This is my first ever yelp review.
I am literally making an account just to leave a poor Yelp review.
I never thought I would be this person.
Anyway:
We went there once for lunch. We got a smoothie, a coffee, and two bagel sandwiches. The total was $22, which felt a little steep. We eat the bagel sandwiches. Eggs are flavorless and yucky, cheese is squares of boring flavorless cheese, and I have some vaguely tomato-y "Roasted Red Pepper Pesto" on mine while my partner has some sausage. Both were relatively flavorless and boring and the bagels were dry, starchy and chewy. The smoothies was a blend of fruit juice and ice. That's actually a slushie. Coffee was good. I have a feeling this place coasts by on how good their coffee is and how rare it is to find a place that will make several different iterations of a coffee drink in this part of New Hampshire. Anyway. Kind of deeply disappointed. We waited a long time for this food and it was pretty bland, pretty expensive and pretty awful.
Here I should point out that I have a deep, deep, deep hatred of over-priced hippy-dippy little places that sell overpriced, subpar food. It gives a bad name to the solid ethics of eating organically, eating locally and eating sustainably. I am as organic, hippy-dippy, "check-out-my-bacon-it's-from-a-mile-down-the-road" as the next person, but more than I am that, I am a good food person. If you are going to have that kind of atmosphere, just hire people who give a damn about food. Otherwise, people who don't consider eating sustainably, locally and organically are going to get the incorrect impression that this food is bland and boring.
Anyhoo. So we decide to swing back when we were hungry in the AM and needed breakfast sandwiches, fast. Again - a breakfast burrito, a egg sandwich on a croissant, a cup of coffee = $15. For these prices, I expect something of higher quality than I can get at McDonalds.
Here's the really offensive bit: The person who made my breakfast burrito did not even take the time to roll it properly. Like, whatever. It's fine. Sometime I am hungover and I throw together a breakfast burrito that looks like a Picasso painting too. We are all in this world together, and sometimes rolling burritos is hard. But it's damn shitty to pay $8 for something in which the basic mechanics have not been mastered. If I had paid $5 for that, I swear, you would not see me bitching. The eggs were also flavorless, as was the cheese. There were way, way, way too many sliced, mealy, tomatoes. When I see a breakfast burrito that says "tomato", I assume a few little chunks of tomato mixed in with all the other breakfast burrito regular attendees. Not 4-5 damn layers of sliced mealy tomato whose girth surpassed that of the eggs. The spinach was the same way. I special ordered veggie sausage, and I think there was one-half-patty tucked away somewhere in there, but I didn't taste it.
I hate being a bitch. I hate hating food. But if you are going to ask people to spend that money, make good food. Just hire someone who seems to vaguely give a damn, instead of the latest tweed wearing college graduate who spins a good yarn about eating local in their job interview and then slums it through the food-making while looking cute. The coffee was great and I'm sure that's why they develop their reputation. Their menu is eclectic. But for the love of Christ - just make sure the food tastes good. I get that you are trying, but I should not have gone there twice, exprienced a total of 7 different products, and walk away feeling like I am eating food made by a 7 year old. Have higher standards; you can be better than this. Bring better food to this region, please. read more