Cameo Cafe - Vancouver, Washington

Luke B.

My family has been going to Cameo for 25+ years. The food is always good. The service amazing and the staff are friendly and great people. The owner is genuine and loves her customers. Nicely run local small business that I will continue to support. I also like that it has a nice patio for summertime outdoor seating by the golf course. The bar is fun for NFL Sundays and has an awesome happy hour menu. Give it a try if you haven’t been here yet.

S K.

Great spot! Typical Mom and Pop style food. The staff was so friendly and attentive even with it being crazy busy.

Vince L.

Very solid chowder here on Fridays and a solid burger as well. Chicken fried steak was good although I didn't know one of the things to do with it was put Korean hot sauce on it and will have to try that at some point. The chicken dinner was also a winner. Still need to try some of their Korean dishes here, but I hear they're good as well.

Elija B.

Let us climb into the way back machine and twist the dial back about 25 years. The first time I ever ate at Cameo’s Cafe. It was dated then and it’s even more dated now except it now it’s a little dustier. They are shooting for a kind of elegant yet approachable dining on the golf course type of thing. I spent quite a bit of time on the East Coast, where this is done as if it were part of breathing, and cameo café just doesn’t really do it.
None of this would make any difference if the food were extraordinary, but like the decor the food was dated as well.
Perhaps if it overlooked a soccer rink instead of a golf course. It might make more sense because I’m afraid that hamburger was as tough and hard and round as a hockey puck. This does not portray the gentile and sophisticated atmosphere I think they might be going for.

There is an uprising of great burgers, extraordinary hand, cut fries with that perfect crunch going on in Vancouver. Cameo Café is a place stuck in time, a relic in amber.

Maybe they don’t want a younger and fresher audience, but as their old regulars pass away, I would hope that they would test the winds and realize that change is not always a bad thing. With a little training for the chef, great things could be possible.

So the burger, was pretty terrible. Chewy and hard and unimaginative, but there was one place that cameo Café did really well and that for me was the service. From the older woman who seems like she may have been there for a long time, waitressing is deep in her blood. She does it like an old cowpoke climbing up into his saddle every morning before the sun rises in the west. She does it almost without thinking,a path that she has walked 100,000 times. I would be willing to bet for a lot of regulars she is the next thing to being family.

The younger waitress, possibly under the tutelage of the standardbearer was great too! She was attentive, friendly, and unobtrusive. Revamp the restaurant, rewrite the menu, but do not let go of the staff.

Let me also say, I love the fact that they bring you not only iced tea, but a carafe so that you do not run out when they are busy. It is a touch. I have always loved in restaurants.

Cameo Café overlooks a golf course, and looking out the window is a little bit like looking out of a spaceship window at a different world. there are simply not that many golf courses in Vancouver. It makes you wonder, but it also gives you a pretty good idea of a major portion of their clientele.

25 years ago, I was not that impressed. If I had been, we would’ve eaten there often over the years but here so many years later, I see that that has not happened, and it’s for a reason. We were not that judgmental in those days. There simply were not that many great options in Vancouver, but times have changed and the food scene here has gotten much better. Cameo café should make a choice to either join the New World or turn the reins over to someone else.
Nostalgia… Is not always what you wish it might be.

Mika -. 4. N. F. -.

Don't get me wrong... I only down rated the atmosphere because I live in the city and go to more push brunch spots. For the locals and regulars is atteacted, it's probably comfortable as is it's more relaxed pub atmosphere.

I stopped in with friends who frequent it and found the food to be worth the praise they gave it. I highly recommend the Eggs Jerusalem, which were delicious. I would absolutely come again when I'm in the area.

Mr. B.

A bit spendy but the food was warm, tasty and filling. Hash browns were perfectly crisp, bacon and cheese omelet was very tasty. My partner had chicken fried steak and it was absolutely flavorful and delicious as well. Service was friendly and inviting. If I could afford it I might eat there daily!

Garry R.

Not to be confused with their sister location on the PDX Ho Stro, Cameo Cafe Vancouver brings the bouge to 4 Corners. Sit down and rattle off a jazz tune on the grand piano or order a Korean pancake because why not? And after you've consumed that acre pancake like a starving ball python, with that leisurely stroll along the golf course to walk it off.

Bazmo

Divine Intervention, Dinner
They led me here, this polished wood, A bar's embrace, though food I should. Alone, I thought, a Friday night, Just me, the boss, and the light.
Then, him. A smile, a hazel gaze, Disrupting ordered, earthly ways. He asked, "may i sit at the Bar, by chance?" A symphony began, a destined dance.
The burger cold, forgotten now, His laugh, a spark upon my brow. untouched, uncorked, As stories flowed, our souls unlocked.
No bread was broken, courses missed, A sacred supper, lightly kissed. For how could mundane flavors bind, When two bright spirits intertwine?
Forget the bill, the waiting staff, This meeting etched, a golden laugh. God's hand, I think, in subtle art, Served him to me, and stole my heart. I followed him halfway out, I knew that night, love had found me.
Question is what do i do with it.
Andrew. C Peddycord