We stopping in on Sunday afternoon to test my over-the-top My Friends love. And guess what? We were not disappointed.
I will keep my rating at 4-stars for a few reasons that are mostly really specific to me, including cheapness, swiftness, chillness, booze-ness, ample-free-parking-ness and a darn good eggs benny. Otherwise, this is just your average diner--so please don't compare this 4-star rating to anything outside of the diner-zone.
This time it was a lot busier, but we were still seated right away. The hustle-n-bustle was a little on the annoying side, but really didn't bother our experience. The coffee was spot on and the eggs Benedict + side of perfectly crunchy bacon were also delicious, like last time. I added two mimosas to our order and the result was quite entertaining. They start by giving you a cup of juice filled to the brim, then follow that up by handing you a white wine glass and a mini bottle of unopened champagne. I'm not one to complain about serving myself a mimosa--heck--it's even great to have control over the bubbles-to-juice ratio. But I don't trust the average Joe opening champagne bottles on his/her own. And they could make it a little easier to pour the juice in the glass. But really and truly, it would have taken the server under 1 minute to make our first two drinks for us and then hand us what was left of the mini bottles. It's really a dumb thing the skimp on that's really, really annoying.
Otherwise, this place will still remain a favorite neighborhood diner that we'll come back to over and over again.