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I've driven by this place so many times & always been curious, & finally decided to give it a try! It was kinda a gloomy cloudy morning & I was one of the first customers to walk in after opening. Before I ordered, since I noticed on the online menu they had their pies listed as 'everyday pies' & 'nondairy' pies, & then it said 'ask about today's selections,' I did just that. The guy working the counter was not super friendly or outgoing. I tried to point to a specific slice to see if it was a nondairy pie & he listed the ingredients he knew & then made a comment about how he didn't make it. At that point I probably should have just passed on the pie & probably gotten the banana pudding as it's a popular Texas dessert & I am a big fan, but I unfortunately didn't see the advertisement until I was paying.
Since the place is called 'Sweet Relish' I wanted to try something with the sweet relish 😉. So I picked a half chicken salad sandwich. [ As advertised: made with white meat chicken, sweet relish, boiled eggs, mayo w/ lettuce & tomato on whole wheat bread. ] When I ordered the guy taking my order asked me what type of chicken salad sandwich I wanted. Not realizing there was more then one type he began to then mansplain me in detail each different sandwich instead of simply saying the classic or the almond. Maybe we got off on the wrong foot somehow with the pies? Maybe it was just early & he wasn't feeling it yet? Anyway I added the green apple slaw which came with a drink. [ As advertised: Green Apple Slaw - shredded cabbage, julienne granny smith apples tossed with our apple citrus vinaigrette. ] It definitely would have been a better bargain to just add chips & a drink for $2.25, or just add chips for $1.25. He asked if I wanted a regular or a large & I said regular.
My order came out fast. More customers were coming in after me which is always a good sign. It was quite a lot of beverage for a regular. You could pick between coffee, 4 different teas, or fountain drinks.
My food was tasty, It can be hard to find chicken salad, tuna sald, etc without onions, so that was a win for me! The apple slaw was good, the apples blended in, & by the end of both it felt like A LOT OF MAYO! [ Especially for a half a chicken salad sandwich, you couldn't really taste much else on the sandwhich. ] I think with the cloudy morning maybe a soup might have been a better pairing with it as a palet cleanser.
They advertised for bluebell ice cream ( it is TX! 😄 ) I happen to have some at home , & didn't eat all my pie. I warmed it & tryed it ala mode. No matter how I ate my slice of pie it was just meh. The pies topping- some kinda Oat & sugar crumble was the best part. The rest of it was dry. I don't know if it was day old but it didn't taste freshly made. Maybe a different flavor would hold up better?
🍴 All in all could be a better value, definitely not TX sized portions for the price, but the food itself was good. Maybe don't go right at open & hopefully you'll get better customer service. 👈
Service
Take out
Meal type
Brunch
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 3
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 4
100% comfort food! Homemade pies and excellent sandwiches. I especially liked the chicken and biscuit special and the soups. They have a daily quiche, yet the prices are super affordable. I got in and out of there for 12 bucks with a drink and a slice of pie. This is my kind of place. My mom would have loved this place. The only problem I found was parking. So I made sure to visit during off-peak lunch hours.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Recommended dishes
Great Daily Soup Choices
Home style tuna sandwich - Too die for.
Blackberry -Chess Pie- my oh my so tasty.
Now, here's one, single reason to eat here. Sweet Relish has a mixed vegetables salad with light French dressing. Amazing.
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
Went here for a late lunch on a weekday from College Station based on reviews. The grilled chicken sandwich tasted and felt like it was frozen and heated up in a microwave. I don't see anyway how it could have been fresh. The small sandwich I got was swimming in mayonnaise which made the "grilled chicken breast" immediately fall out of the bun. Not sure where the sandwiches were that people rave about. Staff didn't engage much. I was one of 2 customers in the place and they called my order number to pick it up like the place was packed. If I had a restaurant with only one customer being served at that time, I would probably just bring the food the table for the customer. There was plenty of staff seeming to just be waiting for the day to be over.
When I walked in, I immediately thought my parents would love the place. After eating the food, I would not take them there. The pies looked good in the case, but unfortunately I don't plan to return to try them.
Food: 2
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 3
I went to this location on a Saturday morning around 10 am and it was completely dead. I ordered two meringue pies to go. The cashier put the pieces of pie in the to-go containers as follows: took pie on plate - flipped pie over into container so meringue is on bottom - closed container - then flipped back over. (The result, when opening the to-go container was deflated meringue on one side and pie on the other.) I stood there, watching the cashier, flabbergasted as to why anyone would think that pie-moving mechanism was acceptable for a meringue pie? I should’ve requested different pie pieces or a refund right then but sometimes one is just so shocked at the poor quality of service/product in the moment that it is easier to just leave than be confrontational. I was literally the only customer so there was no reason the cashier would not have had time to put on gloves and use a utensil to move the pie into the to-go container while keeping the pie upright and not compromising the pie quality. This was my first time at the Bryan/Villa Maria location and at any Must B Heaven location and I really don’t expect to return to any of the locations because this experience was so off-putting.
My favorite lunch stop in BCS. Great prices, great food. $8 for a quiche, cup of soup, and drink? Awesome. I've never tried the pies here but I imagine they are heavenly... Meringue for days!
This place was wonderful. The sandwiches are great and I hear their pies are even better
Service
Take out
Meal type
Lunch
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4
This place is fantastic. The food is delicious, the service is friendly and quick. It reminds me of some some Cafe's back in my home town. Don't sleep on the Chipotle Cream Corn. I could eat a bucket of that stuff.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Lunch
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 5
The review is for my daughter, and her dishearten moment when she thought she got a bag of chips with her Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich, and … did not. I asked about this, on her behalf and he said it is $7.00 for just the sandwich - ok - then my brain would just not let it go. WOW! $7.00 for two slices of bread a swat of peanut butter and a smidgen of grape jelly. Well, maybe the profit margin is so close they cannot afford to add the chips. So off to Walmart, I went to look up the cost of the 3 needed ingredients. This is what I found: Name Brand - Mrs Baird's white sandwich 24.6 cents top and bottom, Jiff Peanut Butter 19 cents for two tablespoons (1 serving) and Welches Grape Jelly at 7.5 cents for 1 tablespoon (1 serving) for a total of 51.1¢ and a markup of 1369.86% of the profit. How about the Generic Walmart brand? Bread 12 cents. Peanut Butter is 10.2 cents, and Grape Jelly is 4.3 cents for a total of 26.5¢ and a profit margin of 2641.5%
I will say that the buttermilk pie is fantastic and not am not going to do the breakdown on that one.
I do not mean to be rude it just hit me hard that a kid does not get a bag of chips with her PB&J sandwich.
I will continue to eat at Sweet Relish - I like the food.
There are times when curiosity must be explored in order for the brain to … "let it go".
Service
Take out
Meal type
Lunch
Food: 4
Service: 3
Atmosphere: 4
