Old Florida Cafe

We loved this combination of antique store and Café. We had coffee and carrot cake. Tasted great, very inexpensive and the cake felt homemade. They also had an interesting selection of sandwiches. The décor inside was very interesting as well as a beautiful patio to sit in the front. Lovely!

Stopped here with a friend for lunch. I had the perfect blt: the freshest bread, the crispest lettuce, tasty bacon cooked to perfection and just the right amount of mayo. You know you’re in a really good restaurant when you can’t possibly duplicate the meal at home. My friend had the reuben about which she is an expert. She gave it top marks. The décor is funky. The indoor seating is close, so I almost didn’t give it five stars, but the food is so good (dessert to die for), I had to do it because it is a place without pretensions, and, fine, for what it is.

Staff is friendly. Prices are ok for what you get. Food is nothing to write home about. I got a cheese melt. Which is basically a grilled cheese sandwich. I felt they could have left it on the grill a little longer. Everything looked to be a la carte. In order to get anything with my sandwich it was extra. Basically it came with a pickle slice but if you wanted a small bag of chips it was a dollar more.

Amazing!!! Spectacular service!!! We had the BLT, the turkey sandwich, the chicken noodle soup, the beans and rice and the key lime cheese cake… all home made. Absolutely delish!!! Oh the bread, the bread!!! You must try this sweet little restaurant.

Old Florida Café is definitely a place you go to eat not necessarily to associate the name with the building. The building is another oddity in town, but who cares when the sandwiches are the best there are?
You have several choices of breads and sandwich types to choose from, I suggest the pumpernickel BLT. The lines are long sometimes, and inside seating can be hard to find. But there is a lovely deck out front with table umbrellas to relax under.
Again, go here for the food. The staff are friendly and funny. You might even find some fun little antique or other goody inside the shop while you’re waiting in line to order. But you won’t be disappointed.

My Fiancé and I are regulars to ye Olde Micanopy, but we never really eat there. We have gotten root beer floats and water (At nearby Coffee N cream), but never actually noshed.
We were hungry for foods a few weeks back and dropped into Old Florida Café, but they had stopped serving food at 4. We wanted to try the «Rebecca» which was a Reuben… with bacon. So we made a mental note and went back yesterday.
We both wanted that Rebecca cause she sounded delicious, but I decided to try their Cuban sandwich after realizing that they serve quite a few «Cuban» dishes like black beans and rice, and black bean soup. I am a sucker for a good Cuban, having had it in Miami, and Ybor City a million times. The Sandwiches come with a pickle on the side, but no chips. The Cuban was 5.95, the Rebecca was 6.95, a small bag of chips is .75 and two cans of soda were 1.25 a piece.
The place is a café, but also sells antiques, and fauxtiques. Its very cramped on the merch side. there are a few tables on the café side, inside and more tables outside. The Porch has a huge oak right up in the middle, and Jasmine vines which are really fragrant this time of year. BUT the rows of Crusty books in cardboard boxes lining the walkway detract from the ambiance. There was also just «stuff» here and there for sale that wasnt in any sort of organized fashion. The girl taking our order was new, or I hope she was because when we asked her if chips came with the meal, she picked up a menu, read it and said «no» and she also asked someone in the back how much the Rebecca was (its not on the menu) even though I am sure she has passed by the same sign that’s on the register that says «The Rebecca…6.95» a few times.
We sat outside, and there were random ancient Trivial Pursuit question cards on the tables, ours had the «nazi germany» theme for some reason.
The table was wobbly, the chairs were not that comfy (metal no cushions). We got our food pretty quickly. Now, a Cuban… to me is supposed to be on Cuban bread… with ham, roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickles and mustard. A press is usually used to press the sandwich so that it is compact, the bread is toasted and the cheese is melted. OFC Cuban was on Cuban bread, had typical Sysco deli ham slices, Roast pork (that tasted straight outta a bag… and not an oven), swiss cheese, one round slice of pickle, and mayo. It was pressed/​heated but not to where the sandwich was all gooey and crusty… the bread was toasted and the mayo/​ham/​cheese/​pork/​pickle concoction was lukewarm inside. The cheese didnt even melt enough to hold it together. I had to scrape off the mayo, cause there was so much. the lack of mustard was noted. It wasnt a Cuban… it was a warm ham sandwich.
The Rebecca, was also disappointing. it had corned beef, toasted rye bread, sauerkraut, cheese and thousand island dressing and also Bacon. It was overly sweet tasting, and there wasnt enough bacon on it to even taste the bacon. Both sandwiches were very small.
16 bucks and change, and we both have NO idea how they can charge that much for such poor quality food.
That and the flies and mosquitoes were so bad that we were waving our hands about like crazy people, they should really have citronella burning or fans out there.
end note. there was a sign in the ladies room that said «to offset the cost of Toilet paper and water bills please buy a soda on the way out»…how about you guys buy that TP with the money you are overcharging customers for food?
Edit: Their last restaurant inspection had critical violations for not washing hands, not keeping meat and milk at correct temp, no hair restraints, food containers stored on floor, not dating food that had been opened for more than 24 hours, and that wasnt the first time they have been noted for those violations. youve been warned.

The Old Florida Café wasn’t exactly what I was expecting, honestly: given its name I was more or less expecting some form of «Old Florida» food but instead they serve pretty typical sandwiches with an emphasis on Cuban sandwiches and also black bean soup. None of this is bad, understand, and the Cuban sandwich I had was in fact quite good, a large portion, and at a fair price, but there’s nothing aside from the atmosphere of an old building and its front porch to connect me with what I think about as «Old Florida» of our region. The Cracker folk who lived in «Old Florida» didn’t eat Reubens and Cubans, I daresay. The Pearl Country Store just down the road on US 441 however has great BBQ plus traditional sides like greens and cole slaw, plus great desserts. That’s much more «Old Florida» to me.
For what the Old Florida Café does, it does well: the setting is nice enough, the service is friendly, and the prices are fair. To me, there’s nothing really distinct about them however.

There are two sandwich shops in downtown Micanopy, both are just a few steps from each other. Old Florida Café was a little busier and had more nick knacks for sale, so my companion and I opted to have lunch there. The menu was predominantly sandwich fare. The had black beans and rice, so we ordered that and split it, plus a Reuben sandwich a piece. The Reubens were pretty hearty. They weren’t as grilled as I prefer, but they were generous with the meat. The black beans and rice were good and they gave us raw onion, sour cream and salsa to put on top. I’ve never had it this way. It was good. The tables were strewn about the inside and outside. We chose to sit outside. All the outdoor seating was in the shade on a deck surrounded with plants. The plants were for sale. We entertained ourselves with the tiniest kitten who was waiting for scraps. The lady next to us kept handing me pieces of roast beef from her sandwich to give to the kitten. Overall, I had a nice time here. The food wasn’t anything special, but still seemed to have better offerings than the other sandwich shop in Micanopy. They have desserts and ice cream, though the cakes and pies were still in the plastic containers from the store.