My Garden Cafe 1109 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA 95355

"This casual lunch diner can be found at the Five Minute Carwash and I love it. Here’s what I love: - waitresses and cook are super friendly and helpful - food is always hot and tasty - Good-sized portions; I usually need to take home leftovers - the tables for 2 along the main pass through are placed by windows so you can watch the cars go through the wash; these are especially great if you have a little one with you - Free newspapers to read while you wait - Did I mention the food? I’m a sucker for biscuits and gravy with a hot cup of coffee in the morning. Sometimes I just want a fried egg. Sometimes I want the whole shebang and get the Reuben with fries. Whatever I order, I always love. - it’s a great place to meet up with a friend and grab a bite while your car gets cleaned. - full table service - I can shop first at Modesto Luggage and Leather for gifts and the staff delivers the gift-wrapped parcel to me as I have my lunch. This is great service from the gift shop but a boon to the cafe as well. What I wish was different: - it’s quite loud due to all the hard surfaces - dated feel, which might be a turnoff to new folks - pads on bench seating is flattening out, the vinyl is cracked and it slides about easily on the seat"

"I am a regular to the oakdale road location as I enjoy eating breakfast while waiting for my vehicle to be cleaned up. Their food is always amazing, large portions and high quality ingredients. Unfortunately their service is not great. I would expect to receive my coffee or beverage in under five minutes and it took me just over 20. I finally just left."

"Hostess needs customer service experience! As soon as I walked in the hostess rudely told me to " take a seat". Server was great but food was tasteless and it was a sandwich. Never coming back to this place."

"Our Man's group leaders got together this morning to enjoy a great breakfast and discuss some details of our group meetings. Today we were the only customers so we may have gotten a bit rowdy. Our waitress and staff were great about it. When we apologized they replied it was okay. This is the second time we have our meeting here and I think the rest of the meetings we will be back. Thanks You for a great service and great meal.."

"I was excited to try something new and places like this remind me of why I don't... I ordered a bacon and egg sandwich and in the picture is what I got . In the end I spent 14 dollars to eat tator tots ! Do not recommend"