Orange Tree Cafe Restaurant — Restaurant in Sterling Heights

First and foremost I never write reviews yet alone bad reviews but I would like to make my people aware. There was not some big exchange where we had any form of disagreement I literally just felt the vibe. I walked into this restaurant where there were about 4-6 customers who were all the same race as the workers. I was greeted and as I got to the register the waitress an older lady proceeded to take my order as she took my order it appeared I made her uncomfortable she wouldn’t look directly at me and because I was feeling the vibe was off I continued to look at her. As she stared directly at her note pad I can see her uncomfortably looking up with her eyes as if she was uncomfortable servicing me. She gave me my total I handed her my card. As she took my card it appeared she didn’t want to touch it and wanted to hurry and get it out of her hands because she didn’t hand it back to me as I stood there waiting to be handed back my card she tossed it to the counter and turned away. There was also a guy behind the counter who asked about my order and obtained my pop to give her to hand to me she sat it on the whole other counter from where I was standing and said there’s your pop it was weird because I was standing at a separate counter even though it was close. I was really uncomfortable and wanted to return my food however I didn’t. When I went back in the grab my food she literally handed me the bag as if it was something icky she was holding and wanted to hurry and get it out of her hands when I opened my food which was some onion rings they were burnt. I automatically got the feeling that they burnt them on purpose because of my race. I thought maybe they just looked that way. When I started to eat them they were the crispest onion rings I’ve ever had with out an onion to eat with it. I’m making this review for my fellow African Americans I pray you never walk into this establishment. I pray that you’ll choose to spend your money somewhere else. Of course I know there is racism everywhere but it is now time to start holding these places accountable. If they have a problem with us being around them then they should have a problem with spending our money. I know for a fact that they will definitely know who I am because the quiet but uncomfortable feeling they have me I exuded it I was just as uncomfortable as they were and it...

Been here twice in the past 6 months, both times,es the place felt very dirty. 1st impression back in January on the 1st visit, was it smelled musty and felt very dirty. Service was mediocre and took a while to get our food. Plus the servers just carried on loud conversations in their native language the whole time. My burger was dry and lacked flavor.

2nd time there was on Sunday 3/30. Again, felt dirty but didn’t smell this time. The food was better for me with a grilled chicken pita and fries, and service was friendly and prompt. But when my husband went to the counter to pay, he said he saw people slipping and sliding around in the kitchen and the bathroom was disgustingly dirty. He was grossed out thinking about how dirty the kitchen must be. He instantly felt like the food wasn’t sitting well with him. Unfortunately, he was up violently vomiting all night long, so we think he got food poisoning. He had a chef salad with ranch and a coney dog (no onions). We will...

My wife and I have been to this restaurant many times before and have always had a good experience, but this last trip made us walk out before we ordered anything. My wife can not eat gluten, not by choice, she will get sick if she does. We sat down, and the waitress came over , and my wife asked, "Which is gluten-free?the chicken Marsalis or picata? The waitress then says we don't have anything gluten-free here, so I explained to her that we have been coming here for some time and never had a problem getting gluten-free food. This is what the waitress told us, You can order anything you like, but if you get sick, it's not our problem. With that, we got up and headed for the door, and right before we walked out, we heard the waitress ask the cook. Do we make anything gluten-free? Wow, how many customers can this place afford to lose ,especially caused by...