Rustic. Not sure if they are still having their soft opening. Everything is just so slow... from getting seated to taking the orders and serving the food, and even getting the check. We ended up sitting on the bar. We decided to have brunch at Rustic Roots since we are running low on electric and there's a charging station near the restaurant. We were done charging after 30 minutes and our food wasn't ready yet so we have to move our car and find parking. After another 10 minutes of finding parking, our food hasn't arrived. We ordered the Rustic Burger and Smoked Pork Belly Benedict with their Raspberry White Chocolate Coffee. The presentation of these 3 items was impressive. See photos. They looked great but they did not taste great. The pork belly Benedict didn't have a hint of Smokey flavor or scent. The burger did not have any flavor perhaps they forgot to add salt. The yolk of the egg was the only dominating flavor for both meal. And we did not taste any white chocolate flavor in the raspberry white chocolate coffee as well. This whole meal fits our $50 budget excluding tip. The lowest tip option is 20%. Even though our meal fits our $50 eating out budget, we won't recommend this place. The only positive experience came from their friendly bar tenders. Giving this place 1 star so they can improve. The place and location look great and promising and they just need to work on the taste of their food and add more speed on their workflow. They need to automate their seating since the reception lady has to go around to look for an open table before she could even tell us that they have available seats. They need to update all order takers regarding what items are no longer available. In this way the order taker can immediately tell us if our orders are not available in their kitchen. Maybe add more staff during peak hours, especially during Sunday brunch in Solana Beach. We had to ask for our bill 3 times. Set the right expectations on the menu. If the food is called Smoked Pork Belly, make sure that it's really Smoked. Similarly, the $9 coffee that's called Raspberry White Chocolate must have the milky sweetness of the white chocolate and it just the sourness of the raspberry. Otherwise just call it raspberry coffee if the flavor is just coming from the raspberry. Hope this helps. read more