Used to come here for special brunch when we lived in Columbus. We brought every guest here and it was always delicious. Came in for brunch on a random Friday. Still amazing and without a crazy long line. I strongly suggest the biscuits and gravy, and their black iced coffee is the best I’ve ever had.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alex Davenport
Save your money go somewhere else for breakfast.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Marko Gittens
I use go to skillet a couple years ago and it was the best. The space has gotten smaller, service not as good , food served with to go plates and plastic utensils. I gave it another try after I thought things were declining and will not go back. Overpriced without the service to match...
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 2
Evelyn Thorne
Food was served in takeaway containers and with plastic cutlery. The atmosphere used to feel warm and inviting and is now replaced with “order on a kiosk” and minimal service. The food is okay. My sausage was burnt and the cinnamon roll was dry. Its not worth it. They serve water for 1.50 in self serve plastic cups that you would find in a prison.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
Candice Griffin
The food is beyond delicious. It always has been and I am happy to report that even in a paper to go container the flavor and quality are still there. Sadly, though, the rest of the restaurant experience is gone. We hadn’t been in awhile since we don’t live in Columbus anymore, but finding ourselves in German village we were excited to get back there…..And then we walked in the front door. The tables were covered in piles of take out trash, and I soon saw why, the new self service ordering system! Had I known about the changes I would have ordered take out to then take back to our Airbnb to plate and eat, but since we were there, we tried it. The ordering system is slow and clunky, I had to pass my phone around to others to add to the order, and then pay in entirety before submitting the order. I would have had another drink, but it was too much of a hassle to go through the ordering system again, we couldn’t get coffee refilled, no water was offered and in fact tap water was a menu item for $1.50, your food is unceremoniously plopped down in front of you with a plastic tray and your food truck paper containers, all at once. There’s no more slowly savoring your scone and coffee while you’re waiting on your main. It’s “here you go, now eat and go” I hope they can figure this out because the food is DIVINE and I don’t want this food to not exist in this world, but the experience was really not lovely. I will 10000% come back and revise this review if they go back to using dishes and servers.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
Victoria Roland
Death of a restaurant. Ordering a $20 breakfast entree that comes in a disposable container from an iPad while the wait staff talk amongst themselves behind the bar. $4.25 for a 12oz coffee in a paper cup. We left before buying any food from the QR code menu. Oh Lord, please, why have you forsaken us
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Evan Straw
Incredible food and our coffee was good. Pricey, but worth it for a nice meal. The self service kiosk, plastic cutlery and to-go containers used for dine-in service are as puzzling as it is disappointing. It's a huge blow to what would otherwise be a unique and quality little restaurant.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 2
Nicholas Tebbe
This place used to be legit. A secret little place you'd take your friends or family from out of town...not any more! If you ever loved Skillet don't come back. It will ruin any memories you had. It's now an overpriced app driven ghost kitchen. $1.50 for tap water? What?
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
Rebecca Marino
I take back the 1 star. I award no stars. I am absolutely furious that I even have to write this. But I DO have to write this because Skillet was once a place where meals felt personal and real and worth leaving the house for. What it has become is an insult wearing its old name like a stolen jacket. It has been desecrated, gutted, and stuffed with incompetence, apathy, and waste.
You walk in expecting a nice restaurant. What you get is a tech hostage situation. You must order through a glitchy QR code system that eats twenty minutes of your life before refusing your card like you are trying to commit brunch fraud. At that point, you are not dining. You are trapped in UX hell.
Then the water. $1.50 for sixteen ounces of tap water. Not filtered. Not sparkling. Not blessed by monks. Regular tap water. And it takes fifteen minutes to arrive, in a plastic cup with a lid and straw like you are on a field trip to a landfill. That is the theme here. Waste. Waste everywhere. A once conscious kitchen now creating more trash than a state fair fried butter stand.
Every food item arrives entombed in paper, cardboard, plastic, and wax paper that steams everything into a limp, sad, soggy insult. It tastes and feels like someone microwaved your dignity and wrapped it in sweat. You do not get plates anymore. You get garbage masquerading as plating.
Salt and pepper. Hidden. Like contraband. Like they do not want you to have flavor or hope. Hot sauce. $1.50 for a tiny squeeze of something that used to be free back when this place still cared about being a restaurant instead of a cautionary tale.
And then they parade over with your receipt like hall monitors who finally found a purpose, checking off items in front of your face and arguing with you when the food you clearly paid for never arrives. It is like being gaslit by cafeteria workers who have given up on life and want you to join them.
This is not a decline. It is not a stumble. It is a betrayal. A once genuine place turned into a soulless cash-grab wrapped in trash and served with contempt. Skillet is now the kind of restaurant that makes you go home and mourn. Not just the meal you did not get, but the place it used to be and the respect it once had for its customers and itself.
If you ever loved this restaurant, honor its memory by staying far far FAR away. What stands there now is not Skillet. It is a mausoleum with a microwave and a QR code and the very limpest of ducks.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Aaron Sturgill
Biscuits and gravy: incredible, 10/10 Bread pudding: fine, 6/10 Bialy (glorified dinner roll with melted mozzarella): why? 5/10 Cardboard food trays, plastic utensils, tip and pay before you get service when dining in: wtaf, 0/10
My family three did not get to eat here because there were no open seats. The place is very small. They may have about 10 tables that sit 2 people It is a first-come-first-serve, wait at the door. The only host service is a sign just inside the door that says to seat yourself. When we arrived, all tables were booked and it look like most people were waiting still for their food, which is not a good sign for people waiting outside. The menu looks good, but the space is very limited.
Service: 1
Lori May
Delicious breakfast and great location! Love that Skillet is a family owned and operated business.Would definitely recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joey Kubicki
Would agree with all the recent reviews. The biscuits and gravy was pretty mid and serving them on a cheap paper plate makes it worse. The inside is small and the menu isn’t very big so not sure why they can’t just take your order like a normal dine in place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
Mitchell Gresley
I’m going to have to add on to the recent reviews. Skillet has been a wonderful place to visit since I moved to Columbus. The food is top notch. Pricey, yes. But it was a splurge I figured was worth it. Recently, it’s a serve yourself setup. My omelette comes in a cardboard food truck container that completely takes away from the experience. Before, it was plated nice, perfectly folded over omelette with micro greens on top. Now? It’s just thrown into a to go container. Serve yourself water is the same size as Dixie cups you use for mouthwash. And a $8 coffee which is the cinnamon roll latte (usually to die for) is served in a GFS paper cup now.
Not sure we will be going back based on these new changes. Hopefully this feedback finds its way to create change again.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
Bruna Oliveira
Please don’t bother. Save your time, your money and your energy.
I have never been so amazed by a place - in the most negative way possible. I was looking for brunch places while driving and saw this on Google Maps. I was five minutes from the place and thought it would be worth to try it out, specially since it was a celebratory lunch for my mom and dads anniversary. And here is why:
- we stood in the rain for 25 minutes since the structure outside is not well maintained so the gaps in the structure were providing all of us with rain showers and gelid drops of water. until then we thought it was worth waiting
- then we saw that there is no one at the door or someone inside that will help you getting a table: you get there and you talk to whoever is waiting in line to understand when will be your turn. There is a huge sign saying something that could “you are on your own. Find your own table”. So no one to actually help you once you get there
- then you sit down and the menu is a QR code, which honestly I hate having this as the only option. My parents are not that young and struggle with these QR code menus. Why there are no printed ones anymore? Not fair or even appropriate for people who are not familiar with technology
- believe it or not, it was more than noon and half of the menu was “out of stock”. The options I had would be an omelet with eggs only for $14 bucks. Can you imagine paying fourteen dollars on an omelet when no one came to our table ONCE in the fifteen minutes we were inside?
I’m glad I made fool of myself for asking everybody if we could leave. Didn’t spend this money in a celebratory brunch with my family on this place and will never go back. I’m impressed how they are still in business when all is served in paper, no one is actually there to talk to you and no one seems to care about whether or not you will have a good experience.
That is the first time I review something that bad.
Used to come here for special brunch when we lived in Columbus. We brought every guest here and it was always delicious. Came in for brunch on a random Friday. Still amazing and without a crazy long line. I strongly suggest the biscuits and gravy, and their black iced coffee is the best I’ve ever had.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Save your money go somewhere else for breakfast.
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
I use go to skillet a couple years ago and it was the best. The space has gotten smaller, service not as good , food served with to go plates and plastic utensils. I gave it another try after I thought things were declining and will not go back. Overpriced without the service to match...
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 3
Service: 2
Food was served in takeaway containers and with plastic cutlery. The atmosphere used to feel warm and inviting and is now replaced with “order on a kiosk” and minimal service. The food is okay. My sausage was burnt and the cinnamon roll was dry. Its not worth it. They serve water for 1.50 in self serve plastic cups that you would find in a prison.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 1
The food is beyond delicious. It always has been and I am happy to report that even in a paper to go container the flavor and quality are still there.
Sadly, though, the rest of the restaurant experience is gone. We hadn’t been in awhile since we don’t live in Columbus anymore, but finding ourselves in German village we were excited to get back there…..And then we walked in the front door. The tables were covered in piles of take out trash, and I soon saw why, the new self service ordering system!
Had I known about the changes I would have ordered take out to then take back to our Airbnb to plate and eat, but since we were there, we tried it. The ordering system is slow and clunky, I had to pass my phone around to others to add to the order, and then pay in entirety before submitting the order. I would have had another drink, but it was too much of a hassle to go through the ordering system again, we couldn’t get coffee refilled, no water was offered and in fact tap water was a menu item for $1.50, your food is unceremoniously plopped down in front of you with a plastic tray and your food truck paper containers, all at once. There’s no more slowly savoring your scone and coffee while you’re waiting on your main. It’s “here you go, now eat and go”
I hope they can figure this out because the food is DIVINE and I don’t want this food to not exist in this world, but the experience was really not lovely.
I will 10000% come back and revise this review if they go back to using dishes and servers.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 1
Death of a restaurant. Ordering a $20 breakfast entree that comes in a disposable container from an iPad while the wait staff talk amongst themselves behind the bar. $4.25 for a 12oz coffee in a paper cup. We left before buying any food from the QR code menu. Oh Lord, please, why have you forsaken us
Atmosphere: 1
Service: 1
Incredible food and our coffee was good. Pricey, but worth it for a nice meal. The self service kiosk, plastic cutlery and to-go containers used for dine-in service are as puzzling as it is disappointing. It's a huge blow to what would otherwise be a unique and quality little restaurant.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 5
Service: 2
This place used to be legit. A secret little place you'd take your friends or family from out of town...not any more! If you ever loved Skillet don't come back. It will ruin any memories you had. It's now an overpriced app driven ghost kitchen. $1.50 for tap water? What?
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 1
I take back the 1 star. I award no stars. I
am absolutely furious that I even have to write this. But I DO have to write this because Skillet was once a place where meals felt personal and real and worth leaving the house for. What it has become is an insult wearing its old name like a stolen jacket. It has been desecrated, gutted, and stuffed with incompetence, apathy, and waste.
You walk in expecting a nice restaurant. What you get is a tech hostage situation. You must order through a glitchy QR code system that eats twenty minutes of your life before refusing your card like you are trying to commit brunch fraud. At that point, you are not dining. You are trapped in UX hell.
Then the water. $1.50 for sixteen ounces of tap water. Not filtered. Not sparkling. Not blessed by monks. Regular tap water. And it takes fifteen minutes to arrive, in a plastic cup with a lid and straw like you are on a field trip to a landfill. That is the theme here. Waste. Waste everywhere. A once conscious kitchen now creating more trash than a state fair fried butter stand.
Every food item arrives entombed in paper, cardboard, plastic, and wax paper that steams everything into a limp, sad, soggy insult. It tastes and feels like someone microwaved your dignity and wrapped it in sweat. You do not get plates anymore. You get garbage masquerading as plating.
Salt and pepper. Hidden. Like contraband. Like they do not want you to have flavor or hope. Hot sauce. $1.50 for a tiny squeeze of something that used to be free back when this place still cared about being a restaurant instead of a cautionary tale.
And then they parade over with your receipt like hall monitors who finally found a purpose, checking off items in front of your face and arguing with you when the food you clearly paid for never arrives. It is like being gaslit by cafeteria workers who have given up on life and want you to join them.
This is not a decline. It is not a stumble. It is a betrayal. A once genuine place turned into a soulless cash-grab wrapped in trash and served with contempt. Skillet is now the kind of restaurant that makes you go home and mourn. Not just the meal you did not get, but the place it used to be and the respect it once had for its customers and itself.
If you ever loved this restaurant, honor its memory by staying far far FAR away. What stands there now is not Skillet. It is a mausoleum with a microwave and a QR code and the very limpest of ducks.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Biscuits and gravy: incredible, 10/10
Bread pudding: fine, 6/10
Bialy (glorified dinner roll with melted mozzarella): why? 5/10
Cardboard food trays, plastic utensils, tip and pay before you get service when dining in: wtaf, 0/10
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 2
Restaurantji Recommends
My family three did not get to eat here because there were no open seats. The place is very small. They may have about 10 tables that sit 2 people It is a first-come-first-serve, wait at the door. The only host service is a sign just inside the door that says to seat yourself. When we arrived, all tables were booked and it look like most people were waiting still for their food, which is not a good sign for people waiting outside. The menu looks good, but the space is very limited.
Service: 1
Delicious breakfast and great location! Love that Skillet is a family owned and operated business.Would definitely recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Would agree with all the recent reviews. The biscuits and gravy was pretty mid and serving them on a cheap paper plate makes it worse. The inside is small and the menu isn’t very big so not sure why they can’t just take your order like a normal dine in place.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
I’m going to have to add on to the recent reviews. Skillet has been a wonderful place to visit since I moved to Columbus. The food is top notch. Pricey, yes. But it was a splurge I figured was worth it. Recently, it’s a serve yourself setup. My omelette comes in a cardboard food truck container that completely takes away from the experience. Before, it was plated nice, perfectly folded over omelette with micro greens on top. Now? It’s just thrown into a to go container. Serve yourself water is the same size as Dixie cups you use for mouthwash. And a $8 coffee which is the cinnamon roll latte (usually to die for) is served in a GFS paper cup now.
Not sure we will be going back based on these new changes. Hopefully this feedback finds its way to create change again.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 4
Service: 2
Please don’t bother. Save your time, your money and your energy.
I have never been so amazed by a place - in the most negative way possible. I was looking for brunch places while driving and saw this on Google Maps. I was five minutes from the place and thought it would be worth to try it out, specially since it was a celebratory lunch for my mom and dads anniversary. And here is why:
- we stood in the rain for 25 minutes since the structure outside is not well maintained so the gaps in the structure were providing all of us with rain showers and gelid drops of water. until then we thought it was worth waiting
- then we saw that there is no one at the door or someone inside that will help you getting a table: you get there and you talk to whoever is waiting in line to understand when will be your turn. There is a huge sign saying something that could “you are on your own. Find your own table”. So no one to actually help you once you get there
- then you sit down and the menu is a QR code, which honestly I hate having this as the only option. My parents are not that young and struggle with these QR code menus. Why there are no printed ones anymore? Not fair or even appropriate for people who are not familiar with technology
- believe it or not, it was more than noon and half of the menu was “out of stock”. The options I had would be an omelet with eggs only for $14 bucks. Can you imagine paying fourteen dollars on an omelet when no one came to our table ONCE in the fifteen minutes we were inside?
I’m glad I made fool of myself for asking everybody if we could leave. Didn’t spend this money in a celebratory brunch with my family on this place and will never go back. I’m impressed how they are still in business when all is served in paper, no one is actually there to talk to you and no one seems to care about whether or not you will have a good experience.
That is the first time I review something that bad.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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