I had high hopes for this place based on the look of the space and the menu. Service was nice and friendly and the interior is lovely and comfortable. Unfortunately, brunch was downright awful. Coffee was good but soy milk tasted like cardboard. The server talked me into ordering the poached eggs with potatoes, bacon and a biscuit...simple, right? Well, they got it ALL wrong. Potatoes turned out to be a sad pile of shriveled but greasy mixed tubers...a few potatoes, a few yams and some yucca or something...all dry and starchy with a weird sweetness that clashed with the salt and pepper on my eggs. Eggs were supposed to be poached firm and they came nearly raw and watery. Bacon was extra greasy and floppy...not really cooked. Biscuit was leaden, managing to be both soggy and dry at the same time...and tasting like nothing but stale white flour. I did only have two bites before I found a thin blonde hair in the biscuit but that was enough anyway. I think the only thing they didn't ruin was the plastic packet of honey that came with the biscuit. My husband ordered the french toast special which he managed to eat half of but any cook who thinks that battering and deep-frying thick hunks of zuchinni carrot loaf is a good idea is missing the mark in my book...the end result is greasy, sodden and overly sweet...and adding butter and syrup to the mess just makes it worse. The cake-like loaf on it's own with some good coffee would have been a much better bet. Believe it or not, I might go back to give their lunch or dinner menu a try because the space is nice and from other reviews it seems like they know how to make a good drink and maybe the kitchen has more practice with their main menu items. My fingers are crossed because it's always nice to have more options in NE! I also hope the kitchen gets it together to cook a decent breakfast eventually...Tin Shed is getting WAY too crowded and Bridges is nice but I like a change of pace sometimes.
Pros: Cool space, friendly staff, NE location
Cons: Brunch dishes were awful
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