Meating Ground Cafe

Reviews

• JM

  Jocelyn Marie

  3 days ago
  4.0
  Nice little hidden gem in Winterville. To be honest, I miss the old management. There are subtle differences in the customer service, food presentation, music, and "bang for your buck" since this place has changed hands, but not enough to keep me from eating here on occasion. I love that they serve up Lanoca's coffee, the best! My favorite menu items are the Tuscan Toast with smoked salmon and the cortado.
• DD

  Dwight Duncan

  Feb 22, 2026
  5.0
  The food was delicious 😋
• KK

  Karina

  Feb 21, 2026
  2.0
  We decided to try this place for lunch as it has a 4.9 review but unfortunately I don’t think our service experience reflected the good reputation of this place. We entered at 11:45 am and it was pretty full considering it is a small space. No one greeted us so I went to the cashier to ask if we could get a table and said it would be about a 10 minute wait for a table. We proceeded to place our order at 12 pm with the cashier. There is no list of who gets the tables. We were told we were next for a table and a couple who walked in 25 minutes after us that was sitting at the bar area saw a table open up and quickly sat down at the table, it that was supposed to be ours so we had to wait more time and they did not ask them to get up. They just simply looked at them and shrugged and proceeded to take their orders ( I didn’t understand this because there was also a family of 3 and another family of 4 after us waiting for a table and they had also ordered like us). So they offered us the option to be at the bar but it only had two seats and we were a group of 3 and they said they didn’t have another seat which I totally understood due to the busy time. So we decided to wait for a table, we waited a total of 45 minutes for one since 11:45 am. We got seated at 12:35 pm. And we were still waiting for our food once we sat down… I asked for my cinnamon roll because since it’s something small I figured they would’ve brought it out before the food just like the coffee or drinks, but the employee seemed a bit disturbed that I asked and told me they go in order and the orders were really backed up so it wasn’t possible. I asked if they made it from scratch and that’s why it was going to come out with the rest of the food bc I genuinely didn’t know since it was my first time. She said no we just warm it up. I asked the owner about it about 10 minutes after since I figured it wouldn’t take long for them to warm it up since the resturant was starting to slow down and the waiters were just talking and standing by the coffee making machines. She told me she would check. Right after me asking, the food came out it was 12:43 pm. And when the food came we didn’t recieve utensils and still didn’t get the cinnamon roll. So I had to ask for utensils and my cinnamon roll when I saw a worker walk by. The worker gave us a slight attitude about it. We also were the only customers that didn’t get complementary water cups like everyone else did when they got their table. So my sister got up to ask for some at the cashier. I don’t know something seemed off about their service. I wish the service was a bit better considering that this place has a 4.9 review and that the waiters/servers would’ve been honest about the wait time and more attentive to actually providing us the basic restaurant service which includes utensils and the water since their prices are on the higher side, also that there would be some order about the tables, it just seemed a bit unorganized. Overall the lunch food was pretty good. And about two months ago I had gotten take out for breakfast and I had the same service… no one greeted me nor asked me what they could help in or if I was going to need a table and my take out food didn’t have utensils either.
• SG

  Sloppy Giuseppe

  Feb 6, 2026
  5.0
  One of the few times I've had a cardamom latte that actually tastes like cardamom! 5 stars for mugged lattes, a mug makes lattes taste so much better. The sourdough french toast is also great.
• RC

  Rusty Craft

  Jan 24, 2026
  5.0
  Wife and I went for a date and we were surprised. It was located in a food lion parking lot but don’t eat that ward you off (not that it’s bad we just weren’t expecting the quality to match location ) anyhow the food and coffee selection are TOP tier. The fries are cooked in tallow. I can’t not even get that at a five star hotel (we’ve tried to request it but they don’t have beef/animal fats) I think this place needs to be bigger and a chain!!! Healthy food is in. We will return and we will be in hopes that it will spread for clean cooking and good coffee. The waitress was also friendly and talked about healthy food and was up to trying anything we wanted. We ordered sunflower coffee which had grass feed butter and honey and cinnamon (smooth taste and not too sweet)