Real Food Cafe
2419 Eastern Ave SE, Grand Rapids
(616) 241-4080
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My granddaughter took me here. It was very nice.
Great place to get good dinner food. Everything tastes fresh. The servers are so nice and the food came to the table so fast, even though it was super busy. Highly recommend this place. Parking can be a little tricky but don't let that stop you from enjoying a great food
Spent 30$ on a door dash. Eggs were unfortunately over done and also they put butter packets on the top of my box and it literally melted everywhere. Couldn't take the box out without spilling it all over my table and then I have get another bowl. Not terrible, but definitely 3 stars
I'm a big fan of this place even with the newish owners.
Hair found in food. Food was bland and over cooked.
Some dude choked on his food while I was there and a homeless person out front asked me for money for coffee as I was leaving
Don’t come here
Delicious food, great service!
What follows is my best attempt at keeping this brief, yet detailed enough for you to get the picture.
This place has always been great to me and my family. While there always seems to be about a half hour wait to get in, it’s always worth it because the menu is ginormous, the food is all done very well (and other than the fact that we live in MICHIGAN, they use the cheap, fake “maple syrup” that is really just maple-flavored corn syrup), all ingredients seem to be of good quality, and the service is typically quick once you have been seated. It’s a small place with limited seating and all the workers there seem to bust a** getting out food on time. The staff has also always been super friendly.
All of this changed this past Mother’s Day. For the record, nearly the exact same thing happened the same day the previous year.
They don’t take reservations, so it is first-come, first-served. We had a party of five. One person in our party arrived at 8:45 to put our name down. I showed up at 9:00. We were not seated until 10:00. We had drinks and our order was taken by 10:10. Food did not touch our table until 10:45. Drinks were never refilled during this long wait. I had to leave to go to work right as the food got there. The extra funny thing was that everything placed at our table seemed like it had been sitting for a while. My bacon was dry and overcooked and honestly inedible, pancakes were cold, eggs were cold, and during our wait nobody’s drinks had been refilled and the waitress only stopped by after we called her over to ask how long it would be until we got our food, a question to which we never received a response until twenty minutes later when we finally received our orders.
As far as I know, they never offered to comp anything. To be fair, I’m extra pissed because I got up early to make it there on time. At least we all got to spend time together and more importantly, with our respective mothers.
We will likely never return here.
The bacon 🥓 is so good
Have been wanting to order from this cafe. Received a very expensive salad with wilted lettuce, tiny watery dressing, the wrong chicken, and low quality ingredients. So disappointed, it's not even edible. Bummed! PS, just found a green piece of plastic in my food. Looks like the piece that comes off when you open a new bottle of milk. I have no idea what to do. I can't eat this safely, even if the food quality wasn't so poor.
Food: 1
I generally don't leave low reviews, but I ordered the corned beef hash today and it was near inedible.
None of the food had a taste other than oil. The potatoes were seemingly boiled and then just slightly broken apart and had almost no griddle time.
The food was ordered to-go and also did not include the toast listed on the menu.
Restaurantji Recommends
Husband and I are visiting from Fort Lauderdale!! I definitely 100% this place has excellent food and the service is perfect.
Thank you for your hospitality and good food
Mr & Mrs
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The best biscuits and gravy I have ever tasted!
The service was phenomenal, Sophie was top notch and very diligent in serving our party of ten. I'll be back!
I clicked on the biscuits and gravy side, but I had the full meal which comes with two eggs. The sunny side up was cooked perfectly.
Parking: About 6 spots street side, plus plenty out back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Biscuits & Gravy Side
Parking is limited. It is a small diner so we had to put our name in before we got there to get a table. Food and service were very good.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Nice place I like it
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 4
Great food and great staff. Definitely 5 stars never disappointed.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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