sunny point cafe & bakery

reviews were accurate. good food at reasonable prices. definitely recommend.

if you have to wait, it's worth it...huevos rancheros and shrimp and grits are comfort food gone wild. love this place.

popular breakfast spot. on a recent trip to asheville, nc the wife and i had sunny point cafe on our "must do" list for breakfast places. the menu along with online reviews and mouthwatering pictures of the food had us frothing at the mouth and at the restaurant 30 minutes before they opened on a recent sunday morning. it was a good thing to for the line was quickly 50 people long before the doors opened. so get there early if you want a weekend brunch spot! now, the staff did a great job filling up the restaurant and getting orders in, coffee served, etc to the entire restaurant at once. having worked in a restaurant before, i know that can be a pretty intimidating chore, but they did great.

hot, delicious coffee started us out and the wife drooled all over and raved like a maniac over the breakfast sandwich croissant of maple black pepper bacon. she was in love!

my vegetarian huevos fucheros was not as satisfying. it was either the cilantro crema or feta cheese that gave it an off-putting too creamy for my style tastes. if i were to do it again and could do it without that one ingredient, i'm sure the taste would have improved.

did this deter my experience? nah, cause the biscuits i ordered with the homemade jam more than made up for it! so good we came back for breakfast on tuesday to get more biscuits and jam (including two jars of jam to bring back to cincinnati). wife again got the breakfast sandwich croissant of maple black pepper bacon and i got the vegetarian sausage on a biscuit with cheese.

the veggie sausage crushed the tofu chorizo on the huevos fucheros in my opinion. delicious.

great place, big crowds. get there early and form a line by the door, because rude, hungry people will try to force their way in front of you to get at this scrumptious food.

get to the point!. i've been to sunny point café three times (each at different times of the day), tried three entrees, and sat in three different sections of the restaurant. naturally, i feel confident that i can give you a solid review of sunny point café. no first impressions have soiled or set my opinion of this place; also, rest assured that there is a gorgeous photograph of each dish i've tried uploaded on urbanspoon.
i tried sunny point café for the first time two weeks ago during the first day of my fall break. i liked it so much that i decided to go back for a second visit on my way out the morning i left for school. having come back to town for a weekend stay, i've capitalized on another opportunity to attend what has fast become my most favorite location for breakfast and lunch in asheville.

i'm no stranger to home-cooked meals; i prepare homemade southern food on a (very) regular basis, and i appreciate originality, nuance, and authenticity, as well as traditional preparation of old staples. however, any way southern breakfast food is conceptualized and prepared, i'm very particular that it be done homemade and with care. as a result, if i'm going out to eat breakfast, i'm going somewhere that can fulfill my desire for a satisfying, delicious, and properly prepared breakfast. anything else, in my humble opinion, is a waste of my time and money, unless i'm in a hurry (and i do hate eating breakfast in a hurry . . . it is a meal which deserves devotion and effort).

sunny point café (along with two other breakfast giants on haywood road) has so far yielded the most satisfying breakfast and lunch experiences that i've ever had in asheville (followed closely by salsa's, downtown (for lunch)). the atmosphere is quite friendly and convivial. i've been served by two different waitresses during my visits, and any and all service has been prompt, attentive, and very kindly administered (during all three visits during three different times of the day).

the food is affordable, relatively speaking. of course, one other pretty solid breakfast option (just down the road) serves a more traditional style for a bit less money, but sunny point café offers the traditional and the "new southern" options, served properly (every time), for a very good price. the portions are also quite large. at very few restaurants have i been served that much food-with that quality of both ingredients and preparation-within that price range. however, to be fair, the restaurant ought to be listed as "$$"
on urbanspoon, not "$".

and, the very best part of sunny point café is their attention to every ingredient and menu item. if you've read my other reviews, you understand that, as a cook, i esteem and value very highly a restaurant (which, keep in mind, is a business) which can prepare "home-cooked" food properly all across the menu. sunny point café goes the extra mile, and makes sure that, as a foundation, all of their ingredients are also local and "home-grown". the big hullabaloo over local food can only be justified, however, if said "local" food is prepared properly and tastes good (obviously).
so, to my immense enjoyment and satisfaction, i have walked away from sunny point café every time with a serious difficulty figuring out which item on my plate i enjoyed the most. in my opinion, this is a good problem. it means that every item that was put on my plate was thought-up and prepared with care and attention. it means that the biscuits and spuds aren't there to fill me up; it means that my glorious chicken sandwich suddenly has to compete with, of all things, my salad, as the king of my plate. this is a glorious problem, indeed, and it's why i'll be back to sunny point café again and again, until my king returns, until i die, or until they decide to stop serving me good food. keep it coming, sunny point!

ratings: atmosphere: 4.5/5 (check out their garden); service: 4.8/5; accessibility: 4.2/5 (the way they handle their long wait line is impressive; also, park across the street at the dollar store); affordability: 4.2/5; cleanliness: 4.8/5; portion sizes: 5/5; food quality: 5/5.

overall rating: 4.8/5; if you're a tourist, eat here. if you live in asheville and haven't tried it in a long time or haven't ever tried it, try it today. sunny point café is among my most favorite places to eat.

i had a nice fresh salad with delicious rice cakes. my visit reminded me how much i love a simple salad alongside dinner. the patio was nicer than i recall it, and our service was good. i loved the cute signs about the rules for the playground.

only been here once but can't wait to go again. so many things on their menu i'd love to try. i also love that they have a garden they get some of their veggies from!

bland food, indifferent service. sunny point was a complete disappointment. a nice atmosphere, even a nice place to wait, spoiled by indifferent service and forgettable, bland food. the coffee was excellent, which made the wait the high point of the visit.

service: we were seated and ordered immediately. our server came back to our table when the food was ready; no coffee refills, no silverware. our request for silverware seemed to put her out, as did my request for a coffee refill at the same time.

not our server's fault, but a couple another server knew was seated at the table next to us. she stood there with her butt hanging over our table (the tables are only about 2' apart) yakking away during the entire meal, nothing like having a butt in your face during your breakfast. my wife even nudged her at one time, but she wasn't about to move. our server had to hand the silverware and coffee across, because she couldn't get around oblivious butt-lady.

food: i had the wild mushroom omelet and grits. i'm not a big salt-and-pepper-er, but i had to pour it on to try to coax an inkling of flavor. the eggs were cooked past-done; i had no one to complain to as our server was enamored with the artsy regular a couple of tables over. my wife's granola was very good, and the biscuit i had was good. it would have been better with butter and honey, which came with the artsy guy's but didn't come with mine, for some reason.

i've read great reviews and heard great things. the coffee was very good. maybe we caught them on an off-day, or maybe i ordered the wrong thing, but for $25 for breakfast - plus a very miserly tip - i expected more.

always a treat! great vibe from the staff, great place to sit outside on a sunny morning. totally worth the wait if there is one.

ridiculous breakfast. i think i've ordered non-huevos rancheros once and tried others' breakfast but really, you need to get the huevos. i've had this dish many other places but it just doesn't touch this version. there's so many components (cilantro cream being the best) and they all work so well together. so in conclusion, if you want a savory breakfast and are pretty hungry, come here for the huevos rancheros! other than that, good services, nice place, and overall excellent menu.

amazing fried green tomato on a croissant! yum yummy!

on our last morning we wanted to go out for a solid brunch. after searching the internet and yelp, we found sunny point cafe . not only was it highly rated, it was only 3 minutes from where we were staying! we arrived at about 10 and had a half hour wait. once again, asheville restaurants have the best service. we put our name on a list and got a buzzer and then went over to the outdoor coffee station to fill our cups. i love brunch joints that have good coffee for those that are waiting. while we were waiting we had a chance to walk around their garden . the back of the property is a giant vegetable garden where they grow food for the restaurant. you can't get any more farm-to-table than that!

duke ordered the organic carrot hot cakes, and in retrospect should have ordered a short stack... the portions were huge! topped with cardamom cream cheese, even i couldn't resist veggie-filled pancakes. i may have to attempt something similar at home.

an excellent place for breakfast or brunch if you are willing to wait. they use local hormone antiobiotic free meats which is music to my ears. some great picks are the breakfast croissant, the amazing stuffed french toast available in savory (with cream cheese, cheddar, and crumbled local sausage) or sweet versions, and the award winning huevos rancheros with blean bean cakes, eggs,chorizo, salsa verde, roasted potatoes, tortilla slivers, and cilantro crema. i've been trying to replicate this dish at home ever since i first had it. this time around i tried a special dish about to be entered in a food competition. the tomato napoleon, with layers of local h

by far my favorite breakfast place in asheville. can't go wrong with anything on the menu. great lunch and dinner too.

good food, not so good service. they are attentive- but they are rude