Mama's Table — Restaurant in Santa Clarita

You've gotta love a one-off local breakfast restaurant with a fun name, the friendliest staff, and a nice alternative to the chain breakfast spots and diners that dot the land. If only the food had been better to round out the experience.

My son and I had breakfast here while my car was being worked on nearby. It's a seat yourself first-come-first-serve kind of place which, I guess makes it easier for them, but does create a little bit of a Mad Max / Everyone for themselves kind of atmosphere when it's full and many people are hovering over the dining areas waiting to swoop in on an almost available table.

The coffee was not good. Weak and definitely in the "browned water" category. Coffee is the foundation of a breakfast restaurant, and if you're serving weak joe at a place like this, it's time to re-evaluate what you're doing altogether.

Navigating the menu is easy enough...it's nicely designed...but there are so many upcharges for everything. You kind of get the sense if you want a different work, there will be an extra fee for that.

I had a Vegetable and Cheese Omelet made with egg whites (upcharge.) Despite all the ingredients included, there wasn't a whole lot of flavor to this and the egg whites were overcooked.

I had a biscuit for my bread option. They drench these in oil or butter and fry them on the grill before bringing them to you, completely eliminating the flakey biscuit-ness of the biscuit which came overwhelmed with the flavor of the grill. This was easily the worst biscuit I've had and after a couple of bites I couldn't finish it.

The home fries I had it with were good. Easily the star of the meal (but the bar was low.)

My son had French Fries and a Cinnamon Roll. He liked the fries, so if you're coming here potato-forward, you're probably in good shape. The cinnamon role, however, was very dry and he couldn't finish it either. (How rare is it for a kid to not be able to finish a dessert like this?)

We also had a side of fruit which included watermelon, cantaloupe, oranges, two kinds of grapes, and strawberries. This was a nice variety of fruit and a fairly generous portion compared to what we've seen other places The oranges, grapes and cantaloupe were good. The watermelon was just slightly past its prime, and the strawberries were a bit sour.

The best part of the experience was our server who was very attentive and super-sweet. I wish the food had lived up to the vibe she brought to the table.

There are plenty of other breakfast places to go to in the Santa Clarita Valley...it'll be a while before we give this one...

While I've been to places where I have waited a long time man... Being Mexican, going to this one in Valencia straight up made me upset and the experience was horrible. We arrived for two. My father and I. They were telling us they would seat us in a moment. 10 mins go by. Then 20. Then 30. Then 45. While we waited we watched as other people, white people were seated. I know they didn't have reservations because two parties of two asked how long we were waiting. And whatnot. We only got seated when a another couple couple asked the same thing. I was getting frazzled and they also had no reservations, and they told the server that we had been waiting and they let us go first. We get seated and they don't give us a menu and they said we'll be with you. Didn't apologize for having us wait so long but I don't hold it over the servers head. We wait more. Again. 10,20,30,4050 mins we waited. They finally came to give us our menu and ask if we want a drinks. I'm disappointed and disrespected. I am to the point where I feel like crying and my best friend is white. Not to say it's a race thing but I guess it was. Because while we waited we watched as people were served and we were ignored. I asked if my bestie who is blonde with blue eyes wanted to join us. She was at at the mall and she came. Oh the immediate service we got and I got up. They asked what was wrong... Almost in tears I said "-We've been waiting for over and 40 mins to be seated Where we could have gone elsewhere... But I'm a patient person. Then watching as other people are served after coming after us... Being served and given their food and whatnot...only for my best friend to come and suddenly we get service?" They apologized to us and tried to get us to get my best friend to stay as I said we'd be leaving and she blew off on them too. I have not returned. I not am dating a white boyfriend and we stay clear of cheesecake factory. That was not okay. We ended up going to lazy dog. They were busy but we got seated in 5 mins, got taken care of and I stand by my statement. I'm...

Driving to LA and we wanted to eat here because we remember it being delicious when we visited pre-covid. Well now it is NOT! they used to have fresh homemade salsas and jams, not anymore. I ordered the eggs Benedict with hash browns, asked for my eggs over medium and this was the worst plate of slop I've probably ever had. English muffin was soggy and soaked, ham barely had a sear to it, eggs were barely over easy. The entire meal being undercooked made it into a soggy mess that I could barely take 3 bites of. My Fiance ordered the corned beef hash with over medium eggs and same story, plate of undercooked slop, mushy barely cooked corned beef and underdone eggs. He also had the mamas style hashnrowns with the cheese and peppers on top, and even that was too greasy, dare I even say too much cheese. The only good thing was the mimosa was a fair price and tasty. I did let my server know that I didn't like the food and was unhappy with it when she offered if I wanted a to go box. No thank you. To bring my cold slop home? You'd think they would offer to take it off the bill clearly seeing it wasn't eaten but no. Definitely don't recommend getting those items. The portions are huge but who wants a plate of cold hollandaise on cold eggs and cold ham, soggy mush English muffin. Really bummed because this place was so...