Mecca Stone House Cafe Review

Funky place in a tougher part of town, good food and drinks with outdoor seating looking out at Lake Washington.

Breakfast is "Off-the-Hook"! Absolutely the best chicken fried steak I have ever had!

Wonderful place that overlooks the water. Well priced and cozy environment. Great place to dine in Rainier Beach.

The food was amazing but the service was a little slow. I would definitely go back. :)

Great food and good service
Try the Reuben egg rolls. They are delicious.

Breakfast there was excellent I would recommend it to all my friends

Excellent service, and the fish and chips were delicious

The waitress and hostess were not paying different levels of attention and services to different tables. Hostess saw us coming in and after about 3 mins finally acknowledged us. Waitress never come to refill water or asking how's the food beside taking order and deliver check.
Food was horribly proportioned in compare with the marked price. For 28 dollars, the finger-food size of short rib was overcooked and very dry. Got a full plates of unflavored roasted carrots and potatoes. Polenta was store bought corn meal cooked with cubed ham and without proper flavor. The whole dish was a culinary disaster.
The cocktail was just plain mistake of mixology. I am wondering of the bartender there ever got proper trainned.
This is a restaurant that I do not understand how can it get 4.1 star rating here. Me and my friends will never go back to the place and I will strongly advice NO ONE should ever invested on spending money on a place like this unless you just have too much cash in the pocket that has nowhere to go.

Very limited menu and for 25 dollars I got a cup of tea, a stale sandwich with a little meat, and stale greasy chips. Look around first or wait until you get home. Lousy service too.

Very cute place with relaxing and inviting atmosphere. Excellent food.

Food was delicious service was amazing. A big plus (for breakfast lovers) is that breakfast is served all day! Only oops was lipstick on rim of my water cup and it wasn't mine . The waiter was super apologetic and reassured they would monitor what come out of the dishwasher better. It's a busy place the inside is cozy and rustic with great view of the lake! Going again next weekend!

Market never disappoints! I love the food, the service, the wine is absolutely delightful.

Setting is great, building is interesting, food flucuates in quality but is always acceptable, service and hours are inconsistent and annoyingly the owner has up front posted parking. However when it is good, the food is excellent, outstanding in fact. We want this place to continue and be a neighborhood fixture. With some tweaks it could be.

Patrick's baked goods are the best! Love how he gets to know my family, customers forever.

Great drinks, they gave poutine a Canadian treat, quaint little place great food.

Unique Decor. Fried chicken and steak we're both cooked perfectly.

Good food and quick service. Ordered eggs Benedict, but received an amazing breakfast burrito instead. The salsa is amazing

Love the atmosphere. The cool chairs. Not much room though. First time I've tried chicken and waffles.

Weak drinks, overpriced, and the food is all show and no flavor. Also not a lot of menu options. I wouldn't recommend it.

Location was great. View was outstanding. Building and history were fabulous. Menu was odd. Food was good but nothing to write home about. Service was mediocre.

Not sure if this was their policy changed post-COVID, but there's a system in place where you order drinks and food from a counter and seat yourself.
The guy that took my order asked for my phone number to text when it's ready.
Fast forward 40 minutes and after returning to the counter I was able to get my drinks. The staff seems confused about which tables certain orders go to.

Food is great..fun atmosphere, larger outdoor seating, inside, kinda squishy. Parking limited. We will go again!! Coffee menu..

Great place for food comfort food, and prices are quite reasonable for what you get. Staff can be a bit shorthanded at times, but they get the job done.

Maybe it was training day? Service not that good, but steak was good. Uninspiring. Xmas decor going up on Nov 2??? What happened to Thanksgiving decor?

Really good food, serving staff could be a little more attentive even while it wasn't busy it took a while to get served

The breakfast here is amazing. Ive had some pretty good eggs benedict in my day, but this place takes the cake.

Very nice and friendly place. Grate service and good food.

Great local cafe. Food and service is excellent. I just happen to choose the cafe to meet someone for lunch.

It appears to be a favorite spot for the locals. I would choose this spot again if I'm in the area.

Food was really great, had really good de-caf coffee. Service was excellent.

Friendly staff and good food. I had the fish and chips. The fish was soft and delicious in the middle and crispy and tasty on the outside. It also has a nice view of Lake Washington from their outside seating.

Worse breakfast burrito ever and the most expensive

TLDR: We didn't finish our shared entre and they somehow got ahold of my email address.

My wife and I were on our way to Zippy's for dinner and passed Stone House, and on a whim, we decided to stop here instead. It was a bit before 8pm on a Sunday. There were about 20 patrons dining on the patio. The hostess greeted us by saying that they close in three minutes so they can t serve us any alcohol or we could place an order to go.

We were a bit confused and said we could go somewhere else if they weren t seating for dinner. The hostess replied by saying that she could seat us inside or outside. So we sat outside after confirming an additional time that they were actually still seating for dinner as long as we didn t order alcohol. We opted to split an entre of the chicken fried steak; the menu described it as coming with steamed vegetables and mashed potatoes.



I paid with my debit card and left. The majority of the patrons that were there when we initially arrived were still dining. When we got home, I had an email from Stone House asking for feedback. At no time during our visit did I give the venue my email address. I haven t ever had any other establishment send me an email after using my debit card and I m honestly not sure if this is a new attribute to my bank or not. Either way, getting an email from somebody who I never gave it to is creepy.

Overall, it was a socially uncomfortable experience with bland food that was too rich to eat. We should ve just stuck with the original plan and followed through with Zippy s.

We walked in today and wanted to have lunch on the patio. We drove all the way from Ballard to try out this place, but then got rejected at the entrance. Because I brought my puppy. A baby, about 10lbs and super sweet and calm. I was asked if it is a service dog, i didn't want to lie so I was honest and said no it's just a baby dog. Then we were told to leave, because 'people could be allergic and it's not very sanitary'... Oh of course, if it were a service dog you wouldn't mind and no one would be allergic to that. I do understand the background, reasons to not allow dogs inside cafes - but outside? Really? I had read reviews online (yelp and bringfido) before driving here, and lots of people review this as a dog friendly cafe, and wrote how nice it was to sit in the patio with their dogs. Well, bummer! This place might be nice if you don't bring a dog, but super unfriendly to us today, both waiters were not capable of smiling, both looked angry/annoyed enough to not even make us consider to dine there ever. Thanks for nothing. And for letting other people eat here with their dogs in the past, but not me. How unsympathetic, how discriminating, how absolutely not friendly. Just close the place if you earn enough money without customers. Oh and another one of your guests came up to me and apologized and said that he doesn't approve that kind of treatment either. So you lost more than one good eater today.

Place have such a beautiful Ambiance and great food. I will highly recommend the brunch

Excellent food, great service and fun atmosphere. The country fried steak was amazing!!!!

Really really long wait for your food. The staff were rude to us, borderline discriminating. It's sad to see this place has gone down this far in service.

We were so excited that this place opened..really cute.. didn't care for the potatoes they serve with everything so won't be going back.

Wonderful place. Loved the atmosphere and decor. Had a delicious breakfast. Can't wait to go back again.

The waitress was very condescending to point of being outwardly rude. She interrupted us several time while we were trying to ask questions about menu items. The food was good though.

My wife and I just ate breakfast at The Stonehouse Cafe, OMG! The chicken and waffles were amazing! Our lattes were spot on, the atmosphere was fantastically fun! The staff was wonderfully friendly and attentive. Just can't say enough great things about The Stonehouse Cafe!

Came here for Mother s Day brunch, it was fantastic

There may have been a time when The Stonehouse Cafe was great but those golden years seem to have passed. I got their version of corned beef hash. It was okay. The eggs were just this side of done, by seconds. They were oddly watery. Despite taking forever, nothing was really cooked that much. Usually hash has a bit of crispy to it. This didn't. It wasn't very yummy.
I got a double espresso on ice. It was watery and bland. Despite wanting caffeine, I didn't finish it, and that's a rarity. I love caffeine.
I do love the decorations, a weird rustic/old time garage theme.
Staff was friendly, restaurant was clean. Prices were a couple bucks higher that I felt they should have been considering what was being served. Seats are really, really close together, you hear everybody's conversation, in detail. There was a really long wait time for food after ordering.
Overall, meh, probably will never return by my own choice.

Place has an awesome patio, stop by and relax with a cocktail!

Great hamburgers, ordered online, service was prompt and great.