Another Broken Egg Cafe — Restaurant in Strongsville

My family and I (2 adults 2 kids) went to Another Broken Egg Cafe for the first time today. There wait was only like 10 minutes which on a Saturday at prime brunch hours is incredibly impressive.

Manny was our server and he was phenomenal. Very kind, attentive (not pushy), and funny. A great personality.

Now the food.... You will NOT go home hungry. LOL They servings are generous with lots of options. Even the kids meal is a solid size and fed my voracious 7 year old. He got chocolate chip pancakes with eggs and bacon and chocolate milk.

The current specialty drinks included two mocktails: a Peach Arnold Palmer (so peach lemonade and iced tea with a sugar rim) and a Blackberry Mojito (mulled blackberries and mint with fresh squeezed lime and ginger ale). So good!! Our daughter got a hot cocoa in the cutest mug and it was perfect for her to start sipping right away.

For brunch, she got cinnamon roll French toast which is as indulgent and delicious as you'd imagine. While I couldn't have any, my husband tried a bite and confirmed it's amazing. She got eggs over easy and bacon as well.

I got the bourbon banana gluten free pancakes. It has a specialty syrup and crushed pecans. Non-alcoholic, which I point out bc there's currently a peach version that's 21 and over. But it was so good! It was like a rum butter syrup and was warm... It wasn't overly sweet like I feared. Then I got poached eggs with chicken maple sausage, which I put in the plate with the pancakes to enjoy the syrup on them. LOL

My husband got biscuits which he said were amazing. Crunchy on the outside but total pillow inside. His main meal was mushroom herbed hollandaise on a hash brown croquet with plain grits on the side. He loved it which is saying a lot bc he's not a big mushroom guy at all. And I was able to try the grits. So creamy! We add syrup (sorry to any Southerners LOL).

Overall it was a phenomenal experience and we'll definitely go back. They have some seasonal options so we'll have to go back soon. LOL And I greatly appreciate that they have an entire gluten free menu but also note to ask for substitute options on most of their dishes. It is definitely more expensive than Bob Evans but the quality is totally worth it. This is the indulgent brunch you want...

Another Broken Egg needs to up their game. A wait-to-be-seated place with no host working, but plenty of wait staff and a manager walking by even though customers were lined up. When we did get help, the line of customers waiting for seats was told to wait while they dealt with a delivery driver. Even when the manager came, both host and manager ignored the line and both stood listening to the driver, instead of dividing duties. Restaurant was clean and bright, but very, very cold. Server aggressively pushed all the high priced items, and when I ordered coffee announced she was ordering me the more expensive cold brew, until I said no, just coffee. Ordered biscuits and gravy. First visit I wanted to try a basic breakfast staple instead of one of their bougie entrées. Eggs were not cooked as ordered, over easy instead of over medium, with undercooked whites. Sausage was clearly house made, but not seasoned to my taste, and seemed undercooked. Gravy was a very peppery sawmill milk gravy, not a sausage gravy, but was decent. Single biscuit was large, but nothing memorable. I’ve had worse. I have also had much better, even at Bob Evans. Coffee was very strong, and even 3 half-&-halfs didn’t soften its harshness. The fresh seasonal fruit I paid extra for instead of potatoes, or instead of what seems an overcomplicated grits concoction, was the best part of the meal. Frankly have not been served better fruit in the USA. Perfectly ripe pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. All of them. Likely won’t be back, unless a guest insists on the bougiest breakfast available. The Original Pancake House soon to open will put a hurt on this place, with a better, more extensive menu at better pricing. And definitely better coffee if other OPH franchises...

“When Brunch Turns Into a Crime Scene”

I’m really not the type to leave negative reviews… but this one wrote itself like a tragic brunch documentary.

Walked in and thought maybe they were filming an episode of “Restaurant: After the Apocalypse.” One out of every three tables was covered in dishes, half-drunk cocktails, napkins doing origami, and what looked like a crime scene of uneaten food. Even the bar looked like it had survived a mild riot.

Our bartender/server noticed us, slowly excavated a small patch of counter space (leaving behind a few mystery plates for ambiance, I guess), and walked us through the menu — which was the high point, because it went downhill faster than a mimosa pitcher at bottomless brunch.

Speaking of drinks — $14 for something that tasted like it had a restraining order against actual alcohol. Just fruit juice and sugar pretending to be fancy. No garnish, no vibe, just vibes missing in action.

We waited over an hour for two breakfast plates while the staff held a team meeting at the host stand — apparently to discuss TikToks and existential dread. Not a staffing shortage… just a “we’ve collectively given up” situation.

When food finally arrived, my eggs Benedict was cold, the bread was soggy enough to qualify as soup, and my hash forgot half its ingredients somewhere in the kitchen. The server collected our plates in total silence — the kind of silence that says “yeah, I know.”

Total damage: $75. The experience: priceless… in all the wrong ways.

Bonus round: as we left, we overheard multiple staff members joking about quitting. Honestly, I think the restaurant might quit...