The Power Plant Cafe

Hands down my favorite breakfast place in Tallahassee. A great place for a relaxing brunch. The Tesla bagel sandwich with cream cheese is the best breakfast sandwich in town, even when compared to Keke’s, Country Kitchen, and Canopy Road. Their wraps are good too. Their baked goods are also among the best in town, probably also the best. The great food, quick service, and best park in town make this a Tallahassee best, for sure.

Why the Power Plant Cafe has Mixed Reviews
July 24, 2022

If you want to be treated humanly well, prepare to bite your tongue and keep your mouth shut. Approaching a Power Plant Cafe staff member with a simple and fixable issue will have you looking for a godparent for your baptism of fire.

I came in with my mother around 10am and I was falling in love with the industrial aesthetic and cleanliness. I ordered an iced latte with mocha and hazelnut. Aaysha, one of the baristas, prepared it and it was perfectly balanced with the right sweetness. I ended up ordering another one. Leeah, also one of the baristas, was the one to who prepared my second iced latte. When I received my second iced latte, it was completely different. The color was significantly darker and taste was oddly bitter. I approached the bar and kindly asked, “Excuse me, is this the same drink?” Leeah gave me the ugliest and most threatening stare. She stared at me for a good 4 seconds and eventually broke the silence by saying, “Yeah, I used mocha and hazelnut.” She turned around to the newest hire, who told me with much joy that it was her second day, and started whispering, “...ridiculous...” right in front of my mother and I.

As a former barista, I understand that errors happen. However, the death stare was vile enough to make you tense, on guard, and have you clutching your black tourmaline. Errors like this happen because we are human, but I was not offered another drink or a refund. A simple apology would had been enough for me not to write this review. So, we left and here I am writing this for you, my fellow reader.

I had the most stellar grilled green tomato and cheese sandwich here. The Power Plant Cafe is next to the Edison Restaurant in Cascades Park. It's a lovely, peaceful spot for a sandwich, ice cream or other snack. Treat yourself and go for a late lunch, sit outside on the patio, and bring your book for a delicious afternoon of serious chilling. Stay for happy hour

Great place to stop for a wonderful coffee and hot breakfast sandwich. Clean and quiet environment and really friendly staff!

Horrible service. Employees do not seem to care about their jobs. Went in this weekend for breakfast and coffee - it wasn’t that busy but my coffee never came out and people who ordered after me were getting their coffee. When I finally asked about my latte the employee literally said “I don’t know” and then I further explained that it was on the order with the four breakfast sandwiches she then said “well I’m sure it’s coming” and then eventually said “ok, I’ll just make it”.

During all of this, there is a huge leak coming from the ceiling dripping onto one of the tables and the floor. There was no bucket, no sign, nothing to do anything about the water or alert customers that the floor was wet. When we left, we pointed it out to one of the employees and they said “oh yea, we know”.

The funniest part of the visit was when an employee came in with a HUGE bag of Whataburger and left it right on the counter for everyone to see.

All of this to say - the staff are incredibly unprofessional and need to be trained.

My significant other ordered the picnic basket option from them as a surprise for my birthday about 2 days beforehand. When we arrived she found that they had lost our order. When that was straightened out they only gave us about half the food we had ordered- and one of the employees was incredibly trite about our concerns. The food was solid though.

This place is great!! I prefer to stop in here rather than the connecting restaurant The Edison. - It's a great spot for hanging out and getting coffee. I tried the ice cream on a very hot day and it hit the spot! You can sit inside or outside...or even lay out in the grass! - This cafe is a great place in Cascades Park! No complaints here!

Terrible attention, 20 minutes sitting and no one attended us, we chose to leave.

Great location and service, a little pricey, but maybe that’s just inflation. Staff worked very hard on a busy Florida Inauguration Day!

This coffee shop has so much potential. It's in a fantastic location, in a beautiful park, yet it continues to be plagued by fixable issues.

As long as it’s been open, they’ve never had WiFi access. They continue to direct customers to the city park public WiFi, which is slow when working and spotty inside. For a coffee shop, not offering WiFi is a bizarre practice. Is it so cost-prohibitive? This is so easy to fix.

The music inside is always incredibly loud and is usually an odd playlist for a coffee shop. This seems like a silly thing, but taking a phone call or a zoom meeting (when you can get WiFi) is really difficult when 90's hits (which, like a good millennial, I love as much as the next guy) are blaring in the background.

Overall, the coffee is fine, the service is usually friendly and quick. But it's a hard place to get work done or have a quiet conversation, and it doesn't have to be. A couple tweaks and it could be a great spot. I hope somebody sees this and considers making a few adjustments.