Take Ur Seat (Chino Hills) — Restaurant in Chino Hills

I found this place on TikTok and the reviews were very high. People raved about the puffy pancakes, and the creme brulee French toast; they also talked highly about the pork belly with rice. We arrived at 8:40am and there was already a wait. They did have you sign up on a wait list which was helpful within 30 minutes the wait list alerted us that we were 1st on the list, I went to check in but was told that we were 1st on the list to be the next person seated so we had to wait an additional 20 minutes for an Open Table. The staff was very friendly and nice and professional.

We ordered the cream brulee French toast, the puffy pancakes, pork belly rice bowl, the hot chicken rice bowl and the big 5 which had bacon sausage eggs and fried potatoes.

The pancakes are an acquired taste they do not taste anything like a regular pancake. The pancakes were under cooked they were still slightly raw and runny on the inside even though these are a souffle pancake they still should have had a little more sponginess to them. We were super hungry so we basically just scraped the cooked part off the top and left the inside that was more mushy on the plate. The pancakes have a smell to them that is very unique and kind of off putting they were lacking in any type of sweetness somewhat plain and a dough like taste.

The cream brulee French toast was pretty good.

The pork belly rice bowl was OK the pork belly was cooked nice and crispy everything else lacked a little bit of flavor.

Scrambled eggs are terrible they come runny and I don't even believe that they are actually real scrambled eggs I think they are scrambled eggs substitute.

My husband did not like the sausage that came on the big 5 plate.

The chicken bowel was OK but just average nothing spectacular or special.

The coffee we ordered was OK.

Overall I would rate this place a 5/10 for service and food presentation. I think it's a little hyped up to be honest. The price for everything...

When I moved to the area, I had a friend who kept talking about this place. It took me a while to go, but finally one day when we had a day off from work, we went.

This place is SO CUTE. There are both individual and group seating areas. We were sat in a group seating table, but they did space us from the other couple so it didn't feel smushed or intrusive.

We ordered the creme brulee french toast, the curry bowl, and the tri-tip plate for food, along with a drip coffee and a cookie butter latte. Everything was delicious. I went for the French toast, that's what my friend kept talking about. You know when something is hyped up for you so your expectations are crazy high when you finally encounter whatever that thing is, and then you're let down because the hype was greater than the actual thing? Okay let me just tell you...the French toast COMPLETELY lived up to the hype. The creme brulee french toast was PHENOMENAL. You get 6 pieces (which i was glad for because it's $14 for some bread), and they are thick and fluffy pieces of deliciousness with creme brulee cream and house made whipped cream, and the tops of the bread are bruleed so you get a satisfying little crack when you go to cut it.

Our first experience was dine in. I've been back twice already for take out. If you're going to dine in and don't get there immediately when they open, expect a wait. There is a table sit time of 90 minutes so at least they regulate it, but just be ware, the place isn't that big but it's popular, and for good reason.

We've also tried the oats and spam musubi since and everything is super yummy. Their coffees aren't very sweet, so if you like Uber sweet coffee, this probably isn't the place for you (or you can just add sugar to the coffee), but it IS pretty yummy coffee. The flavors are smooth and we both enjoyed...

There were four people waiting for a seat including me. One person was scheduled to arrive late, so I asked for a seat after all three had gathered, but an employee wearing a black mask said they would give me a seat only if four people gathered, and that they could not give me a seat now. Of course, there were enough seats in the restaurant. I had already waited outside for about 30 minutes so I just hoped they would give me a seat. However, the staff wearing black masks said they could not give us seats because there were less than four people, so we were only able to get seats after saying that only three of us would go in. The black mask employee again asked if there were really three people, and she was very rude. As soon as I sat down at the table, what I saw was a sign that said guests could not sit for more than 90 minutes. We ordered some foods and Americano. What's surprising is that the Americano was served in an old-looking plastic small cup provided at the food court. My friends and I were speechless. The coffee tasted terrible and the food came out very late. The coffee in the plastic cup had already cooled and its flavor had long since disappeared. It was a moment when the nearly $20 pancakes for breakfast and the $4 coffee cost became very worthless. Less than an hour later, they made us feel uncomfortable two or three times by offering to give us a leftover food to-go box, which made us very uncomfortable. We all felt pressured to leave the restaurant . So we left right there. As local residents who pass by there every day, my friends and I decided to never go...