The Power Plant Cafe

Reviews

• Al H.

  star star star star star 5 June 2026

  This place is great!! I prefer to stop in here rather than the connecting restaurant The Edison. - It's a great spot for hanging out and getting coffee. I tried the ice cream on a very hot day and it hit the spot! You can sit inside or outside...or even lay out in the grass! - This cafe is a great place in Cascades Park! No complaints here!

• Stefanki K.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 4 June 2026

  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... shame on me.
  
  (Disclosure: this post was written in the heat of the moment. This feeling will pass... I hope)
  
  I am so crushed because this used to be my favorite places to get a lox bagel. This may be, not only the worst bagel/lox bagel I have ever had but, the worst solution to the worst lox bagel I have ever had.
  
  I stopped by late morning to grab breakfast/lunch (10am on a Wednesday) and ordered the lox bagel. She said they no longer give discounts to FDOT employees... but also said she doesn't know how to do it... so I'm guessing it's a training issue. Whatever. Best lox bagel is worth full price. I'm only a civil servant ‍.
  
  I ordered it to-go to enjoy at my desk. But what I found is a caper and tomato bagel. With cream cheese. On maybe a third of the bagel? I normally don't complain but when the lox is missing on an $8 lox bagel for the first and last meal you will have for a while, you at least pick up the phone. BUT their phone rings directly to voicemail WHICH the mailbox is full.
  
  I'm hangry at this point so I get in my car and head over for a refund (and maybe a new bagel?). Because that is how restaurants handle righting wrongs, right? As soon as I see this poor girl having to deal with a two whole customers at once I immediately calm down. She's stressed. When it's my turn I tell her it's missing lox and she immediately snatches it to remedy - without letting me just suggest a refund. Please don't just throw some lox on the already horrid bagel, I pray to myself (please enjoy the pictures). When she brings it back out a few minutes later I think, damn maybe she did remake it? That was remaking a bagel amount of time! I didn't have the balls to check behind her, so I leave. I saw a peek of lox sticking out (yes the same horrid bagel). But I'm too hungry at this point. When I get back in my car I open it to find! 5 small chunks of lox on one site of this horrid bagel.
  
  I'm already not the person who complains. I've already left work like a lunatic to fix a bagel. I already haven't eaten today and it's close to 11am by now. So I drive off. Defeated.
  
  I feel for the poor girl who works at a coffee/breakfast place alone during an understaffed shift... but actually I don't because I have worked an understaffed shift and this if not a solution.
  
  Bagels should not cause a this much anguish.

• Vincent R.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 3 June 2026

  I'd give 0 stars if I could but this will do. Walking through beautiful Cascades Park on an early Saturday afternoon (just before 2pm) with my best friend. It's hot and an iced coffee sounds great. Walk up to the place and there are two women at the counter telling us their closed. At 2pm. An hour before their posted time (close at 3pm Saturday and Sunday). No explanation just an ushering out. Didn't know we just close up shop for no reason these days. Guess the economy is doing REAL GREAT in this town where people turn away easy business during open hours.
  
  A second group of people just behind us were turned away as well. Looking at $100 loss right there ladies.

• Akram F.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 26 May 2026

  $11 for a generic BLT with no sides? This place used to be much better. Now it's expensive and food isn't that good. Drinks are ok. At least they have outside seating which makes it nice.

• Felecia A.

  star star star star star_border 22 May 2026

  The coffee is great, always strong. The location is ideal, right in Cascades Park and they have ice cream!