"My husband and I drove 2 and a half hours to come to this place because it 's really hard to find good gluten free places in New Bern and the website for this place made it look like an upscale cafe with mostly gluten free foods. When we got there, we realized pretty quickly it wasn 't Café-like at all. It was 100% takeout food. There was no indoor seating, it was seat yourself outdoors. The tables were not clean, and there were a lot of bugs. This was already a turn off for us. The menu seemed much smaller than the online menu. We went inside to order our food; we ordered 5 meals in total (2 for there and 3 to take home). The total came to over $100.00. I didn 't care about the price at that point because I was just excited to get good homemade gluten free food. As a celiac, I know that gluten free food always costs more; it 's a sad reality, but I 'm used to it at this point in my life. The woman at the register told me they would start making the to go dishes when we got the food we planned to eat there. We went back outside to wait for our food. There was only one other couple there at that point and they were already eating their food. 4 other groups of people showed up after us, ordered their food, and sat down outside. Every single one of those tables got their food before us. A LONG time before us. The poor waiter tried to give us everyone else 's food, too. When we finally got our food, we were extremely disappointed. The food came out in SMALL Chinese food containers, we were given plastic ware, and we never got our drinks. The waiter never came back to our table, we had to grab him after a few walk bys to ask for our drinks. He said he was told that we didn 't order any drinks. My husband 's burger was very mediocre and was not worth $16.00. I ordered the chicken salad sandwich California style with gluten free bread. I have no idea what I actually got, but it wasn 't that. Whatever it was had a very thinn layer of what seemed like creamed spinach, on GF bread, with avocados, topped with poached eggs. I would have never ordered this dish. I am not even a fan of poached eggs. I kept saying to my husband I really don 't think this is what I ordered, this doesn 't seem like it even has chicken in it at all. The waiter never came back and when we went inside, no one was at the counter. I figured maybe I misunderstood what California style meant. But when I checked the website later, it clearly said chicken salad with lettuce, tomato, avocado and bacon . What I got was definitely not what I ordered. Fast forward, we had to wait another 20 minutes after we finished eating to get our to go orders. The waiter tried to give our food to 3 different tables despite me saying that 's ours 3 times loudly. He was taking the food back inside before someone else said I think that 's their food and pointed to us. We left shortly after that. Fast forward to when we got home and went to eat dinner...my husband 's sandwich was very small and bland. My turkey sandwich was gross. It was caked in cream cheese. The fruit side that I ordered only had 3 different types of fruits. The grapes were mushy and rotten, the cantaloupe and strawberries were straight mush (not to mention there were only 3 strawberry slices). I just went to eat my chicken salad tonight. It was missing half the ingredients and I wasn 't even given any dressing. I 've had better salads from McDonalds. I cannot express how disappointed we were based on the food and the service. I cannot believe I spent over $100.00 and drove 2 and a half hours one way to go to this place. Do not recommend and will never go back."
