The Breakfast Club at Midtown

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Gene N

Dont let the fancy, new, modern, and hip decor fool you. This is not a fancy place where they are serving overpriced food. We were actually hesitant to go here because we literally just woke up and got out of bed. Some pictures we saw previously made us think you had to look decent. Thankfully that wasnt the case. Just think of this place as any old brunch spot but just all new decor and updated with the times. Dont worry the food isnt overpriced, small portioned or pretentious. Look at the menu (photos I took) and they have the usual fair of items. No hard to pronounce ingredients or items. Its surprisingly priced really good as well for the location and how new and upscale the place looks. The portions are what I would call above average. The value is really good for the quality and portion. We had neptune (crab and shrimp) Benedict, chicken apple sausage omelette, and mickey pancake and bacon from the kids menu. Again great portions. Even the mickey pancake was a huge portion for any toddler/kid. It comes with 2 big slices of not generic bacon--but one of those deluxe upscale maple bacon pieces. My Neptune was good and the Hollandaise was served warm as it should. The chicken apple sausage also was money. Ingredients were plentiful and skimp is not in their vocabulary. We opted for hash browns for both. They do not overcook their hashbrowns here, so some may want to check out the photos. One was just cooked "however they cook it" and another was cooked more crispy. Honestly I think both could have used a bit more time in the griddle, but Im not that picky about my hash browns, but definitely know you can ask them to cook it however you like. This place can definitely get crowded. They dont try to squeeze ever sq ft with seating so even when the house was almost full it didnt feel too tight--which is what I liked because we were able to enjoy our morning. They have what looks to be a full bar too, so if you feel like getting drunk in the morning, their bar looks very inviting. I definitely enjoyed my first time here and I think you will too. It felt great to eat good old fashion brunch food, cooked really good but not be at the usual old rundown atmosphere. It almost felt weird eating that type of food in such a nice atmosphere--but its a good weird. If I had any criticism, other than the hash browns might not be cooked for some peoples taste, was our waitress did not seem engaged. Too robotic and too fake nice. Some waiters/waitresses still dont realize people see right through that. Another waitress that wasnt doing our table was so much nicer, she was passing by and saw we had a child and went out of the way to give her crayons and paper. She always had a big smile on her face and you could tell when we observed her help her tables that she was really happy. Our actual waitress although did everything right, was definitely more like a robot.

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Abraham Saldaña

I will start off by saying that the food is indeed good and our server was a great worker but the owners views on customer satisfaction were not there. My wife has food allergies and is pregnant so she had to subtract a few items from her order; she asked if it would be possible to substitute one item for the few that were being taken off ... then it began. We were informed it was the owners policy not to substitute for any reason even if it was all items for one item but you can add each additional item for a cost. Now I could understand to a degree however it was the principle that one wants to get their moneys worth and losing several items for one item sounds unfair to me. We were informed that many other customers have asked the same with substitutions and told they couldnt but we asked to speak to the manager. When she came over we told her of the food allergies and about substituting three items for one item again were told about policy. She also voiced her disbelief about my wife having any such allergies as with all her years in the industry she has never dealt with a patron having any kind of allergies to food? That was very strange as well as her smart tone along with all the staff looking at us while talking made my wife self conscious which made her feel embarrassed then started crying. It was at this point the manager began to be sympathetic as many people began to really take notice of my wife crying. They said our meal would be free and left us at that... after my wife excused herself to the restroom and came back we ate. Now as i mentioned the food was good but her order was also wrong in several ways, she asked for over hard but got scrambled, asked for no sour cream but got it and for no toast but there it was plus didnt even get the guacamole it should of came with. She didnt want to even bother them at this point as to not make another scene and ate what she could. I was raised with a certain level of respect and so I wasnt about to accept a free meal in exchange for making my wife cry then leave this comment knowing I was complaining about a free meal so I paid and tipped our waiter 22% so that I would feel no guilt for my words here. I will never return to this place or this owners other food establishments ever again for the callous and hurtful tone in which we were treated by management only to be compensated too little too late for their actions. This is why I gave it only one star.

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Henry Martin

Came in today to try them out cuz of all the great Yelp reviews, they did not disappoint! Our server Allan did a fantastic job. I ordered the Steak Benedict with the eggs over easy, the steak medium rare and Hash browns. they steak and eggs were cooked to perfection. They put in crispy little onion rings under the steak. (Simply fantastic) Wifey ordered the Hash Benedict also with hash browns. (She loved every bite) The portions are also very huge, so bring your appetite! Wifey ordered iced coffee. (Comes with free refills) The watermelon that came on our plates was juicy and sweet. The hash browns though cooked perfectly, were nothing special solid (c) The interior is very nice however people voices echo off the walls (Very very loud inside) I highly recommend them, just maybe a little later in the afternoon when its not as crowded and the noise level is not as high. In the infamous words of the Terminator, Ill be back

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Tina B

This place is bustling on Sunday morning! With a group of 5 we probably waited over one and a half hours. They do have water and coffee outside while you wait, which was nice. Not sure if we were just starving by the time we were seated, but the food was delicious! We had a variety of sweet and savory: we had the eggs benedict, chicken and waffles (they warn you that its bone in...apparently there have been complaints bc they used to be boneless, which if you ask me is the lazy mans chicken and waffles. You gotta put some work into it!), raspberry cream cheese French toast, the blueberry lemon ricotta pancakes, and the brioche French toast. We also had the Georgia peach mimosa. Everything was on point and delicious! Solid 5 for food and taste, but knocking off one star for the wait and the lack of parking (genuine pain in the behind).