We waited almost 40 minutes for a table. Our bad. We didn't know you needed to join the list from home. Lesson learned. They told us 40 to 50 minute wait. We had driven 30 minutes to get there so we decided to wait. It turned out to be about 30 minutes. So that was a plus.

However, the service really didn't improve when we got a table. In fact, if a manager hadn't noticed that we had been sitting there for 15 minutes and hadn't even gotten a cup of water or a menu.... Who knows if the server would ever show up?

We finally got water and menus. It had now been 20 minutes since we arrived at the table and they set another couple in the table next to us. Within 10 minutes the people in the table next to us had food, coffee, etc. We were still waiting. We had now been at the table for 30 minutes. I don't care how patient you are, that's annoying. Even if you don't say anything, it's annoying.

The restaurant has a kind of diner feel. Without the cleanliness. Don't misunderstand. I'm not saying the kitchen is filthy or anything like that. I don't know. I wasn't in the kitchen. It was just kind of messy and slovenly in the eating area. It was quite clear that no one who worked there had any pride in what they were doing. You can always tell by the way people care for their establishment. What I mean by this, is when we sat down, the table hadn't been wiped down and I got strawberry syrup on the sleeve of my shirt. By the way, they claim this strawberry syrup is homemade in house. They would have to prove that to me. It tasted like watered down strawberry jelly. Nothing more. Nothing less. You could get a bottle of strawberry syrup at Walmart and it would have been better. But that's my only negative comment about the food.

I'm not going to name the server because I've worked in a restaurant and I know it's possible for a very good waitress to be overloaded with new tables by the hostess and it might not really have been her fault. So that I blame that on the restaurant, not the waitress.

The waitress was pleasant but obviously tired and ready to go home. She delivered her food, came back and asked us if we wanted a refill on her coffee. Left the check and we never saw her again. I guess we didn't really need our coffee refilled again. Actually I did. That was the first coffee in a diner type restaurant I've had in a long time. That was actually incredibly good! I am a coffee snob and I will not drink bad coffee. I could have had them set the pot on my table. It was really very good.

So the service isn't much and the atmosphere isn't much. But I have to say as we watched everyone else getting their food. We were both commenting on how everything really looked good. It did! You know how it is when you're hungry and everyone else is getting food and you're not. You're just ready to start chewing on someone's leg bone. Well that's the kind of hungry I was by the time the food got to the table. It was 2:30 in the afternoon and I had not eaten since about 5:00 p.m. The day before so I was hungry. Thankfully it actually did taste as good as it looked. Hence the three stars overall. It would have been a lot lower based on just service and atmosphere.

I had the dutch baby with the fruit on top. I love a Dutch baby and I make them at home. Was it is good is mama makes? No. But it was pretty close. It was good. My only complaint is that they seem to have soaked to the bananas in sugar or something? Maybe that is the traditional way to eat fruit on a Dutch baby? It wasn't to my taste personally, but there was nothing wrong with the fruit. It was very fresh. I could have just done without the extra sugar, but that's me. I gave havia taste and he loved the sugar on them. So to each his own! My husband got some kind of hash over hash browns and bacon. My husband was over. The moon was his food. I did not taste it because I believe there are onions in it and I detest onions. But he cleaned his plate and I have to say the bacon was thick, cooked till it was nice and crispy and it couldn't have looked better.