Off Main — Restaurant in Courtenay

Another great breakfast place. You get lots of food for the price you pay. The decor is safely described as old-timey eclectic and perhaps borders on very busy but the food is good so whatevs.

I won't go so far as to say the service is bad because it's not but on one particular morning when it was busy, I had to wait until the bill to get another cup of coffee. She was new though and it doesn't take away from the fact you should go here to eat.

REDUCED STARS: So I step into the restaurant for another delicious breakfast and wait to be served, as says the sign. The place isn't full at all. That is to say, it wasn't busy at all, so the staff wasn't busy. I'd say about a 1/3 of the tables had customers. And a customer up at the till sitting down with her back to us on her phone.

I waited, standing, at the door that dingle dinged when I came in, for over 5 minutes before I decided that maybe the waitress had an emergency she had to attend to and I'll just seat myself. I sat down at a table that was closest to that one customer on her phone. Waited another few minutes and nothing. Then another group of people came in.

The woman on her phone stands up to reveal she was the waitress all along and starts doing her job again. Seats the group and takes their initial order. Once she comes back out with their drinks does she finally realize we were there and asks us almost jokingly if she has helped us...

I have read the other reviews for this restaurant and unfortunately I did not have this experience here. I gave it two stars because the food was very good but the service was very poor.

When we first got there we had to wait for a bit and I had my elderly father with me and I had to find a chair myself for him to sit down to wait. When we got a table it was very very sticky and we had to ask for napkins as none were provided. We ordered our breakfasts and not once during our entire experience did someone come over to check how things were or if we needed more coffee as the cups were very small. I had to get up and go to the counter to ask for coffee and that seem to annoy them. I then had to flag someone down to ask for jam because none was provided and we were having toast with our meals. I overheard the server say to the other server “now they want jam” in a condescending way. I didn’t think it was unreasonable to ask for a refill of coffee at a restaurant having breakfast and I had to get up and go over to the counter to do it because no one came to our table. We essentially finished our meal without coffee, water, and I had to scrape the jam off my toast to give my father. My partner ordered pancakes and they did not give him syrup nor did they ask if he wanted any and of course because no one came to the table he ate them dry. It was not a pleasant...

Wrote a review here about 2 years ago but wanted to update it. My experiences here have been nothing but wonderful and pleasant. The owners are overall wonderful people.

The atmosphere is great to start my day off. Its a small place but the personality it carries is big! Ive been going here for about 3 years now and though I can no longer afford going every other week like I used to. I still look forward to my visits.

The food! The food is consistantly amazing. With time the food has only become better and better. Their specials are very special. I love trying as much as I can here. I've enjoyed food like brussel sprouts here even though i typically dont like them. Whatever magic theyre performing in the kitchen is spectacular!!!

The service is some of the best in town. Not a single time have I left going "eh.". I always wish I had the money to leave some huge tip for these lovely people.

A lot of text for a resterant review but I cannot stress enough how much I love this place! Me and my boyfriend have been coming here for as long as we've been together and some of my favourite dates have been at Off Main. There is often a wait out the door to have breakfast here and for good reason. Thanks so much for the fond memories and amazing...