Our Little Secret Cafe & Catering — Restaurant in Pleasant Hills

Crazy, ruin your day (in a good way) food.

First the downside: the hours are awful.

There, I said it! In general, Our Little Secret opens just late enough and closes just early enough that most people with a regular workday will never be able to make a visit during the week. How can a restaurant survive on weekends only?

The hours are one of many indicators that the sit down restaurant is not the primary source of revenue, but the catering is. In that regard, it feels more like you're visiting a busy catering company who serves the occasional, stray walk-in.

Why I'm bothering to offer the context is... it's the only way to explain the meal I received. It was an enormous, overflowing plate of delicious food. Way more food than I could possibly eat! The "meat lovers omlette" had whole strips of bacon, sausage cut up like dice and a mountain of ham. It covered half the plate. The other half was filled with fantastic hash browns. After eating half of the food, I couldn't bear another bite.

It was enough for two people and it cost $11.

Not knowing the portions, I also order a side waffle. It was light, crisp and perfect.

All told, this is clearly a place that knows how to cook and gives you a tremendous amount of food for very little money. In a way that I don't see how they could be making money.

Their loss is our gain, I suppose.

The hours don't bother me that much having eaten there once... This is a meal that you can only eat if you have absolutely nothing else to...

Took my son here on my day off for Some place new to try for a dad/son day out. He wanted to start it out with chocolate chip pancakes 🥞 and he picked the right place! He scarfed them all down with 4 slices of excellent bacon strips. I had the French toast which was very good (had powdered sugar and maple syrup). We got to play connect four and cornhole outside before we ate which helped keep the activities going and was next to other outdoor seating (since the a/c was on pretty high inside due to the recent heat wave). Awesome place. Biggest tip - Come here early or be patiently waiting because there’s only about 10 tables and 5-6 bar seats. Well worth a 15-20 minute wait! 💪🏼

My son said “Food was great but…I wouldn’t come back.”

Waiter said “oh buddy why not?”

My son “I’m cold (due to the a/c)”

Waiter “Buddy let me get you a cookie sorry you were cold.” (He let my son pick out whatever cookie he wanted and he definitely did not have to go out of his way to do that.).

Awesome customer service and we will be back with the entire family some morning...

Overall a very interesting experience would potentially come back for lunch...

Was recommended to try this spot...

When arriving notice that there was a very large catering order that took up most of the space on the counter limiting seats and space.

Upon being seated placed an order for the pulled pork hash and eggs and also tried the usual... (Ordered two over medium eggs with pork and hash)

It took about 45 to 50 minutes for our food to arrive at our table. It's almost as if everyone that ordered after came out before ours was even in the ticket window. From what was being observed.

When the food got out to the table the bacon was still completely raw and the eggs for the hash were entirely wrong. One egg cooked over easy the other completely fried.

While waiting the service was extremely lackluster. Not once were we checked on within the whole 45+ minutes. Not once were we asked if we needed anything else like refills or told that our order would be just a little bit longer.

It is an extensive menu that I would potentially give one...