Golden Hill Cafe. — Restaurant in San Diego

Golden Hill Cafe had 4.4 stars on Google so I had some higher expectations before dining here for brunch on a Sunday. There was a typical Sunday brunch crowd, but they were able to seat my group of 6 quickly.

They have the great option of outdoor seating, but one potential downside is you’ll be seated at plastic foldable tables. I felt like they could use some nice plastic table cloths for a better/neater/cleaner dining experience.

After being seated, we had to grab menus ourselves after waiting awhile as our server had forgotten. After getting our waters, I noticed their cups looked incredibly old and foggy. I wasn’t 100% certain they were clean.

I got a Farmers Mix (mixed veggy omelette + biscuits & gravy) for $17. While the dish itself was good, I was expecting a much larger serving size for the price. Presentation of the food could definitely be improved. Someone at my table ordered a California Melt and it came with a side of “veggies” which was one (1) small leaf of lettuce with 5 julienned carrot slices. It just looked… sad and measly :(

All in all, maybe I’d come back when they aren’t very busy but it would take some real convincing, especially with other good breakfast options...

Came here 3/23 . Patricia.... A name you can't forget. Gave a terrible service. I'm not sure if she's related to the owners or knows them personally. Maybe she's a manager. Whatever the case is, she has zero customer service and satisfaction. We arrived at 12:05 and placed our order five minutes after. Well after a bunch of people came and received their food first. We started to doubt our order was even being prepared. At 12:35 I walked inside and asked, and to my surprise. Patricia never put our order in. At 12:45 we barely get our food. Keep in mind we're only 3 people. And best part .. the order was wrong. All the way till 1pm we get the check.... And Patricia slaps us in the face with a 15% off. Even the other ladies working there were trying to push for a bigger discount. One of them even said. "I wouldn't even charge them" and Patricia said... Okay give them another 5%. I gave cash Tip to the other lady. She deserved it more than Patricia. So if anyone comes to eat here. Just avoid Patricia. She screwed every table she had. Ours was just unfortunately...

So this place has been around for a while and I love how old it is the food really isn't worth the price. Sadly it's just below mediocre. The breakfast is decent but today I ordered a BLT and they gave me what looked like 2 and half strips of bacon. They didn't seem to even put an effort into the sandwich itself.... it was just bland and sloppy. Those place has such good potential to be a really good diner/cafe but I have seriously been to way better ones than this. The owners might want to rethink the quality of food here and maybe spruce up the place a bit more.... an upgrade on this place would do it some good. A place like this shouldn't go to waste. As a the service, the first time we went here [and forgive me for how I'm about to describe her] we had the older white lady with the blondish hair was great and attentive. Other servers were ok. Don't take this completely negative after all this is...