I am so sad to have to write this.
For the 3 years that my son was in HS we spent almost every Tuesday morning before school here for breakfast. Since then, he's graduated and gone on to college and those breakfast dates have become fewer.
but today was an exception and we both said "how about Maple Tree."
I think after today it will be Maple Tree no more. Oh the service was good but the place was dirty. The chair, once filled with people, now sit empty and stained.
the creamer for my coffee curdled.
We had our usual:
Me: Ham steak with toasted english and a side of cottage cheese
my son: Monte Cristo with double turkey, no ham and a side of hard boiled eggs.
Kudos for doing the hard boiled eggs..not many places will do those.
but the usually delicious Monte Cristo was sadly lacking. It wasn't crusty..but rather limp and soggy. We brought it home thinking it might fare better after it got cold. (6 hours later and still not)
So many wonderful and joyous memories we have to our pre-school breakfasts together and now we probably won't be back. While I realize it is a sign of the times with the economy and 14.9% unemployment in Las Vegas, this place was always packed to waiting on the sidewalk for a table. While we were there, a good hour, only 1 other table came in.
I'm afraid that we will have to find another goto place and play taps for this one.
12/29/2011: this is the 3rd time I've been back since writing the review and sadly it is still the same except the service has completely vanished. hard to do when there are so few tables to begin with. But they managed it. 2 diners. 1 gets their good..11 minutes later the 2nd diner gets there and they completely forgot the soup which should have at the very least come out with the 1st diner's soup and salad. Also, the shabby attitude of the waitress when asking for cream or arguing with us when I refused the soup is not very customer service oriented. I know I said I wouldn't go back after the last disaster but you know people have bad days. and it is in my "hood" but I'll have to schelp to somewhere my $$ is appreciated.