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| - First impressions: found this place while traveling through yelp. Walking up to the place it is well kept, but there are bars on the windows, don't let this scare you! Once inside the place has a clean country farmhouse charm to it. If every industrial park diner was like this place they wouldn't have such a bad stereotype. Also, the ladies room was nice and clean and there was lotion, always a plus.
The food: although my dining partner was disappointed to find sausage patties in lieu of link sausage, he ordered the pancakes with boysenberry syrup and I ordered the Phoenix omelet, no cheese. The pancakes were big and fluffy, standard flapjacks. The syrup was boysenberry flavored, there were no fruit bits and extra frills. The omelet that I ordered was not what came to the table. I at first received the pepper sauce omelette, which looked good if you like cheesy creamy dishes, but not really my thing.... They took it back and the kitchen promptly whipped up the correct order and I happily ate away at a surprisingly fluffy omelette for something made with chorizo...
If the order mix up was the only problem, I would have probably still given the place 3.5/4 stars since the food came out so quickly the first and second times, but at checkout time the server forgot to adjust the check and the bill had both omelettes charged. This couple with the extra time and annoyance of waiting to pay at slow checkout leads me to drop the rating another star.
Summary: all in this place has the potential to be a pleasant neighborhood diner with the basic breakfast items well covered and lots of friendly faces, but on my particular visit the service ball was dropped, rolled into the street, and then never really recovered. I wanted to like this place, but it just didn't come together.
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