Haymaker Goodyear — Restaurant in Goodyear

If you’re looking for a good breakfast spot in Goodyear, keep looking. Cracker Barrel, sure; IHOP, why not? Maybe even the McDonald’s drive-through. Just don’t waste your time at Haymaker.

While the server was friendly and just the right amount of attentive, that’s where the positive aspects ended.

To start, the booth we were brought to was filthy. We were there for the restaurant opening, which means it hadn’t been cleaned from the night before. The tabletop itself was sticky and one side of the booth had salt and crumbs all over it, as well as what looked like smeared butter or oil.

We started with a cup of coffee and it was awful. Nearly flavorless and somehow only warm, not even hot, even though it was supposedly just brewed.

We ordered the chicken and waffles, French toast, and a side of 2 eggs and bacon. Other than being cold when it came to the table, the French toast had good flavor; although, it was so soggy with the batter it’s soaked in prior to cooking that adding syrup would have turned it into bread pudding. Everything else was cold, and quite frankly, just tasted terrible.

Like the coffee, the chicken and waffles were extremely bland. Thankfully, the unused syrup from the French toast was enough to make them palatable. The eggs were ordered over-medium and came runny enough that it was almost hard to tell they’d been put in a pan before they were plated. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I’ve ordered over-easy eggs at even halfway decent restaurants that didn’t have that much runny egg white in them, let alone the ice cold yolks. The bacon was thin and brittle, not dissimilar from the Hormel you can buy pre-cooked at the grocery store that’s supposed to be warmed in the microwave.

When the bill came, we were in such a hurry to leave that I didn’t look it over before handing over my credit card. Unsurprisingly, after the terrible experience with the food, we were less than shocked to see that we were also overcharged for breakfast.

Needless to say, we don’t recommend Haymaker and won’t be back to try anything else...

Alright I have had this place on my list of places to go for a long time, for the simple fact that I knew someone that you used to work here that runs their own business and makes great food. The Haymaker does not disappoint. Great vibe, feel, ambience, food, inside and outside seating, and air conditioning. Do not laugh on the last one as that is a big thing in Arizona and not all places have good air circulation/conditioning. First off, we had Mimosa flights and they were just right. Not overly sweet or too hard on the champagne, good balance, I highly recommend the flight of mimosas. They warm you up and make you cheerful and ready to eat. The first flight was white peach, mango, strawberry and pomegranate. My girl ordered the pulled pork brisket skillet and it was unique and very flavorful. Cannot go wrong with barbecue anything. I had the traditional fair of bacon, eggs, hash browns, and a side pancake but it was done very well. You have to eat the pancake hot with the butter and syrup running all over the plate. Simply the best!!! I have to get two next time. The last flight of mimosas were prickly pear, elderflower, passion fruit, and huckleberry. Our favorites were huckleberry, prickly pear, and elderflower. Our server was Rosemary and she was very helpful with food, drinks, and questions we had about her distinctive glasses. Good conversation. I know this review was a little wordy but I enjoyed my visit and will be going back to try the ribs one day soon. Haymaker will be added to one of my regular rotations of...

My friends and I came for brunch and mimosas. Our first time here. I brought my son with me also. The restaurant was big, nice, loved the country theme and music. We waited for our table and once we were ready to be seated we were brought to a table that looked like another group had been there with a baby already. The high chair for my son was extremely dirty I was shocked, thankfully I brought in his high chair cover and the floor underneath was still dirty from the previous baby dropping food. In my opinion I did not like that for a first impression and I got the feeling like my son was a burden to have to clean up after him again if he dropped food onto the floor (since the floor wasn’t already cleaned they didn’t want to be bothered to clean it up again after him) the food was really good, we enjoyed our flight of mimosas to try. Our server was nice she would check up on us, only thing that bothered me and my friends about her was she didn’t ask how we wanted to split the check she just put everything onto one ticket and left. We waiting and waited for her to return to ask her to split up the check and she never came back. We ended up walking up to the front, told them we wanted to split the check and again assumed we only meant 2 checks when we wanted 3 but we didn’t want to cause even more trouble so we just settled for the two checks. Which we didn’t get to use our reward points because of that. I think I will return again only because I enjoyed the ambiance and food. Thank you, hopefully it’ll be all...