Corner Cafe — Restaurant in Longview

(Updated at the end) This was our first time here. At first I thought wow it's only got like five tables, but then we saw the second room that they call the enclosure with 6 or so more tables in there. We were greeted and told we could sit wherever we wanted. After being seated we were given utensils, napkins and menus. For a little place I thought the menu was pretty extensive all things considered. They serve breakfast all day and have a nice selection of both lunch and breakfast items. I took a little while to decide what I wanted. My wife had the special "cinnamon swirl French toast, 1 egg scrambled and a slice of ham" I had the " chicken fried steak with country sausage gravy, 2 eggs over medium and hash browns with their homemade white bread (of course)" . We were both very happy with our meal. Her scrambled egg was cooked flat and hard but she said it was still edible. I asked for an extra side of country sausage gravy. I usually take pictures of our meal to show here, but I must've been too hungry to even think about stopping to take pictures. I just dug right in to my meal. The service was good, our needs were attended to very well. They do their own desserts in house. Our server said the lady who does them has a hurt shoulder and one of the owners is having to help out making the baked goods and desserts. Since the lady who usually does them is out they are having to supplement with some premade items like the cookies, some pies and cinnamon rolls. They say the dessert menu is changed weekly starting on Tuesdays. We'll be back for round two... And an update with pictures.

Update 6/14/2024 We went for breakfast around 9:30. The only tables available were outside on the patio. It was chilly with the breeze coming through. The food was hot though. We both had an omelette. They scrambled the whole eggs to order for making the omelettes. Usually a restaurant would use liquid egg product. My wife had the fried potatoes and I had the hash browns. Both were very good. Crispy outside soft and hot inside. It was another good experience at The...

Today was my first time trying breakfast here with my wife and it was delicious! When we arrived around 10:20am on a Saturday we had gotten there just in time to get the last table, which was outside. It was freezing but we wanted to try the food so we ordered some hot coffee and braved the cold, service was a little slow and she did not come to the table often, however they were really busy so I understand. We both got the biscuits and gravy with bacon, eggs, and hash browns which took probably 30 minutes to get to our table after we had already been there for close to 30 minutes. The food was delicious and the bacon and hashbrowns were both cooked perfectly, since we were outside the biscuits and gravy and the eggs were both so cold within the first 2-3 minutes we could not really enjoy it but it was still good. We will definitely be back however we will make sure to come earlier to avoid such a long wait and I also recommend to the diner that they invest in some of those stand up outdoor heaters to put next to the tables or maybe build wind blocking walls if they are going to do outside seating, because I watched multiple people just leave instead of dealing with the cold...

Great restaurant! We pop in here from time to time. It's a bit of a drive for us but always worth it.

Portions are a reasonable size. Not huge, not small...reasonable. Fresh fruit is actually fresh! Chicken fried steak is fantastic. Eggs always cooked perfectly too. Biscuits and gravy aren't all dolled up with weird spices and tons of sausage...just simple tasty white gravy and a reasonable amount of sausage.

Service here is really good as well! Our drinks were always full and it didn't take much time for them to take our order. Food took a reasonable amount of time to make (especially since they were so busy). They didn't hound us to death like a lot of places, and they also didn't ignore us. Just right again!

Great place all in all. If you haven't been, definitely...