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so glad I finally gave it a try!. WOW! a lot of you are bitchy (and poor) and apparently need servers to treat you better than I bet you treat anyone. Some of you should not go in public. From the minute we stepped in this morning until we left, it was a great experience! Great host, great coffee, scones, breakfast, server, all of it, can't wait to return and avoid the long lines at other supposed "great" breakfast places. Seriously people, if you have to bitch so much maybe you need to journal more, there may be more to your breakfast anger than appears.…
Just better than Bread & Ink. My husband and I usually go here for breakfast when we're on Hawthorne. We had a really terrible experience at Bread & Ink, so that and the decent French Toast are really the only reasons we choose this place. The second time we came, which was after the B&I experience, we walked in to see a waiter talking on the phone to a complaining customer, and apbruptly hang up the phone on the customer and roll his eyes, about which all the other employees snickered. That alone almost made me want to turn and run, but we were hungry and didn't know of any other places nearby. I got my requisite French Toast, which is not the best I can get in Portland (Mother's Bistro) but I've had it a couple times and I feel that I can count on it. I don't like the atmosphere of these types of places, and the employees all need to shower with some soap and shampoo, and put on a shirt that isn't hanging off them by threads.…
Going down hill..... Ate at Cup and Saucer twice this week and both times the entree was thrown together lacking taste and missing part of the order. I got the feeling the people working in the cafe were not interested in being in the restaurant biz....I hope they get their quality and service improved for the prices they are charging.... Good Luck.…
Great breakfast!. This cafe has been a favorite of mine for over 15 years. I just love their scones & jam. The cup & saucer was one of the first places in Portland that would substitute tofu for eggs-and do a decent job of it, which they still do, of course, and it's still delicious. My husband enjoys eggs & also adores the oatmeal. The breakfast potatoes are possibly my favorite on earth, with salsa, cheese & sourcream, what's not to like, but seriously, the potatoes are terrific, even plain. They are red potatoes cooked in a home-fries style, not greasy & well browned, marvelous! Sometimes the service is difficult, several times we have had servers "misunderstand" a side order of meat for a side order of fake meat. Since when do vegans order sausage? But other than that, we've never had a bad meal, poor coffee or anything unfortunate. A sure win for out of town guests as well.…
i pay to sit where i want to.
I was there on Friday September 11th for lunch. The place was less than half full at eleven thirty. We asked to sit in the inner room and at the window. The rude man doing the seating was clearly
irritated that we didn't want to sit next to people in the outer room. He took us to a far table in the corner away from the window and said "you will have to sit here".
We had requested a table that sat four by the window as it was the only one open in the inner room. He gave us a small two person table. Later, he seated two people at a four person table.
There are too many good restaurants in Portland who, especially given the economic climate here, will be glad to see me and treat me as if i am the one paying to eat there.…
