Edelweiss Cafe

This Tea Room/​Café opened recently in the Antiques at the Market space last occupied by a very different style of restaurant. My husband and I visit The Market regularly, (love the shopping) and were looking forward to trying this new addition.
I am hoping for future visitors that they find a better experience.
We were greeted by a pleasant young woman and offered to choose our seat from either room. The chairs and tables apparently come with the rent and Edelweiss has been decorated with The Sound of Music abandon. There really is nothing much to exclaim over. Its nice. I could do without the constant soundtrack from the above mentioned movie, but I hadn’t planned on being there more than 45 minutes. I was wrong.
We ordered sandwiches. A chicken salad and a Reuben. They took 20+ minutes. There were two other people there so it was not swamped.
I ordered plain iced tea. It must have been made differently than I am use to, I didn’t enjoy it. But I didn’t complain. That was just MY taste buds at work. This is a tea room. I am a southern tea gal, so no points taken off for that.
My sandwich was the Von Trapp Reuben. I love my Reubens. I was very disappointed. The bread was exactly what I expected. The wonderful marble rye from Great Buns Bakery. Unfortunately, half of it was destroyed by the handful of sauerkraut that drenched it, then the quarter inch thick slice of barely melted cheese that came next did not help. I could have used some dressing to flavor it, but what I received was some thousand island stuff that only made it on half the sandwich. The meat was clearly not the cheap stuff but it was just killed by being too little of it and too much of the other stuff.
I could not pick up my food to eat it. I finally had to take the two top pieces of bread, ¼ of the kraut and all of the meat and make half a sandwich. I did find some dressing on the meat to use. It was then edible. The three fruit coleslaw was different. It needed something to make it pop.
My husband’s Chicken Salad was under seasoned. It was served on a croissant which elevated the salad enough to be just okay. Enough said. Skip this, please.
Our server was good. She didn’t hover. She asked if we needed more ice water and she asked if we would be interested in dessert well before bringing our check. High points for her.
If only we could have received our food faster and had better food, this would had been a good experience. As it stands, there are some jinks that still need to be worked out or Edelweiss won’t be singing along with Julie Andrews much longer.
Décor 3
Service 8
Food 3
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Total 14 out of 30