Cafe Caeli

I am being generous when I rate this pale three stars. went in for breakfast and found limited amount of food that could be served as breakfast. Ordered the biscuit, bacon and eggs. The server scooped up a scoop of scrambled eggs and broke about three prices of back over the eggs, then sent that to the microwave. Upon exit from the microwave a biscuit was taken from the serving line, cut in half and the microwaved mixture placed between the halves. My spouse had identically the same except she added cheese. Got two cups of decaf coffee. At check out I was warned there were no «fill-​ups» allowed. OK – we are off to a great start for the morning. Paid the cashier $ 9.24 for the two orders and headed for a table. The filling of the biscuit kept falling out, but what should I expect from a biscuit filled with scrambled eggs. While the sandwich was eatable, I should have been at McDonalds with a sausage biscuit. The coffee was luke warm and that was due to it being stored in one of those pump canisters, for how long one does not know. I feel sorry for the hospital staff that has to eat here day after day and trust they have an option either in the hospital or they bring their own food to work.

Café Caeli is just about as good as it gets when it comes to hospital food. That’s not to say there’s no room for improvement, but hospital restaurants tend to have an easy-​to-​reach but fairly static set of customers, and I’m sure there comes a point at which the expenses of classing-​up the place outweigh the potential improvement in customer expenditure.
That said, my breakfast sandwich was really quite good. It was a flaky biscuit, cut in half, buttered, and filled with scrambled eggs, cheese, and breakfast sausage. Served piping hot, it was just what my three-​hours-​of-​sleep-​the-​night-​before stomach needed at 7 AM. Why did I wait until 7 AM to eat if I’d only slept three hours, you might ask? Well, despite all the professional offices around Café Caeli opening at 6 AM or earlier, the café, itself, opens at 7 AM. Seems a little silly to me.
The service was friendly and quick, and the sandwich plus a cup of coffee ran about $ 4.25 or so, more-​or-​less what you’d spend at McDonald’s for roughly the same thing, but the Café Caeli version tastes much better.