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Dinner at Mimi's Cafe is an experience -- a very dull disappointing experience, at least at this branch. I hope other locations are better, but I am beginning to think that the brain trust at Mimi's corporate central has a disdain for salt, pepper, or any other spice. For example, my pot roast dinner, including a mixture of carrots and broccoli and a scoop of mashed potatoes, all heaped on one half of the plate, contained not a jot of taste. The gelatenous brown "gravy" that was slobbered wholesale on the mashed potatoes and pot roast was a miracle -- how could they have managed to take the salt OUT of canned gravy? Or did they actually make it themselves ... on purpose??? My wife's meal (chicken crepes) was just as bad. The corn chowder did, I admit, have a little seasoning, but it was the thickness of school paste and tasted much the same. The pork sliders had a sweet BBQ sauce, but the pork itself was mush.
The restaurant was clean and comfortable, and the service proper but distant and not very attentive. But the food is the big problem here.
I hope the cook staff at this Mimis is just ignorant, uncaring, or hungover, because otherwise there is no hope whatsoever for this chain.
Note: I have also eaten at Mimi's for breakfast several times. Although better than dinner, Mimi's breakfasts are pretty ordinary. The bakery items are, in general, better than the egg dishes, pancakes and waffles -- all of which are bland. The muffins that accompany most meals are a cut above average.
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