The Skillet House 2 — Restaurant in Orland Township

I really wanted to give The Skillet House a better review. 🙁 It's quaint, cozy, the service is very good, plenty of menu options 🍽, and the prices are reasonable 💲, but the top reason for dining out is to enjoy good food and that's an area where The Skillet House fell short. On my first of three recent visits (Dec 2018) I had the flank steak and egg breakfast, with a side of pancakes and was delighted with every part of the meal. The steak was tender, juicy, and among the best I've had at other restaurants. The pancakes were also on par with the best. 🥩 🍳 🥞 👍 A return visit was in order... My second visit was disappointing. I ordered a steak omelet. The steak chunks lacked flavor and felt rubbery. Everything else was comparable to my first visit. I felt that a third visit would help form a more rounded opinion, so I gave it one more try. On my third visit I went back to my standard measuring stick, the steak and eggs. It was very good the first time, but on the second try the difference was night and day. The steak on the second visit was thin, sinewy, crispy along the edges, and dried out in general. Talk about eating shoe leather - I lived it that day. 👞 👎 I was left wondering if my steak was precooked earlier that day and dried out from sitting too long, or if was an unused holdover from the day before. On the plus side, the seasoned red potatoes are delicious and a better alternative to regular hash browns. 🥔 👍 Perhaps I'll return one day for pancakes, sausage and gravy, or some other "safe" choice, but not for anything that...

I ordered the Strawberry French Toast takeout today. They forgot the "French" part. I was so dissapointed. Texas Toast - French Toast Style with Strawberries and Strawberry Syrup with whipped cream. It was certainly Texas Toast, dry grilled, definately not "French Toast" more like one side lightly toasted on the grill. French toast is usually dipped in an egg batter and grilled. This Tasted no different than normal thick bread. Barely any Strawberries or strawberry syrup and had no whipped cream. Total dissapointment. This was the second time I ordered from here, first time eggs and bacon where undercooked from my request but I waved commenting on it. This time I must say. I will not be ordering from here EVER again. Sad, because it's right across the street...

First time visiting this place. The menu is huge, lotsa great options and the skillet menu was large. I ordered the Special Skillet and my wife got the Hash Stack skillet which was on a specials menu. Kids got the mickey mouse pancakes. The service was really good, everyone was really nice. Food was decently priced as well. My only two "meh" was my wheat toast wasn't toasted (my son's white toasted was toasted nicely) and when it came to the skillet, the hashed browns weren't really browned well. So if you like hash browns cooked a bit more maybe ask them. Other than that everything we had was good! Definately would return again. Also side note they are offering a dozen tamales for 15$ as of 4/7/21 they have a little sign...