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| - New York Flavor rocks.
Chef Craig Emmons has created the best breakfast potato's I have ever had, soft, but not soggy, full of flavor and they can add caramelized onions to them too. Plus the breakfast potatoes have been consistently good every time, so many restaurants are hit or miss from one visit to the next. Normally I prefer a crispy hash brown so I was shocked at how much I loved his recipe.
Delicious fresh bagels, Nova Lox too and an assortment of high quality breads.
They have great burgers and tons of sandwiches, of which I have tried most while never experiencing disappointment. They use quality ingredients which really show in the finished product.
Bill, the owner, has clearly created a culture of meeting the customer's needs and their patience is legendary. Sometimes I am eating lunch by 7 am, so I was shocked when I mentioned this to them and they replied "no problem just give us a few extra minutes" so at 7 am I am ordering chili fries and a burger ;-)
I have to mention that they pull high quality shots of espresso, with tight crema, and are happy to do it. Don't get me wrong I hit Starbucks quite a bit due to time or location, but on Starbucks best day they can't compete, shot for shot, with New York Flavor, well Starbucks might be faster by a few seconds but I will trade speed for quality every time.
My only nitpick is that the fries don't do it for me in general, yet I know no matter how they make them someone will be saying this same thing, because fries are one of those individual preference things soft vs crispy, shoestring vs wedge cut kinda thing. Around Surprise I still have not found a fry that is great. My favorite fries are the Buffalo Shoestring fries from the Circle Bar Steakhouse in Bagdad, AZ.
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