My Garden Cafe

I live close by and came with my family last weekend. when we entered we were seated and the lady helping us was not friendly but not jovial either. Our food took forever and when we wanted refills of tea they said they were closed now and couldn’t give us refills. This is bad customer service. I have worked in The food business for a long time now and I would never turn down my customers for anything even if it’s after closing time. This older lady gave us attitude also when we wanted to use a coupon. The food was just ok. Don’t waste your time. go to Sam’s café or Bob’s coffee shop. Great customer service will always be memorable even if the food isn’t the best. Please take this into consideration.

I have been to My Garden many times in Modesto and I have enjoyed it. I was driving through Ceres and came across another location on Whitemore Ave. I walked in and there was a waitress speaking to a customer near the entrance and another that walked by me a few times. Once the customer left, the waitress walked right by me and totally ignored me, as did the other one who walked by a few times. I waited to be seated for 10 minutes without one person acknowledging me! I finally gave up and walked out. I don’t think I will ever go back to this location again!

This place was… busy. When I went there this morning! As I walked in I should have turned around and left, the place was Dirty /​Nasty as I looked around. I watched as a waitress dusted a baby seat right on the floor In front of me instead of using a dishcloth to wipe it off. She also had a group of elderly people waiting on a table wipe it off right on the floor, I always wondered if this place was any good. «Nope» Nothing like the one in Modesto. They lost my business!!!

The food is ok, usually cooked to my satisfaction. The waitresses today are unusually (super) busy. There is a large wait line. They get the tables cleaned as fast as possible but I notice that food is backed up in the kitchen window. The cooks do NOT look happy! They are so busy that our drinks were ordered with our meal order. I do think they are overworked and that service is suffering. It is definitely apparent that on Sunday’s they need extra help. This is not unusual on Sundays.

Denver omelette is good. Service is ehhhh. They are quite serious when they greet you so thats definately not awkward. lol Not worth a second visit.

Food is unfortunately overpriced, not great, and service was horribly slow, we were waited on and then never received our refills!

2 stars for good and fast food. But this place lacks personality.
When I first walked in I was greeted with a half smile. Then the lady just went about her business and waited for someone else to seat me. After my food came, she immediately gave me my check. Never onced asked if everything is going well. Nothing. Wont ever come back.

Three stars mainly because service is good. But food is not great. Have been here a few times and will not go back. Had what was supposed to be hamburger but it didnt taste or look like hamburger. Even with a coupon it was overpriced.

Horrible service, i ordered a steak and eggs breakfast, the eggs and hashbrowns were good, but the steak was like eating rubber, we usually go to the my garden café on oakdale rd which is much better. I will not be back to this location

We have visited this location several times since we moved to the area. The food is tasty, but the service is the pits. On our last visit our server took forever to take our order and after she did she disappeared — she never came back. I was able to flag down the hostess, but she was little to no help. After we seen others who arrived after us being served we got up and left. I left $ 5 for the coffee. We have visited their other locations and the service was fine, but this location needs some major reworking!

I just don’t get this place. It has all the makings for a great diner but it’s just lacking something. I’ve been coming here off and on for years with co-​workers. Every time I decide to go here I am disappointed.
This last time my friend and I went and they sat us at a table with full on sun. I could only take it for a few minutes when I told the waitress I’d like to move. We moved over one booth and that was fine.
I ordered the cobb salad and when it came it was missing the avocado. I asked the waitress and she said they were out. If I had known that when I ordered it I might have ordered something else.
The ranch is watered down. Like, a lot. There’s a lot to be said for good salad dressing.
The rest of the salad was ok (and they have good bacon I have to give them credit there). I think maybe it was supposed to come with a slice of bread but I didn’t get any if it was.
I’ve ordered several other things off the menu and everything just seems to be lacking that extra spice or something. Just kind of bland.

The hubby and I decided to have late breakfast here and ordered the french dip and chinese chicken salad. I guaranty you, Chef Ramsay would have a shit fit. This place is nice to eat breakfast at but I DONOT recommend anything else. We were seated quick and our orders taken quick as well but once we got our food, everything went down hill. Though I missed the description, the salad portion of the meu had «Chinese Chicken Salad». What I didn’t the part was it was stirfry. It’s as rediculous as the grill ceasar salad on an episode of Kitchen Nightmare. Who in their right mind grills, let alone trirfry salad??? I asked for the salad dressing (teriyaki sauce) on the side but the stirfry was cooked with the teriyaki sauce. Image a stirfry on top of chopped of iceberg lettuce, that was my salad. And the hubby’s french dip tasted like chewing on rubber and the meat was cut THICK. Hubby barely finished his food. And lastly, I think the servers weren’t having a good morning. When I asked for a refill on my tea, one of the girls grabbed our cups unsanitality. Instead of picking ours like any person in their right mind would, by the sides of the cups, she put our cups side by side then stuck her fingers in the cups and picked up the cups like she was cleaning a table. We didn’t to get sick so we just didn’t drink out teas. God knows where her fingers have been but we certainly didn’t know and didn’t want to take a chance of getting sick. But one the upside, when our server asked how everything was, we told her about the rubbery tri-​tip and they didn’t charge us for it. As to my Chinese (Oriental, yes they asked me that) salad, I was hungry so I ate the whole Chinese stirfry salad (lol). It was a first for me. As I have said before, they’re ok for breakfast, but as to anything else, there’s always Sam’s Café in downtown Ceres, corner of El Camino Ave and 5^th Street. You get quality food for a good price, ot to mention friendly service and they’re quick.

Stopped in for a quick lunch. Had the club deluxe. Pretty straightforward, but good. Traditional diner menu with many options for breakfast. Prices are a little higher than I would like to spend for lunch.

If you order the ordinary, straight up food like waffles or regular eggs, then you’ll be in OK shape. Everything else seems to lack flavor. I would come to this location as I liked the food at the one in Modesto but the service over there was real funky. Well my love affair over here didn’t last long due to a disastrous Mother’s Day experience. We were seated in a noisy ass section where TWO 15-​person parties were seated when there were better and quieter seats available. Then we essentially went ignored and the table busser had to get our drink refills. The waitress tried to run away after bringing our food before I could ask her for some condiments. My food was OK (because I sticked to the tried and true stuff) but everyone else was ho-​hum about their omelettes and the eggs benedict. Won’t be back.