I'm torn on this one. The founder, Roy Fares, writes books and claims this is an American bakery. As an American here are my thoughts:
First, I had the club sandwich for lunch and it was really good. They make the chicken with avocado and serve it with pickles and pickled onion. The bread was toasted perfectly and even the side sauce was amazing. The only critique was that the bacon was burned and hard. I had to push most of the bacon aside.
Desert...let me first state again that I am an American that grew up In South Carolina...I know a thing or two about red velvet cake, or its proper name, Waldorf Astoria cake...I even have my mamas hand written Waldorf Astoria cake recipe...that she copied from her grandmama. I consider myself both a red velvet expert and snob...I also take exception to the misappropriation of such a cultural icon. What they serve at Mr. Cake is NOT red velvet. It is some abomination hybrid of a chocolate sponge dyed red with a cheese cake in between. True red velvet is NEVER served with cream cheese frosting...that is reserved for spice cakes like carrot cake or hummingbird cake....never never never ever red velvet!!!!!! My issue with whole thing is that there is now a whole nation that believes this is red velvet. If Roy Fares would like to learn how to truly make red velvet from a "real" southerner I'd be happy to share my generations old recipe!!!! Besides the cake issues there are other things like the cinnamon buns and sticky rolls that they call American, and they just aren't right. If this cafe didn't specifically call itself American I would not have been so harsh on the criticism. This is the reason I can only give two stars. (...and I'm feeling pretty generous at that!) read more