5 Star Cafe — Restaurant in Saint Paul

I went in this place for the first time this Jan and the experience was strange. We all ordered coffees, and 3 of us ordered cake and I ordered baklava. The baklava was fresh but the cakes are pre packaged SaraLee type things so everyone else thought that was terrible, Inconsistent and weird. But a major issue I had was that I went to use the women’s restroom in back and it was locked but the men’s was wide open. So naturally I assumed that it was occupied by someone and I stood there waiting for whoever it was to finish in there. The staff person comes back there and tells me “Oh no one’s in there, we locked it.” I asked her why, because I assumed they didn’t lock it considering the men’s room isn’t locked and no one’s in it. She tells me “ We only lock the women’s bathroom not the men’s, because women are messy.” Excuse me? a woman trying to tell me that women are messy and men are not. Insulting, biased and strange. She’s looking at me like I was supposed to agree with this weird idea. Like men’s restrooms are always spotless and women are just always the ones causing a mess. Sorry but no, that’s weird. Anyone can be messy or not messy, gender notwithstanding. That on top of the fact that the coffee was not very good to begin with, and they served all of my friends pre packaged little cake slices at a sit down restaurant. The wait person was not friendly and one of my friends ordered breakfast that didn’t look very good. In spite of that, the whole atmosphere in there made me feel unwelcome and uncomfortable, like they had some kind of problem having a group of white women in their establishment. We aren’t racists and you shouldn’t be either, if that was in fact what their issue was. Their dinner or lunch items might be better that the stuff we ordered, I have no idea. We came in early. They seem to get decent reviews on their lunch dishes, but our experience was uncomfortable as a whole and I don’t know why they were making it that way for seemingly no reason. What’s with the strange sexist bathroom thing? What’s with some pastry being terrible pre packaged stuff and the next person gets a freshly made dessert? I wasn’t even sure how I felt after I left other...

Just happened to find this gem while visiting a friend, and happened to run into the best coffee I may have ever had, a super friendly staff that will basically make you whatever you want.

I had scrambled eggs with super fresh tomato, onion, green peppers, I asked for a slice of cheese cuz i'm from WI and that's how we do. The owner's wife offered fresh ground pepper that really made this meal pop! Really good, best coffee ever, awesome service, and free WI-FI!

It was so good and people so friendly I brought my friend back for lunch the same day, and he had a huge fresh vegetable plate, and I had a plate (platter rather) of pasta with chicken that was literally three meals worth of food, and was equally as delicious as the breakfast. ...

Spent two hours here while waiting for kids at Circus Juventus. Had one of the best salads that I’ve had in my entire life. Leah, the server, was excellent and made me feel comfortable throughout my extended stay. WiFi is available. Extended stays are welcome. There is a pool table in the back. A bar around an espresso machine and approximately 10 low top tables with seating for four at each. The vibe is very happy, primarily to gather with friends and have a chat over good food and drinks if you would like. There were a significant number of takeout orders and deliveries while I was there. They do DoorDash and GrubHub. Prices are reasonable, and the quality of the ingredients was excellent. Very...