Super welcoming, Love having breakfast here. Their French toasts are amazing and a must!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Muffin, Sausage, Whipped Cream, Home Fries, French Toast, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
Ethan Dong
Ball Square Cafe is a fantastic breakfast spot in the Somerville area. Overall, it offers a great dining experience. The food was delicious, and the service was excellent. While the prices are on the higher side for breakfast, I believe it’s worth it for the quality. I highly recommend checking it out!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
David W
This place is the best!! We lived in the area from 2012 to 2016 and was our go to spot! The owner was always super friendly. Everytime we come to Boston, we go out of our way to get Breakfast here. The Banana Nutella french toast is awesome
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
John Paquette
The food is mostly good, though not consistent. The background music is annoying bland smooth jazz that you are not meant to listen to. It just annoys me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: French Toast
Tess Willinger
Fair price breakfast/lunch place with friendly staff! Went in on a busy holiday and got seated right away. Really fast service and yummiest home fries.
Cynthia A
Didn’t get a part of my pick up order
Food: 5
Service: 3
David Somerville
Wonderful cafe, great service, and really good menu. Staff so friendly and attentive no matter how busy.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: English Muffin, Corned Beef Hash, Home Fries, French Toast, Fresh Fruit Bowl, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
Sahomi Santana
Amazing. Just Amazing. That's it, that's the review
update: still amazing, and its bigger now but they took my favorite item off the menu. bring back the banana n cream cheese stuffed french toast. i cry for it every night. the grilled mash eases my sadness tho.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: French Toast, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
Max G
The “homemade fried chicken and waffle” was amazing!
Everything a diner should be. Great food, all fresh, big portions. We usually go breakfast - pancake recipe is ?. Awesome environment too.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michael Gobiel
Great place owned by an actual person from Somerville. Excellent food, great service. His family has worked in the food industry for years feeding this city, good people.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Chelsea Sheehan Dias
Not even sure where to begin with how terrible our service was. Went to this cafe as a party of 3 around 2:15 today, keep in mind we’ve eaten here before and were super impressed with both service and food! Today was nothing of the sort. We came in knowing exactly what we wanted, thinking we were helping out and being “easy” guests, but clearly that didn’t make a difference. First of all, we didn’t get our drinks for 25-30 minutes, shared one waffle (very good by the way) before getting our drinks, and didn’t get our entres until about an hour after us placing our order. The runner brought one of us the wrong plate of food, put it down on the table, and then took it away and brought it to another table right in front of us, which is a heath violation, and also just disgusting. I told our server I wanted my eggs well done (last time I got the same thing and they were runny and not fully cooked) and they came out incredibly undercooked, so much so that the WHITE part was still gooey and runny (after taking almost and hour to arrive at the table), ew. Unfortunately we got our food WELL after other table that ordered WELL after us. Our server was incredibly inattentive, he came over once and then never checked on us. Not sure if he was in the weeds, he was around, but we even tried to flag him down and he walked away. After flagging down 2 other servers, we sent the runny eggs back, and let the staff know that we ordered steak tips (med rare) that came out well done and burnt (which we left untouched). They acknowledged it and still left it on the check ($27). By then, almost everyone in our section was complaining and wanted to cash out to leave, but had to wait at least 10 minutes for their checks.
Just to mention, after the runner brought the wrong plate and still served it to another table, he came back with the right plate and said “sorry about that, there was a fight in the kitchen, and almost a show”…idk but we found that incredibly inappropriate, especially after waiting an hour for this plate of food that came out burnt. I mean…thanks for that terrible excuse, that makes us feel so much better!
I would just like to wrap this up by saying that I am a server, and have been for a while. I know what it’s like to be weeded, i’ve seen coworkers get reviews like this and it’s not fun, so if anything i understand. there is still no excuse for how horrible our experience was today. if you’re looking for good food, try it out, just don’t get eggs or steak. If you’re looking for good service, don’t waste your time here.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Kristin Scalisi
I haven't dined in since the pandemic started, and I was so thrilled to go back today and see the expansion, and eat the amazing food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Pilai W
I got the egg Benedict avocado tomato , veggie sausage. So phenomenal . This place was good location at Somerville. Breakfast restaurant neighbor next door and opposite side. You will found the restaurant easy.
Super welcoming, Love having breakfast here. Their French toasts are amazing and a must!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Muffin, Sausage, Whipped Cream, Home Fries, French Toast, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
Ball Square Cafe is a fantastic breakfast spot in the Somerville area. Overall, it offers a great dining experience. The food was delicious, and the service was excellent. While the prices are on the higher side for breakfast, I believe it’s worth it for the quality. I highly recommend checking it out!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place is the best!! We lived in the area from 2012 to 2016 and was our go to spot! The owner was always super friendly. Everytime we come to Boston, we go out of our way to get Breakfast here. The Banana Nutella french toast is awesome
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food is mostly good, though not consistent. The background music is annoying bland smooth jazz that you are not meant to listen to. It just annoys me.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: French Toast
Fair price breakfast/lunch place with friendly staff! Went in on a busy holiday and got seated right away. Really fast service and yummiest home fries.
Didn’t get a part of my pick up order
Food: 5
Service: 3
Wonderful cafe, great service, and really good menu. Staff so friendly and attentive no matter how busy.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: English Muffin, Corned Beef Hash, Home Fries, French Toast, Fresh Fruit Bowl, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
Amazing. Just Amazing. That's it, that's the review
update: still amazing, and its bigger now but they took my favorite item off the menu. bring back the banana n cream cheese stuffed french toast. i cry for it every night. the grilled mash eases my sadness tho.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: French Toast, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
The “homemade fried chicken and waffle” was amazing!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best omelette in MA!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Everything a diner should be. Great food, all fresh, big portions. We usually go breakfast - pancake recipe is ?. Awesome environment too.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great place owned by an actual person from Somerville. Excellent food, great service. His family has worked in the food industry for years feeding this city, good people.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Not even sure where to begin with how terrible our service was. Went to this cafe as a party of 3 around 2:15 today, keep in mind we’ve eaten here before and were super impressed with both service and food! Today was nothing of the sort. We came in knowing exactly what we wanted, thinking we were helping out and being “easy” guests, but clearly that didn’t make a difference. First of all, we didn’t get our drinks for 25-30 minutes, shared one waffle (very good by the way) before getting our drinks, and didn’t get our entres until about an hour after us placing our order. The runner brought one of us the wrong plate of food, put it down on the table, and then took it away and brought it to another table right in front of us, which is a heath violation, and also just disgusting. I told our server I wanted my eggs well done (last time I got the same thing and they were runny and not fully cooked) and they came out incredibly undercooked, so much so that the WHITE part was still gooey and runny (after taking almost and hour to arrive at the table), ew. Unfortunately we got our food WELL after other table that ordered WELL after us. Our server was incredibly inattentive, he came over once and then never checked on us. Not sure if he was in the weeds, he was around, but we even tried to flag him down and he walked away. After flagging down 2 other servers, we sent the runny eggs back, and let the staff know that we ordered steak tips (med rare) that came out well done and burnt (which we left untouched). They acknowledged it and still left it on the check ($27). By then, almost everyone in our section was complaining and wanted to cash out to leave, but had to wait at least 10 minutes for their checks.
Just to mention, after the runner brought the wrong plate and still served it to another table, he came back with the right plate and said “sorry about that, there was a fight in the kitchen, and almost a show”…idk but we found that incredibly inappropriate, especially after waiting an hour for this plate of food that came out burnt. I mean…thanks for that terrible excuse, that makes us feel so much better!
I would just like to wrap this up by saying that I am a server, and have been for a while. I know what it’s like to be weeded, i’ve seen coworkers get reviews like this and it’s not fun, so if anything i understand. there is still no excuse for how horrible our experience was today. if you’re looking for good food, try it out, just don’t get eggs or steak. If you’re looking for good service, don’t waste your time here.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
I haven't dined in since the pandemic started, and I was so thrilled to go back today and see the expansion, and eat the amazing food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I got the egg Benedict avocado tomato , veggie sausage. So phenomenal . This place was good location at Somerville. Breakfast restaurant neighbor next door and opposite side. You will found the restaurant easy.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sausage, Grilled Mashed Potatoes
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