Area 57 CoffeeCafe — Restaurant in Wanamingo

What an amazing place!!!

I went there during a work trip and I was pleasantly surprised by this cozy Café.

I was welcomed by exceptional service from the staff. They told me about the special of the day (The best bacon sandwich and lumberjack vegetable soup) and it seemed like the perfect choice for what I wanted. My attention also gravitated towards the delicious selection of cookies they had, so naturally, I got a "monster" cookie.

The bacon sandwich was the perfect ratio of sauce, meat and vegetable to fill me up without making me feel heavy. All the ingredients were fresh, the bacon wasn't the cheap, insanely thin strips you normally get in other restaurants and the brioche bread was so good.

The soup was the warm touch that was missing from this rainy day.

And the cookie.... the cookie had no business being this tasty. The monster cookie I ordered was an oatmeal cookie with peanut butter and M&Ms. I was hesitant on the peanut butter since sometimes it overwhelms the other flavours but they made it just right.

This place will forever have a place...

My wife used to work just down the street from Area 57 so she introduced me to this small quiet nice place to eat. You know a place you can have a conversation without being overpowered by loud rude phone call takers. I can say it’s worth the ride to come and have a meal and prices are way cheaper then fast food meals and you can get almost everything you could get from McD’s except the quality and quantities are way way bigger and taste good. The owner and staff are super friendly and they remember you even if it’s been months since they’ve seen you. My wife is eating a breakfast Sandwich with bagel and bacon and I grabbed a Ham and Cheese Omelette with my choice of toast and large English Toffee Latte and Chai Tea Latte and a pie plate sized mint chocolate chip cookie for the trip for only $27.09 total with $5.00 tip. I can say the prices have increased everywhere except here the prices are the same an you really can’t beat that nowadays in anywhere from American’s 2021 to...

Friendly small town cafe My niece and I were looking for someplace out of the way and found Area 57 Cafe on Google maps. At Monday lunch the crowd was elderly and mostly local. Note: There are fewer open places on Mondays in Southeast Minnesota outside of Rochester. The food is fairly typical for a small farming town (i.e. meat-centric). A vegan would have trouble getting anything but salad.

My niece ordered the Southwest chicken sandwich and I ordered a deli cheese sandwich. Both came with chips and pickles. The service was very fast. Both sandwiches were good and we finished all of them. My only criticism was that the "swiss" cheese was processed not real. The two sandwiches plus a large iced latte came to $21 and change.

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