Suncoast Cafe — Restaurant in Venice

Cross posted on Yelp and significantly edited due to restrictions here on Google.)

Sunday, August 17, 2025 - three for breakfast for my birthday after church and before the beach!

My wife has been coming here for years with her mom many years ago and recently with friends. This was my first visit. They were NOT part of my 31 breakfast restaurants roundup I did between 2021 and 2023 because they do not seem to mention or do Eggs Benedict. They do have a poached egg item on the menu. (spoiler alert: they would have been 32nd)

NOT part of the rating, but as a comment. Even in shorts near the windows where we were it had to be mid to upper 80s F.

Service was spectacular and all the servers seems gregarious and friendly and a real asset to the place. They kept mentioning the chef and he and the other cooks were out and about bringing entree and checking on a few folks. It seemed a lot of locals and regulars in the off season. (we live in Venice as well year round)

My wife ordered what she had before which was the St. Lucian Breakfast Quesadilla Scrambled eggs, cheese, sautéed peppers, tomato, onions and roasted pork inside a grilled tortilla with salsa and sour cream. she got the plantains as well. The quesadillas were pretty wet and she noted little overly cooked compared to the last times she was there. Maybe the packed house and the quantity of patrons had things a little chaotic in the kitchen? The plantains were very oily and wet as well. 6/10

My daughter went with the Biplane. Two eggs and two pancakes with your choice of bacon, ham, or sausage. w/chocolate chips for $1 extra. She ordered the eggs over easy.... and they came properly cooked1 from a yoke perspective. Not low and slow, but FAST fried. The whites were a little crunchy around the edges and on the surface. 4/10 Her pancakes were a little 'powdery' grainy as if maybe not well mixed or maybe not mixed correctly? not horrible. 6/10 She is a sausage fan but likes to see what is coming out before she orders the patties or the links as this items varies significantly from restaurant to restaurant. So she went with the bacon. there were about 3.5 strips. Absolutely annihilated & over cooked - almost bacon dust. and yet the entire plate had about 4 tablespoons of bacon grease flowing around and the bacon was glistening. HAD to be a fast nuke job on a plate. My daughter was paper towel blotting the oil/grease butter off the eggs and bacon plate as I was taking the pictures 0/10 inedible... her side order of toast had been pre-melted with a patty of butter on each piece and wet and soggy. not touched. 0/10

I got (the birthday boy? (smile)) the Flight Attendant's Omelet which is Fresh mushrooms, onions, tomato, green peppers, and spinach traditionally served with refried beans and salsa. I also asked for NO CHEESE on my omelet? I opted for an English muffin for my bread. Like my daughter's eggs and my wife's quesadilla, my omelet was one could almost imagine "seared" cooked on a hot plate or griddle. Honestly when I first smelled and ate it, the omelet smelled "fishy" or as if it was cooked in the same plate or griddle as the crab cakes I saw on the menu???? the butter or oil at a very high heat? If you dig up the picture here the omelet is dark brown and yet the inside was very wet and just warm? the spinach and veggies possibly stewed and cooked and just added in there but not hot. the egg was not enjoyable and actually dry. Just a very rushed and too quickly cooked egg dish? 4/10 The refried beans were also dry as either a little old or possibly refried - refried beans and just reheated again in the microwave or something. 4/10 The coup de grâce for my meal was the "English muffin" ? Like my daughters toast, it was buttered all over and inside? and it was COLD!!! 0/10

This was not a good visit, I am...

If I could give this place zero stars I would. This visit started with the hostess putting us on a short wait, no issue here. Unfortunately she continued to ask all three members of my party, at different times, if we were waiting as with five people on her wait list she could not keep the party of two and the party of three in her mind. Then came the food. The server was nice but clearly flustered and perhaps new, as she struggled to order on her digital ordering system. We ordered a cup on conch chowder, a chicken salad sandwich with onion rings, a side Caesar salad and a Cuban sandwich. The conch soup came out and was so salty I could not eat it, and I LOVE salt. It tasted as though there was a pound of old Bay just thrown in. When I let the server know I wanted to send it back, as it was too salty to eat, she offered me something else. I thanked her but refused. The chef, chef tony then came out of the kitchen to the table to ask who had turned his conch chowder away. Very aggressively he told me he has never had a complaint before and that I was wrong. That is definitely wasn't salty and that his chowder was fine. I have never in my life felt so insulted for sending something back that was inedible. I did not make a scene but simply asked for it to be removed and the chef had no reason to come out arguing with me about what I tasted. Aside from that the other food was not very good. This is not a place I will return to, and I suggest if you like a kind restaurant owner who treats his staff and customer's well,you take your...

Rumor is Pilots at Venice NEVER go here;

The Chef is LOUD and works in front disturbing all guest, Should be Glass between Cooks and Tables difficult to have a conversation with the person at your table over the Chef's LOUD Voice,

My Friend & I after Landing decided that if we ordering 2 Burgers 1/2 would go into a Box, so she suggested we Spilt one...Ok I said :)

My bank card showed the price = to 2 with the $5 spilt Fee...sham on you when I complained on-Line you, embarrassed my Friend and her mother, when they went for Breakfast Sunday

What's really odd...You NEVER cut the Burger...I had to, cost me $5.00 Yikes

Hey Tony; You embarrassed my friend Today Sunday Oct 9 in front of her Mother about my Accurate review of your Place…what a Creepy Thing to do, but it just once again shows your True Nature…

Split Fees are Wrong, besides the Burger was NOT very good, old stale WalMart Bun...But the Fries were GREAT, and I heard the Cuban is also, so Ditch the Split Fees and all my best Luck to you. Get Glass between you and Customers...Not everyone wants to hear you & Staff, then your Loyal...