Cafe Luka — Restaurant in New York

End of The Rainbow is Cafe Luka and a pot of gold. Owners and brothers Mark and John didn’t know that it was their warm and caring plus genuine openness to criticism to praise and change to their hip and sheik Diner (two words not normally used with a NYC diner) especially with that well heeled Louis Vuitton wearing crowd plus their beloved dog that rules the purse on the UES. So we wandered from the hospital surgery ward to Cafe Luka - Having just had a colonoscopy I was drugged out and starving from the no eat surgery, and Viola in a New York minute a giant heap of perfectly crisp Maine blueberry melt - in - your - mouth pancakes with Vermont Maple Syrup was placed in front of me. But that’s not the real story my partner and I are the rainbows, (a gay or what we call a rainbow couple of 20 years). And that was absolute welcome news for these very married family guys, who provided respect and fun with a great atmosphere and bragging rights to great food and a muffin I’m still working on in my fridge!! So all being said we had the rainbow, we had the fun but we’re was the gold? Well because of them giving us a break from crazy mask policy from hell NYC by providing us plastic cubicles (yes sadly that’s a thing) - we decided to buy a scratch off, and abracadabra it said $150.00 dollars. I’m not saying eating their will help you win the lottery, but I can say that the tip is going to be much better when we go back!! Thanks Boyz!! Finally a great breakfast near our Doctors office, and the hospital that also won’t soak you with horrible prices!! Just Ask Luka, that big lug,...

Maybe go somewhere else. Everything on the menu is $5 more than what the menu on the website shows (e.g. says avocado toast is $13.95 but is actually $18.50). If you want 2oz of syrup for your pancakes, french toast - that will be $3.95 (if memory serves) The eggs benedict was pretty bad - world's toughest English muffin and drowning in sauce. They are quite overwhelmed with the amount of customers - nobody checked on us so we had to finally flag someone down to get the check, and after another half hour of waiting we got up to pay at the front to be charged the wrong amount and be given someone else's credit card. Maybe you had to pay up front all along - maybe mention that when you give the check. Prices bad, food not great, service appalling (just due to high traffic).

Oh, and I apologized for the amount of time it took for my friend to show up (NYC subways on a Sunday) and the employee joked that he would yell at me later - he "isn't allowed to say...

Nice new spot with the same great staff and owners as the one that was next door. You will always find a genuine welcome and a good meal here. John and Mark, the brothers who own the place, moved Cafe Luka from next door into the space that had housed their Fratelli restaurant, and gut-renovated for a clean, classic look. They still have the pizza and a few of the old Fratelli favorites, as well as the traditional Cafe Luka menu. I love the new, open, modern decor. They ran the original Cafe Luka for 20 years, and at the end it was still as clean at the day it opened. Running a spotless restaurant with friendly, reliable service and consistent food is an extraordinary feat, and these guys do it every day and make it look easy. That one or the other of the interesting, engaging and gregarious brothers seems always to be there, chatting with customers old and new, is likely one reason for the spot's consistency...