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| - I so want to love this place. The decor is whimsical and colorful, and the servers being in their pajamas is a fun touch, but after eating there twice, the food and the service just aren't worth the price. My first trip, about a month ago, I ordered the Ham-N-Eggs Benedict, and it was just OK. The entire dish was barely warm, the english muffin was barely toasted, the hash browns were really nothing special, and the overall dish was just mediocre. I took my friend there for her birthday today, and I was so disappointed in the food and the service that I probably won't be giving this place another chance. I figured that since they call themselves a "steak and egg place," I should probably try their steak, so I ordered the Bacon Wrapped Tenderloin Steak. The description on the menu on their website says it comes with "dijon brown butter onions atop a swiss cheese open-faced omelet & hash brown potatoes" for $13.50. The waitress asked me how I wanted my steak cooked, and I ordered "medium." The dish had not one onion on it, so I politely asked the waitress if it came with brown butter onions, and she said no. I asked her to get the menu, we looked at it together, we could both see the word onions in the description, yet she pointed to the little yellow squiggle of sauce on the omelette and said, "that is the dijon brown butter there on the omelette." She then asked me if I wanted a side of onions, and I said no, and I reiterated that the description said it came with onions, yet she flat out ignored that fact. I felt like I was in Bizzaro land. I wasn't rude in any way, I just wanted what the menu described, and she acted like we were reading two different things. Seeing that I took my friend there for her birthday, I was trying to be very nice and low keyed and not draw attention, so I moved on. Next comes the bacon wrapped tenderloins. They were cooked "well done" and dry, even though I ordered them "medium." The potatoes were the same as before, really nothing special. They're like thick flat potato shreds with not much tasty crust, so I consider them undercooked and just not my style. So I ate a couple of bites of everything, decided it needed help, so I put some ketchup on the potatoes, hot sauce on the omelette, and A1 on the steak, but nothing helped. It just was not a good breakfast, certainly not a $13.50 breakfast, so I stopped eating at about 1/3 of the way into it. Again, not wanting to draw attention, I figured perhaps the waitress might put two and two together, see that I didn't eat much of it, and ask for some feedback, or see if I wanted anything else, but no such luck. The best thing about this place is the decor and the hope of having a delicious breakfast, but alas, 'tis not enough for me to give them yet another chance.
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