But if you do like crepes, please head over -- because they are good. If you are not familiar with crepes, they are very popular across the pond in France. It's essentially a very thin pancake made from wheat flour and it can be filled with either something savory or sweet. They have both of these types at Fenton Cafe.
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fair warning, they have just opened and are going through some growing pains. The service was quite slow this morning. Even though they opened at 8:00am, when we went a bit past 9:00am the crepe makers were still not warmed up. So we had to sit a bit until the crepe makers were ready to do.And I'm not sure why, but even though they have 2 crepe makers, only one was used for our crepes. So my wife was served hers first and then they did mine. So she was already finished by the time mine arrived.
But I am happy to say both crepes were tasty. She had the ricotta and jam crepe for $4.95 and I tried a savory one -- cheese, avocado and tomato -- for $5.95. We were very happy with both of them and I will say mine was very filling. This could definitely do for a lunch. It was really too much for a weekday breakfast, but I did wolf it all down.
The crepes run in prices from just under $4 to $8.50, with most in the $5-$6 range. The savory crepes include chicken, turkey, cheese, ham, feta/spinach, eggplant/veggies, spinach, tuna and several combinations in between. There are 31 varieties of the sweet with several nutella choices, jam, lemon, maple syrup, and a few fruit types.
The cafe serves coffee, espresso, bottled water, soft drinks and Red Bull. If you want real milk/cream for your coffee you'll probably need to request it since the only stuff out is of the non-dairy variety.
There are 3 tables and 5 bar stools for eating in and it is a decent and cozy setting. We will definitely be back and since they're the only place that I know of in the 'hood doing crepes, I'm guessing as long as the service improves, they'll do OK.
I'll see you there!
10 comments:
That's crazy that they're a crepe place, but didn't try and capture that in their name at all. That seems like such an obvious error - you're going to piss people off who assume it's a lunchtime sandwich place (like I did before reading this) and lose out on all the crepe addicts who would go out of their way to come to this place if they knew what it served.
Hooray for crepes in Silver Spring!!!
But seriously, good point about the name, I am 200x more likely to stop in now that I know about the CREPES!
I had no idea this was going to be a crepe place. I also just assumed it'd be another greasy spoon-type joint.
Very happy about this development.
Maybe the help wanted sign on the door was for a chief marketing officer. This position has obviously yet to be filled.
Maybe one of you should politely and diplomatically suggest they modifiy their name....and explain the reason why. They can either keep the name the same or they can incorporate your great idea, to which you could take credit. Given the lack of creativity, I doubt anyone would be so enamored with the name as to blow you off completely.
Eggspectation does crepes! But this is exciting that we have a quick food crepery! :)
Agree on the name. Not having a name that indicated they specialized in crepes (or a sign out front that indicated "Hey, we make crepes!") also was a problem the first time I went there. We went over to that end of town just to try this place, but I wasn't sure exactly where it was or what it was called, I just knew there was a new crepe place on Fenton. When we walked up the street, we initially went right by because I assumed it was just a cafe.
we went on sunday but they were closed, and the times of operation were not posted on the window :(
Crepes and coffee are great, friendly staff, and nice atmosphere!
I have it on good authority (from Thayer Avenue's resident coffee aficionado--it's his roaster you sometimes smell on Saturday mornings if the wind is just right!) that they have the best coffee and espresso in the area, hands-down.
The owner apparently knows his stuff in that department, and he's making a good effort to train the staff well.
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