Fine Thyme Cafe — Restaurant in Soldotna

Was so excited, but had a super disappointing experience! Poor service, food was comparable to (maybe even worse than) an elementary school cafeteria, and the 'chai' was straight milk.

Walked in with a smile on my face, and instead of being greeted just as warmly, a girl rudely approached and asked 'dining in or taking out?' I thought about leaving right then, but decided to give her the benefit of the doubt.

She proceeded to mumble a few more questions at me, motioned toward the stairs and walked away. I started walking up the stairs, and then asked if she meant a particular table. She pointed at one, which must have been part of what she mumbled earlier. The flat, rude tone and poor service continued throughout the less than 30 minutes I was there, despite how I tried to keep a smile and lighten her mood.

I ordered their take on a BLT, which was $13, ridiculously priced for what I was served. I asked the waitress if it'd be possible to add turkey, she agreed, but failed to tell me I'd be charged $4.25 for the grocery store pre-packaged turkey they threw onto the sandwich. The bread was dry and crumbling apart.

$25 for a sandwich and chai latte is not totally unexpected in Alaska, but for such poor quality all around, as a young person who works in the community, and as someone has worked in food service, I was definitely a bit upset.

Would not recommend this place in the slightest. Only positive is that it is a cute, quaint...

The servers were truly super nice and friendly, but that was the only positive aspect of our experience. After we sat, we were warned that it would be about a 1/2 hour wait for food - which is totally reasonable. It ended up being about an hour wait, which I can fully look past as well. But AFTER waiting an hour, one of our party was given their food and the other 2 folks were told that the soup of the day was no longer available. The one friend who had only ordered a bowl of the soup, just left and waited in the car. I had also ordered the soup but at least I got the avocado toast (pictured here). The "avocado" legit looked like a spread purchased from Costco. One single pasty color and texture, on one oiece of bread. I don't think I've ever seen a sadder piece of $7 toast in my life. Whoever dropped the ball on the 86'd soup an hour into our stay, without even offering us a complimentary pastry to go or something for our wasted time, really biffed it....

The Cafe has very good sandwich selections. Our lunch orders are so yummy and quick, we didn’t have to wait for a long time since we were hungry and left Homer in the morning. This is a place to stop for lunch. They are very honest hostesses. I left my entire purse on the table they kept it for me. One of them named Angel and she is a real Angel. They tried to find my phone number but no luck. Finally I realized I didn’t have my purse when we were in Seward at Exit Glacier with no cell coverage. My husband and I had to drive to find the spot so I could make a phone call to the cafe which is in Soldotna and it is about 90 miles away. Angel who waited for us when we had our lunch and said that they held my purse and made efforts to contact me before we drove too far and also she said she would come to Anchorage (I’m residing in Anchorage) and would bring my purse which I got it on Saturday morning. Phew, what a relief. Thank you Angel and...