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| - I really do love this place... but it can be slightly annoying... the perfect case of a Love Hate relationship... let's get the Hate portion out of the way first.
It's tiny and cute... but that makes it hard to guarantee seating, let alone parking.
The hours are few... they are justified, being a Breakfast/Lunch/Bakery shoppe and all... But the slight irritation here is that I think it would be the PERFECT place for a girly Sunday brunch, but it's only open Weekdays and Saturdays.
Service is a bit, well, wonky. It's counter service, so you put your order in and then it's served to you... but they are very attentive to people on the run... which is great, but I prefer the adage first come, first serve. When you're the customer at the front and the cashier says to another customer in line "Are you in a hurry?--I'm very aware of people's time--what can I get you?" It could make the first customer feel less tended to. Overall, it's all in good nature, but sometimes you mean well and the results don't always go over well. Once you're order is up, they call your name out for pick up or eventually serve it to you at your table.
Lastly, the mini meringues and cupcakes and cookies that line the dining area window just waiting for you to snatch them is QUITE a tease for customers, making them wrestle with the idea of being bad and performing an act of shoplifting in the name of food. It's like the apple... or was it a pomegranate that tempted Eve into sin.
Now for the Love: It's the food that always brings me back. Three items in particular make it hard for me to order anything else: The Lobster Cobb Salad coupled with their Blackberry Lemonade and the Maple Oat Scone as a dessert chaser or a to go snack experience to be savored later. No explanation but trying them for yourself is needed.
The last time I went a special, for the first time, swayed me to order something else. That special was the Lemon Poppy seed Waffle with Blueberry compote... it was so yummy! Alone or dressed up and packed with flavors I have never tasted in any of the waffles I had before... I even delighted in the face that most of the squares were "holed"... I have never seen a waffle with holes before and I was quite smitten at the extra crispness it created (See pic).
Being true to my nature, I couldn't ONLY eat something sweet for lunch... I needed something savory. Because I came after the lunch crowd, the Lobster Cobb Salad looked quite pillaged and the Farro Salad was just being put in the case... I decided to go with the freshest of the two and tried something new no. 2! But alas, while fresh and dressed with all my favorites atop of it (Snap Peas, Mushrooms, French Fried Onions), the Farro Salad fell bland. Far too subtle in dressing. I packed it up in hopes of flavoring it more for a leftover meal the next day.
After all of the above, I have learned to arrive early or late for better chances at seating and parking. I have learned to let the idea of first come first serve go. I have learned to put myself in staff's/customer's shoes. I have learned NOT to sit at the window right next to the mini baked goods that scream while delicately displayed: "Eat me." All for the LOVE of Chestnut Lane's AWESOME Salads and Baked Goods.
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