Bob's Red Mill Breakfast & Lunch Cafe (Grade D)

* Date: June 2010
* Address: 13521 SE Pheasant Court, Milwaukee, Oregon 97222
* Phone Number: 503-607-6455
* Hours: Monday - Friday Opens at 6AM; Sat opens at 7 AM

* Comments of Decor: this is a big red barn of a place with a working water wheel out front--you enter via a store with shelves packed full of grains and flour and a wonderful array of enticements. The room is BIG and open and inviting. There is counter to order food in the back: and you can choose to eat downstairs, upstairs (on a balcony overlooking the store) or outside (lovely setting!).  You get a number to place on your table and food is delivered to your table. There is a tour of the mill available on M_F between 10:00 - 11:00.  It is a worker's owned operation.  All very appealing.  
* The Food Was: not so good. We had the veggie omelet--and the veggies were steamed and not sauteed before they got into the omelet --so they were s little soggy and rather tasteless.  They claimed to have 3 eggs in the omelet--but they would have had to be very very small eggs if there really were three.  The same with the side potatoes, there was nothing interesting about them at all.  Best thing on the plate was there toast --home baked bread-- fresh and yummy.  We also got a Buttermilk Waffle on the side--it looked like and tasted like an Eggo frozen waffle.   The coffee was weak--and not worth a second cup
* You Ought to Try --walking around the place is fun- The fresh baked bread looked inviting and the toast with breakfast was good. So their fresh baked bread is probably worth a try. 
* The Service Was -- well-- they took our order and brought the food the to table -- but there was hardly any interaction with anyone worth making comment about
* Of special note -- we got some Steel Cut Oatmeal (a package) for about 1/4 the price of steel cut oatmeal in the local supermarket. W haven't tried but yet. But the prices on their flour's and grains were might good . Also, "Dave's Killer Bread" Factory store is across the street...and it is always a happy thing to stop and get a loaf of Dave's Bread.
* We will go back? -- not for breakfast .. but maybe we might try lunch (a fresh sandwich? ) when we go back for more steel cut oatmeal.  It is had to be hopeful when breakfast was so abysmal (not bad--but so not nearly as good as can be found elsewhere) but the grains they have are a magnet
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