Tao Organic Cafe + Herbery

This place has the yummiest food, and really nice people, one of my favorites in the Twin Cities area. I bring everybody, and post about how cute it is frequently.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Beetox juice, bounce smoothies, and blueberry muffins (best bb muffins ever) are my go-to snacks here. Great spot to grab some food and work!

Food: 5

The food was good, but 6 hours later had me throwing up non stop… gave me food poisoning. :(

Atmosphere: 2

Service: 4

Vegetarian options: Friendly and quick service, excellent vegan and vegetarian options. Great kombucha on tap as well…

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Super cute and delicious food. We love this place!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Avocado Toast, Harvest Bowl

I tried ranchero bowl today. It was amazing! Thanks for the great food and amazing hospitality! Definitely will be back soon!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Huevos Rancheros Bowl

Had the weirdest and most unprofessional experience I’ve ever had with a small business recently. I put in an online order in December and didn’t have any update on shipping or timing so I called them and they apologized and said I should have been notified of a back order. They insisted they’d have someone deliver it today and apologized even going so far as to offer to put some extra goodies in my delivery for my troubles. Order wasn’t delivered on the day they said they’d drop off so I called and followed up and was told they just forgot to deliver it. I even offered to come pick up in store so I didn’t have to wait around all day for a delivery but they were really insistent on delivering to my house. Finally had it delivered and after all that the order wasn’t even correct and there were no aforementioned extras. So weird. Why would you offer to go above and beyond and then over promise and under deliver?

Also heard from a friend that they had a terrible experience in store involving an unhoused person. So overall super unimpressed.

This is one of my favorite places to get food with a friend or go study! Everything is delicious, I especially love their bowls and smoothies.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food and service is great. But I am in shock that a small cup of juice (that isn’t even freshly juiced!?!?) is $11.77! Absolute insanity. Of course the prices aren’t listed next to the juices (pre-juiced from who knows when) in the cold case. Suggesting they are aware of the insanity of the prices.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

So I come to find the drinks have multiple additional ingredients versus what is advertised (on my own, because owner ignored my complaint). Big mistake of ownership. When a customer reaches out via email with a concern about potential staff or food/drink issues, and the owner does not respond? I hope the few semi decent staff members find a better individual to work for because owner does not care if customers are lost. Would love a refund for last Saturday.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Great juices!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Cute, clean interior and several outdoor tables away from traffic. They can sub meat with tempeh and sub mayo with hummus on most meals. They also use the perfect amount of vegan cheese .

Drinks can be made with cashew milk.

Vegetarian options: Ask for tempeh as a sub for meat and hummus as a sub for mayo.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

You will wait 45 minutes for awful food

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

We had lunch at Tao and the service was so good, such a sweet staff. The food was fantastic and the homemade cashew milk was delicious. Thank you for continuously providing nourishing food for the community.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: The Doozie, Sun

The staff there is very rude and slow preparing orders consistently, especially the Male cook (8/14) who purposely delays orders up to a half hour for no apparent reasons. He was also very rude and unprofessional to deal with when asked when an order would be ready. He suggested that I pay credit card tax when paying with cash and insisted I was wrong when I pointed out that paying with cash instead of a card results in less tax on the order. It has always been this way here. It was completely ridiculous and unprofessional. Once when eating there with my girlfriend her food came out 15 minutes before mine as well so I was forced to just sit and wait while she was almost finished with her meal. The staff used to be much more friendly but it has changed dramatically. If I could give this place -5 stars on service alone I would.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 1