Chaps Diner and Bakery Spokane

I met up with a friend here on my way to the airport to head back to Portland. The food was pretty darn good. They have a pretty standard menu with some great fresh twists on traditional items. I got the Eggs Florentine which was delicious. It was all perched on a piece of rosemary toast that really elevated the dish. Their pastries are wonderful! I did get to try a croissant before they sold out and it was perfection. My only issue with this place is that it is INCREDIBLY busy all the time. Because it’s always busy, it takes quite a while to get your food and you have already stood in line for 20 or so minutes waiting to order. The servers were nice but seemed very overwhelmed. I would recommend getting here right when it opens, or toward the end of their day so you don’t have to wait so long and feel rushed. OR, don’t have plans or a strict time line if you decide to try their delicious food and pastries. The food was delicious and if you are willing to wait, it is definitely worth it.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

This is our family's favorite place. I like breakfasts and dinners here. Different menus for breakfasts and dinners. Always fresh pastries that melt in your mouth. Delicious coffee. The service is excellent. And a vintage interior. You will like it

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I ordered at the counter like a coffee shop, asking for over-easy eggs, hash browns, and sausage links. The eggs were over slimy, they only cooked one side, and they cooked the hash browns on one side making them half raw. it was one of the most disgusting breakfasts I've ever eaten.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 1

Honestly my favorite breakfast place in Spokane. The menu is great and the pastries are amazing. The staff and atmosphere are also top notch. Highly recommend!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Staff, food, ambience and overall experience was 💯. Would ABSOLUTELY go again!

It’s been about a year since I’ve been here. We are from out of town. It’s always been our favorite breakfast stop. But I heard the my are under new ownership and it shows. The food was very bland. Breakfast for two with some pastries, which of course still seems awesome, was $80. I think the bakery manager is the same under the new ownership and that shows but if the breakfast food remains the same tasteless food, I may be looking for a new stop when in town.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

The people were great and the food was delicious 👍

Very good food overall. I highly recommend getting here before 8am and waiting on line as the wait can get very long even by 8:30 or 9. The French toast and monte cristo are consistently good, the fries are excellent, and lattes delicious. I have had fewer worse hamburgers though; the patties are reminiscent of an A&W quality.
I bring my out of town guests here all the time and we have a great experience. Just get here early and skip the burgers.

Thanks for replacing the high chairs!

Like manny others, I’m sad to say Chaps isn’t worth going to anymore now that it’s been sold. They’re clearly trying to cut corners now and avoid labor and food costs. Having only one person working the two available registers on a super busy Saturday is crazy. Before it sold, they always had both registers going all morning and the line still took 20 minutes to get to the front on a weekend. Our last two Saturdays there it took literally over an hour to get to the front of the line. They’re skimping on ridiculous things now, like the cinnamon rolls have about 1/3 of the frosting they used to. Which seems like a great way to alienate longtime customers to save fifty cents in food costs. The almond croissant also had no discernible filling. It’s always sad when new owners take over and try and reinvent a business that thrived for years to increase profit margins. This used to be our favorite brunch place but after a couple super disappointing experiences recently we won’t be back.

Loved the energy of the place — lively but comfortable.

Long wait to be seated and then to get food! But tasty.

Really unfortunate to have to be making this review today given that we’ve loved Chaps in the past and have frequently brought our out-of-town friends and family here for brunch; however, today’s mishap has caused us to add Chaps to our personal blacklist.

Had walked in and was greeted by just one person out front in a white top. Proceeded to the registers to wait to be seated. A man with ear gauges walks up, looks right at us, sighs, and then proceeds to tend ro the register, saying absolutely nothing to us. Then another female server with black hair walks up to the second register and same thing - absolutely zero acknowledgment of our existence. We sat there uncomfortably for about 1.5 minutes until we finally said to each other, “let’s go somewhere else,” and still no response from the servers.

If this is how service is done here, we will never be returning. Very unfortunate as we live right in the neighborhood above and have really enjoyed the food in the past.

Goodbye Chaps!

If you don’t mind throwing down for the ultimate brunch experience, this is certainly your place. Tucked right off the Pullman highway just a few minutes from downtown Spokane, this location knows their brunch. When you enter, you get a whiff of fresh baked goods and a large open commercial kitchen that showcases their pastry creations of the day. While the line can be a bit long on weekends, they have created a seamless system where you order your meal at the front register and get a pastry right away while you go find a table and wait for your drinks and meal. Savory or sweet, they have it on the menu. I had their matcha latte and eggs florentine, with a chocolate croissant and couple pastries for the road. The food is entirely reasonable for the large portions you get. Flavors were sensational and absolutely satisfying. If you want to kick your morning up a knotch from the standard espresso, they have Irish coffees, Bloody Mary’s and Spiced Russians. This place knows how to do it right!

It's good. But it's only good, not great. Many years ago, it seemed incredible. Perhaps with the incredible increase in popularity it isn't possible to create the same delicious quality. Everything is still presented beautifully, but it isn't as delicious as before. The croissants seemed to have reduced butter (not as tender) and increased water (still gives amazing rise by steam release). There was notably less marzipan and chocolate in the croissants.

The bacon is still AMAZING.

What we ordered:
Almond croissant
Chocolate croissant
Strawberry rhubarb bar
Monte Cristo
Side of bacon

I'm happy for their success, there is a line to the door upon opening. Many people seem to really enjoy everything.

I'll start the review off by saying they have a somewhat unconventional way of ordering and seating. You wait in line and they give you a table number then you order and pay and then they bring your food to the table. We did have to stand in line for 25 minutes but I suspect they were short staffed today.
Service was nice, they were very kind and the food was honestly worth the wait. I had the eggs Florentine and they were stellar

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5