We came here for breakfast. It was relatively inexpensive and had large portions for the price. I got the Bacon Omelette and it was pretty solid and absolutely loaded with extra crispy bacon. This is a home style type breakfast, and geared towards those who want home cooking over boujie breakfast items. This appears to be a family run establishment and the waiter was a bit quirky and grumpy.. but also funny. read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Bacon Omelette - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

Cozy little spot with great to eat with friendly service. Great family place with a menu with lots of choices. Moderate prices with healthy servings read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Half Ruben sandwich and a cup of mushroom soup - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

Prepare to wait about 5-10 mins to be seated in an empty restaurant. 20% automatic gratuity for parties of 5 or more; multiple up charges for sides- make sure you check your bill closely (we were overcharged!). Wouldn't recommend. We should've gone somewhere else. Outside the restaurant was cute, it's unfortunate the experience wasn't great and we regret staying/not going somewhere else. read more

Located in downtown Blue Ridge, this casual eatery offered delicious food and generous portions. Worth a visit when in Blue Ridge. read more

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Our waitress Nevaeh was awesome! very polite and so attentive to refills. Everything is made to order so it takes a little time but so worth it. Giant pancakes, perfect french toast and reasonably priced. I would 100% visit again! read more

Serenity Garden Café is the epitome of small town café from the staff to the décor to the food, and I there is nothing wrong that! The vibe and energy of Serenity Garden is one that is line with Blue Ridge. It is slower in pace, friendly in nature and settled in the feelings of the past. We wandered in on a Friday afternoon to grab breakfast, but were sad to learn they stopped serving breakfast fairly early. Wasn't a big deal, so we went with lunch in the form of a couple Triple Decker Sandwiches with fries and onion rings. The sandwiches were tasty, the fries crispy and the onion rings fried to perfection. And can't forget about the sweet tea. The only issue we ran into was one sandwich was 86 on mayo, but was still delivered with it. They took it back, apologized and got a new one out as soon as possible. The place is fairly well sized with an indoor dining room, a small shop and 4 tables on their covered patio that sat directly on Main Street. We chose the outdoor seating and given the weather, enjoyed it quite a bit! Overall, Serenity Garden Cafe was a solid place for a decent lunch on Main Street. While we enjoyed, we won't be adding to our "must visit" list for our future Blue Ridge trips. Solid 3.5 stars. read more

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This is a nice little place to stop if you're waiting for the train ride. You can get breakfast. The service is friendly enough and the food is basic breakfast fare. Nothing super fancy here but clean and hospitable and open early. The food took a good amount of time to get out to us so if you're on a tight schedule, be cautious. They are good in most of the places around here about letting you know if you have enough time to eat and still catch the train. read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Inside - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

The food here was ok, average nothing special, the service was outstanding and the place is very homey. I was expecting a bit more from this place since it was a recommendation, but it was your average eggs and bacon, no flair but ok. They sell souvenirs and jams etc. read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - My bro Victor digging in - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

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Hate to even give them one star. They dont deserve it. Very poor customer service. Told two different times, quite rudely, that they wouldn't be able to seat us for over 20 minutes. Another couple stood there almost ten minutes without ever being spoken to. Definitely would not recommend. read more

The Food is Scratch made and Amazing,the atmosphere is homey one of the owners cook the food while the other owner goes to each table and makes sure everyone is yummy. They employ people with syndrome like my favorite server is high Function Autistic one always has a huge smile on his face and loves his job. They also sell stuff like the sound of the south. They let you buy the art right off the walls and you haggle for the price. 70% of the precodes go to charity. The food is home cooking at its best always reminds me of my mom's cooking read more

Food was decent, service was great. It looks very cute from the outside, but it's a let down when you walk in. I expected a cute tea room of sorts based on the name. What really got me was the price! My lunch was $40- for a side salad, cup of soup, scoop of chicken salad. Sad to say I probably will not go back. read more

The food here is great, but the staff, what we assumed were the owners, were extremely rude to other staff and to customers. This was our second visit here within a year and it was the same each time. There was one younger waitress there that was extremely kind that they were extremely un-nice to, and they kept telling her to deter new customers coming in by saying "we can't accept this many people" or "it's going to be 30 minutes before we can sit you" but inconsistent reasons each time. The rudeness from the staff was bad enough and made us uncomfortable enough we will not be returning. read more

Any days a great day when you spend it in Blue Ridge! This unassuming family owned cafe was a welcomed surprise! Their chef definitely kniws his way around the kitchen! Really great comfort food and a surprisingly excellent lobster bisque! We enjoyed meeting the family and the food was truly delicious. I ordered their classic Ruben and my husband ordered their hamburger steak with grilled onions and mushroom gravy and green beans with mushrooms... All was so wonderfully pleasing to the palette. We will definitely return as we come up here often. Love Keepin it Local! read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Ruben - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

Literally slowest and worst service I have ever experienced. Half of the people that were waiting to be sat left after 30 minutes of the hostess-I kid you not- walking in circles with her mouth stuffed and an empty restaurant. Genuinely ridiculous if you want to eat it be sat DO NOT COME HERE read more

Ugh, really like their food, but the attitude of the staff stinks. Be prepared to get screamed at when you walk in the door, that they are not seating anyone for 30 minutes at 9:15 am, in a relatively empty restaurant! This has happened so many times, we are done trying to support this local restaurant! And we are locals who go there a lot!!! read more

First come first served basis. Busy Labor Day weekend but we didn't wait too long. Service was absolutely outstanding where the entire staff either asked how we were doing or if we needed anything. I ordered a veggie omelette with grits and rye bread. Delicious! Not greasy at all. Everything was super fresh. read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

Easily one of the worst restaurant experiences as of late. Food quality is like a high school or hospital cafeteria. They even serve your food with packets of ketchup, mustard and mayo on the plate. Some nerve when charging $15 for a frozen prefab veggie burger. The restaurant was serene although the downtown and other restaurants were busy. I guess people know to avoid this place. read more

Food is good, service is slow as they need more employees. They have a sign posted looking for them. I think it's a family owned business and I would really hate for them to out of business. read more

Let's start with the pros: quaint brick exterior, lots of seating, and clean. However the interior decoration was odd. A mountain of stuffed animals in a fountain, Hell's Kitchen sign above the kitchen, and slow ballads playing on the speakers. The food left much to be desired in both price and taste. They claim to serve sourdough, however in taste and texture it was exactly like white bread. The tomato basil soup was very thin and flavorless and didn't seem homemade, especially when overhearing the owner ordering more premade tomato soup from Sysco. And don't forget the automatic gratuity on parties of 5+, including on single orders of $6 cup of soup. Hard to understand how this place is open when compared to everything else on the block, especially when Cantaberry does homemade soups and sandwiches better. read more

If you have a bigger party don't come here. We told them party of 7 and their response was 'well we only have one cook so it'll take a long time'. They also stated it would be awhile to sit because of our party size even though their appeared to be plenty of seats available. I wish I could say something about their food but we left to a different resturaunt that took us right away called Southern Charm and they are fantastic! read more

Located in downtown blue ridge. This place has a unique feel to it. They display/sell art work from various artists in the restaurant. Its not a fancy place but has decent food and service. They do serve lunch menu the entire day! The website menu is not updated as of this review date. Their menu consists of sandwiches, salads, soups, chicken, beef and fish entrees. We have ordered chicken philly sandwich, grilled salmon, country fried steak. You get too pick your side from fries, green beans, mashed potato etc. The food was served quickly and tasted good. Overall a decent place for lunch or dinner. Prices arent too bad. Parking avaliable on the street. read more

If you have a family, don't come here. While the restaurant has a whole host of high chairs, they are absolutely not family friendly. My husband, my one year old son and I were kicked out this morning while trying to eat breakfast because my son was being a noisy baby. He was not screaming crying or having a meltdown, simply having some happy screeches that we were attending to in order to keep him engaged before our meal came. To our knowledge, none of the other two tables in the restaurant complained. In fact, both were appalled when we were asked to leave. Bless our sweet waitress who had to deliver the news, and when we asked "really?" and "because of the baby?", she said yes, that his noises were bothering the owner. When I asked about our food (that we had already ordered and been waiting a good 10-15 minutes for), we were told they simply weren't making it. At least they didn't charge me for it. I will be the first to admit noisy kids can be annoying, and I would have absolutely removed him from the restaurant myself if I felt he was being a nuisance. Save your money and your family's time and eat somewhere else. read more

Came here for breakfast to kick off a weekend getaway with my friend in Blue Ridge, and I'm just happy this wasn't foreshadowing for how the rest of our trip would go because oooh boy, was it weird and rude in here. To start, this seems to be the only place open at 8:00 am (on a Saturday) so we didn't have a ton of options. We came in and waited behind another couple to be seated. The restaurant had other tables filled but several were empty or just waiting to be cleared. The couple in front of us had had enough waiting though, and we probably should've taken their hint because they left. Several more minutes later and lots of neck craning and smiling in an attempt to get someone's attention, we were signaled to sit down at a recently cleared spot and given menus. There was not a hello, just the server standing over us so we both ordered a coffee and she disappeared immediately. A few minutes later two coffees were dropped off (no eye contact), and before I could ask for a cup of water or cream for my coffee, she was already gone. We waited and waited some more. I had the view of a man handed menus roughly by the same server who sat us, and he then handing them back saying he was leaving because of how rude the interaction was (I looked longingly out of the open door swinging behind him and wondered if I had a few singles to put down for our coffee so we too could escape). Our wait gave me time to reflect on the state of our dress of modest shorts, regular T-shirts, and neatly combed hair (nope, nothing offensively odorous or off putting in style) or if I had some RBC going on (nope, we appeared pleasantly relaxed if not adorned with mildly sleepy vacation smiles). But, eventually, a different server came over and took our order. Simple enough - eggs, bacon, grits, and a biscuit (my friend got eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, and no bread). We then waited an hour more before seeing our food. It was tasteless and not hot. The hashbrowns were definitely from a preshredded frozen bag, fried eggs were cooked properly (yay?), biscuit bottom and top were burnt, bacon was cooked enough to be edible, and grits were bland (if they weren't instant then that's definitely the flavor and consistency they were going for). I asked for the check immediately upon getting our food, since I didn't know how long that would take. It arrived faster than anything else. We ate what we felt like eating, paid, and dipped out. I would not recommend this place at all - just wait until other spots open. I will say Das Kaffee Haus across the street may not have a full breakfast, but we sure were glad to have really friendly service and excellent coffee there. We popped in hoping to grab a drink for the road, and the pleasant atmosphere was enough to erase all the weirdness from breakfast. We'll be going back there again before we leave I'm sure (they have macarons! homemade truffles! cheesecakes!) but never again will we visit Serenity (my butt) Garden. read more

We wanted to find a good breakfast/brunch cafe. This unfortunately would turn out to be the wrong one. It is an older restaurant that hasn't been updated. For example:lampshades stacked on top of a refrigerator case. However, that wasn't the problem. The food just wasn't pleasant. At all. Their popular plate size pancakes were like rubber and the scrambled eggs weren't not edible. The wait staff seemed to also be preparing the food. Would definitely skip this establishment. read more

Best Grilled Cheese and Fries ever!! Great Service and Friendly Staff. One if not my favorite place to eat downtown. read more

Serenity not included. The staff need to learn how to communicate. We were seated at 10.33am. after delivering our drinks order the waitress informed us that breakfast finished at 10.30am. Ok so we can order from the lunch menu. Instead of letting us know that lunch starts at 11am, she made us sit there until 11am before accepting our lunch order. One hour later we get served our mediocre food. Chicken salad had a very dry chicken breast with bagged lettuce with wilted leaves. Cheese burger was blah. Saving grace, the French fries were good. Save your self some time and avoid the lack luster food. Keep on walking past Serenity Garden Cafe. read more

A French toast was thin and the very unappealing. It was cold. We sent it back and they brought it right back after micro waving. The coffee was cold. People were not helpful nor friendly. read more

Five of us for lunch on a Fall Saturday afternoon and had no wait. Plenty of different foods to eat and all was great

If you are looking for a loud, overcrowded place with staff that treats you like a number then this is NOT the place for you. If you are looking for a place with premade greasy cold food that taste like it was trucked in frozen the this is NOT the place for you. If on the other hand you want a beautiful relaxing place to dine with friendly staff this is the place for you. And most importantly if you want fresh delicious food then this is definitely the place for you. read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

The rude man would not let us sit down to eat. He yelled at us and was very ugly. He said he could not sit a party of 5. So we said we could do 2 and 3. He yells that he can only do 2 and 2, after walking us to the tables. He did this in an attempt to embarrass us. If they cannot sit 5 people together, their website needs to state that. We payed to park and walked to this place to be yelled at by a man with no teeth. I feel sure he would not have yelled at us if our husbands had been there. read more

The food was wonderful and the service superb! Their Reuben is one of the best I've ever had. I highly recommend that you go by and try them out! read more

Waited over an hour after placing our order to get our food. Wait staff was rude. Food was fine. But not worth the wait.

This little place is a diamond in the rough. We had the BEST lobster bisque!! The Southern Living award winnnig chicken salad was above excellent!! DO NOT MISS this on your visit to Blue Ridge. read more

Eat elsewhere. The service and food were unsatisfactory. We ordered the country fried steak which was so overcooked we could hardly cut it with a knife. Water was needed to wash down the meal. Unfortunately, the waitress did not see fit to refill our glasses. read more

Absolutely Love this place! Stop by and let Ben fix you up with a delicious meal. We Love his breakfast! So much food Eggs perfect everytime, lots of crispy hash browns, not to mention he makes all the fabulous cakes and pies himself. Make sure to call ahead to see if they're open. read more

Family of 4 - 2 boys 8 and 12 - I had the Reuben (amazing) , wife and younger son had the chicken salad sandwich (amazing ), and my eldest had the country steak ( nothing left...) We will be back for breakfast tomorrow! Chris - your hospitality was amazing...and the food came out so quickly.... read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Nothing left! Best lunch ever - entire family... - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

Don't let the simple surroundings fool you! (Or the inattentiveness while waiting to be seated.) Yes, the interior seems simple and very outdated. Yes, you might wait and feel like no one is paying attention to you in the small area near the door. But the food and service was excellent. There were five of us , all ordered something different, and all had a great meal. One special ordered a plate to make it Keto friendly and she loved what she got, too. Fresh mushrooms. Nicely seasoned fries. Fast service and attentive refills. A little more pricey than I would expect ($14 - $19 lunches). But portions were generous and it is a tourist town. A very small area for outdoor seating was available but we sat inside. We're weekend cabin owners and will definitely be back! read more

Wife and I had breakfast here. Laid back atmosphere and great food. Wife got the western omelet and I got the short (and fat) pancake stack. Again the food was really good, but it was more than I could eat (and that's saying something!) in one meal. If you leave here hungry, it's your own fault. read more

Serenity Garden Cafe - Hero's breakfast! - Burgers Near Me - Blue Ridge, Georgia

Have been to Serenity Garden a few times for breakfast and the food is just OK. Two of us arrived for breakfast a little after 8:00 am on holiday weekend and were seated on the patio. There were two tables occupied inside at the time, so it was not that busy. Apparently they only had two servers, but no one ever came out to take our order and the place filled up inside and everyone was being waited on. We waited about 30 minutes and asked one of the servers about placing an order, and she was very rude and said "our" server would be out to take our order, but we waited a few more minutes and no one ever came out. I can understand being short-handed on a holiday weekend and we were being patient, but they apparently had no organization on how to wait on tables in the order people arrived and there's no excuse for being rude. There are better options in town. Went over to Pete's Place and we were served promptly and the food is better. read more

This restaurant was the best place service was top notch service was over the top it is a great family restaurant food was hot and looked as good as it tasted it is a definitely a return the waitress was friendly on the ball and waiter was to five star rating not high enough read more