cherries breakfast bistro

family friendly. lots of room.. we have been customers since it opened and i can say that they have finally gotten their service and food quality consistent. ample portions,goodflavour, faster service. recommend the mennonite sausage dishes and espresso (umbria).

nomnomnom. food was delicious and quick, atmosphere and setup was a bit weird at first. definitely worth a go if you're looking for agoodeggs benny.

wow!!! absolutely delightful breakfasts,goodsized portions, friendly atmosphere and staff. definitely a pleasant experience i can't wait to repeat : )

excellent benny! verygoodbistro but can't touch urban cup. in our neighbourhood tho so very convenient.

food waygoodbut greasy/oily. my brother in law asked for little to no oil or butter and the potatoes were swimming in oil. the bill was quite expensive , three adults and three kids was over $100. would go back but ask for less oil.

i ordered the chowder , but was hesitant because it was 13 dollars . i thought for that much money it must be a huge bowl or at least bottomless .. .. much to my demise it wasn't either .. it was probably a half a cup of soup in a very shallow bowl .. a fellow patron also ordered the same soup and he told me as well how dissapointed he was too .. he said for that amount he should have ordered a meal ,at least then he would have been full and the money spent would have been justified. ..ps if you wantgoodfood and excellent service and reasonable prices go to " the village on west saanich rd only a short drive from cherries ..

excellent breakfasts, the duck sausage & sweet potato hash is especially good. the option of sitting outside is nice. coffee isgoodbut not outstanding. the service model, as others have mentioned, is a bit confusing; i have a bit of trouble deciding upon a tip % until after the meal!
overall a solid breakfast, a true sit-down restaurant experience would have led to a 4 rating.

we went to the express side and had a grilled cuban sandwich and an americano coffee. the seats outside in the sun were really nice and the staff was friendly however the sandwich was just ok and the coffee came in a huge mug with way too much water. i think the coffee was probablygoodquality but was hard to tell as it was watered down. this place seems to have somegoodreviews so i'll try it again, maybe for breakfast.

food isgoodbut service model is weird and confusing. either make it full service or self service, but not a hybrid where you bring me my food but i get my own napkins and am expected to somehow intuitively know that the coffee i ordered comes up not at the counter where i ordered it but at the other one around the corner. if they would only change that i'd give it a 5. as it is, 3.5.

peninsula diner. nice place,goodfood, friendly staff -but - total confusion on the order process. they need to change the system before i would go back i am afraid. also very difficult to get a coffee refill. you have to go up and ask for it. why not leave out a full jug for self top ups?

5 strikes and cherries is out.. i have been to cherries on more than a couple occasions. it is nice to have a breakfast cafe in the area as there isn't much else in the neighbourhood. however, they have not fully impressed me to date. i seem to keep going there expecting changes but leaving disappointed every time.

the service: the counter service order system bothers me a little as you are still paying full brunch/lunch prices and tipping the full gratuity yet not receiving the same standard of service you would had you just gone across the street to somewhere like the crooked goose. last time i went we waited in line to order for 10 minutes then were given our disgusting and chewed up plastic fruit marker (to signify your order) for the table and had a seat. it then took over sixty minutes to get the food (after my friend complained about the wait twice) we watched other tables getting frustrated with the wait times and sending back food or having one meal brought while everyone else waited. i see from other reviewers that this is a consistent issue there as well. the server didn't apologize for the wait and said only that we should have been told there was a 40 minute wait for food. fair enough, but first, we weren't told and second, i feel that to be an inappropriately long wait time for a so called restaurant. the kitchen seems as if it's not properly equipped to handle the volume of patrons that the restaurant fits.
the food: well. the first time i went, it was good. i got eggs benedict and hashbrowns. we enjoyed the hash with the fresh herbs and veg and the bennies were good. from there it got worse and worse, greasier and smaller. i have ordered the same thing a couple times and the grease from the hash is outrageous. on one occasion my partner ordered the "mennonite sausage on a bun" and it was a sloppy mess. it was a big greasy sausage stuffed in a hamburger bun. picture trying to eat a hot dog in a hamburger bun. how ridiculous would you feel? another occasion we tried the duck sausage which were two small, dry, hard, flavourless patties with a side of greasy sweet potato hash. it's quite a feat to suck all the fat from duck by the way, and thats not really agoodthing. another time i ordered the burger which was, you guessed it, overly greasy. it was stuffed with cheese and then cooked in grease and mounded up on a greasy bun with bacon and veg.
so why do i keep going back? like i said, its the only place in the area that has the same type of diner feel. plus i like to give places a fair shot and not just write them off after one visit but honestly its no longer worth it. not worth the time waiting, the money spent, or the grease indigestion later.

while the food was reallygoodit took an hour to get it and of the 3 at our table none of our meals came at the same time. parts of one meal even came out at different times which just seems odd. one of our meals got sent to the wrong table so having somewhere to be we had to take it to go after 70 minutes in total. i have been here a few times before and enjoyed the food but the service or lack thereof leaves a lot to be desired. it seems there are always staffing issues which i get but in my opinion that should never affect the customer and overall experience. i'll only return if i have no where to be and am ok with waiting over an hour for food...

wow - what a surprise!. this place is an incredible surprise. it's a little funky and little retro but the food is amazing and the portion size will make your eyes widen in astonishment! i had their turkey and spinach sandwich. omg it was sogoodand flavourful, i've never had anything that has come even close to this one. i would encourage everyone to give this place a try. i'll definitely be back for more.

wouldn't recommend. we had heard this was agoodplace to try. the prices seemed a bit high for self serve but we kept open minded. the staff at the till are very friendly. the food was in general notgoodat all. collectively we thought everything was "mushy and sloppy". i had the turkey saandwich, granted i didn't get the cranberry sauce which may have added flavour however the bread was "wet" and was greasy not with butter not sure what, the turkey was plentiful but had not taste, must say the salad it came with was good. my daughter ordered eggs benedict with eggs soft and they came hard, so the server asked if she'd like them soft so we said yes, she said do you want hollandaise sauce and we said yes (whats an egg benney withoutsauce) the sauce was cold, and the potatoes were burnt, the english muffin didn't seem toasted. my husband ordered the pulled pork hot dog which was fine however his potatoes were also burnt. we wouldn't go back.

terrible. we had visited cherries once before and after getting the gist of the service model and experiencing agoodbreakfast we thought we'd go again.

i ordered the big boss brekky and my partner ordered the special xmas benny. i'll start with the 'boss', worst breakfast i've had in victoria. the toast was rock hard and obviously cold, how the cooks didn't see that is beyond me, it was so cold the butter didn't melt and so hard my mouth vibrated when i bit into it. the order was pieced together with different things arriving at different times, sausage was lukewarm and had no taste to it at all. one egg arriving, then another arriving 5 minutes later, no explanation from the service staff at all. i left 80% of the food uneaten on the plate, for what we paid, and compared to our first visit it was horrible.

my partner had the xmas benny, eggs totally under-poached, one english muffin toasted, the other sort of toasted. we both had americano's, my partner approached the counter person for a bit of a warm up for the coffee and was informed that "we don't do that here", she actually argued with my partner, we were blown away. we spent $35 for breakfast, had to ask for a cloth to clean the table, and then we have to argue with the counter person fior a coffee warm-up?

i understand this service model, but essentially what cherries is doing is passing the buck to their customers when things don't go right. i read a reply from the owner which stated they operate under a different model of service which is fine if the food is good, but unfortunately this time it was horrible, and the limited interaction with the staff provided absolutely no comfort or resolution to any of these issues. a heartily sarcastic "bon appetite"! oh, and the person working the counter - your in the customer service business, look it up if you don't know what that means.