Original Word of Mouth - Venice

1740 E Venice Ave, Venice
(941) 218-6509

Recent Reviews

Gary Gilchrist

Great Food and the Best Service.Kid-friendliness: The best dining experience. The service and staff are the best.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Blueberry Muffin, Chicago, Sandwich, Soup, Eggs Benedict Classic, Chicken Salad Sandwich, Country Benedict

Scott Harfield

This is a very busy place. Not enough staff and not enough places to sit, especially when waiting. The staff get to you as soon as they notice you. I sat outside by the front door. I was waited on after a while. I ordered the Manhattan scramble. It came with a side, I ordered home fries and coffee. The coffee took a while to get to me. The scramble arrived and I immediately noticed that the scramble had an abundance of potatoes. Lots of large chunks of potatoes. Small slivers of corned beef and the onions and peppers, topped with sour cream and tomatoes chopped. If one ingredient outshines the rest, then it should be named after the main ingredient. The scramble would have been correctly labeled potato scramble. The waiter was aware of the problem and withheld his knowledge and recommendations from his customer. With the front door in close proximity, I was inundated by loud conversations and constant noise. I almost had to grab some staff to refill my coffee cup. I have eaten here before with excellent results, but it wasn't the same this time. For that I'm sad to say that I recommend this restaurant with a caution. Call ahead, inform your party of wait times and make sure everyone can stand that long waiting. No place to sit gramma and grandpa down doesn't feel right to me. Add in children and I wouldn't recommend them.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Huevos Rancheros, Breakfast Burritos

Samantha lobsinger

This place has quickly become one of my favorites. The food is always good, I'm a creature of habit and always get the Eggs Benedict. Hearty portions and a coffee mug that's always full. The staff here is always welcoming and kind. Would definitely recommend stopping in for breakfast!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Eggs Benedict Classic

PAMELA WOLF

Nice place, good food and service but pricey.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Huevos Rancheros, Corned Beef Hash, Hash

daughterofthe King

I didn't even realize they closed at 2, even though I walked in around 1:45, because they sat me, waited on me and served me food that was delicious without any indication!!!Parking: There's some awkwardness with getting into their parking lot and out because of one ways .

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Cinnamon Roll French Toast

Victoria Penny

Nice little place for tasty breakfast fare.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Eggs Florentine, Country Benedict

John Burden

Best place for

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Andrew Umlor

Food and service is always exceptional here! Great location for dining outside.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alexander Armitage

What can I say.......The best breakfast place in South Venice!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great White

Rainy Sunday morningThe church crowd was here. The interior was full of anxious hungry patrons and all the tables were full. The hostess took our name and we stood outside with about 25 other people. “We’re the next group of 6” I heard. Groups of people walked, a group of patrons walked in, they were moving crowd. Eventually, we were seated. Kara greeted us as our waitress took our order.Start things off with coffee. Coffee at a breakfast restaurant can be iffy, Word of Mouth coffee is goooood.I had the veggie omelet, pecan pancake and veggie fritatta. Delicious, more coffee, yes and thank you. Full and happy. Rain stopped and the sun is coming out.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Makayla Davis

Clean and great food! We ordered an omlette and a scone, and both were a bit dry. Packed with flavor, just a hint dry. always a pleasure.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Denise Ogden

NEVER GO HERE AGAIN! The manager was horribly wrong and extremely rude and combative. As a person with a disability that prevents me from entering the building, we sat outside at the tables further from the door opening in the covered area. There was not anyone sitting in that area and the tables were all empty. There was a couple sitting on the other side who had a dog. I love dogs, I’m just extremely allergic to them so I sat outside in the area that had no other people sitting around away from the dog. I had to order the food to go before getting there because I cannot go into the building because of my disability. My teenager went inside with my card and paid to retrieve her order. We didn’t know this place had an outside eating area when we ordered on the way home as we hadn’t been here before. We thought it was nice that we could sit outside while my teenager could get something to eat as she had just had blood drawn at the quest nearby and needed food to prevent from passing out.I asked my teenager for the receipt and noticed she didn’t tip the waitress so I asked one of the waitresses that was outside passing by if I could add the tip to the receipt and she was very nice and said sure that she would take it on since I could not go inside because of my disability. I put a $4 tip on a $9 order and the waitress said we were fine there.We have the food and the order is wrong. We ordered a chocolate chip pancake with whip cream on top and strawberries on the side. My daughter decided to just eat it anyways because she needed to get food in her even though it wasn’t what we ordered. Before she coould start eating, suddenly a very angry woman comes out and starts immediately raising her voice saying that we need to leave and cannot be sitting there and that it’s for paying customers that are dine-in. She said this is a busy area and you need to leave.There was nobody sitting in the area we were sitting and nobody’s standing there waiting to sit.I tried explaining to the waitress/manager lady that was very hostile towards me that I had a disability and the situation but she just kept screaming at me to shut up and listen to her and that I needed to leave. I told her that we would leave and never come back. She was yelling across the parking lot from the restaurant at us trying to make it like it look to the other people with the dog that it was us that was the problem. She was yelling that we could have sat on the side of the building which was by the dog that I’m allergic to. I would never ask someone to leave with their dog from their table that was there before me so I could sit there so we left. The manager wouldn’t take a moment to pause from her yelling to have a normal conversation. She was very angry and aggressive!We were very quietly sitting there, just me and my daughter, I even tipped higher on the order just to have this horrible woman come yell at us and treat us like we were the scum of the earth.The way she treated us was as if we were vagrants sitting there begging people for money.We Will NEVER GO HERE! The owner needs to fire this woman before we will ever even consider going there again or recommending it.You just don’t treat people that way. You do not treat paying customers that way and sure don’t treat people with physical disabilities that way!

Service: 1

Don Curley

Best breakfast place

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

M A

Food was good, service was terrible.Kids fruit side was laughable.The wait staff was more excited about a dog on the patio than taking care of their tables. I asked for an extra plate that never appeared but literally 5 people came out to look at a dog.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Cathy Kiser

Great food, great service and staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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Original Word of Mouth - Venice

1740 E Venice Ave, Venice, FL 34292
(941) 218-6509