Holly E.
Yelp
I WANNA GIVE THIS PLACE 5 STARS!! It's the best darn eating experience I've had ANYWHERE in a long time.
Five stars to; lovely lovely location. Fresh fresh fresh farm-to-table food. Adorable, cool, relaxed ambiance. Excellent service. Everything we locked lips with was fresh and delicious.
This place is pretty much reservations only (to the whiner who has to drive 1 1/2 hours to get to this place - we drove 9 hours - um; plan ahead).
That said, one of the three reasons I can't give this awesome restaurant 5 stars is its reservation policy. Currently open for dinner on Thursday/Friday only and Tuesday through Friday for lunch, the only other weekly meal offered (and it most certainly is the right and prerogative of the restaurant to do whatever they please and their business decisions aren't part of this review) is Saturday brunch.
We were so delighted with the lunch we had at this restaurant (paltry wine list aside), we very much wanted to bring my 92 year old mother to brunch on Saturday but were told it is the ONE day reservations aren't taken! (Why?) We were told brunch/breakfast started at 9:00 and that it is such mayhem that we'd best forget it and come later.
Lots wrong with this (other than the kindly transparency). Take reservations, or don't. Be consistent. Foundation rule for successful business.
We were delighted with our delicious meal nonetheless and sorry Mom couldn't join us on Saturday, so delighted that we wanted to try some desserts.
Whoops. Another miss. We were told to go "look in the case". No dessert menu. So I shlepped in and had a look at, essentially, pastries. Hubby and I would have happily sat there and ordered a few dessert, and coffee, snapped pics of them and told the world the good news of our find.
Alas, not meant to be.
Still, we left, happy, satisfied, in love with this restaurant. The parking lot faces a fabulous garden and a garden monolith thingy of sorts (plants growing out of possibly compost). We garden and were admiring this until we realized the plot of land this was on was covered in dog poo. Dogs, roaming freely (and we ADORE dogs, ours and other dogs too), were pooping all over the place. Glad we didn't step in any or this would be a one-star review :)
Two big thumbs up on this awesome place. Figure out your reservations/hours, improve your wee wine list a bit, offer dessert (come on; cobbler!! ice cream with berries! anything! table-service!), and clean up the poop and we won't be able to RESERVE a table next time!