I have to admit my visit to this cavernous café was probably an incident of bad timing as it coincided with my one and only visit to the adjacent Public Market which happened very early on a Saturday morning at 8AM. It was so early that the market was just starting to get set up for the incoming masses, but the café was already open an hour and had quite a few diners devouring their breakfast plates. The Rooster Booster. Biscuits & Gravy. The Devil's Mess. Lots of chorizo, lots of carbs, very Southwest. Although the dishes all sounded delicious in their own artery-clogging kind of way, none of them sounded promising enough to appease my flexitarian dietary concerns.
I ended up ordering likely their most boring offering, the $7.25 bowl of Granola, Fruit, and Yogurt billed as vegetarian and gluten-free (photo: http://bit.ly/2iJZjxy). It was certainly big enough, but the proportions appeared out of whack to me. The chunks of fresh Granny Smith apples comprised the most dominant ingredient, and the obviously housemade granola was poured liberally over it. What was missing for me was a hearty enough serving of yogurt to lubricate the granola and apples. I was only left with the mixed berries to help me down as much of the granola as I could, which was not even half of it. The coffee helped as the beans came from a local chain, Cartel Coffee Lab.
FOOD - 3 stars...hefty bowl of granola and not that satisfying, the salads sound promising
AMBIANCE - 4 stars...spacious and very Southwest
SERVICE - 3 stars...on the meh side
TOTAL - 3 stars...think I'll come back for lunch the next time