Breakfast by Salt's Cure — Restaurant in Santa Monica

Such a waste of a restaurant with decent food.

Unfortunately, this place is grossly inefficient in most other aspects that actually matter to customers.

The physical menus, though small, are few and inconveniently placed even though they have wall above the register that could easily fit the menu for all to see. So ordering at the register takes longer because most don't know what they want by time they get there.

Anything greater than a party of two will be a problem and a hassle if you hope to sit and eat. Space is tight. Communal seating would have been best.

Food is served a la carte. All of it. Which essentially means everything is more expensive than it needs to be even after acknowledging this is elevated diner food.

Since everything has to be ordered individually, that means it is also served that way. So in ordering a complete breakfast (usually 3 items or more), everything gets its own plate; crowding an already artificially small table due to trying to maximize a very small seating area.

To continue with the absurdity of the whole situation, ordering for takeout comes with very similar results. It is all individually packaged in recyclable/compostable cardboard containers with wooden utensils. So ordering for more than one person will almost guarantee walking away with multiple bags.

This seems counterproductive to the sustainability message using this type of packaging implies as not only is it wasteful to package things separately that could simply live together in a slightly larger container, it is costly. And that cost is usually passed on to the customer.

Same goes for eating there. The plates are reusable, but because everything is separate that means washing more dishes more often and using more water.

Order the hashbrown and the chicken sausage. Their appearance is curious. Order the pancakes if you must, but don't be fooled by the word "stack" on the menu, they are too small for the price you pay. Only slightly larger than a silver dollar

Considering the small footprint, high prices, and not having to pay the $20 minimum wage, I can see why this place doesn't have to be...

I used to go to Salt's Cure for buckwheat pancakes when they had them. Those were hearty and good but they closed down and reopened as Breakfast By Salt's Cure and this any nothing like the original place. The main item on the menu is the oatmeal pancake with varianys like apple, blueberry or chocolate. Unfortunately this item is terrible and resembles a pancake in shape only. Basically it turned out to be fried oatmeal and not a pancake at all. The inside was soft and semi-fluid like a bowl of wet oatmeal with the outside crisped by frying in a pan. These were also overly sweet. If you want to eat raw cookie dough, you might want to give this place a try, otherwise, stay clear.

The service was inexperienced and unhelpful. That might have taken the review down another notch but I felt leaving 1 star was just too low. In the end this is not a place I would ever return to, good or bad service, since the food is not something I want or need to consume. Shame they don't have the old recipe of their predecessor...

This place only allows you to have a table once you've ordered at the counter, which we did. It did not specify that the order had to be for-here. Once we found an open table, we claimed it. We asked the busboy to have the food brought to the table, but were told it couldn't happen. They asked us to give up the table. We were already seated at the table and waiting for our food. My husband needed to sit due to his bad knee and hip. We asked for a refund, but were denied. They could have easily given the refund if they really wanted to or just let us sit. Our first time here, and we were very disappointed. Very poor policy!

We just took the food to go. They didn't even add utensils for a to go order! Which I'm sure was done intentionally since we asked for a refund. What a bunch of dumbasses who work there ! No napkins! Nothing!!

Probably would've been a different outcome had we've been a...