Avalon Cafe and Kitchen

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2025-03-02

Very yummy food. Vegan and vegetarian options. Brunch had a lot of good options. French onion soup is a must! French dip sandwhich delicious! The crispy potato tacos portion was a little small. Staff were kind and good service. Nice new renovation, kind of dark vibe wish there was more natural light but it was nice

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2025-03-15

Really good food. We had French onion soup, salmon omelette, and French dip sandwich, and we were very pleased with all of it! Our server, Michael, was friendly, efficient, and attentive. There is a tiny bakery section, so we picked up a few treats (cookies, scones, bread) before we left, and they were all great! If we're ever in Ann Arbor again, we'll go back to the Avalon!

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2025-03-22

What happened?! My wife and I went to the old location and loved it a few months ago. This morning we decided to go and were happy to explore their new location. This is where things got weird. Their new location is a portion of Pretzel Bell which seems to have recently been renovated, and when we arrived there were several open tables, but we were instead taken inside the other portion of the restaurant which was just Pretzel Bell. We didn't get the Avalon menu, but were told the Pretzel Bell menu was the same - fair enough. I ordered the French Toast and a side of sausage and my wife ordered the Potato Tacos. I got the sausage because when I asked if the bacon was chewy or crispy the server didn't know - just that it was cooked "good". The tacos were really nice and had a great slaw & sauce with it. The french toast however, was very dry on the inside and didn't seem to have been soaked in anything (especially not the custard that the menu claimed). Really nice flavor still with some pretty good eggs and ~a tablespoon of berries. The sausages however were completely pink on the inside. I don't know if this is how they are supposed to be, but something about pink ground meat seems wrong. I waited for our sever to come back and ultimately needed to walk to the back of the Avalon side (after we finished the rest of our food) in order to find someone to talk to about them. When I asked if they were supposed to be pink inside they said "Well I don't think so" and quickly took them so I could get a new order. The new order came and again, completely pink inside. Maybe this is how it's supposed to be, but none of the waitstaff seemed very knowledgeable about the food they were selling, and I didn't want to risk getting sick. Between the under-battered french toast and the seemingly raw sausage I had some opinions about the prices they were charging (they also add a 'non gratuity' surcharge to all checks) and the inattentive service. It seems like this transition to the new location still has some issues to work out. We only saw our server for ordering and for the check - so we were never offered any refills on coffee or asked how our food was. Overall a big disappointment from what was one of our favorite locations in Ann Arbor. Maybe something got lost in translation in the move, but for the price of the food (averaging about 16 to 20 a plate, and 6 for a side of sausage/bacon) it doesn't seem worth the time or money to give it another go.