The Atrium — Restaurant in Kingston

The Atrium is a breakfast and lunch restaurant located in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Its breakfast menu includes a variety of omelets, French toasts, Eggs Benedicts, oatmeal and other staples. Its lunch menu includes burgers, wraps, soups, salads and other items.

We arrived shortly after 9:30 on a Wednesday morning and had our choice of tables in the mostly empty, high-ceilinged dining area. We ordered our coffee and orange juice while looking over the menu.

I was eager to try the Crab Benny, an Eggs Benedict dish featuring jumbo lump crab cakes on toasted English muffins, topped with two poached eggs, hollandaise sauce, and Old Bay seasoning. However, the meal wasn't available because the restaurant ran out of Hollandaise.

I then chose the French Toast Melt, consisting of battered and grilled brioche bread, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, and hash browns. Butter and syrup were baked in the batter, and although powdered sugar was supposed to be included, it wasn't present (unless that was in the batter as well). The sandwich was served with a side of breakfast potatoes.

As one would imagine, the sandwich packed a lot of sodium; however, The Atrium wasn't sparing with the meat. The hand-held was very filling, and I struggled to finish it. It was just as well, as the breakfast potatoes were not entirely pleasing. Each morsel of potato was the same size, which meant that they weren't freshly made but came frozen from a bag. They were also sodium-laden and overdone, as they tasted burnt.

The Brioche French Toast, which included cinnamon, vanilla, egg wash, and powdered sugar, was disappointing. First, it certainly didn't appear to be Brioche, but rather plain white bread. We had the option of topping, so fresh strawberries were chosen. However, it came with only a few strawberries at most, alongside two small containers of syrup.

Overall, the experience was a bit underwhelming. The place was clean and inviting, and the service was fine enough; however, when you don't have the main ingredient for what takes up about ⅙ of your breakfast menu, and sparingly use another featured ingredient, it makes one suspect of what other unwelcome surprises may come about. I wouldn't turn down another opportunity to visit again, for I would be curious about their lunch menu. Nevertheless, I wouldn't suggest The Atrium when inviting someone...

My wife and I went to the Atrium for lunch. 1st it's nothing like the original Atrium on Market St. The portion sizes were severely small for the price. The bread they used is totally different than originally used. The thick cut soft breads are no more. We both ordered Rye bread for both of our sandwiches and it was hard and not fresh. I had a Ham and Cheese sandwich. The ham was not good kinda rubbery and and it just didn't taste fresh. My wife's corned beef was extremely fatty as well as dry. My wife also ordered a side of cole slaw. Neither of us recognized what was served as cole slaw it was brown and warm and bitter tasting. We both ordered the fresh cut fries which were excellent just a small portion though. Overall just disappointing we both loved the Atrium when it was on Market St. When you're expecting the food from the original location, when the ladies operated the restaurant. Then receive what we got this week it's disappointing. I did speak to the manager and he was extremely nice. He took my wife's sandwich off our bill because of the Rye bread being hard and not fresh. Also offered to make me something else for the same reason, but I chose to finish my sandwich. Our server was extremely nice, helpful, and attentive. Overall not a great experience but I gave 3 stars because of the Mgr being helpful and the great server. Food wise it was 1 star unfortunately. Just didn't meet our...

Was super disappointed in the service at this visit, which was unfortunate since we don't dine out often and we were treating ourselves and some out of the area family that was visiting. The food took way to long for the amount of tables that were there, my food came out with the wrong sauce. I asked our server for the correct sauce but never received it. No one ever checked on us or asked if we needed anything. The second time a server stopped by she dropped the check and walked away. Never asked if we needed boxes or anything. We asked for boxes twice before having to get them ourselves at the counter. The servers need to be more attentive. Consider putting the side pasta salad in a separate bowl rather than next to a sandwich on a plate because the soy sauce was all over the plate causing the sandwich to be soggy. My sandwich was good and so was the tuna. We love to have lunch there but this time just didn't meet our expectations. We will be back but we hope the server creates a better experience for us. Thanks...