The Omelettry — Restaurant in Austin

Well understanding it's Father's Day I'll weigh my answer accordingly. We were told at around 11 it'd be a 3 min wait for a party of 4. When we pulled up ten minutes later that number ballooned to 30, which given our previous options would've been a Godsend. But now my family is rushing to get to service in Taylor and the morning bled well into the afternoon. After watching party after party that arrived substantially after we did get seated we went and waited right next to the waiting list upon which I signed up when we first arrived. Once we'd AGAIN watched a customer seated ahead of us after they just got there, both our parties of equal size, my wife made a less than subtle observation which magically propelled us into a booth. But not just any booth. We got the one furthest away from the entrance. Nah, no one could happen to notice a limping elderly man and two handicapped adults, all 3 walking as if we'd rather crawl home. Anywho, once we were seated things slowly got back on track. The service from that point up until the end, drastically improved, and the coffee, I got the cold brew, was worth the price of admission. My only gripe about the food was my father's unfulfilled desire of Eggs Benedict. If yall can make the concoction called if I'm not mistaken the Burnet road Benedict, why couldn't yall do a Eggs Benedict the old fashioned way for a dad who without question earned the right to eat what he wants on fathers day. But everyone except my daughter had clean plate disease. A little rushed once my wife asked for boxes. My dad didn't finish his food. And whatever I missed by the front door when we were leaving, just know I know my wife doesn't make faces like that too often. So someone or something made her have some respect. Will I go back, probably, but only cuz I know it couldn't be that bad with a crowd such as they served today. I'll tweak my rating...

Let's get to it - My son and I wanted to find a nice diner near us and I wanted to take him out to brunch on 8/24/24 - I've been in and out of Austin my whole life and loved the idea of supporting local. Boy was this place regrettable.

The staff was super friendly, a real Austin vibe that I loved. The menu seemed simple enough, I feel like getting an Omelette might be the move. Spanish Omelette, I ain't ever been to Spain, but I'm not so picky, promised a salsa with a bunch of stuff.

I get a plate with tons of food on it - the salsa is canned tomato and canned jalapeno, with a copious helping of the liquid from the cans - no onion (on the menu for it), no bell pepper (on the menu for it). I'm not one to complain much, and it looked fine until I realized with enough liquid at the bottom from the canned tomatoes and jalapeno's to fill a pint glass. My potatoes are soggy and soaked, the egg of my omelette is a questionable film of 'perfectly cooked' egg that seems to be folded over some kraft cheese. Like it was microwaved. I imagine it was probably inedible without being soggy, but it sure was soggy. Had I known what awaited I would have just gotten eggs n fried them on the hood of my car with some butter. It would have been much better.

If you know how caustic canned tomatoes are, you could argue this place might be giving people cancer.

The only thing I wouldn't have changed about this place is the front of house staff and giving them an above average tip (lifelong service industry here), but calling this place the Omelettry? My friend in Christ, that's...

Food is good, the service however was disappointing. It had been a while since my family had visited and I thought it would be nice to take them here. We were first seated at this little booth at the furthest corner of the restaurant behind the stacks of baby seats and literally in the corner, it feels neglected and unconnected from the restaurant. They served our drinks, that’s it. No one came to ask for our order or anything. It had been around 10 minutes and nothing. They should remove that seating.

Anyways, we then asked to be seated elsewhere in order to watch over our belongings on our truck bed. They moved us closer to the windows. We then noticed that 6 people who came in after us were seated AND served food before we even got a new table. It then took forever for someone to get our order. My dad greeted the server with “good morning! How’s it going?”, the server said nothing and ignored him. Very rude from the start. While ordering, I was under the impression the soup was called homemade soup, I asked for it and the waiter laughed and said “all soups are homemade”. I replied with “oh” I was very embarrassed. He then took a second to tell me the options I had. My father asked for another cup of coffee and the man responded very informally They then brought us the wrong food orders and forgot to bring some side dishes. Nobody apologized or said anything about the mistakes. The man who first served us never even came back after that. We had like 4 different servers. Very unorganized and did not feel welcomed at all. Will not be...