Simply Marie's — Restaurant in Baltimore

After a weekend in Baltimore with my wife we decided to have brunch. We went to Miss Shirley's but the wait was too long. So after reading a number of Google reviews and we decided to give Simply Marie a try. It is a small quaint place in a nice neighborhood. I was excited to try the chicken and waffles but was told that it would be a 20 minute. So I decided to have an sausage and bacon omelet with grits, toast and home fries. My wife had the same except her omelet had spinach and mushrooms. My first issue was the size of the home fries serving. It was served in a small butter/syrup cup (see pics posted). My omelet had plenty of sausage and bacon. The issue with this is the quality of the meat. Lower quality meat tends to be salty. And when you add that much meat to an omelet...too much. My wife's mushrooms were just about raw in her omelet. So lets move onto the grits. My grits were nice and thick, my wife's were watery like soup. Appears that they didn't come out of the same pot. After tasting them, I wondered if they were instant grits that had been cooked in the microwave. It's pretty easy to cook good grits, so I was surprised. Several times the customers were asked how we found out about the place. We both said Google. Later on that made me wonder if the other reviews online were real reviews or fake reviews...hmmm.

To the owners of Simply Marie - Soul food is simple and tasty food. Maybe the people in that neighborhood don't know the difference between good food and just ok food, but I do. Any day I walked into my grandmothers house, she would whip up a breakfast that tasted 10 times better than what I had at your establishment. For the price ($30 for 2 people), I expected top notch. But that is not what I got. If you want people to return to your restaurant, you have to serve food that meets a high standard. If its not up to par...don't serve it. I wish you well and I hope that my negative review is the only one...

If you're looking for an incredible diner-style breakfast, literally look no further than Simply Marie's. We found it via Google. We wanted something delicious but low-key since we were dealing with impending hangovers. And, boy, did this place DELIVER!

Very unassuming inside. Do not let this deter you!

I went with the breakfast quesadilla and a side of breakfast potatoes. Let me tell you...that quesadilla was STACKED! It's thick AF and it was perfect. I was also given the option of like 5 or 6 different types of tortillas for my quesadilla--nice touch. And those breakfast potatoes... here's the thing, I usually prefer my breakfast potatoes to be crispy. So I saw these and I was a little sus...not gonna lie. But OMG are these the best seasoned breakfast potatoes I think I've ever had in my life. And the PORTION SIZE...woah. I ate 1/3 of the quesadilla and a few bites of the potatoes. Make sure you're coming in HUNGRY. I'm pretty sure this will feed me for 3 meals.

My bf got the French toast with scrambled eggs and bacon. I asked him for his assessment and he said, "It was all amazing. I don't have time to think of a witty review." Thank goodness he has me. Anyway, my bf was deciding between the pancakes and french toast...the guy working said the french toast was the way to go. I didn't try it but my bf was absolutely raving about how delicious they were. I did try the bacon though and that was perfectly crispy.

I noticed that they also have sausage gravy and biscuits. I will certainly be back for those soon. Oh and there were a ton of omelette options. It's going to be a tough call on what I order...

I cant believe how terribly my breakfast went. I stopped by here this morning on my way to the doctor, hoping this would help me feel better. I ordered an egg, cheddar,and turkey sausage sandwich and a side of grits with cheese. $12.

Food comes out pretty quick, cool. Get to my car...no spoon (mind you it's only like 20 degrees outside), Okay I go get one. Finally get back in the car just to realize that the spoon is dirty and has some yellow substance dried to it. Once again I got back to get yet another one. Then I hear them just digging through a box or something of uncovered plastic spoons and talking about how they all have dust in them..

I'm annoyed but I'm hungry and want this to work. It didn't.

My sandwich wasn't even completed covered in the foil. My eggs were a weird texture, almost watery and tasted like nothing. The turkey sausage was the only okay part for me and for some strange reason there was some salt on one side of the outside of the croissant. My $5 grits had no cheese ...or salt or pepper like I asked for and had a greasy looking film of (what I assume was) butter that didnt mix in well at all. Ironic because I was charged an extra $1 for the grits, which I assumed was for the cheese I didn't got.

I rarely write reviews but I had to. I can't believe a place with such good reviews provides such poor service and food. This was beyond disappointing and unacceptable. There's absolutely no excuse to be giving customers dirty cutlery, especially not for $12 of...