The Wooden Spoon — Restaurant in Overland Park

ETA since it wont let me respond to the manager- 1.) we ended up ordering chocolate milk, because the restaurant didn't have the "powder" for hot cocoa. That is my point. You can be out of it but clearly its just a powder and not actual hot coca. We ordered chcocolate milk. We didnt "save money" 2.) I dont leave negative reviews unless it's a mold infested hotel or restaurant with not good food. You can scroll and see my boastful reviews of amazing reaturants in the area. 3.) A nice thing would have been to say "man im sorry we didnt met your expectations" vs. Trying to justify the fake chemical tasting food. 4.) Im aware how soft local scrambled eggs taste. I eat them daily. This was nasty wet soggy no flavored scrambled eggs. 5.) Funny how the restaurant didn't even mention the chemical tasting red dye fake raspberry syrup drizzle.

No idea how this place is highly recommended. The food was literally inedible. I got the lemon ricotta pancakes-which are supposed to be their specialty. The raspberry drizzle is a fake raspberry and so chemical tasting its inedible. You know the cupcakes that have so much food dye you can taste it? That's what the "raspberry" drizzle tasted like. Red food dye. There was no lemon other than some zest on top. The pancakes were dense - not light and fluffy. I mean. Literally i ate two bites and couldn't eat any more it tasted so chemical. You couldnt eat the scrambled eggs & hashbrowns either. It was a fake butter and soupy. (You can see in the picture). I love butter and these tasted AWFUL. We ordered a breakfast quesadilla too. Zero flavor.

We tried to order hot cocoa and they "didnt have any"?? So they use packets and not real cocoa? How can you not make hot cocoa?

The server was kind and offered to remake the food, but after gross bites we didn't want to eat anymore. She discounted our meal, which was nice. Server was kind &...

Laughably BAD experience. This place is trash. PLEASE GO TO PEPPERJAX for a philly, or go to ANY OTHER RESTAURANT. NOT HERE. We walk in and we're basically the only customers in this hole in the wall (red flag). The menu looks like a 4th grader made it, and the pictures of the food look like they were taken on a 2005 RAZR cellphone. Despite no other customers, it still took nearly 35 minutes from when we arrived to when we had our food. I ordered a Philly Cheese Steak with just cheese. Sidenote they were out of queso. We made a joke with the waitress that if they were going to mess up anyone's order, just don't let it be mine. and BOOM, when the food arrived 25 minutes later, it had everything on it. We kindly told the lady this was wrong and the random lady (not our waitress) just stared at me blankly like I was speaking Portugese and said "i'll get someone." another girl came back out (still not our waitress) and I said again that I ordered it without peppers/onions - she looked at me confused like I had told her that 9/11 was an inside job or something. 15 minutes later, my corrected order comes out. Here's the best part: I ask if they have mustard and the lady goes "no we don't have any mustard." 5 minutes later, my friend was so tired of waiting on a drink refill that he went to refill his own drink and guess what he came back with? A BOTTLE OF MUSTARD that they had sitting in the back among other bottles of mustard. The lazy employee just didn't feel like grabbing it. This place is trash and I hope you all read this review instead of the positive reviews that were surely left by hipsters who get off on pretending to like...

Based on my experience vs. the typical review, I will have to return to see if my time at the Wooden Spoon was an anomaly; however, the time that I did go, was not great.

First, I will give the benefit of the doubt, it appeared to be short staffed (though we were there around 10:30am on a Saturday, so I wouldn't have thought it would be a surprise busy time) and, while there was an expected wait for five of us, the service we did receive was spotty at best.

I ordered tea, and, while I drink tea at a higher volume than the average person, I did not receive one refill while we were there 45 mins-an hour, which is a little disappointing when you're paying $2.50-$3 (I don't remember the exact price) for tea.

Next, the food, I think, for my table, I was the odd man out in not enjoying my food. I had the biscuits and gravy while others at the table had the Angry Irishman and Lemon Ricotta pancakes, which everyone else at the table enjoyed. My biscuits were mostly dry and the bottoms were browned and tough. Additionally, the gravy didn't seem to have much flavor even after pouring on salt, which I normally try to avoid.

All in all, I liked the small venue and the people we encountered were nice, but clearly stressed out, so I'm hoping this was just an outlier and I'll definitely give it another chance, because I've heard such great...