Ryan Grill/ Coney Island — Restaurant in Warren

For breakfast, there is no better restaurant in Michigan.

Location Excellent. Right next to 696 and a few miles from 75.

Hours They open at 6am. Unbelievable.

Prices Prices are the best, especially for the quality of the food. Find me a modern restaurant that can serve me a plate full of fresh food and coffee for less than $7. You can't. I've tried. If the food is cheap, there is always a cutback.

Food - Focus on Breakfast I have been to every single restaurant, that I can find, that serves breakfast. Bob Evans, Cracker Barrel, Cozy Cabin, Country Boy, The Chocolate Factory Cafe, Lori's Cafe, The Breakfast Club, The Pantry, IHOP, Denny's, to name a few, charge way too much and have cut back on their quality (frozen food, preserved food, etc), or raised their prices too high. $15 for breakfast? There is no reason for that. I've also gotten stomach aches from a lot of these restaurants as well. Every single time I have been to Ryan Grill, I have gotten hot and fresh food. You can immediately tell the potatoes are cut there. They are never greasy like at other places. Eggs are always cooked to order. Oatmeal is good. The ham is amazing and the bacon are never too greasy. Toast is toast. The coffee is the only thing they can improve on. It's diner-style cheap coffee.

Service Fast, Friendly, and Food comes fast. (Even when that place is packed) The employees seem happy.

Environment Clean Dining Area. Clean Kitchen. Clean Bathroom. Kitchen and dining area are one room. (No surprises to what they put in your food. You see the cook make it.) They get busy around 10am every day. Saturdays and Sundays are packed. A lot of Veterans meet up here for a group breakfast. I've seen HVAC, construction, and other teams of workers meet up here in the morning to plan out the day and get a great breakfast.

Other remarks They recently raised all their menu prices by 20 cents. I'm perfectly okay with this since the quality remained the same, and it's still cheaper than other places. The parking situation in front sucks because of the blind corner and there are idiots rushing to get out of the gas station. And yes, this is in the same structure as a gas station and Dunkin Donuts, but there are separate businesses. Andrea's Garden has similar quality in food, but are nearly double the price, and also out of the way. Tony's on I-75 is amazing, but too expensive and way out of the way for me. The combination of location, price, quality, and consistency make this place the best breakfast...

Very disappointed when I went there for breakfast yesterday, ordered a Mexican omelet but I told the waitress no beef, was going to substitute for chicken but this way was an outrageous upcharge. It being "Mexican" i expected sour cream and salsa, when the waitress came she asked me if I wanted chili on it, misunderstanding what she asked me i said yeah ok. When she brought me my omelet I told her before she could set it down, i can't eat that it's got beef on it, so she took it back to the cook and they loudly argued about what was national Chilli. The waitress then brought it back to me like I would accept it, even though I told her no beef. She got angry I refused it, so they re-cooked my order and it was just so plain and bland, so when she came back I asked her for salsa, she got angry once again marching away and I heard her from the opposite side of the dining room having an attitude that she should have to had stayed at home, she didn't even know what what was salsa, when she brought it to the table she slammed it on the table and asked me if that's what I wanted, with attitude, as if I was asking for way too much. I've never experienced such a hostility dining experience in my life. Very Very disappointed...

The Good: Service. We never felt hovered over or ignored; our server was ready whenever we needed something or the coffee ran low, and her demeanor was very pleasant. I ordered a corned beef skillet with wheat toast. The toast was probably the highlight. Buttered all the way to the crust without getting mushy or losing its crisp. I asked for over medium eggs in the skillet, and that's what I got. The corned beef was fine.

The Bad: Hoo boy. So in addition to the skillet, we ordered the cinnamon French toast with bacon, a side of fries, and coffee/juice. The fries were aggressively underseasoned and lukewarm. Some were grainy in the center, as if they hadn't completely thawed out before landing on the plate. The strips of bacon were inflexible, dry rectangles that certainly never made contact with a grill. I assume they went from the freezer straight into a microwave. The cinnamon French toast didn't taste like cinnamon. The diced skillet potatoes were unseasoned and probably cooked from frozen, because stirring up the ingredients immediately turned them into bland mashed potatoes. This brought down everything else in the dish.

Takeaway: great service but...