No frills, just amazing food and an amazing staff!
Today Kelly was our server and she was amazing as always, along with her daughter Ella who works alongside her.
I will be back tonight, they do dinners on Tuesdays and they never disappoint! A true McHenry gem.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Elaine B
I don’t like to leave bad reviews, especially for a local non chain restaurant. But, I have to share our experience so others know. The food is very bland, hashbrowns are just fried potatoes without any seasoning, scrambled eggs are the same you’d get from McDonald’s, the French toast bread was still wet/soggy but had burnt flavor. The worst of everything is the sausage links. They’re about 95% fat and undercooked.
Not sure how they have 4.7 stars unless it’s friends and family leaving reviews. This place is truly awful- it honestly makes IHop seem like a 5 star restaurant. The staff is also extremely unfriendly!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Sym Cardnel
8/2025 prices are now outrageous. $18 for coffee and pancake!?🤬
6/2025 $7.85 for a coffee in my tumbler and tiny English muffin to go. FUDGE THE ABSOLUTE OFF!!!
6/2023 absolute best place on earth!!! Great prices and food.
2019 Good old fashioned, NON FRANCHISED goodness! Food, service and pricing is great!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Michael
Kills me to write a bad review on this place because it’s been a long time favorite local location due to the nostalgia that my grandmother used to be a waitress there in the mid to late 90’s into the early 2000’s but we had a bad experience all around.
1. The location does not apparently accept phone orders on the weekends. Inconvenient to have someone have to physically drive to a location to place an order, wait; and then leave. The goal is convenience so we can get on with our busy lives.
2. Food quality. - ordered a biscuit and gravy combo with eggs sunny side up, hash browns; sausage and bacon. The eggs were undercooked and snotty. Any quality chef would know how to cook sunny side up to the proper consistency throughout. Bacon - brown and serve out of a microwave maybe? Sausage? Rubbery… doesn’t look like breakfast sausage, suspect some brown and serve like brand here too.
Biscuits and gravy - imagine taking some sort of flat biscuit that looks like a mini pancake and pouring Campbells mushroom soup over it and calling it biscuits and gravy, because that’s what it both looked and tasted like. NO THANKS - from someone that actually enjoys campbells mushroom soup in recipes.
The unseasoned bland hash browns were probably the best part. Definitely not worth 15.00. I’m starting to feel like due to poor economic conditions people are losing site of what a reasonable expectation to eat quality/tasteful food is.
Would have rather had Burger King for breakfast. Would have been better and cheaper too.
Sorry grandma!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Joe Crisara
Love this place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
J M
I used to work a block away from here and would have this all the time and now that our office moved, I truly miss it. Very friendly staff and the food is amazing! I'll be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jack Hannay Jr
I used to live in the area, and I had been here a couple of times. I can't say it was ever my favorite, but it is very charming.
I had to be a couple blocks away today and had arrived 40 minutes early and was hungry.
Still very charming, food is still meh. Obviously, lots of people like it, just not me.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 3
Linnea Lindh
This little Diner has been around since 1968, and the food is home-made and delicious. The staff is friendly. We go there once a week because we enjoy this place so much.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Deb Cashmore
Ham off the bone so good. Their hash browns are magical
Prices are high compared to how much food you get. Otherwise, no complaints here.
Àndy Sargent
A pleasant comfortable little shop, good food, service and prices. sit away from the front door because it can get chilly when folks enter on a cold day
Dennis lazzara
Called in an order this morning for two orders of pancakes and a breakfast. Breakfast was very good. Pancakes were delicious except the problem was they only gave me one pancake per order with normal order of pancakes is three or short stack is two in full form plus a tip. Something wrong with this picture gave me no butter no syrup, no forks nor knives.
Food: 1
Service: 1
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Such an old Hidden Gem of McHenry history! I love supporting local business that's been here for Generations!
No frills, just amazing food and an amazing staff!
Today Kelly was our server and she was amazing as always, along with her daughter Ella who works alongside her.
I will be back tonight, they do dinners on Tuesdays and they never disappoint! A true McHenry gem.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I don’t like to leave bad reviews, especially for a local non chain restaurant. But, I have to share our experience so others know. The food is very bland, hashbrowns are just fried potatoes without any seasoning, scrambled eggs are the same you’d get from McDonald’s, the French toast bread was still wet/soggy but had burnt flavor. The worst of everything is the sausage links. They’re about 95% fat and undercooked.
Not sure how they have 4.7 stars unless it’s friends and family leaving reviews. This place is truly awful- it honestly makes IHop seem like a 5 star restaurant. The staff is also extremely unfriendly!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
8/2025 prices are now outrageous. $18 for coffee and pancake!?🤬
6/2025 $7.85 for a coffee in my tumbler and tiny English muffin to go. FUDGE THE ABSOLUTE OFF!!!
6/2023 absolute best place on earth!!! Great prices and food.
2019 Good old fashioned, NON FRANCHISED goodness! Food, service and pricing is great!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Kills me to write a bad review on this place because it’s been a long time favorite local location due to the nostalgia that my grandmother used to be a waitress there in the mid to late 90’s into the early 2000’s but we had a bad experience all around.
1. The location does not apparently accept phone orders on the weekends. Inconvenient to have someone have to physically drive to a location to place an order, wait; and then leave. The goal is convenience so we can get on with our busy lives.
2. Food quality. - ordered a biscuit and gravy combo with eggs sunny side up, hash browns; sausage and bacon. The eggs were undercooked and snotty. Any quality chef would know how to cook sunny side up to the proper consistency throughout. Bacon - brown and serve out of a microwave maybe? Sausage? Rubbery… doesn’t look like breakfast sausage, suspect some brown and serve like brand here too.
Biscuits and gravy - imagine taking some sort of flat biscuit that looks like a mini pancake and pouring Campbells mushroom soup over it and calling it biscuits and gravy, because that’s what it both looked and tasted like. NO THANKS - from someone that actually enjoys campbells mushroom soup in recipes.
The unseasoned bland hash browns were probably the best part. Definitely not worth 15.00.
I’m starting to feel like due to poor economic conditions people are losing site of what a reasonable expectation to eat quality/tasteful food is.
Would have rather had Burger King for breakfast. Would have been better and cheaper too.
Sorry grandma!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Love this place.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
I used to work a block away from here and would have this all the time and now that our office moved, I truly miss it. Very friendly staff and the food is amazing! I'll be back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I used to live in the area, and I had been here a couple of times. I can't say it was ever my favorite, but it is very charming.
I had to be a couple blocks away today and had arrived 40 minutes early and was hungry.
Still very charming, food is still meh. Obviously, lots of people like it, just not me.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 3
This little Diner has been around since 1968, and the food is home-made and delicious. The staff is friendly. We go there once a week because we enjoy this place so much.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ham off the bone so good. Their hash browns are magical
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best chili hands down
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Prices are high compared to how much food you get. Otherwise, no complaints here.
A pleasant comfortable little shop, good food, service and prices.
sit away from the front door because it can get chilly when folks enter on a cold day
Called in an order this morning for two orders of pancakes and a breakfast. Breakfast was very good. Pancakes were delicious except the problem was they only gave me one pancake per order with normal order of pancakes is three or short stack is two in full form plus a tip. Something wrong with this picture gave me no butter no syrup, no forks nor knives.
Food: 1
Service: 1
Such an old Hidden Gem of McHenry history! I love supporting local business that's been here for Generations!
Great food and service 👌
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