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| - We found Cracked Egg on apple Maps for close breakfast places. With a name like Cracked Egg, we thought this would be a trendy new breakfast place similar to "Snooze", "Over-Easy", or Cured Ham." When we pulled up we realized it was a pretty old place with very little done for design or any upkeep. The inside looks like an out-of-date Denny's... and that is not saying much since all Denny's look out-of-date already. This is the look we would expect from a 1 star Chinese buffet.
We got seated quickly despite being pretty busy and had our waitress take our drink order within a couple of minutes. I love good service. I noticed that all the menu's said all the coffee served was "100% Guatemalan Coffee" so we ordered two cups. Nothing about what we drank was exotic nor originating any further south than Mesa. When I asked the waitress the blend of the coffee, she just indicated that it was a cheap house blend and not from Guatemala. After our drinks, the waitress took our order pretty quickly, I ordered Eggs Benedict and my girlfriend ordered Country Fried Steak, both with potatoes, hers with toast.
At first appearance, it looked like the cook was limited to only ingredients what were brown, light brown, or off-white. Nothing appealing about how our dishes looked. A pop of color from fresh herbs or onions or tomatoes or hell, even garnish would have made this plate look less like an Oliver Twist meal and more like a $20 per person meal.
My Eggs Benedict came with hard boiled yolks (see picture). Immediate turn off. The Country fried steak was dried out and a mess. The menu described the gravy as "Sausage Gravy" but we were hard pressed to find any remnants of sausage, nor any flavor of sausage. It tasted like milk and flour with pepper.
Salt... that is what this meal needed to start with. None of my Country Potatoes nor my GF's Breakfast hash had any seasoning. No salt, no pepper, no herbs, no anything really. My breakfast potatoes bored my tastebuds within the first bite. The potato pieces could easily be mistaken for croutons. No party in my mouth from this place with those potatoes.
Overall, the service is great and impressive, the wait staff takes the time to make sure you have everything and the tag team of servers ensured that we got all our food quickly. The food needs help. DESPERATE help. The blandness of all the food may appeal to the elderly regeneration, but for the increasing foodies population, the experience just begs to have more. The visual appearance of the meal is pretty bland, followed by no seasoning, improper egg techniques and overall, BORING appearance. Food should be an experience not just a necessity. This place would have been great during the depression when the act of receiving food was enough, but in this modern age of taste and abundant choices, this place really falls behind.
The menu needs a serious overhaul, the cooks need to not be afraid of using fresh ingredients, herbs, and seasonings, the owner has to want to be relevant within the restaurant industry and the interior needs help... Bad help.
If you are looking for comfort food with no regard of palate, then this is the place, if you think that a $40 breakfast for two should have something redeeming, this is not the place. The only reasons why it didn't get one star, is because the service was decent.
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