Café de Vine

I'll frequently give a positive review if the food is good but the service is mediocre because I'm typically a tolerant and empathetic person with a fine appreciation for flavor and texture. However, there are times when good service far outweighs the quality of the food.

Those times are when I'm with my kids.

Shane and his crew at Cafe de Vine went above and beyond what we expected from cafe service. We pretty much had the place to ourselves on a late Tuesday morning, and Shane changed the channel from Fox News to Sesame Street. Level 1 Complete. When they split the single pancake we ordered for our two kids into two smaller pancakes on separate plates, they beat level 2. Bonus points were awarded when Shane brought over a couple free cookies for the kids because they finished their food.

It didn't surprise me when he said he had a 3-year-old.

The food was good, fresh, and average sized portions. Nothing to write home about, but we will be back if not just to hang out with these people.

A-OK describes this place perfectly. I was glad to finally have found it as I had been intrigued by the sign over the past months and never really knew where it was located. So I finally tried it out with a colleague over lunch.

I had a chicken sandwich and some tomato soup. The soup was delicious, a bit creamy but not too much. The sandwich was average, pretty heavy, with a lot of sauce.

What I really didn't like was the fact that there are no windows - it kind of contradicts going for lunch outside of the office when that's the case...

All in all I wouldn't mind going back but wouldn't jump for joy at the prospect of doing so.

Came here for breakfast today. The place is kind of hidden inside a commercial building. It looks like a diner place you'd see in movies, nothing really special. The lady however was very nice.

I wanted to order their breakfast bowl, but their fryer was broken :( It was kind of disappointing to not being able to order what I wanted, especially since I've been looking forward to ordering this bowl the night before!

So I ended up getting a western omelet instead. The omelet was decent - definitely pretty cheesy. I really liked the toast that came with it. Pretty decent portion as well. Also ordered a medium coffee to go with it. As a result, I didn't finish anything.

Since it's so close to the place I work at, most likely will go back again for lunch sometime and hopefully their fyer wouldn't be broken. Overall, the food taste decent, but it's nothing too outstanding that would make me give it a four star.