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| - I wish you could do a star rating with a caveat. So this is my caveat.
I went with two friends and a baby to brunch here in January. I am a breakfast fiend, and will try to eat it for every meal, and though we have our usuals, we decided to find a place at random and give it a shot. Enter Coca Cafe. Of course, I yelped it before we entered, just for a heads up, but we were going anyway.
Quick story: food was AMAZING, service was eh, staff was just not so nice.
We got there around 12:30, expecting a wait. It looked packed, so I went in alone while my other two friends and her baby waited outside. The sign (I can't remember if it was on the door or on a post as soon as you got in) said to sign in. The usual. There was no hostess stand so I waded through a couple tables to get to the register. There were four ladies behind the counter, milling about at the register and in making smoothies, doing what they do. And I stood there smiling. So maybe 30 seconds passed (but really, anything more than an immediate acknowledgement, even if it's just a 'I'll be right with you' seems long to me) and then I finally said, 'Uh, hi, do I need to put my name down for a table?' The girl at the register just said, without looking at me, 'Yeah, put your name and number down' and pushed a piece of blank computer paper across the counter at me. Okay. Wrote that down. Seemed weird that it wasn't official looking. Kinda worried about eating now. 'So is that all?' She said 'Yeah, and it looks like maybe 45 minutes to an hour for four.' Okay.
So I walked out and we shopped around.
Around 40 minutes later, we went back. My other friend popped in to check on the status. They said 15-20 minutes. So we waited. A waitress then popped her head outside and called my name. I guess this is a good time to say that there's no waiting room inside - so if it's cold outside and there's a wait, it's probably not worth it. Luckily, it was a warm day and definitely more bearable with the cute boutiques around. Anyway - back to this. She called our name, we gathered up our stuff, and filed in. She had already left the door, so we stepped inside and stood there awkwardly for a second or two before calling across the restaurant (which is small, so it wasn't that disruptive), 'Is this our table?' and pointing to an empty table. The one who had poked her head out the door was behind the counter and said, ' Yeah.' Okay, that's strange. Normally you show people where they're sitting. I know we had more stuff than the quick pick-up with the baby in tow, but we weren't holding up for more than two minutes. We were starving.
So we sat down. A different girl popped over and said, 'Oh, you only have three people and a baby.' To which we said, 'Yes.' And she left. Strange. The same girl then came back and asked what we wanted to drink. Two of us ordered smoothies and the third order a chai tea latte (Around $3 or $4 each). We waited a bit (but were poring over the menu so it wasn't bad) then a different waiter came and had my friend re-order her smoothie (they were out of mango). No big. He then brought out our drinks. The smoothies were fabulous. Thick and fruity and so good. We each ordered something different so as to try bites. I don't remember the food coming quick or slow (and if I thought slow it was only because I was starving) so I'd say the service was average.
The food. was. AMAZING. I had the almond french toast with a lemon sauce and strawberries and blueberries, one friend had the lemon pancakes, and the other had an egg white omelet with goat cheese, spinach, and grape tomatoes and a croissant. Seriously amazing. The bread was the good baguette-style stuff, not the stuff from the sliced square loaf, the fruit was fresh and firm, and the taste was just phenomenal. We loved every bite of our own and as we picked off each other's. And it was cheap - each of our plates was about $8. Very reasonable.
Our waitress came to clear our plates (I don't remember her stopping by at any time to refill our water [annoying because I'm a camel] or ask if everything was alright) and then said the first nice thing to my friend: 'Your baby is cute.' She then laid down the check without asking if we wanted one or separate (pretty usual). She left and we laid down our three cards and asked if we could split it three ways (already making it easier than splitting out our exact pieces). She said she could only take two cards. Strange, but whatever. We were over their attitudes. Paid and left.
So the summary of that: awesome food, don't expect the same of the service.
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