Bella B’s Depot Restaurant

We have been here three times now. We go out to lunch every Sunday and spend about $ 60 a $ 70 every time. I tried to give them time but time isn’t on their side any longer. The menu is limited but it will grow I am told but hasn’t. Some items will change seasonally so that is great to see. Tanya is the owner and comes from an Italian background so I am excited to see where they go with the menu. They remodeled the location slightly with wooden floors and repainted. Outdoor seating is still available.
Ambiance: this is a small diner café. Friendly casual atmosphere that I enjoy.
Service: Tanya seated us and created us with the specials and was very warm. I asked her about the name and it was a family saying and they try to do everything with that in mind. The service the 2^nd and 3^rd visit was less than average.
Food: limited menu and this is where my rating brings them down unfortunately, but not for the quality but rather the quantity. I had the pulled pork with Cole slaw (as in the southern style) and hay stack onion rings. It was very good and I would recommend trying. My wife had an omelet with potatoes and she gave it good marks. The others had standard eggs and fruit and another omelet. Great presentation and quality food for a diner but the portions seem small. Even for the one lets the don’t seem to be the standard 3 egg portion. Now come to the accompanying toast, it came with 1 slice of toast! It seems rather strange to cut cost you cut on the bread? The next visit since I raved about the pulled pork sandwich three of us ordered that and the diner ran out of hay string onion and instead of telling us, they gave us potatoes and said they were working on the haystack and we would get both. Well we didn’t get both (they actually ran out). Third visit I had breakfast and I had to ask for a coffee refill each and every time.
Quality: for the prices of a diner I am expecting a lot more. Cutting portions where I could get what they are serving elsewhere at a lower price isn’t a value proposition to the customer. They are not offering at this time anything unique that I cannot find elsewhere and the ingredients isn’t scratch ingredients or organic so why the higher cost?
Summary: where is the old Genessee Depot restaurant? I knew the owner of the building raised the rent so the previous restaurant had no choice but to leave and try to find another location and knew their value proposition wasn’t going to survive raising prices. Unfortunately Bella B’s has to do just that (I am assuming) to survive. Smaller portions and higher prices (margins) and limit the menu (lower cost and bottom line) but you still need to fill the seats and turn it over quickly. Small rural area with a limited clientele to pull from this isn’t a winning value proposition unfortunately. We have stopped going to see what happens and if they change or improve. Best of luck, but wish the building owner hadn’t raised the rent and G. Depot Café was still here. We may come back in another month to see if they have improved but Our $ 60 is now going to Cornerstone down the road.

Disappointed. Our food was lukewarm & so-​so. It was $ 28 for 2 sets of 2 eggs over easy with potatoes & bacon, a croissant, 2 apple juices, & a chocolate milk. That doesn’t include the tip we left. It’s a small menu, but that’s ok. Sometimes there’s too many choices. Probably won’t be back, even though it’s a new place.

Menu– Lacks uniqueness, nothing really stands out.
Building– Small and crowded. Tables are poorly placed. If you are looking for as quiet sit down restaurant, this is not for you.
Service– The service here seems rushed and didn’t give us the menus right away, we sat there waiting for them.
Food– The food was great. Took a little while though.