I'd give it zero if I could. Congrats on earning the lowest review I've given yet.
Short review:
Overpriced, mediocre food served with 125dB of hipsters.
Long review:
We visited with a party of 5 on a Sunday morning.
Wait was only about 10 minutes.
Pros:
Our server was pretty nice (other than what's coming in the cons)
Neutral:
Don't come for the decor - it's a concreted box with some kitschy themed art and basic tables and chairs.
If you like to eat while people stare at you as they wait for a table get seated at the "breakfast bar" just inside the door.
Everything on the menu has 4 extra adjectives/adverbs. We get it - your waffles are uh-may-zing. If your food is good it doesn't require superlatives.
EDIT:
I just looked at the photos up for this place - and that was NOT AT ALL what our food looked like. It was tossed on a plate and tossed on our table - there was zero effort on presentation.
Cons:
This place is LOUD when full. I'm talking you-better-have-a-pack-of-Halls-for-your-throat loud. You have to scream at someone next to you - forget about talking to someone on the other end of the table. 2 people in my party barely spoke because it was, well impossible to be heard. I will say that once a few tables of beards-and-chartreuse-bowling-shoes cleared out it got better. But initially it was utterly ridic.
The food is far over-priced for what you get. For $8 I got a "red velvet" waffle - slightly larger than an "Eggo". I was expecting something on the scale of Belgian waffle for $8 - NOPE. It was accompanied by some large glop of what was billed as some sort of "whipped cream cheese topping" (as you might expect with red velvet). It was essentially flavorless (as was the smallish clump of (what I assume was) butter)
I ordered the "Mexican Coke Bacon" (actually, 2 orders for the table). Seriously - f**k trying to be so g0dd@m hipster and just buy and serve decent bacon. The slices of it that were edible were actually good - but 2 of the slices were PURE LARD. Seriously - someone in the kitchen cooked and decided to serve 2 slices of fat. And don't expect it crispy, oh no - that's so yesterday. You'll get it limp and lukewarm and you'll like it. And the cold plates used for serving insured that it (and everything else) assumed room temperature nearly instantly.
Sadly - the bacon wasn't the largest atrocity to be placed on a plate in front of us.
My friend also ordered a red velvet waffle. HOWEVER - in her mysterious glop of """whipped cream cheese topping""" was a bread twistie.
Yes - they served her a piece of wire.
Now - I suppose it is POSSIBLE that someone could scoop up a ladle of the mystery glop and NOT see that there's a F**KING 4 INCH PIECE OF WIRE IN IT - but I am dubious. I seriously think someone simply did not care.
And what did Hipster Flaps do about it????? WE WERE COMPED A WHOLE TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. For one of us nearly eating a piece of wire.
No manager came over and said "boo". The server was apologetic, but not to the degree that should have been appropriate.
Fifty-four bucks (AFTER THE WHOLE $2.50 comp!!!) for 3 people, one of us nearly eating wire - and not even a nod from the person in charge. EPIC FAIL.
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I hardly think my review will matter (based on all the other gushing over the amazing food) - the ironic glasses and ear-gauge crowd won't care, or will assume I simply don't "get it". And that's fine by me - there's not a snowballs chance in hell that I'm ever gonna be back - so they can have it. The number of great breakfasts I could have had in Cleveland for this money is LARGE.
Managerial staff / owner - if you happen to see this, and you actually happen to care - get a f**king clue on what is an appropriate response when you feed someone refuse. Tossing someone the equivalent of RTA fare isn't it.
And consider some sound deadening.