The Lemon Tree — Restaurant in Vero Beach

This is a small little breakfast and lunch place tucked away in the Indian River side of Vero Beach, FL. We showed up around the 10 to 10:30 time frame on a Monday. There was a small delay to be attended to at the front desk. Took about 20 mins wait to be seated but had to check the desk to see how much longer and they had lined out my family name from the waitlist. Upon discovery they immediately sat us down. We had a wonderful server named Jordan/George ??(we may have misheard his name??). He was fantastic. We ordered cheese grits with poached eggs with corned beef hash, açaí bowl, the kids got French toast and pancakes. When we were seated we were not given kid’s menu. The server noticed that and went to get us a kids menu when he noticed we were trying to order from the main menu for the kids. Thank you Jordan!/George! About 45 mins into waiting for our order our server brought out mini blueberry muffins due to our wait and said they are short staffed and said it would be 10 more mins. After a total of an hour wait our server said that they lost our ticket and asked for us to reverify our order. Honestly he remembered every order when he went over it from memory. He resubmitted our ticket. After about 5 or 10 mins he showed back up and said that the cook is having a rough day and wanted to see if I would like to change my poached eggs to either fried or scrambled because he (the cook) did not “want” to cook poached eggs. I was really looking forward to poached eggs as that is my favorite way to have them prepared and hadn’t had them that way in quite awhile. I was really disappointed but the server talked me into getting them a different way due to the cooks desires. We finally got our food about 90 mins after being seated. The kids food was delicious as was the açaí bowl which is quite big. However, the cheese grits with fried egg over medium was very bland and had to mix with the corned beef hash to get some flavor. This place was highly recommended and I saw others get their food before us so do think this is an isolated incident but when we got the check it was business as usual. Just an apology from the server who had no fault to our experience. We were very disappointed. I hope that others won’t get this experience especially with children who are...

My wife and I are/were fans of Lemontree. Whenever we have out of town guests, we take them to Lemontree at least once during their stay…but over the last year or so, it’s become a bit of a “crap shoot”. Yesterday morning, they definitely weren’t high rollers. We were told the wait would be 40 minutes, no big deal, anyone who’s been there knows that’s always possible. After about 55 minutes, we were seated and it took our waitress about 10 minutes to take our drink order, that was not common, but those things happen. We typically order when they take our drink order because we know the menu fairly well and yesterday was no different. Our order was simple , 2 quiches with home fries and 1 order of biscuits and gravy to share. The order took about 30 minutes, which is surprisingly long since we ordered the special, but it was busy. Typically when places are busy, the food is fresh and hot because they’re cycling through at a higher volume, so we were ok with that. The food arrived, but we had no silverware and had to flag down a different server than our own because ours disappeared. One order was wrong, mine was brought out with fruit instead of home fries, so the server ( food runner, not waitress) took it right back…the problem was, they slid the fruit off and put about 10 home fries in its place ( I feel sorry for the guy they who”s plate the took those from)…on the same plate…soaking in the juices of the fruit that was obviously just scraped off. Trying not to be like the northeasterners who visit or transplant to Vero and whine about everything, we began to eat. the quiche was maybe at room temperature, the home fries were cold, the biscuits were cold! The gravy was piping hot though! But it seemed as if the breakfast was doomed because the piping hot sausage gravy had a lovely taste of soap mixed in! Needless to say, I don’t think we will visit again anytime soon, but these types of incidents at Lemontree, in our experience, are becoming increasingly more frequent, which is...

Totally upgrading my original 4 ⭐ review from a few years ago!!😂 Basic breakfast choices as well as some more unique choices, make this place a great breakfast spot for whatever you crave! Lobster Eggs Benedict anyone?🤔 Average breakfast prices on the beach side?? No wonder why they are almost always busy! But not to worry. This little hidden gem runs like a well oiled machine and waiting time for a table to open up seems to move quickly. Good food, fresh and with a homemade flavor. Love the free mini muffin served while you wait for your food to arrive. Nice touch!❤️ And yummy! Muffins are made daily in house and they always surprise you with flavor! Mocha Cappuccino, Blueberry, Orange Cranberry, Orange Blossom, Lemon Poppyseed, just to name a few flavor sensations I have had over the 10+ years of visiting the Lemon Tree. The staff is fantastic and friendly! Most of them have been there for years and that makes you feel like you're part of their family and truly welcomed. The line is almost always long on Saturday & Sunday so be prepared to wait, but you'll be happy you did! Located near several hotels, resorts, timeshares, add seasonal residents and of course, the year round people of Vero that support these local businesses year round and the Winter months can bring wait times to almost an hour, so plan accordingly as they do not take...