The Cafe in Stow — Restaurant in Stow

Clean, neat building and simple front face come off a but plain but the restaurant and food is anything but. Being a long local restaurant, I've driven by it all the time but rarely stopped to eat since I live a town or two over. But I've gone twice recently and both times have been such a great experience I felt I needed to share about it. The servers and staff are friendly and we even got a wonderful chat from one about her dog. 🥰 It wasn't completely packed either time we went, but if it had been I think the layout was set up in a great way for coziness not crowding. For those who might want to sit alone at a counter they have a section right at the front for individual seating with a TV if you like. The atmosphere is basically old fashioned local restaurant, with a moderate (a.k.a. not 5 pages) menu of quality, well priced comfort food with daily specials for variety. It's the kind if place you go to sit and talk with the other person in your booth and catch up on life over coffee or tea and a soothing meal. It's not surrounded by TVs with a sports game or anything, but has a more calm atmosphere. And don't think for once that because this restaurant has been around a while that it's "old" because every single booth, carpet, table, light etc is in good shape and clean and I didn't see a single cobweb anywhere! One of the cleanest places we have eaten at in a long time. Food? Tastes just like my mom used to make, which is a great compliment. So far I've tried the breakfast sandwich with hash browns and the beer-cheese soup with garlic bread. Hubby had an omelet and also steak and eggs. All have been great! Can't wait to try it for dinner sometime because breakfast has been awesome. Last visit was $30 for 2 of us and that included the steak and eggs and...

Well that had to be the worst food I have had in a restaurant in a long time. They are prime example of why WE eat at home. Appetizer plate luke warm at best. Mozzarella sticks were not even cooked all the way through to ve stringy it was a mozzarella hard stick. The Pototoe skin was the hottest thing on the plate. Most likely they had all the other stuff waiting under a heat lamp until it was done. A1 on the potato skin. We both got Pepsi mine was flat and syrup while his was ok. I waited the entire we time for her to come back to bring me a new pop. I ordered the Stow Burger and it was hot but BLAND and the whole outside of the bun was hard as a rock like the bag had a hole in it. The shoe string fries well well done. I did try to stomach it because I was starving BUT I could NOT! He ordered the Southwest Chicken Sandwich and if it wouldn't have been for the toppings it would have been bland. Onion rings were alright. Now I did not send my meal back to spare my husband the problem or stress. So when we were checking out and she asked what was wrong and he told her she said and I quote "I would have sent it back!" BUT did not offer an apology and surely did not take a damn thing off of the bill. For 2 people it was $48.00 not including the tip for a FLAT POP LUKE WARM APPETIZER PLATE A Bland Chicken sanwich, burnt bland burger with a hard ass bun and over cooked shoe string fries. I feel so robbed! I could have eaten 3 meals at home for that price and had hot flavored food. Instead we decided to eat out and pretty much she said too bad should have sent it back after we had already been there 40 min. Not to mention they were dead as in one single mom and 3 kids. Our food should have at least been fresh and hot in a nice time frame!...

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to time travel back to 1986 and pay gourmet prices for summer camp leftovers, look no further — Café In Stow has you covered.

Let’s start with the décor: the furniture is a lovely teal color, but looks like it was bought during a Reagan administration clearance sale.

The food? Imagine taking the blandest thing you’ve ever eaten, then stripping it of flavor, hope, and seasoning — and charging triple for it. If this had been a legitimate childhood Scouting camp experience I would have expected to earn a badge for “Survived This Entrée” when the plates were cleared.

The clientele created ambiance — by ambiance, i mean awkward stares straight out of a small-town thriller: everyone glaring at the brown man and other outsider . I wasn’t sure if I was dining or auditioning for a “Get Out” sequel.

The staff added to the mystery — vanishing almost immediately. My waitress took my order, disappeared like a magician, and was never seen again. Slowly the front of house staff all dropped off the radar as well. I started to wonder if the Rapture was real and happening in this very moment in small town Ohio.

In short: Café In Stow has teal furniture, beige food, and white energy. As much as I love Halloween, I was not a fan of the ghostly service, slasher-film camp’s food at couture prices, and being stared at like I would be the next victim. Save yourself, your stomach and your wallet from this horror- Get Out.

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