Café Meli

5200 Portage Rd, Portage
(269) 342-1400

Recent Reviews

Jen G.

This restaurant is closed. We found an article saying Mother's Day 2022 was the last day.

Michael Center

Had a great Easter brunch at Café Meli today! Our server, Luis, was knowledgeable and honest about menu items, super friendly, and made sure we had everything we needed. The food was delicious and we’ll definitely go back again!

John L

Friendly wait staff. Food portions are large. For example pancakes are 4 large pancakes and will more than feed most people. Omelets are great.

Matt Kemp

Consistently great food and great service. I’ve had Julie as a waitress the past few visits and she is AMAZING. Remembered my order after a visit and is super considerate! Highly recommend the country fried steak, lots of food for what you pay!

Linda Rizzo

Terrible. The waitress McKenzie was rude. She never came to check on us .. my coffee was empty. The food came and it was cold the hash browns were overcooked. The hash browns were clumped together. The scrambled eggs were brown and cold. I waited 1/2 to get our food. I was with my 13 year old daughter. Our order was not extreme it was the basic breakfast. The coffee was good … I complained I sent the food back and did not eat any of it. I offered to pay for the coffee and cranberry juice but manager took care of it. Manager made excuses instead of correcting the problem. Btw the waitress threw a temper tantrum as well. We left and went to Bob Evans. This is why I don’t like to try new restaurants stick with what’s good. Bob Evans or Uncle Ernie’s best breakfast place good food and great service.Lol the Owners response is perfect instead of correcting the problem or train your staff you decide to blame the customer. Perfect ?. Bob Evans was amazing. Word of mouth! ?

Devon Roberts

Their banana bread is phenomenal! Especially if you order the chunky monkey and substitute the bread for their banana bread and substitute their chocolate syrup for chocolate chips... you won't regret it!!!! And it will definitely fill you up :) And their potato pancakes are delicious!

Sally Matlock

Excellent food. Luis, our server was absolutely gracious, knew his products, right down to grinding of fresh beans for each pot of coffee servedHighly recommended for atmosphere, service and the best omelet I have ever had. 5 star review all the way!

Ascendant Warface

Pretty average food, ordered biscuits & gravy and the breakfast quesadilla. The biscuits and gravy looked like they had been sitting out, very peppery, and thick. The quesadilla was decent. If you plan on coming here expect to wait a VERY long time, it was not that busy when we went and had to wait around 40 minutes for 2 meals. Quite ridiculous for what we had ordered. Probably will not come back, there's just faster service and slightly better food for the same price at other places.

Garrett Y.

All I've heard from people is that cafe meli had the best breakfast in town! I'm not a big breakfast person unless it's warm and hearty so I had to try it as I was craving breakfast foods. I got a western omelette with hash browns and toast! Everything exceeded my expectations! I typically get things delivered and all the food was still in perfect and warm conditions when it got to me! The toast was made to perfection, the eggs were warm and filling and the hash browns cooked perfectly! This is another must try places!

Shane C.

We arrived at Cafe Meli between 10:15 and 10:30 on a Saturday morning. It was pretty busy and we put our name in with the hostess. She informed us that one group was ahead of us and it would be about a 15 minute wait. We gave our number for a text message to be sent to us when the table was ready. We waited outside between 5-10 minutes and a bunch of tables cleared out at the same time. In the chaos, three groups that had just come in were seated (by someone other than the hostess) before us without having to wait at all. The hostess realized what had happened after the fact and did apologize as we were being seated, but this soured our experience. Our server , Sam arrived quickly once we were seated and took our drink order, and returned with them promptly. We put in our order (the build your own omelette with the options on the southwest skillet for my wife and the avocado omelette with jalapenos for myself. The food arrived more than half an hour later (they were pretty busy and it seemed consistent with other tables arrive/wait times). When they arrived, they were pretty dried out, as if they'd been under the heating lamp for a while. She mentioned that there was barely any chorizo in her omelette, but it was "ok" otherwise. I had to douse mine with hot sauce to get any kind of flavor on mine, there was barely any cheese, and about halfway through I realized the jalapenos were never added as I requested. Sam came to check on us and I let her know the jalapenos were missing, and she offered to correct, but at that point I didn't have confidence in the replacement meal, nor did we have the extra half hour to wait for it since we had other obligations that day. She struck my meal from the bill and apologized. I tipped 25% for the remaining portion of the bill. I want to stress that we were happy with Sam's part in this experience. This was our first time dining at Cafe Meli, and based on our experience, and the fact that there are many local competitors in the area (that we know we enjoy), I don't think we'll be visiting again any time soon.

James Compton

This was a great place to meet our friends for breakfast. There was a great variety of food, and each person in our party enjoyed what they received. They had no issues customizing my omlete. I will come back again.

Diane Stanke

great service and food!!! we'll be back!

Wyk

It's alright. I've had better breakfast food around here, but the food isn't bad. The gravy stands out to me as being one of the better things I had. The service is better than what I've seen from other local places though.

Naomi Griffin

ALOT of amazing food. Great service. Super cute restaurant.

Phillip Latterner

great food. reasonable prices. kids portion was adult sized

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