Cobblestone Cafe — Restaurant in White Bear Lake

I try not to be over objective but this time was so needed.

It’s breakfast food. I understand short staffed. I understand the 50 minute wait for food. I can’t deal with the way things are now. But again it’s breakfast food.

Pancakes. My theory is if you can’t Cook a pancake. Close the fn doors. It’s breakfast. Eggs pancakes and bacon are the foundation. It’s why you have a business. The pancakes were so inedible im not even sure if an animal would of ate them in the alley. The bottoms. Not cooked. The top was so overcooked that you couldn’t cut them with a fork. Literally we had to attempt to eat them like a steak. The taste. It tasted like straight baking powder. I can’t even describe how bad they were.

Bacon. I dont particularly like well done bacon. But every place is different. What i DONT like is over cooked bacon that had been sitting out so long that the fat content had resoaked into the bacon. So fatty Crispy as cold as you can possibly get bacon.

The florentine Benedict’s. First off whoever cut the tomatoes should try not using a butter knife to cut. The tomatoes looked more brutalized then the Vikings losses in the nfc championship Games. The food was however on the hotter side compared to everything else. The sauce was However completely broken. Why it was served us beyond me. It takes moments to fix a broken sauce. I’m not certain how. Considering how bad everything was. But the chef nailed the poached eggs. They were perfect. I’m guessing luck?

We paid and finished. We walked around the block. When we walked back around the block we noticed every plate with uneaten pancakes.

It’s breakfast. It’s really hard to screw up breakfast food. And considering the markup is like 1000 percent you would think there would be some sort of quality control or An owner of a place that clearly seems to have “given up” on what’s being served in their place.

I don’t only feel like I should of had my whole meal comped. (Just the pancake , or whatever they want to call that) I feel like I deserve money back for 2.5 hours of wasted time that I could of went to any of the other breakfast spots within the block.

Im sorry. But man this place was hands down the worst breakfast spot I’ve ever been...

Not fine dining, but you wouldn't expect it to be. I'd love this place--simple diner food served plentiful at a decent price--were it not for THAT ONE WAITRESS! I would bold that if I could! If you've had the misfortune, you'll know exactly what I mean. Older, bitter and nasty. I tried to like this place. I wanted to like this place! I gave it several chances, but after multiple encounters with this customer service nightmare, I called it quits. Swore I would never go back and still haven't--no matter how many times it surfaces on Groupon.

I want to! I want to buy it and love it! The place ain't pretty, but it's pretty awesome in a local greasy-spoon sort of way and I would go there again and again...if only someone could tell me the attitude has changed. Don't know who owns it, or how they could be unaware. The rest of the staff would know. We've all been in that workplace scenario (well, maybe not all of us--good for you if you haven't!): one rotten apple threatens the basket. Never encountered another employee there that left me feeling that "I hate you, stop annoying me, crawl off and die" sort of way. All seemed nice, reasonable and professional enough.

One time could have been a bad day. Two times could have been bad luck. More than that betrays a pattern? I WANT to like the place! Tell me it's changed! Been a while since we've been there. That was the whole "never again" part that I didn't reach lightly, Or I would've just said "this place sucks" instead of "it's kind of awesome and I really want to love...

First, I want to say that the service was great. We had a very friendly waitress who was really working hard. That being said, I have to say something about the building and the food.

I'm really worried about the foundation - we walked in and you could see that the booths against the walls were slanted down towards the center of the room. Everything is very worn, but the tables were wobbly and just about broken. It's definitely old and in need of an overhaul.

We ordered a classic breakfast that had 2 scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, sausage links, and toast. When it arrived, it looked like everything was coated in oil. I'm used to classic American diner breakfasts but this was something else. It was practically swimming in oil - not even butter - actual oil. It wasn't seasoned AT ALL. Ordered hashbrowns extra crispy and they were barely done. Eggs were actually dry somehow given the oil surrounding them. I ate a few bites, couldn't finish, and even that sat heavily in my stomach until it finally rebelled.

I cannot stress how disappointed we were given the amount of good reviews on the food. It was really, really bad. I hate writing bad reviews but I don't want others to have the...