Megg's Cafe — Restaurant in Temple

First time to Megg's. Reviewed menu ahead wife has many allergies. Went with breakfast even though it was 11:30, breakfast is usually very safe and basic. Menu is misleading. I will start with the toast. Should be easy but not..all their toast is rock hard. Literally the hardest toast we ever had. I had sourdough wife raisin bread..both breads you could break the bread apart. No bend no softness (like all toast I have ever had in my 60 year life). Hard as a crouton. With all the paprika (one of wife's major allergy) in most of their sausage and other meats she went with grits (which I never saw on menu). Grits came out covered in cheese. Sent back and was brought another bowl with no extra cheese. They were made with cheese also. So anyway cheesy grits are for sure not a central Texas thing because I have never seen or had them. Apparently a southeast US thing. They were terrible. Some people might like them we did not at all. Wife's scrabbled eggs were both over cooked and runny at the same time hmm. I had two of the hardest non bendable sausage patties in my life. Could not skewer with my fork. They serve breakfast all day until 3 but noon apparently not fresh. The sausage was cooked and sitting on grill for at least and hour or two according to how dry they were. On a positive note our server was fantastic and very accommodating. Especially with the allergies. Unfortunately she doesn't cook also And I had the BEST blueberry muffin of my life! I wish I had better things to say about the food but it was what I experienced. I will say after getting home I looked at the menu again. It list all the different breads and there are many at the bottom the last one it says soft bread. Sure wish I had seen that but who would had thought all the rest would be as hard as you can imagine. Again maybe some of you like that style. I never had a choose of hard toast before anywhere. Not...

One star is even too much!!! The first time we ate there it was mediocre (at best) but we like to give places a second change. HUGE MISTAKE! My husband and I had the WORST meal we’ve ever had in our life. Let’s start with the wait times, it took almost 10 minutes just for the server to come over. Another 5 minutes just to get drinks. After placing the order another 35 minutes to get the food. I was in my scrubs and had to go to work after. It’s a Monday morning, not even a weekend. Once we got the food my omelette was barely warm and the bacon was raw! I mean raw like straight from the package. I was chatting and didn’t realize until it was in my mouth. I consider myself a lady but I was forced to spit it into my napkin. I was embarrassed but I had no choice. My husband steak was flavored horrible and so tuff he could barely cut it with the knife. His eggs were so over cooked to the point they were like rubber. The toast wasn’t even toasted. The potato’s were the only edible thing on either of our plates. 15 more minutes go by waiting for our waiter to bring the check. My husband had to go to the front just to ask to get the check. We both left nauseous and hungry after paying $39 for 2 breakfast (before tip). I don’t know how this place got such good reviews, it was so bad I don’t want to go to any restaurant for a while but will never go to that nightmare...

Ever bragged about a restaurant to someone and when they finally go with you the entire experience was awful. Well that was breakfast this morning. The server didn’t keep my husbands coffee or water filled, his biscuit was so dry we asked for additional sausage gravy. We were charged extra. I ordered the mix and match eggs Benedict. My crab cake Benedict was delicious, although lukewarm when alit arrived. The queso on my second Benedict was cold and firm. She dropped off our food and she didn’t come back for 10-12 minutes…may have been longer. When I asked her to have another Benedict brought to me (I had eaten the crab cake one) she removed the entire plate…and with attitude. It took a ridiculous amount of time to get my replacement. She checked back with me after several minutes and said, “Better?”…again with attitude.

I waited tables during college (I’m 54 and retired now) and it was my favorite job of all time. I know what a hard job it is and I tip insane amounts on the high side. I do so as a blessing where people don’t always appreciate what a challenging job it can be.

I was embarrassed for telling my hubby what an awesome restaurant it was compared to the terrible experience we had this morning. When we left to head back north to Arlington, he said, “Damn, I could have eaten at Dennys and had a better meal.”

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