Tara K.
Yelp
2nd worst breakfast in Nola (the worst served frozen microwaved breakfast sandwiches).
We noticed this spot while waiting in the line at Fleur de Lis across the street, the line was not moving, so we took a chance on this place. It was a Saturday morning and saw only 1 couple eating inside. Great, we can get in and out quick, or so we thought... We waited a while to be acknowledged, as we could see a few employees decorating and blowing up balloons for what we assume was an event. We were sat at the table near the front, which was open to the street. We sat there for at least 10 minutes before anyone came back to the table. I remind you, there was only 1 other table occupied. Finally, a man, who seemed unfamiliar with serving, came to the table. We ordered, he didn't write anything down, it seemed like an especially long time before our coffee arrived. We were able to drink our coffees before he came back again. Why was it taking so long? Was he in back cooking? Where is the water that we asked for when we ordered? A refill on the coffee would have been nice, since we had no food yet. When he finally came back with food, it was just ordinary, not very hot food. The bacon looked like it was cooked another day, over medium eggs were ordered and the yolks were completely hard. The server forgot the fruit salad and waters we requested. There was another table that was sat maybe 10min after us and they got their food right after ours.
I'm not sure what was going on there, but if the server had told us that they were understaffed in the kitchen or whatever, that would have gone a long way with us in understanding the poor service (just a reminder, there was staff there blowing up balloons and decorating, that seemed to be their priority).
I think this spot has great potential, if they were on their game. They're across from the long lines at Fleur de Lis, they have great opportunity to pull people in from those long lines, if they had the right people working.
The food was just ok, the bananas foster pancakes had 5 little slices of banana. Like I mentioned everything was just barely warm, overcobacon and eggs. The potatoes were good and I enjoyed my cappuccino. Really cute setting with walls lined with bottles. I would not come back, people looked in as we were eating and we told them, that it was a waste of their time. It took so long for the server to come back and take the credit card, that we decided to pay with cash so that we could just leave.