Euphemia Haye Restaurant & The Haye Loft

For years I’ve taken friends and visitors to see the dessert bar and bring home pies. Today had a friend visiting from Europe. Told him all about it. He couldn’t wait to see the famous Euphemia Haye dessert bar. The girl told us she would not sell us take out pies because the guy who cuts them hadn’t come to work. While she explained this she and two other staff stood over the pies, refusing to slice or hand them to us because it’s not their job. Like something from the Soviet Union. Never again.

After enjoying Euphemias for 30 plus years we will not be returning or recommending it going forward. ☹️ The service was subpar the seven layer, blueberry lemon cake was dry. The salads was flat. Our meals came out after 40 minutes… cold.! When we let our waitress know that our meals were cold, she took the plates, put them in the microwave and put them back on the table with a lot of bad attitude,! We were polite and respectful waitress was not polite and did not acknowledge that our meals had been delivered icold. We ordered the blueberry lemon cake, and she proceeded by slamming the slice of cake on the table and reported that she would comp 1 slice of awful cake !! Extremely bad experience all the way around at a restaurant we have enjoyed for so many years. Sorry to say.!

The hostess was the rudest person I've encountered in a while. Assumed she was the owner with that audacity but nope! Just a hostess. Ordered chocolate cake and got a weird peanut butter cake.

Dessert!!!! Upstairs!!!! The best!!!!

We went in early December on a weeknight, we made a reservation, it turned out. It wasn’t really that busy, about half full perhaps. We were seated immediately at an intimate table near the window in the far room room. Very quaint dining room. Formal. Our waiter was very attentive. We got a bottle of wine. It was a small kitchen out in the dining room, where they would prepare Caesar salad and some flambé dishes. My wife’s cousin recommended this place, the duck was highly recommended, I had it, and it was absolutely delicious. After dinner, we went upstairs to the separate dessert room and got a great presentation on the desserts that they had that night. I had the Keylime pie. It was delicious. A little Baileys on the rocks has a nightcap.

Dietary restrictions: Gluten free almond crust, lemon custard dessert

2024 update: The Haye Loft continues to be one of our all time FAVORITE places on Longboat Key. Sammy and J-hon are the BEST and have ALWAYS provided GREAT customer service. The service, drinks & food make for a wonderfully fun and relaxing evening catching up with all the regular customers.