56 Social Cafe & Catering — Restaurant in Shaker Heights

This place is just getting its footing. It has the potential to be awesome! The food is extremely good and very reasonably priced. The dining room itself feels like eating in someone’s home: very intimate, comfortable and very contemporarily decorated. It definitely fills a void in Shaker for this type of restaurant that wasn’t there before. The person who got us our drinks was extremely nice. If they could improve upon one thing, it is the service. By the time we were seated, it took 25 minutes before someone came and took our order. I expect this will change with time as the restaurant gains more experience, but this is what stopped me from giving it a pure 5. Other than that, I am very glad this restaurant is part of the...

Ordered take out at 6:00 was told 15 minutes. It’s now 6:30 and just told at 6:25 2 salads would be ready in 5-6 minutes. Seems a little disorganized. Not happy waiting here for over 20 minutes. Someone messed up . Should have at least offered a drink of some kind. Bad news for my first visit here. Jay you need to fix this.Got home and I asked for turkey off the bone instead of processed and of course that didn’t happen . Charged me more money for a basic mixed greens with no meat just a few veggies why was 1 basic salad charged as a pewter mug salad than the one I ordered as the original? Really lousy service and did not follow directions....

While Cafe 56 is a mix of American, Mediterranean and Jewish deli foods, Chef Bob, who knows vegan cooking can go way beyond. With fresh ingredients he whipped up a fantastic vegan, oil free, soy free dish that was even more restricted than the Caldwell Esselstyn diet, perhaps familiar to residents of Lyndhurst and other Ohio cities. Give him a couple days notice and prepare yourself for the best well conceived meal you have had in years. And that could include fresh picked veggies! I could not recommend it more highly. And the service...