Melanie C.
Yelp
The Lemon Tree is a breakfast, brunch place both quaint, cozy located on Franklin Street in downtown Bend. They open at 9AM and there's already a queue of people waiting to get in. They also can do coffee to go but don't miss checking out their bakery case full of house-made goodies, including scones, muffins, luscious looking cakes. They have some outside seating and a parklet which I believe is used for a diner's waiting area for seating. The hostess will greet you and seat you or direct you to the waiting area.
Once seated the menu offerings, great for adults & kids, will break your fast most deliciously with Amaretto French toast, crab cake, smoked salmon or steak Benedict, Shakshuka to name a few.
Edie, our waitperson was quick to offer water, coffee, and great w/answering our questions Re: the menu. She was impressive in reeling off the daily specials and her attentiveness to our table.
Ordered:
* Steak & eggs (one of the specials) - served with crispy hash browns, bacon, & marinated sugar plum tomatoes. House made hot sauce, a spicy honey mustard that hugged your taste buds & tomatillo sauce both equally condiments. Great brunch item, everything tasted wonderful. The steak was a fine nicely done medium rare. Only drawback was the breakfast steak was the size of small filet mignon. I'd order this again though.
* Narsi goreng, flavorful Indonesian fried rice studded with shrimp topped with a poached egg! Would order again
* Last minute addition of a generous-sized blueberry lemon scone, abundant blueberries through the warm, almost cakey texture, w/light glaze, sprinkled with powdered sugar, topped a sprig of mint. Took one bite then another and then it was all gone. It's pricey at $9 but I'd order it again as a special treat!
Ambiance light, bright, nice and cozy, service was great, staff congenial, all around great breakfast brunch place. Cannot wait for the next visit!
P.S. One of those places where the food arrives and all thoughts of taking pictures goes out the window. It happens...