Cafe Refreshed

Well, since it seems the other review on here comes from the mouth of someone associated with the place, let’s get a little real up in here.
I won’t lie, I was really looking forward to trying this place out. I live only a few blocks away, and used to frequent Sun Café. I’m always looking for some new places to spice up bland little Portage Park. Sadly, all Café Refreshed made me want to do was kick something.
My girlfriend and I were looking for a lunch slightly healthier than the Italian beefs or gyros we usually find in the area (in hindsight, a mistake) and so we decided we’d try the new café on Montrose.
Upon walking in we discovered three strangely arranged tables in a large space. Empty walls. A faint suggestion of music drifting from a radio behind the counter somewhere. Ok, I thought, this place is new, and hell, at least it’s quiet…
I ordered the chicken pita «delight» and an iced Snicker’s latte. My girlfriend ordered a turkey wrap and an iced coffee.
Here we go.
I get my pita. I try to pick it up. The entire thing crumbles in my hands. This has to have been the cheapest pita bread ever made. I go to get a fork to eat my mush with. Oh, there’s no forks. Great. I’ll just eat it with my hands, like an animal.
My drink comes. It’s a small. Ordered a medium. Oh, they’re out of milk? And ice? So I have a half a lukewarm latte. Marvelous.
My girlfriend’s drink– room temperature iced coffee, black, with not a single ice cube. Her wrap, mysteriously missing lettuce.
(Warning, language use gets a little ugly from here on out.)
Seriously, how the fuck do you run a coffee and sandwich place and not have any fucking milk, ice, silverware or fucking lettuce. Really? Are people in this neighborhood stupid enough to put up with this shit? We can’t be the first people to walk in here. I mean, as an owner of a fucking coffee shop, you think you might have been inside a couple before, you know, see how they’re fucking run. No ice? What year is this? Oh, 2008. My drinks should be floating on fucking hover trays, not coming lukewarm because your dumb ass ran out of ICE! Walk down the street to the fucking gas station and buy a bag. And while you’re there, buy some fucking plastic forks, some milk and some goddam lettuce.
Never. Never ever will I come back here.
(And for all you waitresses and baristas, no I don’t hold the woman behind the counter solely responsible. She did nothing to fix the problem, but I know someone else probably was in charge of ordering. Fuck ‘em both.)

NOW CLOSED… best of luck Nef…
Formerly the Sun Café in portage Park… this newly renovated space, Café Refreshed… has much more to offer in organic options such as Coffee, espresso, Cappuccino, and Teas… not to mention Great Salads, Sandwich Delights and Wraps as well… Pastries, bagels, and cookies… all in a delightfully clean, and contemporary setting… I can’t wait for the outdoor seating to be approved… just in time for summer!