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| - So after reading the reviews, my husband and I decided to go to Benedict's Cafe for Saturday brunch. To say that this place had great potential is an understatement. It may have been located in a Circle K strip mall, but going in, the cute decor, small tables and pastry place provided a nice (if not a bit cramped) environment. Walking in at around 11am, we clearly interrupted the counter waitress, the cook and his assistant who were sitting at the front table reading the newspaper. A slow morning at Benedict's perhaps? Regardless, the ambiance and the nice counter waitress made for a pleasant time.
We asked what the counter waitress suggested. She said the eggs Benedict were the best and that the breakfast burritos were popular. My husband got the Benedict with a lemonade and I got a breakfast burrito and a decaf coffee. As we sat down, a steady stream of people came in, which bode well for the locally-owned business. Being a proud Phoenician, I love to see local businesses doing well.
Well, the food came and let me just start by saying that it's hard to mess up a breakfast burrito. I mean (in this case), it's scrambled eggs, 2 strips of bacon, cheese and potatoes in a tortilla. It tasted just fine, however, it was evident that the only thing that was recently cooked were the eggs. The bacon was good, but cold and the potatoes were (in my estimation) cooked at 9am that morning - very cold and very old. The cheese couldn't melt because everything in the tortilla except for the eggs was cold! On the upside, the counter waitress had to make a fresh pot of decaf coffee and let me tell you, it was probably one of the best cups of decaf coffee I have ever had.
As another aside, if you call your place "Benedict's Cafe" you had better have an amazing eggs benedict, but it wasn't amazing. It was an overpriced ok try. Unlike other Benedicts, this one was on a drop biscuit -- a very hard and cold drop biscuit. The biscuit wasn't able to soak up the runny egg and just crumbled apart when touched making it very hard to eat. The holandaise was separated and flavorless. And considering the $10 price tag, WAY overpriced for what we were served. (my husband had a bit of indigestion afterward as well). As a side dish, once again, the cold and old potatoes made an appearance. I mention the potatoes again, because potatoes are so inexpensive and easy to fry up quickly, there is no reason ours were so substandard.
Maybe the sandwiches (that don't have to be cooked) are better. The pastry case was only partially filled with danishes and muffins and a few cookies. I think that I was expecting more -- a local place like Galleo in McCormick Ranch.
I really wanted to like this place. I really did, but I was so disappointed, I am not sure that I would give it another shot.
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