by Brooke W. on Best breakfast place that no one has ever heard of. Only had to wait for like 5 minutes once. I gave up Honey's about a year ago...no food is worth waiting for that long, especially when you're a hungover, coffee needing morning mess. Cafe Lift has easy parking, as it's in the Callowhill district where people still don't seem to live if you gauge it by vehicles. Opens up at 10am but we've been seated before that by very obliging (or perhaps empathetic) servers. Lemon ricotta pancakes are the dish that most sticks out in my mind. You'd expect a whallop of something but no...all the flavors are subtle and the result is a lightly sweet, thin pancake that melts onto your ton. A lb. of fresh whipped cream is your choice to add. I enjoy the wraps, the frittatas, the pancakes...you name it. There are plenty of savory dishes...and like Sabrina's (with a much longer line) there are over-the-top dessert-type breakfasts. The coffee is strong and good and they keep it coming. Our poor tea-drinking friend doesn't have so much luck with the refills. Service isn't great--which is why it'll keep me from throwing 5 stars its way...but that doesn't distract me from the food, which is saying a lot. It's almost completely replaced Honey's, Sabrina's and Morning Glory for me, which share similiar service issues. I'm going to think the servers probably have the same hangover I do...except they were up since I went to bed!
by Noelle Fontenelle on Mojitos and margaritas in every flavor. Truthfully, I think they only have 24 or something but what a great way to experiment. I tried strawberry, blueberry, pear and grapefruit that night. Only 20 more to go! The drinks are pretty reasonable, $8 for margaritas and $10 for mojitos but that might have been happy hour prices. Food I snacked on was good but I wouldn't mind coming back to try dinner and more drinks!!
by michelle i. on i have a couple of friends who are really into salsa so we came here one night to check it out... i am not into salsa dancing so it wasn't my kind of place at all. my friends weren't too impressed either with the crowd so we didn't stay long. probably a good place though if you're trying to learn salsa. i hear they have lessons here.
