Had a poor experience. The maitre d’ berated my friend and I for holding two iced coffees from a nearby coffee shop, but then tried to pass it off as a joke when we apologized and my friend threw her half-finished iced coffee away. To make things worse, there was no coffee on the menu, so we couldn’t have ordered coffees if we even wanted. Additionally, my friend and I were planning on ordering brunch cocktails for ~$13 each, but after the maitre d’s “joke,” we were no longer in the cocktail mood. Point to Good Enough to Eat for convincing us not to double the cost of our meal with overpriced alcohol!!! We should have left after this initial interaction, as it was only a portend of things to come.

After being seated, my friend and I both ordered mediocre omelette provencals with their “famous strawberry butter” and whole wheat biscuits. The strawberry butter was underwhelming and the biscuits were pretty dry and poor tasting. Our waters were never refilled during the entire meal.

Things continued to worsen. After waiting for 20 minutes to our plates to be cleared, we reminded our waitress of the two fruit crumbles we ordered. She headed outside to serve up said crumbles from their display case of desserts in the 90 degree heat. When the crumbles arrived, the fruit tasted undercooked and extremely boozy and the crumble topping was nearly burnt on one side and RAW on the other side. Clearly, the crumble had been blasted at a high heat that made the topping appear burnt while the fruit and fruit-facing topping was severely undercooked. After two bites, we asked our waitress if we could have the check and have the crumbles taken off the bill. The manager was sent over and tried to convince us that the clearly raw crumble dough was “moist” and “only like that because it’s hot outside.” It’s concerning that the desserts are kept unrefrigerated in the heat all day, especially when some of them contain raw ingredients (intentionally or otherwise). Seems like a health violation to me. After explaining to the manager that we knew the difference between raw and moist, he finally agreed to take these $9 raw desserts off the bill. We then waited another 20 minutes to finally catch our waitress’s attention and pay for the mediocre meal.

Honestly, our waitress seemed like she was managing way too many tables, so it’s hard to blame her completely for slow service. However, the service was terrible from the maitre d’ to the lack of attention from the waitress to the manager trying to convince my friend and I, both experienced bakers, that a raw dough was moist.

I don’t normally write reviews or complain about bad food, but this was such a terrible experience. Good Enough To Eat is a disappointing restaurant with a boring menu that survives on clout alone. Much better to go around the corner to Jacob’s Pickles or Maison Pickle and get excellent service and delicious food. Good Enough To Eat may have been around for 40 years, but it can’t go out of business soon enough.