One Bite Cafe

LOOKS LIKE THEY CLOSED
When they first opened up, we went in to check the place out and were aghast at the empty shelves staring at us on opening weekend.
We had lunch today at nearby Little City Pizza and we talked about going to visit One Bite again. We could see One Bite from our vantage point at Little City. We saw no one exiting or entering. We asked our server if they were still open and were told they had closed. After lunch, we checked them out. The doors are locked, the counter is gone, the shelves are gone. No signage announcing a closing, but it sure looks like they called it a day. Their phone doesnt work. There website doesnt work…

This restaurant has been around for a little over a year now and I read about it in the local paper and was excited to give it a try. I met some friends there and I was immediately confused about what I was supposed to order. I figured out that I could buy two little sandwiches for somewhere around 6.00 so I got both of their chicken salads: Cherry Chicken Salad and Buffalo Chicken Salad. I received both on a bun instead of in a «pocket» (a 3″ long pita-​looking thing).
Presentation was weak. It literally was pre-​made chicken salad on a bun. No tomato, no lettuce, no… anything really. The cherry chicken salad was mediocre at best. It was bland and very mayonnaise-​y with an infrequent cherry (canned maraschino I think). The chicken was cubed and again, it was okay… it was hard to tell the quality because it was so saturated in mayonnaise. The bread actually tasted stale, very dry, could have easily been bought from stop-​and-​shop from their «bakery.» As the roll was one of the two primary ingredients here, it was a major disappointment.
If the cherry chicken salad was mediocre, the buffalo chicken salad was awful. I took a single bite of it and decided that it was not worth eating (and I have a VERY liberal palate and eat almost anything). It had a mild flavor of buffalo sauce (without any spice or anything that defines buffalo as such) and was exactly the same as the other chicken salad minus the cherries. The buffalo contributed nothing and only served to detract from already mediocre chicken salad. My friend who I was with didn’t believe that it was terrible because she claims she has gotten in before. She took a bite once she realized I was not eating it and agreed with me that it was terrible, with the contribution that it tasted like it went bad (i.e., rancid).
My friend ordered the tuna salad. She asked specifically if the tuna salad had celery and the male employee stated that it did not. It did. So while I was awkwardly picking at my chicken salad, she was picking OUT the celery so that she could eat her tuna salad.
The staff. Uninterested, unprofessional and unfriendly. The male employee who somehow couldn’t differentiate between celery and not-​celery (mind you, the whole of the tuna salad was an off-​white so the fluorescent green celery was quite distinguishable) hid in the back for half the time we were there and then took his laptop and went outside for the remainder of the time. The female employee who served me was unfriendly, unattractive and again — unprofessional. She, once realizing she had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO took her laptop and sat out in the dining area with us to play (I’m assuming go on Facebook) on her laptop.
The ONLY reason I refrained from complaining which I was eager to do was because my friends whom I was with did not want me to. I went to email the manager/​owner of this store prior to writing this diatribe and lo-​and-​behold, there is no email on their website only the store phone number. Had I had the opportunity to email the owner, he would have received this as the content.

Did I tell anyone I love all things that come in little packages? While traveling in Asia I stuffed my face with pastries and tons of food simply because they were packaged in mini size servings. It’s true great things do come in tiny packages. When I heard about the One Bite Café I was overwhelmed with excitement. I couldn’t wait for the weekend to get here because I wanted to make it there as soon as possible.
I finally made my first trip there and sadly to say I left disappointed. The concept was ingenious but the execution needs some tweaking. The owner’s have a great idea, its not a new idea but it would def work in this side of the country.
First off, the price was amazing. Ice cream cones are $ 1 each, sure they are mini sized cones but that’s a pretty good price. I’ve paid $ 1 for a sample serving of ice cream in the past. The ice cream wasn’t anything special. It had a generic taste, presentation was lacking in creativity. Even if they charged a little more I would still pay if it was pretty to look at. The cones were just cones, I felt like I scooped it myself. They offer a flight of ice cream for $ 4.89 which is pretty cool because it’s a 5 mini cones.
Other offerings include a build your own slider for $ 2.50. Salads for about $ 3. Mini donuts for $ 4/​dozen. They have mini sized brownies for $ 0.75 each. The biggest disappointment for me was overall presentation of the food. The donuts weren’t decorated nicely. It could be that I have been spoiled by my travels. For this price I was expecting gourmet donuts with tons of color and cutesy designs. Think Tastease, well the Donuts at One Bite were nothing like the ones offered at Tastease (Hartford). Sure Tastease charges more for their donuts but its so worth it because its stimulating to the eyes.
I would go back in a few months to see if they made changes.