"1"^^ . . "0"^^ . "1"^^ . "5"^^ . "With all due respect, fellow Yelpers, I don't know why you like this place. The food is awful and made with cheap, low-quality ingredients that add up to a mediocre meal. \n\nI ordered No. 18, the bacon, mushroom, tomato and cheese omelet. My dining companions ordered No. 45 and orange juice, and the waffle special (waffle, egg and sausage). \n\nNo. 18 was an overcooked, rubbery mess with a couple of mushroom slices, a teaspoon of diced tomatoes and no cheese that I could find. There *was* plenty of bacon. The omelet was supposed to be made with four large eggs--definitely not!\n \nThe omelet came with toast and hash browns. The hash browns are instant (those of you who have worked in food service know how the dried potatoes are dumped into a bucket of water and allowed to soak overnight). No amount of salsa can make them taste like real potatoes.\n \nI ordered whole wheat toast. The toast was made from cheap, stale bread that was a vaguely brown color with no discernable whole grains, and coated with butter-flavored oil. \n\nI asked for salsa. It was bottled, not made at the restaurant, and I was charged 50 cents for about a tablespoon of the stuff. Almost every breakfast place has its delicious house-made salsa, but not Ollie's.\n \nMy dining companions' breakfasts were about the same: overcooked, everything made from instant mixes and the cheapest ingredients possible. The sausage that came with the waffle special was disgusting--the cheap kind with more mystery-meat filler (hope it was soy, but who knows?) than meat and a gross, spongy texture.\n\nThe OJ my dining companion ordered never arrived. \n\nService: Warm, friendly greeting at the door, but after that, mediocre (waitress forgot stuff, and the male owner was downright surely when I asked for more salsa to drown the hash browns). \n\nAmbiance: Extremely noisy. Lots of screaming kids and their parents (who don't behave much better than their kids). \n\nCoffee: Mediocre. But in Ollie's defense, I found this to be the case all over Arizona. Apparently, folks in Arizona prefer the taste of Folgers and its bland ilk, because even the hipster breakfast place we went to served it this way. If you want a tasty cup of dark roast, you'll have to go to Starbucks. \n\nBottom line: for the price, about $12 per person, you can do MUCH better. Pass on Ollie's."^^ . "2011-05-29T00:00:00"^^ . . .