Sweet Thyme Cafe — Restaurant in Wake Forest

Horrible experience. Drove out of my way to this coffee shop. I've wanted to go for a while. Ordered an iced vanilla latte. There was no one else there ordering. I waited for what seemed like forever for the barista to look at me & say "oh we're out of ice, we have to wait for a bag of ice". If the barista told me that to begin with, I wouldn't have ordered anything iced. I proceed to sit in a seat, that I didn't realize was soaked, until I sat down & got my shorts soaking wet. I found another seat. The iced latte I ordered had zero coffee. It was literally a $6 tiny cup of iced milk. For the 10 minutes I was sitting by the water a lawnmower proceeded to go back & forth exactly where I was sitting with rocks and dirt being blown onto me. I went to my car to leave, the lawnmower guy blew rocks & dirt all over my car. I could hear the rocks hitting the side of my car, it sounded like hail. I will never go to this place again. The only good thing about it was, I got one...

While the service and atmosphere was good, the coffee and food were a major let down. I loved the concept of having a cafe with seats along the pond to sit and relax. But sadly it’s just terrible coffee and snacks that are super expensive. Our snacks and coffee totaled to about 30$ with tip and taxes. My blueberry muffin was hard and cold and i had to trash it. Our coffees were bad as well. The only thing that was appetizing was the baklava. We were so...

My wife and I stopped by Norwood Cafe and loved it! We had an iced vanilla latte, iced brown sugar latte, and an almond croissant. The coffee was very smooth, not acidic, and the croissant was great. The front staff was very friendly and even assured us our almond croissant wasn’t near the ham one since we have dietary restrictions and do not eat pork. The space is peaceful and the garden is fun to explore while enjoying your drink. We’ll...