Aroma de Cafe Restaurant & Bakery — Restaurant in Garfield

Came to this place to have some native Colombian food and it was a hit and miss deal.

The place itself is really nice with limited parking in the back.

We ordered breakfast and the arepa was cold cheese was basically sliced and thrown on top no attempt to melt the cheese was made, no butter was used at all. Pretty disappointed since arepa to us Colombians is a staple in morning breakfasts.

Steak had food flavor but me and my wife thought it was a tad overly salty.

Scrambled eggs were fine.

The “calentado” which is basically reheated beans mixed with rice was definitely NOT typical, we found them to have too many unnecessary veggies. me and my wife tasted a hint of the beans being spoiled a tiny bit but maybe not enough to call a manager. Also found the beans to be very soupy. Please make them typical Colombian, without carrots and all the veggies.

Coffee was reported to be great with my other people in my party. Lemonade was also very good.

Almojábanas were perfect! Beef empanadas were also great!!

Table service was so so, the lady that served us, she was maybe in her mid twenties or so with blondish hair, not the older woman, had no type of personality. We found her to be quite dry and non engaging. The older woman was very nice, and so was the girl with dark hair.

If they could work on the platters a bit this place would be perfect! I will be eventually going back sometimes and might updated...

Ok I'm gonna be honest and say that their food is AMAZING and that's the sole reason we still order from them. Every time we have ordered there has been an issue. The first time they forgot an item and instead of sending it to us or giving us a refund they just offered a discount on our next order. Everytime we order it takes FOREVER to get here and we end up having to call asking where it is (we live like five minutes from them). Tonight we ordered and didn't hear from them for a long time. We called and they said that the food had been dropped off over an hour ago. They claim their driver called us multiple times and texted us a picture of where they left it. Thereis no record of any calls or texts on our phone and we verifies the number with them multiple times. They had left it on inside our neighbor's sunporch. They got very defensive when I asked them if the driver was telling the truth and started telling us how it was our fault. If this didn't happen EVERY TIME I would have been understanding about it but I unfortunately it's just expected...

The food was really good! I was not expecting such huge quality portions. I love the food. As for the service, not so much. I went in with my partner, was not greeted so I walked up to the counter. I’d assumed perhaps we would be seated so I didn’t want to be rude and just sit down. This set the tone for the rest of the visit, as it seemed as if our server was bothered by it. I wouldn’t be writing a review if I didn’t feel like we were treated differently from the other customers. I assumed perhaps our server was having a rough day, so I didn’t make anything of it until I saw how well the other customers were being attended to. Everything we asked would politely ask for seemed like it bothered our server, almost like we asked for it wrong. The other server who brought out our food was very friendly though. I’d recommend the food, but probably just...