I've eaten here on several ocassions, the only time I truly kind of almost enjoyed the food was my first visit with friends.
I'm sure the dessert crepes are great. If you came here for dessert crepes, you should be fine. But if you came here looking for food, have a glass of water ready to rinse the salt out of your mouth.
The service is friendly and casual and I have nothing against the atmosphere or the decor. Seems like a nice place to chill. It's just that out of the five items from the menu which I've tried, I have enjoyed none of them. Meaning I chose not to finish my meal even though I was still hungry.
I dont know if the chef is a smoker or not, but wuth how salty many of the meals taste, I assume so. Nothing against smoking, mind you, but it is stastisticaly likely that oversalted food is prepared by a smoker. Because taste buds.
If you're a big fan of the american diet and love saltiness and bacon, this place is for you. Over 75% of the non-dessert menu items contain bacon.
Stay away from the wild mushroom soup. It tastes as if the cook sauteed the mushrooms in salted butter, not unsalted -- there is a subtle difference, which is common and fine and even okay to add salt which you can obviously tell that salt was added during the sautee. This is how I imagine what happens next during the preparation, as the mushrooms are simmering in all that salt, stock (probably made from boullion from the taste of it) simmers nearby, slowly losing volume, ready to become the base of the soup. Then the mushrooms are added, along with some water and some salt for good measure. Then the chef cooks it down, adding a dash of salt at the end because he still cant taste the salt.
At some point, cumin is added and I love this touch. It would have and could have been delicious. But instead, after the mixture is blended, then the bisque is cooked down some more, at which point the salt just takes over because now there is less liquid. Mind you, the second time I ordered the bisque was near the end of the day, so there was plenty of time for the salt to grow and saturate every molecule in the soup, but if bias confirmation is not influencing me, the other time I tried it, it was also too salty.
Same with the tomato soup. Their tomato soup tastes like salt.
Maybe it is an avante garde performance from the chef making a punny joke about the region in which we live and I was just too daft to grasp the subtlety of his or her joke, but in reality, I think the main chef just overuses salt because everything tastes like salt.
I will definitely hang out there sometime with friends tobpartake in the atmosphere and conversation. I will not, however, be partaking of the food.
Blegh. It is several days layer and all I can remember is the...
Read moreBeen here three times in the last year. Each time the service has been slow, but the food has been fine. However, this past friday was phenomenally poor. We walked in around 8:15 pm. It was crowded. We were greeted by a single, harried employee. She was the only person there. She told us the wait was half hour; we decided to go for it despite the wait. While we waited for our order along with the 15 or so others, more and more people came in. This single employee was so busy taking orders that she couldn't make any! Finally a second employee came in, and she started taking orders. She must've been new, because the first employee had to keep stopping what she was doing to help the second. There was a line of people out the door, waiting to order. In the mean time, a couple people actually got their orders filled. Eventually there were four employees cranking out orders, and we actually did get ours within half hour. Still, tables hadn't been bussed, the forks and napkins were out, and there was no soap in the bathrooms. As for the food, the orders were being filled from a huge stack of crepes that must have been made earlier in the day. They were re-heated, but when i got mine (mixed berries with sweet cream), it clearly tasted old and the edges were rubbery. The FRESH sweet crepes I had there last December were delicious; the savory breakfast crepes as well. But nearly a year later this restaurant seems not just poorly managed but completely unmanaged at all, which is affecting it's food for the worse. Or maybe it was just a bad night. This place is charming and has the capability of turning out some good stuff. I may go again, but if I walk in and it's that crowded and understaffed, I...
Read moreI met this company at a bridal fair, and my then fiance and I were impressed with their crepes and their prices. We decided we wanted to use them to cater our wedding reception, and we made an appointment with them to come in for a tasting. As the day for my appointment drew near, I repeatedly called their catering number to verify my appointment, but they NEVER answered the phone. I left a few messages, and finally, after weeks of trying, they called me back and said that they had lost the book of appointments that they had made at the bridal fair. So I made a new appointment, and when I went in for a tasting I honestly felt a little uncomfortable the entire time. I felt like the girl who I was working with didn't want to be there and didn't like me for some reason. I went to the tasting without my fiance, so I asked if I could just call her later to tell her which flavors we wanted after I discussed it with my fiance. I called and called and called and called and called and called. NO ANSWERS. I was getting very concerned because I had paid a deposit. They didn't call me back until a week before my wedding. Then, on the day of my wedding, they didn't arrive at the time they were supposed to. We kept calling them to ask them when they would be arriving, but, as usual, no answers. My reception started at 7:00, and they didn't arrive until then. The crepes were fine, and everything worked out, but I would absolutely never use them again and wouldn't recommend them to cater your event. I have never worked with anyone so...
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