Flapjax Diner — Restaurant in Santa Monica

UPDATE JUNE 2025 Fantastic place for breakfast, brunch or lunch! Vast menu! My friend and shared the Potato Pancake Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict and the new menu item: Chicken Red Curry Rice Bowl! These were both delicious! I took most of the red curry chicken bowl home for later!

Patio seating in the back is dog friendly! Inside there is AC, but the noise level gets loud.

Every time I come here the staff and food is excellent!!!

For those who are familiar with Bru's Wiffle, you will get both menus here, along with the same wonderful staff!

$22 endless Mimosas, Wed-Friday!!! I need to check that deal out! Yes! UPDATE Mid November 2024 When you can't decided on a savory or sweet breakfast/brunch, bring a friend and share!

We ordered the crispy brioche French Toast which comes stacked HIGH and drizzled with fruit and yogert sauce. We also ordered the salmon bagel!Splitting these two dishes was perfect!!!

Service was ON POINT and 5 Star!

Every dish I have tried here has been delicious and nicely presented. UPDATE, Mid October 2024: I love love love their Smash Burgers so I went back a week later! My friend and I had the Double Smash burger and fries.

For dessert we shared a slice of the Cinnamon Roll which I photographed, but my photo doesn't look great. The creamy topping has just the right amount of sweetness and the cinnamon roll is soft and gooey so this is a nice combination!

October 2024 updated review:

Recently I tried their $9.50 Double Smash Burger with a side of Truffle Parmesan Fries. This burger was BEYOND Tasty!!!! I am craving it now as I write this review. I also tried their $9.50 Crispy Chicken Burger with the Korean Gochujang Sauce.This sauce makes it spicy good! I wasn't able to eat this crispy chicken burger with my hands, so I used a fork and knife and it was fine.

The Truffle Cheese fries are easily shared with the burgers. This special added menu is the BEST Bang for the BUCK. March 2024, updated review:

Recently I came here for lunch with a friend. Maggie, our server, recommended a few of their new items, so I ordered the Kale/Cabbage/ Jidori chicken salad in a chimichurri dressing.I LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS!!!! I am craving it now, as I write this review. If you like lemony dressing, you will LOVE this salad.

My friend ordered the mushroom crepes with 2 eggs along with a cucumber lemon drink. She really enjoyed her meal and drink too.

The service here is ON POINT. There is a nice protected patio in the back, dog friendly.

Metered street parking or free parking on the side streets ( read the parking signs carefully).

Thank you Flapjax, our meal was fantastic!

-Breakfast--------------- I love the variety of dishes here! The cucumber mint lemonade is freshly pressed and so refreshing! The Arnold Palmer is made from their house made lemonade and freshly brewed tea.

I also like the Mediterranean Faro Salad made with julienned cucumber, greens, faro and more. I would order this again!

We ended our meal with one of their house made banana chocolate chip muffins! This was very moist and so tasty, we came back again the following week! My friend quickly ordered 4 of these muffins TO GO. Here is my review from my first visit to Flapjax:

I ordered the menemen - peppers, jalapeno, fresh tomato sauce, cumin, eggs, crispy tofu, feta which is a wonderful savory dish, like Shashuka. It is a generous portion and I took half home because I was so full! I heated up later for lunch and it as just as yummy!

My friend ordered the Portobello basil pesto eggs benedict - crispy bacon bites, citrus arugula

We started our meal with the Yuca Chips Appetizer in aioli spicy sauce. THIS ROCKED!!!! We both loved this and could of each had this as our entire meal.

Thank you Maggie and the staff...

Even though I live close by, I somehow missed this Santa Monica diner, and I’m so happy I tried it for my first time this past weekend. It’s not the traditional retro diner, think more so a breakfast restaurant with a huge menu filled with all sorts of classic and new dishes. I find the most diners focus on just classic dishes so this is a bit of a hybrid. They have indoor and outdoor seating, the outdoor seating is in front and a covered patio out back. They don’t have a dedicated parking lot, but parking is really easy to find in this part of town. We were able to be seated right when we arrived for a 10:30 AM Sunday brunch and our server was extremely polite.

As mentioned, they have a huge menu that is filled with all sorts of options so it took all of us quite some time to decide what to get. For my first time I started off with a Cinnamon Roll and thought it was absolutely fantastic. It’s large and fluffy and really hit the spot for a great starter. For my entrée, I chose the Flapjax Breakfast Plate and upgraded my pancake to the Maple Glaze. That pancake was extremely delicious with caramelized banana, maple, and bacon on top. It was truly delicious and a great treat.

Overall, a fantastic breakfast place that I will certainly be back to soon. They truly have a ton of options so it’s a sort of place you could go to frequently and get something...

Really disappointing experience after loving the original Brus Wiffle. We had three people for lunch, placed our orders. After 30 minutes our food came out— one order (cheeseburger) was wrong and the two Nashville chicken sandwiches were still ice cold in the middle. We flagged down our server to tell them the chicken isn’t cooked through and cheese burger was missing cheese and onions, and she said a quick sorry then rushed the plates away without an opportunity for a conversation. The cheeseburger came back still missing onions. We had to leave to get back to work and still hadn’t had anyone talk to us about what was going on. We went searching for our server, asked to cancel the sandwiches since we had to leave, they took the two sandwiches off the bill but still charged full price for the burger with AN AUTOMATIC 20% TIP, said “My apologies” then turned and walked away from us... As I left, the server ran into me from behind with dirty plates then continued to push around me because I was apparently in her way… terrible service and dangerous...