Pre ordering: I had gone here this morning because I needed to find a place to have breakfast and this location is within walking distance of the Courtyard by Marriott. The bistro within the Marriott does not open until like 6:30 a.m., so earlier risers are kind of screwed there. When I got in, I waited about 5 minutes before someone had noticed. This was like at 6 a.m. in the morning, the only customer there. The gal, who came out, looked pretty tired and I said a hearty "Good morning!" She responded (which is always a good thing in a foreign place). I then asked if they were doing the BOGO Creppes that I had seen commercials on and she stated that they were. The only issue with this is that she claimed that one could order only what was on the advertisement. I think the other two not mentioned on the advert was the strawberry one and a Swiss one (or some Eastern European country associated wording one...it is on their menu). I decided on the breakfast and the lemon ricotta. The breakfast one was really good (hash browns, cheese, bacon, etc.). The lemon one, they serve with a slice of lemon (no chit!) and I squeezed it on the creppes. It was good! Presentation: I did not encounter much of what the other comments on this location had stated. Yes, some people can come off rude or with an air of not wanting to be there. I guess I kind of felt that with this gal, but who honestly does? It is creppe job (well, for serving me). I am not sure why people expect happiness and some high expectation type of behavior from employees. Maybe because Owensboro is an exception? I mean after all, it is the birthplace of Johnny Depp who gets roles in movies that require enthusiasm (Pirate of the Caribbean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc.). I did get a good morning from a tall black guy employee (I only put his ethnic make up on here because he needs recognition if he is polite to other customers who come across this review after it has been posted). The order: The food came out probably under 10 minutes and I finished it under 15! I was back writing this review in the business center at Marriott by 6:30 a.m. The total with tip came out to $20. I gave her like a $3.80 tip. So all in all, yeah. I did not have a bad experience. read more

IHOP - Breakfast and Lemon Ricotta creppes, respectively. - American Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

If I could leave a minus 5, I would. We left within 3 mins. Stood by the entrance for several mins with at least three staff staring at us from the kitchen. They had maybe three tables being used. Finally two of them walked up, arguing about who would take us. Hayley finally did. Took us to a booth, slapped our menus down. Then we heard more arguing in the kitchen. We scooted. DO NOT GO HERE. Go anywhere else. read more

Me and my family waited around 15 minutes for a worker to even ask us what we want. We waited about 5 mins then a worker came up to us and said we will be asked in a minute . However, in almost 10 mins, there was still no service provided for us. read more

The service was absolutely horrible, all the staff walked past us and then said service would be out in a minute then we waited 10 minutes. And they really short staffed. read more

I came on a night there wasn't but a single car in the parking lot. Little worried service would suck and the ratings being so low but Jolene took good care of me. Food was good and exactly what I wanted. It's next dooor to my hotel so it was an easy walk for an 8:30 PM visit on a Tuesday! Will likely be back this week! read more

Service was jankie. The boy with earrings service was very mid. We are going to dub him "Herbert." Herbet was very disrespectful. He ignored my friends attempts at getting a refill. The ambiance was ghetto. There was an out of service sink. The food was alright. But there wasn't enough cheesecake on my cheesecake pancakes. Everything was complicated. We were playing musical chairs trynna take our order. The bathrooms were hell. They had people singing, and trash everywhere? What was going on? Anyway, I see you Herbet. You better tighten up. read more

Went for breakfast. 3 adults, 3 kids. Hostess set us in 2 booths. Her reason was back room with tables is for VIPs. Tables in main dining room were dirty, which they all weren't. The hostess didn't tell our waiter we were together. So he took one tables order and left. Grandson went and told him we were together, but he didn't understand what he meant. So he went to two other tables to ask if they needed anything else, brought out tickets and to go boxes. Then came to me and my two grandkids. I told him we were together and he apologized and said he would tell them in kitchen. Husband, daughter and youngest grandson got their food and was finished eating by the time we got ours. Husband wanted to leave but granddaughter really wanted to eat there. So we stayed. Rico was a good server, this left him a little flustered but he handled it well. Never saw a manager, which we always have one check to see how things are when we visit this IHOP. The VIP room was almost empty. If hostess couldn't get a table cleared in main dining room we should have been offered one of those tables. read more

Incredibly slow. Not enough people working there. I ordered carry out. Had to stand in the entryway for 15 minutes. read more

Server was very nice and accommodating. We were the first customers there on a Sunday morning. It was very slow so it was us and another table. The place could use a deep clean. Food was good and hopefully they will use their down time to clean. read more

Want to start off by saying the food was delicious.... The place was quiet and clean. My waitress Madi so so awesome and energetic food was on time and on point she also kept our drinks full.. really great place to eat I would recommend the waitress Madi anytime ..... read more

Poor service. No toilet paper. Food dropped in floor. No coffee refills. Waitress trying to claim all tables for herself causing food to be late as it sat waiting to be delivered. Poor management and poor service. Waited over 20 minutes for food. Was asked to pay for order before food was ever delivered. Will not waste my hard earned money visiting this I Hop ever again. read more

Seated in 5 minutes of arrival Waitress approached 6 minutes after seated Food ordered 5 minutes later Food received 35 minutes later Missing bacon on both burgers Both burgers medium rare Reported missing bacon and showed her raw burgers. She winced and said "oooh!" then she left. We paid and left. Place needs more employee training for servers, cooks and management. read more

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I have never had such a horrible experience in my 50 years. When we were being seated a waitress turn around and ran right into me and never apologized just kept going. They are under-staffed inexperienced. Waited to be seated, waited 40 min to an hour for food. We ordered milk and orange juice and had to ask for it several times. I ordered eggs Benedict which was cold and the eggs were overcooked, to the point they were hard-boiled. read more

IHOP - American Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

This place will be out of business in 3 months. Horrible service. Front counter hostess was totally oblivious to how to handle the phone and incoming guests. People were mad at leaving. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME read more

service was a drag. though it's not a waitress' job to seat the customers, they should've told someone. they looked at us at the front desk and walked off. finally someone coming into work sat us. service was slow then, too, and the food took forever to come, even though there weren't many people there that evening. ambiance was chocked with unhappy customers bantering about service. when we did get the food, it was cold. but it tasted okay. definitely a breakfast time restaurant and not dinner. read more

I visited this IHOP for the first time with hubby. I won't return. The food was cold when received at the table. We ordered simple senior meals. It still ended up being over $25.00 bucks with coffee. Pitiful! The staff was friendly. The facility was clean. It's easy to find. read more

After waiting 1 hour and 4 minutes to get our food, I get this disgusting excuse of a crepe. There's a little picture comparison for you all. The two pieces of bacon were grey and fatty. The scrambled eggs were somehow hard? Not surprising. The hash inside was cold. Had to smother it in ketchup just to get it down my throat. Absolutely disgusting. Served with a dirty fork. The restaurant wasn't even busy so why did I wait that long to get my meal? We ordered pancakes as well that came out stone cold. The omelet was uncooked and just a glob of cheese. This place is absolutely disgusting and I will never go there again nor will I recommend it to anyone. $70 for the worst meal of my life. McDonald's can make better pancakes than the "international house of pancakes" read more

IHOP - New Crepe Combos - American Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

Got seated quickly. Waited 40 minutes for coffee. Took over an hour to get our food which was like warm at best. restaurant was new but not the cleanest. read more

Ordered simple pancakes for 3 people. After an hour wait, waitress informed us that it still was going to be a lengthy weight so we left. Do yourself a favor and hit the huddle house up the stree. read more

horrible service! arrived at 8:00 and did not get our food until 9:10. just ordered an omelette and french toast with strawberries and bananas. not to mention it was absolutely disgusting! there were 5 tables that walked out by the end of our experience note when we arrived the restaurant was very empty only 2 tables. horrible read more

IHOP - American Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

Traditional IHOP. More modern than others I've been too. I really like the eggs and pancakes.

Slow service. Had to ask other waitress to ask our waitress to take our order. Never received drink refills. Had to ask other waitress to get our bill. Thirty minutes after order we received the ok food. There was a medium / large group of motor cycle patrons at the restaurant that our waitress spent more time with. Table of four next to us (different waitress) arrived after us, ordered before us, received food before us, paid before us, and left before us (party of 3). read more

If I could give this a zero stars I would. Ordering was fast and simple, but two wait staff paid all their attention to one table. We were told there was a bit of a wait. The "new" lady was yelling at the other waiter. After 50 minutes we left with cash on the table to pay for the drinks. They didn't come back to check on us, or refill drinks. Sucky service and won't be back. Food level 0/10 as the food didn't make it to the table Service 1/10 super stressed out environment and did not feel welcomed. Would also note that the couple that came in at the Same time as us left. The couple that came in after us (within 5 minutes) were left waiting at the door. read more

We hadn't been to the IHOP since the pandemic. It was always one of my favorites. At that time, we assumed due to covid, there were problems. We were seated, but were never waited on. After 30 minutes or so, we left and went elsewhere. Fast forward tonight after work ,we went there hoping things have gotten better. Not at all, we stood at the door , waiting to be seated. No customers were in the dining area, but there were several dirty tables no one had bothered to clean. A worker across the dining area engaged on her phone said it would be a minute. We waited for another 5 minutes, another couple came in, one of them went to see what was going on, why they were not seating anyone. We left, the couple left as well. What does it take to get served here? read more

My wife son and I went on a Friday night. Ordered pancakes, eggs, sausage and hash browns, chicken sandwich and onion rings and another pancake breakfast platter. Coffee and soda. Food came out hot, fresh and good taste. Entrees were $6 to $8.50. Reasonable. Overall a very good experience. Clean and server responsive. Eating out has become hit or miss but this was worth the trip. read more

Was there for breakfast this morning with my two grandkids 5 & 2. It was busy, not overly crowded. I had to ask two different times about our food - 30 min later it came out and both of the kids pancakes, eggs, bacon and sausage were ice cold. The scrambled eggs were hard on top from sitting so long. Half of each of their pieces of bacon was nothing but fat, and undercooked, which they couldn't eat. Manager came over and said he could bring them new eggs, but we just wanted out of there. People that came in right before us were done eating before we even got our food. Bad experience. read more

we waited over 45 minutes with my mom and aunt and their sodas tasted flat. Also when the food got there the butter on the pancake was not even melting the pancake was so cold and the waiter didn't check on us. We had to ask for a refill of chocolate milk. And all of the waiters were just wondering around. it was a shitty experience would not recommend. read more

Went in for a quick sit down breakfast this morning To enjoy time with my son. Ordered something simple and wanted to substitute toast for pancakes. My son ordered a burger. 5 min after ordering I was told I couldn't substitute toast for pancakes and asked if I wanted it as a side With a up charge. I decided I wasn't hungry enough for $2+ upcharge for 2 pieces of toast and cancelled my order. 5 min later I was told they could do it. 10 min later that the manager brought out the burger and said nothing to us. She looked mad. For the next 15 minutes I saw her run food to other tables and mine never came out. My son finished his burger, which he liked, My food never came out. 2 eggs scrambled, hashbrowns and toast. The simplest item on the menu. I assumed after that my food wasn't coming and I'm not sure I would want to eat it anyway. I've worked in the food and beverage business and I should have never reordered. Tipped the waitress a $20, paid the bill and walked out. Never to return. In this era of expensive food, someone some time might figure out that kindness in your business goes a lone way to keeping customers/guests. I decide where I spend my $25 for breakfast. looks like my review matches all the rest. I'll go local and let this place fail. read more

Took 2 hours to get food. Milk was out of date. Got the checks, and they were all wrong. Don't recommend this place at all.

I used to enjoy coming in for a bite to eat. They used to have decent portions for the price. They seemed to half their portions. Not sure it's worth the price considering the other options in the area. read more

major methhead vibes with this place. hostess seemed super annoyed that we were there. then she decided to put all new customers with one server. server was dumber than a box of rocks and took forever to even take our drink order. then she auto selected the 25% tip option when we paid. food was not good and service was atrocious. read more

Great food and service! Fresh food! So much to choose from. Very clean! Friendly people who want you to come back.

I have to say this was kind of a mess. I understand that COVID has thrown everyone for a loop but this was surprising and very unorganized. We ordered a meal for curb delivery.......paid for. Arrived at the promised time.......waited........waited.........waited........Finally after 15 mins I threw my mask on and went in. No one at the register. I had to hunt down someone to acknowledge I was even in the building. Granted I didn't even want to go in, hence the curb-side order. She said the order would be right out. I thought, ok, I'll wait and went back to my car. After another 15 mins or so of waiting in the car ..............still nothing. I went back in, this time more than irritated. There was an order sitting on the front counter, no one around. Again I had to go looking for someone to even acknowledge that there was someone at the front desk, in a building I didn't even want to be in considering the pandemic. eShe came up and I told her I've been waiting for xx minutes and was told from my previous indoor visit that the order would be right out. She goes back to the kitchen to check it out........then comes back up and checks the bag sitting on the counter and said this is my order. No apology. I didn't say a word and just grabbed the bag and stormed out. IHOP, get your shiznit together. read more

waited an hour and half on food, got our checks wrong, waitresses were rude, never get refills, food wasn't good, chicken on a sandwich was raw. read more

Went the weekend after they opened got there at 5:00pm took them 45 minutes for them to bring 3 waters and 3 sodas ordered a omelet and it comes with a 3 stack of pancakes and I asked for no avocado on my omelette my brother who is blind order a bacon cheese burger and the burger had pink when he asked for will done my mother ordered the big breakfast everything she gotten was cold or hard as a rock and she didn't get her pancakes and my wife ordered the Country fried steak and it her hash browns and the country fried steak was watered barely warm her country fried steak was like rubber and they did get pancakes they tried adding Potatoc cakes to are order when we didn't order them and we had to wait a hour for all that food and another 3 hours for pancakes that were cold and found hair in every pancake they tried handing everyone food to my brother who is Blind and the manager was rude all in all is was awful read more

Food was ok, but the service was awful. Our waitress was paying more attention to her kids than her customer. I assume they were her kids because she was drinking their milkshakes sitting with them when she was suppose to be working. Would of been nice to get a refill on my drink. No tip was left for her for sitting on her butt!!! read more

I always thought I hop was an amazing place to eat and great workers. But when we got there it took 10 minutes just to get our order in and when they gave us the food the smallest amount ever and my fiancé's food was completely cold. And it came to $35 it was outrageous. This was dinner. The next day we said well it's breakfast so we will try again. The pancakes were super dry the tables were completely sticky the waitress was nice but the other younger ones were completely snobby and gave dirty looks. read more

The cooks and the staff are not familiar with the menu! I ordered the veggie omelette, it was suppose to have spinach, mushrooms, onions and cheese, I added avocado, topped with hollandaise and tomatoes. I wanted onions added to my hash browns. I got a omelette with canned mushrooms and the avocado on top, very little cheese, mushrooms, no spinach, no onions, and no hollandaise. No onions in the hash browns. It tasted like it had been cooked in something that had not been cleaned. It was inedible! I complained....I got a "I'm sorry "! read more

Food and service horrible! Waited 45 min for order! Just my husband and I and only about 10 customers in restaurant! Ordered Classic breakfast bowl with sausage and a pancake with strawberries! Got the bowl with bacon and the waitress said"you don't like bacon"? No pancake either! Told the waitress and 20 min later she shows up with burnt sausage and a pancake with no strawberries!! Needless to say I will not be back! read more

My son and several of his friends ate at this restaurant today. The waitress began by telling them there was a special on their pancakes. She told them they could get three pancakes for $.58. The entire group of boys ordered three pancakes each and then sides to go with them. When they brought their pancakes, they brought each of them four pancakes, which seemed odd to the boys. When they brought the bill at the end of the meal, my son's meal was $15. when they asked about the amount, the waitress told them that the special was only for plain pancakes and they ordered chocolate chip pancakes, which in their case would be a few chocolate chips sprinkled on top of plain pancakes. Anyway, the boys spoke with two waitresses and a man they believed to be the manager but nothing was done about it. I feel like they took advantage of some young guys and that is not cool! I have read the other reviews on this site and I am beginning to wonder how they are open anyway. Does anyone from IHOP read the yelp reviews? Obviously, something needs to change there. read more