the table resulting in my friends food nearly landing entirely in her lap. She bought over what she thought was the last plate and didn’t check to see if everyone had everything. Luckily for my I guess we had already briefly spoken with someone who was said to be a manager and she came and asked did we have everything and I let her know I did not have my food. She went and got it. It seems that perhaps overall some extra training would be beneficial for the waiting and serving staff.

The restaurant and bathroom were overall very clean and well kept. Parking is small and limited but there is additional parking not too far away by other establishments.

Although the mimosas were good, most of my party did enjoy their food and the music and overall vibe were enjoyable, I personally would not return to this restaurant. I am glad I tried it once, but the subpar service and extremely long wait time is just not...

3.20.22 I received a reply from milk and Honey. NO, it was not in Georgia. I am confused why you thought I was at a GA location. But nope please see below for more details.

It was the college park, md location. I was parked in front of the location when I called. Because I saw the restaurant was so busy. The woman told me they do not take phone orders number one and that it was for first come first serve as if to imply only sit in. I even went to website to see if she was telling the truth. There was a call the delivery options (but im in front of restaurant) and company button but i just called and was told THAT location does not take those orders.

And I say THAT location because I went to the one in bowie MD. Called and told them I was at the COLLEGE PARK, MD and told they do not take pick up orders. she was busy so I still had the impression they might not either. So I drove there and was going to wait because I will not be going to the College park, mf location again as in the moment I felt she was lying and just did not want to take the order. Even though College park is closer that particular location has lost all my future business.

Dont get me wrong, Milk and Honey has good food and no one should be deterred from trying.

This was my experience with the business not regarding food. And wether they do or dont take orders does not matter to me now. I do not trust them and I mean what i say. THAT location just wont receive my patronage but I will still eat it Milk and Honey locations.

I reread my old review from years ago. There motto that was on their menu "We guarantee great food everything else is up too chance" lol made me laugh and wanted to share that.

3.19.22 Can someone verify if Colkege park location is not doing pick-up. I called for togo and what she said was first come first serve and no phone orders. She did not clarify if that was just one weekends between brunch rush or not.

Some years ago: Milk and Honey is busy. Really good but BUSY. I went to eat and waited to be seated. Almost most the staff did not acknowledge me but 1 person. My server acknowledged me last after he he passed me 5 time a before he said hi I'll be with you and passed me again several more times before he actually came to me. The tables are close together and there are not many in the small building.

That being said when the server was able to get to me he gave a me an oreo cupcake which was super moist and tasty and I LOVE cake. And took off the cranberry juice I ordered. I ordered the salmon with cheesy hash browns and greens. It was delicious. They pour this creamy creole sauce over top. If your watching your weight don't eat here. You could see the oil and grease from everything. Did that stop me, heck no! Absolutely delicious. It was $17 which was on the cheaper end of their brunch menu options but better than I thought. Really great food not great service when it's busy. What I like is on the menu they let you know "We guarantee great food. Everything else is up to chance" great food it...

After going to the milk and honey in Bowie, I've decided I wanted to finally do a review. Both places had wonderful friendly wait staff.

College Park M &H will be my number one place of service from here on out. The pictures that are posted are of both places the ones on the table where the food is not been touched at all is College Park, the one in the bag is Bowie, and the one with the chicken and gravy where we split the meal in half.

Differences My sister and I went together, and we shared the Rum chata French toast as an appetizer, we asked that it be brought before the meal. This place brought it out, and then once we were most of the way through, they brought out our hot honey lemon spice chicken sandwich. Both meals were excellent,they were hot, the food was plentiful for the price, and we even took food home. Excellent service the waitress let us know what was popular, and she checked on us one or two times ,then let us know if we needed anything, just wave her over. The whole process it was wonderful. While this was a smaller establishment, the air quality was just right it wasn't too cold it wasn't too hot. There was a sense of home touch to this restaurant.

Bowie- we had a wonderful waitress bubbly personality without coming on too strong, we asked for the rum french toast before the meal as an appetizer, and it came out maybe 2 min before the main course. I rushed to eat that, in order to get the next meal before it got cold. The chicken biscuits and eggs with Cajun sauce while it tasted good the food was not hot and there was not much buffalo sauce or Cajun sauce or neither the biscuit or the chicken. We asked for a french toast to take home, and we did this all in the beginning. The French toast was not as plentiful as the one from College Park, and the French toast that we ate inside the restaurant was not as hot. There were fewer berries on there and less rum cream. So essentially, this is just something I could have gotten at home. This is a bigger place smaller portion, and the AC was way too cold. I am a big person and I usually like cold AC but this was beyond cold. The rum french toast that we got to take home they put some syrup at the bottom of the bag, and it came out everywhere. While my main waitress was awesome, we kept having several other people asking if everything was good, are we okay, there was too much interruption. I do not want to get anybody in trouble, so when the lady came and asked everything okay, I said yeah. My sister and I go to different places for the experience to see what we like and then we post on it. Therefore, we will never complain about the service no matter what it is. Aside from the things that I mentioned about this particular place, you might have a different experience, so I implore try...