Garden Gate Cafe

I had a lovely brunch with one of my kids here. She loved the hot chocolate and pancakes. I loved the western omelet. Portion sizes were good. Prices were reasonable. Servers and hostess were friendly and efficient.
The place was packed, so, get there early.
A charming option for breakfast.

Love this café! It has such a warm and inviting atmosphere. The staff are so friendly as well love their crepes, they’re my favorite item on the menu currently.

Had brunch here and the service was impeccable. The staff is very friendly and the food is great. I also love the décor. Good spot for brunch

Great place for a hearty breakfast. The help was very friendly and attentive. I had the Mamma Fritas breakfast and it was fantastic. just spicy enough and the quantity of food was filling but not wasteful. Coffee was very good. If you are in the Winot area don’t hesitate to stop on in for a delightful breakfast!

Very good! If you want a good classic breakfast go to Garden Gate Café!

Service speed is completely random for the last few months. There used to be a rockstar seating staff that could get you to a table even when they were slammed. Now there are piles of people waiting at the entrance and outside in the cold, with plenty of clean empty tables throughout the restaurant waiting for customers. You will wait 20 minutes to an hour to be seated. We decided to give them a few more chances being that it was the holiday season, but they just don’t have consistency.
Once you are seated, you can wait up to 20 minutes just to get a cup of coffee. Other times they are fast. The speed doesn’t seem to be consistent with the table load either. They will be empty and slow, or full and fast.
The menu changed around the same time the staff and service changes happened. Country Morning Benedict is no longer on the menu, new French toast item added. Lots of smoked salmon options added. Food quality is overall higher than it used to be. Portion size is unpredictable, however. The same meal sometimes fills the plate, other times you get a smaller portion, sometimes the food will have a few drips of gravy or chili, other times it is drenched. It is now impossible to ever order one of the southwestern dishes if you want them spicy. The green chile always tastes mild no matter what.
Disappointment. Has been a breakfast staple for the last few years, but it’s time to move on.

Place has improved tremendously since my last visit. Service speed is much faster. The food is amazing again. I’m really glad I gave it another shot. Looks like all new staff too.

The quality of the food gas declined over the years. The food tastes processed with bland or off flavors. An example is their hollandaise, which used to taste fresh and was so bad the last time I went that I couldn’t eat my Benedict. The flavor was like burnt margarine the last two times I ate here. It’s a cute spot and used to be a favorite, too bad the food quality has gone down.

This cute quaint little place serves the most amazing food! My husband and I travel to this area twice a year, and make it a must stop place to eat every time. The menu is incredibly varied, and there is always something fun to try. I especially love the Benedict eggs, as I have tried everyone of them. The atmosphere is as though you were eating in your mothers kitchen. Last week we had a crowd with us, and our service was friendly and they went out of their way to accommodate us. Love this place. I’ll be back for more.

At 11:00 on a Sunday, the wait was 20 minutes but about the tables were at least ¹⁄₃ empty. Are they short on wait staff or kitchen help? Decent food but concerned about the staffing. I recommend The Niwot Market. Their fresh food is just as good, service much faster, cheaper and without a doubt more friendly. We always enjoy supporting the local companies.

Good breakfast yummy coffee blueberry pancakes were good. Friendly staff bacon tasty. Kids food is normal sized human portion lol

In the words of Janice from that seminal classic, Friends, «Oh. My. GOD.» The FOOD. The SERVICE. The AMBIANCE. All top notch. Since there were 5 of us in our party, we had to wait just a little bit longer for a table, but it was well worth it. The staff was excellent and THE FOOD. I got the Pappas Fritas with 2 poached eggs and it was absolutely perfect. Everyone in our party had a great time and we will DEFINITELY be back. Great job, Garden Gate!
Oh, best to get here early as they are awfully popular in the area.

My usual stop for breakfast when I am in town. I usually get there right after they open. So, there is no issue with getting a table. Service is friendly. Food is great. The have a few menu items that are not so common., They also, have a few early bird specials that are CHEAP!

What happened to the Garden Gate Café?! We used to come here 10 years ago and could always count on great service and tasty food. But today we went back for the first time and the hollandaise sauce on my eggs benedict tasted like fake butter and chicken flavor. The poached eggs were hard and the hash browns tasted of fake butter too. My husband’s side of sausage were three burnt, hard pieces of meat. I don’t know if they’ve changed ownership. The food is just nasty and not made with any care.

I went based on the reviews here… it’s cute, it’s charming, it’s quaint… however the food was not up to par as far as I was concerned. After perusing the menu to figure out what I wanted and realizing that unlike the online menu, the actual one in the café looked dated and didn’t make the food seem as appetizing as it does online, I finally settled on biscuits and gravy. It was nothing to write home about… I’m sure some of their other dishes are better, and I will probably go back again and give it another try but I won’t be ordering anything with hashbrowns as I was more than disappointed when these came out seeming like they had been cooked over an hour prior and kept warm, they were crispy which I like, but stale like they’d been sitting around. The biscuit on it’s own had no flavor, no buttery flakiness like a good biscuit should have. The gravy was bland at best and it too seemed like it had been sitting around for a while; ironically my meal came out very quickly, but looked like it had been prepared a while before I showed up and ordered it.
The waitress was friendly at first, but after I ordered she seemed to forget about me. It’s always off-​putting when the check is dropped off seconds after your food hits the table too. On the plus side, I do like the fact that if you order coffee, they fill your cup and leave you the carafe. All in all, it wasn’t awful, and I’ll give them another shot, but the whole experience was bland.

Great green chile sauce. Every dish is delicious and well prepared. The marmalade waffle or green chile eggs over hash browns are going to please. This is one of my favorite places for breakfast or lunch. They close at 2;00pm so don’t delay!

One of our regular local breakfast places, especially when the weather is nice and we can sit outside. Reliably good food and good service. No complaints.

So enjoyed this great find. Food was great, service was welcoming and will definitely return. Went on a Friday morning and business was brisk. Sure weekends are crazy.

Getting better. Good food. Decent prices. Waitresses still have a bit of an attitude at times butch better.

My fiancé and I were headed back from Denver this morning and wanted something delicious for breakfast. As we live near Niwot, in Gunbarrel, we looked on Unilocal to find out where a place could be that we hadn’t tried yet.
We were excited to see that the Garden Gate Café received 4 stars and headed there around 8:30 on a Saturday. We were seated promptly. Strangely, the person that seated us asked us what we wanted to drink before we even sat down at the table or looked at a menu, which really didn’t bother me, but was definitely unusual. We ordered a grapefruit juice and an apple juice. The grapefruit juice is definitely Ocean Spray Ruby Red, and pretty sure the apple juice was Mott’s.
The ambience is a bit dated but still clean and nice. The breakfast menu options were varied and well priced. I looked on Unilocal and noticed that the tamales and eggs were recommended as well as the Benedicts.
First off, our food arrived promptly.
I ordered the pork tamales and eggs, which comes with hash browns and eggs any style, but also is covered in your choice of mild or spicy green chili. The green chili had a strange gummy texture to it, as if it had been thickened with a cornstarch slurry or something similar. My scrambled eggs were cooked low and slow without color which was nice, but were overcooked and dry. The hash browns are definitely not home-​made and just griddled and they were undercooked.
My fiancé ordered the classic eggs benedict. As a cook myself, I can tell when hollandaise is made fresh /​properly, or if someone uses a packet and holds it warm. I feel like the Garden Café uses the latter option unfortunately. One of her poached eggs was cooked perfectly, the other the whites weren’t quite set and the yolk was overly runny (she loves runny eggs).
Overall, our bill was only $ 25, which is completely reasonable for breakfast. As we left we noticed multiple groups waiting for tables as the remaining tables had filled while we were eating. I don’t understand how this place captures 4 stars on Unilocal whatsoever. I know that this may be one of the only breakfast eateries in the area, but surely we will not be back. I would have given this place 1 star, but the service was efficient and the staff were friendly.
So sad!