Village Kitchen Restaurant — Restaurant in Priest River

Where do I start.. first, we are not picky people at all, this was just a ridiculous experience. This place has an incredibly crazy menu, 4 full pages, including an entirely Mexican food page. With a menu this big and all over the place, you can guarantee that the food will be average at best. Average would have been a treat though. The bloody mary was disgusting, now it was only $5.50, so cheap drink we won't even complain about that. The service was terrible, the waitress was nice, but the positives end there. The staff holler at each other non-stop (honestly I almost offered to go to the grocery store for them just so I didn't have to hear about it anymore) and they sing (not quietly to themselves)... that is fun. The staff arguing about the food issues is mind blowing though. The food.. so we both ordered items under the section of the menu titled "2 Egg Breakfasts", there is an option to add an additional egg for $1.50 which we asked for on one bfast. The waitress out of nowhere asked if we wanted gravy on our hashbrowns, which we both said NO, very clearly no. The first bfast arrived, the one with the "extra egg", with only 2 eggs and the hashbrowns are buried in gravy. The second bfast arrived ("medium rare" steak and "overeasy" eggs). The steak was medium well and the eggs had zero runny yolk, they were fully cooked. The bread for both breakfasts were not toasted and soggy. We were hungry and we had been there way too long (especially for how empty the restaurant was), so we were just going to eat and go. Once the waitress came back around, we did mention the lack of the extra egg and the gravy on the hashbrowns (only to make sure we were not charged for the extra egg that we did not get and the gravy we did not want) and her response blew me away. First she goes... ya I knew about the hashbrowns, the cook messed up and told me. Yet the waitress did not mention it to us, apologize or ask to replace the hashbrowns. She could care less that we no longer wanted the hashbrowns because we did not want gravy on them. To top that off she argued about that menu item only coming with one egg, so having two is considered extra, even though it is under the menu header that says "2 Egg Breakfasts" nowhere does it say one egg. I was not going to even bring up my overcooked food, but given her incredibly ridiculous response to us politely asking to not be charged for the non-existent extra egg and gravy we did not want (especially given how mushy and soggy the hashbrowns were), since now we do not want the hashbrowns. So I decided to mention my overcooked steak, showed her the inside to which she responded with "that is medium rare" and snottily said.. meat has to rest. LOL No frickin way, I cut it the second the plate landed at our table, it did not rest at our table. What likely happened is it rested under their heat lamp, continuing to cook to the point of it being overcooked super dry and chewy. They when I mentioned my eggs were overcooked, she looked at them and went you do not like them?! No, I ordered overeasy to dip my steak into yolk, no I do not like fully cooked (yet cold) eggs. I was not asking her to replace them, I was not going to eat them anyway and I definitely was not going to wait again. I thought maybe they could research what overeasy eggs were. At the end, she acted like she did us a great favor by giving us $1 off each of the bfast meals. Our total still being $63.70. We had multiple eggs we could not eat and a plate of hashbrowns, so no $2 off is not a discount, we still overpaid as we were given incorrect food and still made to pay for food that we did not order and did not eat. We should have been credited for the two fully cooked eggs and the gravy covered hashbrowns. We did not order them or eat them. We ate all the rest of the food, so we will pay for the food we ate. I honestly am boggled at how this place is in business. My guess is they just get drive through traffic, so no real need to have a customer come back. They really need to do...

Was in the area for the night, stopped at Village Kitchen for breakfast on the way back home. Great selection on the menu, several different kinds of mimosa's, small group of things for sale inside, home vibe feel to the restaurant interior, great prices! Entered the restaurant to a "Welcome, seat yourselves, I'll come find ya", from the smiling server. Right after sitting the cook popped his head around the corner and said hi. Wasn't all that busy at first but the server was hustling with the tables she had. Come to find out they were shorthanded. As I watched her hustle from table to table, order to order, kitchen to register she never stopped smiling or acknowledging those she passed. One cook, one server and they were getting things done as the flow of more customers slowly came in. Not one customer appeared to mind the wait until she reached their table. Watched a few regulars step in and lend a hand cleaning tables from the customers before. Kudos to them. Huge shout out to server Sarah this morning (March 6th), she did a fantastic job keeping it together and helping her customer's while being shorthanded!!! Thank you Ray (I believe was his name), the cook, for an awesome breakfast!! Love...

It seems like Priest River has a good collection of excellent restaurants. Despite the size of the town, food has been really good. For breakfast today, we were able to eat at the Village Kitchen Restaurant. What particularly struck us was that they had small plates for lighter eaters. My egg, bacon and pancake was only $7.95 while my wife’s egg, toast and bacon was $5.95!!! The pancake was delicious and the size of a dinner plate! Coffee mugs were very large but more importantly, everything tasted great and service was wonderful. You still get a lot of food despite the “small” plates. We think this is a perfect...