Just got back from breakfast at the 40th Street Cafe. For a Tuesday morning, it was BUSY. Only a couple tables open. My waitress Sherrie was a total delight; I never saw a smile leave her face.
I ordered a breakfast sandwich on a croissant (75 cents extra, totally worth it), sub bacon instead of ham, and sub scrambled eggs instead of the over hard egg just like I saw in a picture here on yelp. It was great! Loads of bacon, the eggs were great (not dry like other breakfast places like to serve you). The hashbrowns were good - although not seasoned at all, like another reviewer noted, so I had to salt them myself... but that seems to be a norm for breakfast places like these, since a lot of their clientele is of the older generation who can't handle salt.
Lots of regulars here, lots of people just sitting drinking coffee and reading the paper. Although one woman was totally rude and annoying - my waitress was taking the order of a woman sitting at the table next to me, and a woman at the table across the aisle threw her wadded-up straw wrapper at the waitress while she was taking the order - it almost landed in the full pot of coffee on the table - then apologized to the customer getting her order taken, saying she was trying to hit the waitress, and let out the most ungodly hyena-like guffaw I've ever heard. I get that you know the waitress and you're trying to be funny, but jesus christ. Have some respect and try to contain yourself. She was at least 60 years old btw.
ANYWAY, overall it was a great experience and I had a good time just sitting there eating watching the price is right on their 20-year-old television. I'll be heading back there for sure.