Toro Place Cafe

Great roadside restaurant off 68. It's one of the closets restaurants to Laguna Seca. It has a nice selection of dishes to choose from. We have gone several times for lunch. The food is generally always pretty satisfying. Sometimes it could use a little more seasoning on some dishes. But all in all we leave happy. The place gets very busy at time and the waitresses can get bogged down so just bare with them. The always treat us right and are very welcoming. Highly recommend this place.

Best breakfast place around! The Toro plate was amazing. Potatoes were perfectly cooked and everything is home made including their delicious biscuits and lemonade. We didn't realize that our server was the owner till we saw his name tag. Josue was always smiling and on top of things as was his crew.

I had heard great things and seen photos and reviews of this place online so I was really excited to try it. It was very disappointing and it did not meet up to my expectations. Food was ok but very greasy. They stop serving breakfast fairly early at 11:30am so if you are not an early riser or have things to do and don't make it here before then, they make it a point you cannot order breakfast. The service was bad. When we walked in a lady in a rude tone said we are not serving breakfast. They must get late crowds a lot, however there is still a nice way to say things and approach people, especially if you are in a customer service oriented business. We said we were ok to have lunch no worries, but already felt they didn't want our business and were shooing us away. Then she said to sit where ever we wanted but we had never been there before so didn't know where to sit. She did not mention indoor/outdoor seating, etc. We saw outdoor seating and squeezed through the front counters to the back patio area. The outdoor area is quaint/nice but very outdated. There is clearly old decor from Xmas that looks like it's been there for ages and no one cares to take it down or update the place. I feel like this explains the whole place- it's like they don't put love into the business, no love into the food. The coffee was weak so that was also a let down and there was a cat hanging out in the patio area and I got cat hair in my coffee and I am allergic. The server was just very rude/cold which made us uncomfortable. We wanted to support local businesses and like this place but it just wasn't a good experience we decided we will not be back. I feel that if you are in a customer service position you definitely need to be more welcoming, warm. It's like she didn't want our business. It was strange since I did see her being nice to some of the other customers. This is unfortunate. I did not want to give such a bad review but we felt something had to be said.