City Harvest Cafe - Oro Valley

Food is amazing and so fresh. Highly recommend the gnocchi. The service is always excellent.

Normally, I give Harvest a 4 or 5. But, due to a recent visit (two days ago), I have lowered my rating to a 3 out of 5 . The reason is that they have raised their prices, and are now charging extra for gluten free bakery goods (the bread served with meals). Harvest used to be a bargain, and well worth it. Now, it is just an average restaurant serving a little better than average food for prices that are higher than they should be. Update 11/18 19/23 … after a long time eating elsewhere we visited Harvest on both Saturday and Sunday (because the maple bacon burger was SO good when we ate in on Saturday, we ordered pick up on Sunday. Both times the hamburgers were great, and the sweet potato fries the best around (they seem to be made fresh, not taken out of a bag like Jerry Bob’s and most other places). The service was ok on Saturday … I personally find the extremely ‘relaxed’ wait staff attire a bit disappointing … McDonald’s staff are dressed better and have neater and more appealing hair styles … but the service on Sunday was awful. I called in the simple order (two hamburgers) and was told it would take 20 minutes. I arrived a bit early, and was told by the “hostess” (she really did not seem to understand the “hostess” aspect of her job) the order would be ready when originally promised 20 minutes from when I had called. Well, I had to wait a full 25 minutes after the promised time. And, really at no time did the “hostess” make any attempt to communicate what was happening. The owner/ manager even came to the host desk once and seemed unaware of how poor the service was. So, the food was great. The service is terrible.

The food here has always been amazing. The atmosphere is stellar. However, they’ll try and snatch your plate before you’re finished, and they hover too much. They just need to dial back the hovering, and let us enjoy ourselves without being rushed. I like to sit down with my friends at-least 30 to 45 minutes when we meet here.

I had the Cuban sandwich with a side salad and the berry iced tea...everything was delicious! They make their own salad dressings the salad was light tasty. But the Cuban was the star! Honey ham, pulled pork, Swiss cheese, Honey Dijon Aioli on a fine Challah bun! DELICIOUS!!

I will visit this restaurant again but a little disappointed my lunch veggie pasta was loaded with canned mushrooms and not fresh. Still enjoyed it but still….scratch?