Arise Cafe — Restaurant in Wellsboro

I understand that this establishment recently reopened under new ownership. Given this, I would offer this review.

We ordered two identical bacon & eggs bagels, toasted and buttered, salt & pepper, at about 7:45 am on 12/4/23. We received the sandwiches on non-buttered bagels, with cheese and no salt/pepper. I was very specific when I placed the order. My suggestion is that they instruct their order taker and/or kitchen to pay more attention to details. At $7 per sandwich, which even in today's economy is on the high side (my local stop charges $4.95 for the same sandwich), you should get what you pay for. The sandwich only had one slice of bacon, broken in half. Not was well cooked as we would have liked. When this was Native Bagel, they put more bacon on the sandwich.

Room for improvement, should they choose to do so. The place also no longer has the local pictures on the wall. Hopefully, this is still a work...

Okay, so hear me out. We came here because of the 4.8 star rating and I had an animal emergency right around the corner.

We ordered 2 hot lattes, 12 oz and two wraps. The total coming to over $34.

The lattes, meh. Mine was cold and my bf's was luke warm at best. Overall, I would give the coffee a 3 star rating.

The wraps... definitely do not order food. They were small, bland, completely underseasoned and overall, gross. They tasted like nothing. For 11.95 per wrap plus tax, I'd rather hit up the Dollar Tree, you would have gotten better flavored food. I would give the food 1 star.

The soda dispenser they have hooked up and working but they won't allow you to use it, forcing you to pay by the bottle.

The service, staff and cleanliness of the location is good, I'd give that 4 stars.

All in all, would I come back? No. Would I recommend it? No.

This place needs a lot of...

We visit the area about once a year to see family and have wanted to visit the Arise Cafe. So glad we did! What a charming space!

The hot turkey, bacon ranch wrap was delicious according to my husband and the cheeseburger (my order) was hot, cooked to order and so tasty!!! I realized that other than at home, burgers are rarely so hot and fresh. This may or may not be a big deal to you but I was happy with the lettuce, onions (not a giant slice-thank you because I nevercneed an onion wedge-and pickels (bread and butter). They were out of tomato and apologized a few times for that but really the burger didn't need it. 😁

The shop also sold some nice syrups, coffees, and turned wood items. Really a great place to sit and enjoy...