Word Of Mouth Neighborhood Bistro

There’s always a wait on the weekends but it’s totally worth it! Their food is the best in Salem! 10/10 would recommend! Love their gluten free French toast!!

This was my very first visit her ever. (Friday, Oct 4th, 2024 , around 12:40pm ) My thoughts -welllll, It's really not as special as so many people make out. It's not horrible either though. Good service, really great food options/choices, quaint atmosphere. BUT I ran into a major problem with my food ! My biscuit had a HAIR in it - I didn't know until later. See more details below. Service was very good, my wife and I only had to wait 25 min to get in due to coming on a mid week day. If you seat at a table be aware the chairs are very hard lol. Could bring a seating pad with you for sure. I got the biscuits and gravy along with egg and potatoes. I really like that they offer options like this! Most restaurants only offer biscuits and gravy, but here will additionally get 2 eggs and some breakfast potatoes along with it, so you can get a more fulfilling varied meal. So I just got the single biscuit meal. I also ordered two sausage patties I got my eggs scrambled and they were perfect. Nice and hot. The breakfast potatoes had several that were not cooked entirely through, some raw potato in the middle still. The sausage patties were very flavorful and I thought they were good - they apparently make their own patties. The sausage has a TON of onions in it, and you will get the onion texture too (little crunches) so keep that in mind if you don't like onions in your meat. 25 years ago I would have hated that but now I don't mind it and I think the sausage is pretty good. The biscuit was pretty typical, and the gravy was good. The biscuit was HUGE lol even though I only got a single biscuit. However, the biscuit was very dry and pretty bland. No buttermilk flavor here. The gravy had to save it, and thankfully it did. My wife got the Gluten Free French Toast and some bacon. The bacon was perfect, nice and thick but yet crispy. The French toast - its almost like candy! I didn't like it, far too sweet (and I'm a huge French toast fan). It has almost a carmelized sugar coating on it. The pictures of the french toast look amazing but it's honestly just far too sweet. My wife didn't eat much of it. If you have a large sweet tooth you will probably love the French Toast, though. I couldn't finish that whole biscuit , the food was very filling (good) so I took the rest of my biscuit home along with one of the sausage patties. So, we boxed it at the restaurant and took it home and I put it in the fridge. In fact this food was so filling that I had to skip dinner lol! Now , here's the aftermath and where things went downhill! Two days later I decided to finish the rest of the biscuit. I took the box out of the fridge and heated everything up for 1 minute in the microwave. The sausage tasted *even better* than before after reheating. I sat down at my desk and started finishing the leftover biscuit that I had brought home and IT HAD A HAIR IN IT. No it wasn't from me, it was dark hair, I have red hair. It wasn't from my wife, the box had never been opened by anyone but me, and the HAIR WAS INSIDE THE BISCUIT. It was buried in the biscuit mix. I hit the HAIR while chewing a pieced of biscuit that I had carved off with a fork. WTF my very first food I ever bought here and it had a hair in it. I threw the rest away. Final bill was around $60

As mostly plant based and gluten free it can be challenging to find good food while traveling. Today we ate breakfast here and it was the best breakfast we’ve had our whole trip through Oregon. And our kiddo loved the cinnamon roll pancake too. What a gem! If we ever find ourselves back in Salem we will be returning.