The Egg Bistro Haygood — Restaurant in Virginia Beach

The most disgusting poor excuse for avocado toast ever. Threw it out. Not going back,

Last year at this time, The Egg Bistro had the most delicious wonderful elevated avocado toast, made to order on crostini with boiled egg, sprouts actual avocado…mixed field greens - with the most lovely staff. It’s the only time I have ever taken a photo of my food… delightful. What happened?!

Two months ago I was there - they were “out” of avocado toast and worst server and service ever, and I had brought in a table of 8… .

Today we thought we would cautiously try again, got carry out, ordered avocado toast - it was absolutely disgusting. We threw it away, and will not go back. I’ve literally never experienced something quite so bad - it seemed like whoever made it and came up with this lame concoction had no experience in the kitchen at all…

We got some cheap grocery store slice of bread, slathered with some really gross old or bought or premade bland blended tasteless gross guacamole, not fresh, not proper avocado mashed with field greens and actually seasoned.. no boiled egg, no crostini, no sprouts… nope, we got one half a cherry tomato on each side, two tiny pieces of cucumber and about a pound of cheap goat cheese on this really bad guac… We got it to go and there was no seasoning no dressing - a small plastic container of olive oil. And one of molasses-smelling bad basalmic.

One bite, it felt gross in your mouth and it tasted worse. Like someone just threw a couple things on regular toast, smeared with old guacamole… and never tasted it.., and, it looked just as bad as it tasted.

Last year was such higher quality… from an experienced chef….

Something bad happened… and it showed. The wait to eat in used to be so long with lines out the door on Saturday and Sunday … because the food and service was excellent. Today when I went to pickup the carry out, there was no one but one DoorDash guy. I wondered where the crowds went… now I know. We won’t be back either.,,

Check out the photos: last year… then this year… gross....

I’m only giving this place two stars because my service was alright. I had ordered steak and eggs, when I received my food everything looked great but as soon as I took a bite into the steak, the steak didn’t taste right and I had to spit it out. It tasted rancid and old. I had told my waitress ( she was extremely nice and did an amazing job) that my steak didn’t taste good, I had my husband try it and he agreed. She had brought out someone from the back for her to tell me why she doesn’t know why the steak tasted old since they had truck come in earlier that week she told me it tasted different because of the cut. I eat steak all the time. It was not the cut. It just didn’t taste right. She basically told me there’s nothing she could’ve done and I’d still have to pay for my plate and I was definitely not happy about it. Especially when I have to pay for something I can’t enjoy. I was hoping she would have offered a substitute but she didn’t. she had apologized which I appreciated but sadly I still wasn’t satisfied. So i had told her thank you. So my husband ended up sharing his plate with me. Maybe a couple minutes later the lady had came back and apologized again that she didn’t want me to have a bad experience. So she then said offered a substitution for the meat which I denied at first but she insisted. So I got the corned beef instead. Although I am greatly appreciated that she did accommodate later but what I didn’t understand is as too why I had to pay for something I didn’t like and then come back to tell me they can substitute it then take it off my bill? I wasn’t trying to get a free meal I was genuinely not happy with how the steak tasted and did hope for a substitute. Which did happen, but I didn’t like that fact that at first nothing could’ve been done and then change their mind. The bottom line is, I thought that whole...

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