Huckleberry's Breakfast & Lunch — Restaurant in Anaheim

We arrived early on a Tuesday Morning. We were seated in a drab back room that shared a wall with what looked like a Chinese Restaurant? It was not very “Huckleberryish”. We ordered our drinks. Coffee etc I asked for creamer and water. Took the waitress forever to bring the creamer, my coffee was already cold. My husbands coffee cup was dirty. She didn’t come back for another 10 minutes. I finally got up and asked the host if he could move us to the normal part of the restaurant so that we wouldn’t be forgotten. He moved us to the Huckleberry part of the restaurant where our waitress FINALLY took our order. I asked her if she could bring our waters. She rudely asked me why I left my water at the other table! I told her she NEVER BROUGHT it and my husband’s Coffee cup was dirty so we left it there. She rudely brought us our waters and new coffee cup. We finally got our food. We were there for about an hour. As we were leaving I realized I left my purse hanging on the chair in the other room. I ran to look for it and it was gone.The restaurant wasn’t busy and there weren’t any other patrons in that room. I asked the host if he has seen my purse- THE SAME PERSON WHO SAT US DOWN. He asked “ what color is it” . He had my purse behind the counter stashed away: if they KNEW we were sitting there and we were literally STILL in the restaurant why didn’t they just walk it over ?? That’s what any other person should have done? That’s what I would have done. We were literally 5 Ft from the table we moved from. Why did they put my purse under the counter??? Why did they wait for me to ask for it KNOWING it was MINE or at least IT BELONGED TO SOMEONE IN OUR PARTY??? Super shady and Dishonest. not to mention when we went to pay with Cash, the same Guy didn’t hand us our change back until his coworker told him to? WTH? Something is not right...

We have been here multiple times. We are magic key holders and normally stay not far away. Usually, we have nothing but nice things to say. We brought a friend over to try the breakfast during the first week of December and had a vastly different experience. The young woman who met us at the desk was polite and kind. She told us our table for 4 would be ready in about 5 minutes. Then her boss, an older woman, walked over and ripped the seating board from the younger woman's hands and basically yelled at us, her, and the other patrons waiting for a seat. Then the boss snapped that we would have at least a 20 minute wait. The young woman protested that several servers had only one or two tables, and the boss yelled at her. Then another waiter came over and the boss dressed him down, loudly, right there in the middle of the entryway. She did it to two other servers. Unless they have the most incompetent staff in history, this boss was just a giant a-hole. When we were seated, it took another 15 minutes for our server to come over because, as the young woman had originally protested, our server had 8 other tables. All of our food was tasteless. My wife got crepes that were thick enough to be oddly textured pancakes. Two of us ordered plates that were supposed to have various sides, but, with the exception of the bread, the sides were bizarrely mixed into the food. For example, my omlette had the breakfast potatoes in it instead of as the side that came with the dish. In the end, we opted to not take any of the food home, which I never do. We paid and walked out past a now unmanned entry area. I came back in about 5 minutes later because my toddler suddenly decided he needed the bathroom and the desk was still empty. The numerous issues were enough to make us decide to...

I actually thought I had COVID at first (I don't). Everything was just bland. I don't think anyone here has ever even visited the south.

The southern sweet peach tea was just SWEET and flavorless. And who uses white table sugar to rim a glass? Though even if they had used rock or crystal sugar it wasn't saving this drink. Canned peaches for "authenticity"? I was questioning if it was fresh brewed tea. I do know this drink would work in a war, just throw it on your enemy and the bees will descend upon them for you.

I got the stuffed French toast with bananas foster. The bananas and the foster left the room... There were about 4 slices of uncooked bananas in a somewhat sweet, flavorless sauce (no nutmeg or rum extract.... I don't even think they used brown sugar). Is the French toast dipped in batter? If so, that was also flavorless.

The bacon was fine. I would say it's hard to screw up bacon, but based on everything else I wouldn't put it past them.

Next were ribeye steak and eggs with red potatoes. The sunny side up eggs were fine. The ribeye was cooked as ordered with no seasoning. The potatoes weren't cooked all the way through, with the peppers and onions just carelessly thrown on top and clearly not cooked with the potatoes. The huckleberry muffin had good consistency but lacked flavor, the butter was decent.

My husband who is an eating champion didn't even want to finish his meal, nor did I.

The server was nice, but seemed indifferent to the fact that we didn't like our meal.

I would have preferred that the meal was actually terrible because at least then it would be memorable. The whole experience...