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| - If you're looking for a solid breakfast with a lot of options and a good price, Kristopher's Place is the way to go. My PIC (Partner In Cuisine) and I always try to patronize local eateries as opposed to the big corporate chains so while we driving around today, looking for a place to brunch, I saw Kristopher's (and luckily an open parking spot).
When we first stepped in, the place kind of smelled like dirty water and we stood there for a good minute or two without being acknowledged by any of the 4-5 staff that was working. We finally asked one of the servers if we could just sit anywhere, to which she replied, "yeah" and left us to sit.
When the server came over, she wasn't particularly friendly, but she took our order quickly. I sort of felt like we were putting her out by wanting to order food from her restaurant. As we were waiting for our food to come out, a few older and very loud mouth "regulars" popped in. Their greetings with the other locals seemed to be heading in an anti-Semitic direction (yelling loudly, "Who let the Jew-boy in?" to another patron). This made PIC and I initially uncomfortable, thinking we had stumbled onto a Jewish / Greek feud. Luckily, the conversation dissipated and they continued to talk loudly about other topics. Unfortunately, they were still pretty obnoxious.
We got our food and I can't tell if the server conveniently forgot the juice that was supposed to come with my meal, but when I inquired about it, I once again felt like I was inconveniencing her. Every "thank you" from PIC and I was met with complete silence. I got one coffee refill and PIC never got a water refill.
The food itself wasn't bad, but nothing really stuck out about it either. It's kind of hard to mess up bacon, eggs, and pancakes though.
Perhaps the staff at Kristopher's was having a bad day or perhaps they just don't like "new" people coming into their restaurant. I'd give it one more go another day just to see if it was a one-time thing or if it's the policy of the staff to be unfriendly to new patrons. If a restaurant only wants to cater to and be friendly with its regulars, that's their prerogative I suppose, but you'd think in this economy, restaurants cant afford to alienate any of their potential new customer base.
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