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| - Great service, location, and ambiance, but too many shortcuts taken in the food.
I had an expired groupon that the server took at face value with no problem. This was a very pleasant switch from the usual attitude you get when you carry a voucher. He was very attentive and polite, always refilling coffee. He was great. The next table had the annoyingly smug and libidinous waiter that other reviewers have mentioned. I see what they meant - and avoid him.
I ordered the Big Breakfast ($11.50), a coffee ($2.50), a freshly squeezed OJ ($2.50). The portions are very generous. The breakfast had 3 perfectly over hard eggs, the best crispy bacon (I like it so crispy that it shatters if you tap it against the plate), 3 sausage links, home fries, 2 pancakes, a fruit garnish, and toast. The sausage is store-bought. The home fries were made from frozen (the kind you get at a cafeteria), although jazzed up a little with cayenne. The pancakes were from a mix and had oil in them, not butter (they had that unpleasant fried taste). The coffee was a bit burned. The OJ was freshly poured at best.
Not sure why they call themselves a bistro. There wasn't much bistro quality to it, even though they had pictures of Paris on the wall. It's a diner that serves booze.
I would go back if I lived close by, but I don't, and I won't travel to it.
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