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| - A friend of mine invited me out for brunch to Jim's Coney Island Cafe. I must have passed it a million times, but never really noticed. The location is on the West side of Scottsdale road, just north of the freeway. It's tucked beside an apartment complex and is a freestanding little restaurant.
You seat yourself with choices ranging from seats at the bar to cozy two-seater booths to your more typical larger booths. There is even room in the back for private parties. Once I found an open booth, I was quickly greeted and supplied with beverages.
We stopped in for brunch at about 10am on a Monday holiday, but judging by the depth of the menu, you can pretty much enjoy some good items at reasonable prices for lunch and dinner as well.
The cuisine offers Mexican, Greek and Polish influences. I had to get the Greek Omelette. It was a three egg omelette with large mushrooms, chopped tomatoes, gyro meat and crumbled feta cheese. Side options vary from something healthy like cottage cheese to skillet cooked potatoes ("house fries"), which were nice. My eggs were not quite warm enough for my taste, which I think had to do with the fact that we waited quite some time for the food to arrive. The service was super friendly but not super fast, so I would come to this establishment when you have some time to kill.
Nice ambiance, thumbs up :)
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