Café Sparrow - Aptos

We brought out of town friends here from Minnesota. They loved it. We had the chicken roulade, beef stroganoff, and ahi, and a side of spinach. The roulade prix frixe dinner was a good value, but could use a little more chicken in the roulade. Of two different salad dressings I've had here in the past week, both Caesar and Sparrow salad, were too sour, a lot of vinegar, and salad had too much dressing. Bread pudding was outstanding. It was overall a wonderful experience, nice servers, food was hot, wine was also very nice but a bit expensive.

You can taste how good the individual ingredients are so that even the simplest dish is just jam packed with flavor and delicious! Dietary restrictions: They can accommodate people with Celiac and gluten free dietary needs on some of their dishes and their wonderful!

The chair I sat in was hard and uncomfortable the seat cushion was not a good fit and inadequate...the kitchen noise was disturbing...I've been a faithful customer for almost 40 years

Sadly, I must admit that yesterday's lunch at Cafe Sparrow was quite disappointing. I know that they will permanently close on Sunday the 28th so that would explain the crowded/noisy conditions. We ordered our salads at 12;10 and they did not arrive until 1:05. We had to ask our waitress when they would arrive and her response was that there were only 2 cooks on site. We asked about bread and she told us they were out and would not be restocking any more as they were about to close. Cafe Sparrow had always been one of my top 3 restaurants in the Aptos area. I am sad to see them leave and wish the owners/workers the best of luck.

Our fifth or sixth time here so we're familiar with the food quality and this last visit was different in regards to the food quality. We heard it was closing and wanted have one final dinner there but unfortunately it was not on par with the previous visits. Aside from the beef stroganoff, our other dishes were quite bland, bummer since it used to be so tasty.