Charlotte Cafe

It’s a shame… Came for breakfast and the food was pretty good. However, the staff was more interested in their conversation than in the customers. My son had the sausage and gravy and it was delicious. The portions are generous and prices are very reasonable. However, you can’t get around that service and cold food. So sad

Suckiest, most expensive crap I’ve ever been seen/​eating. Smells like a bathroom, the menu is so large they can’t work on the quality of the food. The menus have grossness on them. Waited for what felt like a few weeks for the food to get out. The tears that my stomach shed during digestion have me ulcers.

The hostess was sullen, unhelpful and generally a real downer! We came in to the restaurant and she was sitting in the very back booth talking with another person and made no attempt to greet us! So I grabbed menus and started to head to the table we wanted, and she made it very clear she was unhappy that we tried to seat ourselves!
The hostess is the first impression of the service, and mood, and the mood was ugly!

This was my first visit there I wanted a kids meal since I’m not a big I ordered a perch kids meal the lady at the register said they have a kids meal like that ok now the other lady tell me they can’t do that then she show me the menu I said go ask your manager can they do it like he told her how to ring it up and then my food get here I can smell how bad that fish was I just can’t believe they would serve me got me fork took a little piece a bit a tiny bit it was fishy and it smelled bad so I got the waitress and told her this fish smell bad so she took my plate and made another she said sorry that fish I had was bad and no good I’m thinking to myself why y’all wanted to sell it to me I didn’t even finished the one they over for me I threw it away I won’t come back no more

I went in for lunch and had 3 eggs, 2 over cooked sausage patties, about a ¼ cup of grits, a pancake and sweet tea. Total came to $ 15.10…even higher with tip factored in. This is absolutely ridiculous! I am not one to complain and I am not looking for compensation or a handout; just voicing my opinion. I could’ve went to many other places for this price and had much better food at this price point. I WILL NOT be a return customer. Way overpriced.

I don’t understand why the reviews are so low for this place because it deserves a higher score. I have visited this place twice in different times and the quality of the food is always great. Recently I order the flounder with Mac and cheese and mash potatoes (Mac and cheese is not in the menu but it’s there) and the fish was big, fresh, well cooked and delicious. Plus, my two sides were equally great and it wasn’t greasy at all. Although a little steep in price, I have to say it was actually worth it. Plus the staff is friendly and very helpful as well. Highly recommendable place for some great food in the area and with a big menu of many choosings, don’t let the score fool you it is a good place

Waitress was nice service was fast and the breakfast is so yummy. Best French toast and bacon ! I will be back

This place is very inconsistent. Have gone three times, first time it was good the following it was worse and worse. Seems overpriced … Suspect it only survives as the overflow for la Pepe.

I tried Charlotte Café for the first time today. I had a hotdog and mac and cheese for $ 5.25. The hot dog was ok, but the baked mac and cheese was delicious. It reminded me of K and W’s mac. Waitress was nice, and I like the décor.
I recommend it for anyone wanting a country meal. Most prices seem a little high to me.

The food is fair but the prices aren’t. My wife and I spent $ 20 (before tip) on a couple of sandwiches and drinks. We won’t go back.

They have the best omelets in Charlotte. The problem is the price. I paid $ 13.41 for an omelet, hash browns, a biscuit and water. Plus the tip. Ouch!

Our family of 5 used to frequent this establishment often. NOT ANYMORE. The last few times we have been there the service has been slow and the food mediocre at best but tonight we had the pleasure of watching 3 separate tables be seated after us, receive and eat and their food, pay their bill and leave while we waited and waited and waited until finally, after 45 minutes, we left. One of the tables appeared to be the owner, so it is apparent that he does not put the customers first or 2^nd or 3^rd since each person that joined his table was also served while we continued to wait.

Really great service from the friendly staff… However, the food is quite bland. I hate to say it, but, it reminds me of the food they would serve when I volunteered at a nursing home… Sorry! The kids I take seem to like the spaghetti.

Since this place is an affordable & casual eatery close to the neighborhood, I really wanted to like it. I really, really did. But, alas, it was a major disappointment to me!
Really, two words sum it up: BLAND FOOD. The portion size was fine — but the taste and overall quality of the food was really bland and not the highest quality. They also did not have what I consider to be a good selection of breakfast offerings.
Sometimes I don’t mind sacrifing a little quality for price — if there are some other major redeeming values — but this is not the case at the Charlotte Café.
I had eggs, «homefries», a couple of slices of tomato (to substitute for the meat since they don’t offer any alternatives to pork products — no turkey bacon or chicken sausage here), and a blueberry pancake. Sadly, everything on my plate was bland and basically lacked any seasoning. The blueberry pancake was definitely the «best» thing on my plate, but at times it had a bit of an odd after-​taste that I can’t really put my finger on. (Maybe it was the cheap syrup, but I can’t be sure.) The «homefries» looked good, but actually just tasted like diced potatoes with a light sprinkling of paprika on them and were almost undercooked. The eggs were scrambled ok — but again nothing to them taste-​wise. The tomato –is a typical hot-​house tomato that is flavorless. The coffee didn’t taste great either. I usually drink mine black, but this coffee needed something to cover the taste, so I ended up using a little creamer (yucky).
My friend had egg whites, sausage, hashbrowns and a belgan waffle. His food was «ok» except for the waffle which tasted exactly like those waffles you make at «free breakfast «when you stay at a Homewood or Comfort Suites hotel (You know, the ones where you pour the pre-​made waffle mix into the waffle iron and lt cooks for a few minutes on each side.) He was totally disappointed with the waffle and did not eat it. He had coffee and an orange juice.
Now, to be fair, there were a few things that we did like about the place… it’s a cute little place that you can get in and out of quickly. And on our visit (Sunday AM) the employees were friendly and helpful — especially our server.
However, we do not plan to go back. Our total check came to $ 26 for 2 people for breakfast before the tip. (At that price, we can eat at Le Peep and have a HUGE selection… I always end up getting an awesome omelette w/​flavorful home-​fries there).
As a side note, later that same day, I heard from someone else who had eaten there on a number of occasions who consistently got cold food served and on his final visit, had a really bad experience with the manager.