Apple Blossom - Winchester

The Good: The deserts are great. The Greek offerings are pretty good if nothing special. The prices are OK. The Bad: The service is sketchy sometimes I think because they don't have enough servers or cooks when it gets busy. Sometimes the servers are openly bitter and you can hear them scrapping with the kitchen staff. The Ugly: Having food set in front of you that you didn't order and then listening to the server swear up and down that its what you ordered even though other people at your table heard you clearly order something else. When this happens check with nearby tables as most likely you have their order and they will get yours brought to them. Also, audit your bill closely because if you ordered it and never received it you will still get charged for it maybe even something ordered at another nearby table.

We've gone to the diner now a few times for dinner. The food is usually pretty good, but the service is somewhat lagging. The waitresses are usually pretty nice, but it usually takes them a while to come around to get the drink orders, and there have been a couple times where we waited and waited, and finally had to ask who our server was. Then someone would come up and get our order. I don't know if they don't decide on table sections, and just go in order or what, but waiting ten minutes to get an iced tea isn't ideal. Once the food comes, you won't see the waitresses very much either. We usually have had to flag someone down to get the checque. We like the food, we like the location, but there are other places we can eat that will have better service.

We were pulling into the Five Guys parking lot and saw this place. Supporting local business instead? You betcha! Let's give it a shot, we said... And when we walked in, we saw yummy looking pies and desserts in a glass case and thought, this was a good idea. We were wrong. Our server was friendly and attentive (she even made Welcome Back Kotter jokes). The food wasn't as friendly. We ordered the fried shrimp basket with french fries and the meatloaf with beet and mashed potatoes (without gravy). I asked that if they couldn't substitute my coleslaw (they couldn't) they just not bring it to the table. Minutes later, the waitress brought out our coleslaw and (cold pickled) beets. Okay... One minor mistake bringing coleslaw we asked not to get, that's fine. We didn't touch the coleslaw, and I tasted one beet and it was the straight out of a can variety, so we let those sit and waited for the main event: our entrees. Weeeell... Remember those days in school when well meaning hairy chinned cafeteria ladies tried to get you to eat Mystery Meat? So the food was pretty much like that. Yep. The meatloaf and mashed potatoes were covered in gravy, despite our request to the contrary, but the gravy was actually beaded with moisture as though the meal had been plated, refrigerated, and reheated in a microwave. My husband took a couple of bites and declared that it was every bit as bad as the food at his military school mess hall. Even the mashed potatoes were bad (I tasted them myself, and they were abysmal). My fried shrimp did resemble shrimp in shape and texture, but not taste, and I'm not even sure how they messed up the clearly frozen french fries. The waitress came back because she remembered that there wasn't supposed to be gravy on my husband's meal (another waitress had delivered the food), and she offered to have the meal redone without gravy though at that point it was clear that the gravy was clearly hiding the meatloaf, and we didn't want to see it any more clearly. We told her not to worry about that, and though we clearly weren't satisfied with our food, she wandered off. My husband began eating the bland shrimp from my dish out of sheer desperation. Several minutes later, the waitress returned and asked if he didn't like his meal; when he politely said it wasn't to her tastes, she said she was sorry to hear that and she hoped it wasn't because of the gravy. She didn't offer us something else or ask how to fix it and he had left the food largely untouched. The bill wasn't awful about $25 but the food was just so wretched that we could've done better at McDonalds.

This was not a good experience. We were greeted by the waitress tossing the menus on the table and walking away without saying a word. We sat down and waited for her to come back. She finally did to take drink order. She brought our drinks, then left. She finally came back and took our order. Iordered the country omelet, hash browns dry toast. The coffee tasted awful. The toast came with butter. I had to wait 10 minutes before she came back to the table. The omelet was over-cooked and potatoes under-cooked. The manager should have been helping instead of worrying about what was on television. He did give me a $3 discount. The food is over-priced. This is my first and last visit.

Order the cheeseburger deluxe with fries and extra pickles on the side. The restrooms are cleaning Pleasant, it was not busy at all due to the fact it was after 7 p.m. when I decided to stop and eat here. The burger was good, patty was not made here but still a good burger. Fries were nice and crispy. The small coleslaw was very good, just not a lot of it. Failed to mention that they do have Greek food here too. And they have a lot of pies. So all-in-all I would definitely recommend this place.