Spring Garden Restaurant — Restaurant in Philadelphia

Wow, my first time eating here today and it was absolutely horrible. It’s a Friday morning so I expected it to be a little busy. We waited 10 mins for a table that was poorly wiped down with some water. Once seated, a waitress who showed absolutely no customer service skills whatsoever took our order. We stayed optimistic through the horrible first half of our experience. I am someone who had worked in the restaurant industry for years so I understand things get busy. We waited over 50 minutes for our meal. It was 3 of us who ordered breakfast. Not once did the waitress come over just to CHECK on us. We sipped our watered down coffee and waited patiently for 50 minutes for French toast, an omelette and some salmon cakes. We watched as the restaurant cleared out and people ordering to go left. I walked up to what appeared to be the managed on duty and asked her what the deal was. She Also showed super poor customer service skills. Finally the food comes... my omelette was lackluster AT best. My one friend who ordered the salmon cakes had eggs that were runny and watery. The friend who ordered the French toast expressed his disdain on how the French toast just tasted like a glob of cinnamon. When checking out I also noticed they charge you a 4% service fee if you’re using a credit or debit card. I’m not sure how this place is even still open especially since the kitchen staff left the back door open and the kitchen looked dirty. I wanted to like this place, I want to support small business but this restaurant is trash and has no idea how to properly manage a busy rush. I’m giving 2 stars in stead of 1 because my omelette was subpar. I left our waitress $5 on a $15 check because I still respect the food industry workers. I had $10 in my pocket to leave her but the service was so terrible I couldn’t bring myself to leave...

I have been going to this restaurant for 10+ years. Their food used to be good and cheap. The last visit I had was sadly probably my last. I ordered a breakfast platter, omelet, waffle, and a side of sausage.

They gave me and my gf old chewy homefries when we saw them making fresh ones since we were sitting at the bar. The waffle tasted different from years past. The sausage was also old and they didn't have enough staff to make new ones? Not sure what their reasoning was. Omelet didn't come with cheese and was overall not good tasting like usual.

bottom line is I come here for the homefries. I can cook eggs, sausage, toast at home? Homefries take time to prep and cook. They are now too cheap to give me fresh homefries?? Paid $40+ for a meal that tasted like 3 day old food. This is goodbye to one of my old...

Terrible dirty room, I do not advise you to come here and try to eat at all. Firstly, the staff is very rude and does not behave professionally from the point of view of employees and attracting customers to their establishment. also, when I went to their place, I asked you to use the bathroom in order to wash your hands, it doesn't work for some technical reasons. When I asked the waiter what should I do with my hands, if I could use some kind of disinfectant, he said that they didn't even have that, so I don't think this is a good place, and most likely I need to call the sanitation department here to check them for cleanliness and for the shelf life of the food because the place is very dirty and the people who are there, they are incompetent...