We had great service with a waitress who knew my parents by name. I love that. She was very attentive. The decor was just like every location. The food is your basic Hometown stuff like chicken fried steak and breakfast platters and things like that. They all tasted good but nothing to write home about they were selling the pies on Christmas Eve for five dollars for a whole pie so I came out with four of them, pecan, apple, French silk, and peanut butter silk . Those were delicious. read more

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Yes, I marked it as only a 3, but the day we stopped it was GREAT! Why? We were very late heading home and this was a place that was open. Maybe not a great recommendation, but when you are heading home with a 2 hour drive ahead of you and hungry....Just being OPEN, CLEAN and Friendly is more than enough. We both ordered breakfasts. We call them our vacation breakfasts, as being away from home we are almost always busy so we eat late morning (lol maye even past noon) and know it will be late for dinner...Pancakes or waffles, bacon/sausage and eggs////maybe potatoes... Perkins had them and they are all newly made nothing from the freezer, except maybe the bacon. There was almost no one in the place when we arrived but 20-30 customers when we left. The waitress was good. She was willing to visit and listen as we ordered. Will we return? Yes, the location was just off the interstate although we were actually in town and only now traveling a distance to home. read more

Stephanie is one of the only servers we allow to wait on us at this perkins. She is kind, she is attentive and she always gets everything correct. We only go when she is working and we have been going for close to 10 years. The food is decent but only when you are in the mood for breakfast they do that correctly. The pies are delish also. Stephanie is an exceptional waitress everyone should ask for her when they go in you wont be disappointed ​ read more

Server is a wonderful quiet place when you come from treatments at West clinic always something to look forward to servers are amazing

The Everything omelette is always good, but the dinner food is also delicious, I was not expecting both the morning food and the afternoon food to be so good-it is! The service is also good, with polite staff - I have to give them a hat/off! The ambiance is like all PK, but I did hear someone sneezing, and saying "did they change the filter yet?" read more

Server She did not say her name. Her name badge spelled Melissa. Ambiance It's an America style family restaurant Food The coffee is okay. Despite being made fresh. Other than being served hot. It did not taste the same as the other in- town location. It had a bitter taste, whereas the other in-town location tasted great! The omlet (turkey sausage and pepper jack cheese) was very good. The potatoes were so-so. Not good not terrible. The grilled ham was okay. The maple bacon pancake was good. Overall It's okay. I like that this location brings the jelly cube out. This location actually puts turkey sausage in and on the omlet. The other location it was served very sparsely. Military Yes with id read more

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The new sandwich at Perkins is delish. I ordered the steak sandwich and Livvy ordered the spicy chicken. The jalapeños on the steak sandwich were not overbearing or too spicy and the dip that they give to go with the sandwich stepped it up even more. If you want dessert try the raspberry lemon drop. Lemony light and scrumptious! read more

Came this morning for breakfast with my 3 year old son and husband . We are visiting from Las Vegas and I grew up in Pennsylvania with a Perkins and was super excited to see one in Sioux City! Our server I can't remember her name but she worked breakfast and her name tag said certified trainer . She had short hair and was the sweetest server I've had in a while . We ordered chicken fried steak and a skillet , food was good and we were happy . Only thing I would change would be the fryer grease . It's very noticeable when you eat any of the fryer food . We left happy and I was super excited to visit a Perkins's after 25 years ! read more

Excellent breakfast. Busy...got excellent service! Fast, efficient and pleasant. The room was almost fun but easy to visit. Prices were excellent. Three had the 55+ menu. Great price and quality food with appropriate portions. I read some of the reviews and all I can think is there has been a major overhaul. It was clean, hostess seated us promptly. And the bakery goods..,20,000 calories and super delish. Sticky Buns were epic! I had plain oatmeal...on a program. It was hot and excellent. read more

Apparently my whole life has been a lie, I have lived my whole life believing that there is no such thing as a bad piece of cheesecake. Until I DoorDashed some desserts tonight and received what tasted like someone was carrying a vat of salt tripped, fell and it all landed in this batch. 48 years of my life and I've never believed in a bad piece of cheesecake. That's kind of like finding out Santa Claus isn't real, we're finding out there's no such thing as the tooth fairy. read more

HORRIBLE PLACE to eat from. Zero accountability from front desk and/or management. Submitted an order online, came in 30 min past the scheduled time only to be told Door Dash customer had gotten my order and to either cancel my order online or have a seat and wait 40 more mins. An item I ordered is supposed to have six (6) JUMBO shrimps and they were the SAMae size as the other item on my order that is $5 less and has two (2) fish fillets. OWNER should be ASHAMED. read more

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery - "JUMBO" Shrimp Dinner Vs. Double Catch...more like Double Steal. - Bakeries Near Me - Sioux City, Iowa

The food was good. The waiter was excellent. I was happy with my experience here until I used the ladies room. It was filthy. The stall I went into had an open/broken sanitary product disposal and were used sanitary products on the floor and flies buzzing around. The trash can to hold used paper towels was overflowing. Not good. read more

I am with the Red Sky Nation MMIR Pow Wow committee and we are having breakfast and a blessing of the grounds before we start the pow wow. I called the perkins to ask if we could buy coffee by the pot, we need at least 35-45 cups for all of our head staff and Committee members. I spoke with Robert, the Manager, I explained to him what we are doing and he is a GOD sent, he donated the coffee to the Committee. He was very nice and friendly and we appreciate all he has done to make this breakfast a great one. Thank you Robert for being you and donating the coffee to all of the coffee drinkers. I hope you are able to make it out to enjoy the pow wow this weekend. read more

Been to better Perkins. If your in town I'd go to the other Perkins. Waited over 40 minutes for food. It seemed like it was well staffed as well. Our waitress was very nice and nothing was her fault. The issues were due to poor management and cooking skills. Soda was flat and Ice tea had little favor. I had the chicken, bacon, and broccoli. It was not well made. The sauce seemed like it starting to go bad and spoil. My mother's rice and asparagus were over cooked. I will not be returning again. read more

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery - This was the chicken, bacon, and broccoli pasta. Definitely not as good as it may look. - Bakeries Near Me - Sioux City, Iowa

I went to the bathroom and tried to wash my hands. Both times (beginning and end of my time here) there was no soap in the bathroom, as well as no hand sanitizer in either dispenser in the main waiting area. I asked them to refill it several times and they didn't until the end, even after I tried to go into the kitchen to wash my hands, which they didn't let me, which I suppose is somewhat understandable. However, they should have also refilled the soap and hand sanitizer sooner and we wouldn't have that issue. I also went up to ask them to wait on my family and they did soon after. However, a customer should never have to get up to ask to be waited on. Period. Step up your game Perkins, or lose your competitive advantage against other restaurants. Food was good but service could have been better. However, the waitress who served was good otherwise with how she did and was decently punctual overall. read more

The worst!!! Service started out decent then went down from there. There was just 2of us in our party we order breakfast at 951 am. It took exactly 51 minutes to get our order when it was delivered to us part was missing the waitress who delivered it was not the one who took the order and she argued with me that toast was missing, we ate and set there for another 15 minutes never saw our waitress again . We go to the front our waitress as well as the one who delivered the food were checking people out I told I I never got a ticket she said oh were my customer I said yes she looked at the other girl and said you don't take them a ticket and the one who delivered our food said oh my bad. Would not recommend this restaurant to anyone read more

They didn't feed us. But it smelled neutral. Easy 5 stars. I've been stuck in here for 5 days, still no food. I think they're closed. read more

Perkins Restaurant & Bakery - Mushroom omelette - Bakeries Near Me - Sioux City, Iowa

I always have great service because of out waitress Mariana, always super amazing ans attentive!

Slow service but good food. We stopped on a road trip and enjoyed the food if not the wait.

I was their with my Grandmother ans husband. We all witnessed a manager of the restaurant call the police because of an intoxicated customer trying to fight other customers...she eventually left, but before that process of her leaving, another cutomer decided to add to the conversation officers were having with the person who complained and staff. From there a staff member was telling him to be nicer to workwrs or leave. Either a mgr or a staff member decided they wanted the young man to leave, and police informed him of tge request. the mgr called. As he was told to leave he stood up took his jacket and said I'm leaving. One of the officers grabbed and twisted his arm as he was already up and in the process of putting on his jacket. After that there was a tussle and a taser pulled out on him. After that display I no longer want to visit this restaurant. read more

This was going to be a treat for my wife and I. I was to stop by and get us both chicken fried steak dinners to enjoy with our evening. I picked them up and found it cost 28 dollars. We warmed them up when I got home and we were less than impressed. My wife is a manager at a restaurant here in town and she said, "they haven't changed the grease in their fryer for a while." We were hoping for a little, "knock your socks off" but it fell pretty flat. read more

Had to have grub hub deliver since I was at work. Poorly packaged. You can tell they was in a huge hurry to get orders out when everything is thrown in a sealed container. I waited almost an hour. I got a garden salad with blue cheese. That was ok. Could have been better. Ordered the meatloaf, with mash potatoes with gravy. The meatloaf was smashed into the pats toes, onion rings pressed into the meat with a very heavy layer of soupy brown gravy. Normally get good results at the restaurant but never like this. Was disappointed that I got poor service for delivery than a sit in. read more

Great breakfast place. Driving through town to our next destination we stopped here for a quick bite to eat. Ethan was our server. He was friendly, informative and attentive. His customer service was great and our water and coffee were never empty. Food was cooked perfectly and arrived at our table fast and hot! Thank you for your wonderful service Ethan and to the cooks for making our delicious breakfast! read more

This Perkins has been here forever. I used to frequent it as a high schooler and it's always a 'fun' place to be after a night of heavy drinking. Now I don't come very often at all. My review is half based on a lifetime of dining here and my experience today. The building is kinda getting old and beat up, but it's fine. The bathrooms...wow. I opened the door and the stench was incredible. There must not be much of a filter system in there. It was clean tho. My meal and my husband's meal was great! My eggs were delicious and my husband says he could just drink their breakfast gravy. Our waitress was nice, service was pretty quick. She didn't pre-bus and always brought a whole new glass for refills so it was a little odd having 8 glasses at our table, but oh well. We had a 'buy 1 breakfast meal get the 2 free w/2 drink purchase' coupon so our meal was like, $16. Nice. We'll be back someday. We just rarely eat out where you can't get booze. *teehee* read more

This downtown Perkins is the worst. Every time we go there its bad service and bad food. This is the last time. My wife and I went at 5 AM on our day off, we work 3rd, she ordered a cheeseburger plain, it came with EVERYTHING on it. The waitress says " You can take it off, we can't ring it up that way" It tasted like pickles and onions and she stopped after 2 bites. The smug little manager says " I'll give you 10%off. Do your yourself a favor and go to the Perkins on 5200 Gordon Drive, they know how to treat people! read more

If there was a way to give this Perkins zero stars I would!!! Restaurant was basically empty except for one other couple. Our party had 12 people and it took over 2 hours to receive our breakfast foods and a chix strip melt with a empty restaurant. When food came it was luke warm to cold. Honestly this is the second time in a row for crappy food and poor service at this location. The manager came over and asked us how our food was before we even received it. We will never be back and that's a promise. I do not recommended this location to anyone. read more

Absolute shit hole. Seated at the same time as two other white gentleman. Who ordered, ate their food, paid their check and left. Meanwhile I didn't even get a refill of water. My "waiter" spent half of the 40 minutes I waited for my food to be brought out fraternizing with some drunk, loud, and obnoxious hillbilly they sat near the front door. I had never heard of Perkins before, thought I'd give it a shot. Never again. Avoid this one in particular. read more

Because there isn't a zero star or half I cannot believe the disrespect the waiter had toward my wife and my family. We ordered food and after 1 plus hour we asked how much longer. The waiter told us 5-7 minutes. After 20 minutes when we asked again he said I'm sorry I'm sending a manager in a very passive aggressive nature with absolute rudeness. That wasn't the worst part. He came back to the table and said "I'm not sorry I'm just apologizing". The families next to us gave a look of absolute astonishment. We walked out. Chevy you will NEVER speak to my wife that way again and get away with it! read more

Went super late around midnight and I was surprised there was a good amount of tables full. I believe my waitress's name was Kassandra and she's a miracle worker! Stayed for over an hour and the place was insanely busy! She killed it and I could not imagine doing everything myself. She deserves a raise! read more

Nothing wrong with Perkins.... nice people with hot breakfast. Fast and yummy. Clean and no complaints. Better than most of the breakfast competition. read more

My wife and I had breakfast this morning. My wife's meal was good, hot and everything she asked for. Mine on the other hand was terrible, i ordered eggs over easy. On yolk was broken and hard the other was just hard, bacon could have been used as a weapon it was that hard. My toast had a little butter in the center of the bread not spread to the edges at alll. I took some of my wife's butter from her pancakes and spread it on the bread but the bread was so cold it didn't melt at all. Terrible meal. read more

Our waitress was fantastic and the food was very good and very fresh. I had the sausage omelette with real cheddar cheese and it came with a side of bacon. For someone on the Keto diet this would be a great place to eat and stay in ketosis. I enjoyed it and so did my mom. We will go back! read more

Ok holy smokes let me just say from the start don't go! I used to Uber and thought this placed looked good when I delivered to it before. The time came and I took my wife thinking it would be a nice place for a casual date night. My wife ordered the roast with a "loaded backed potato" and I got the chicken tender plate. We waited for nearly an hour before finally getting our food when there was only 3 other tables in the whole building. We finally got our food and 5 minutes later our bill before even really getting to try anything. I was furious for my wife as her roast was cold and her potato was completely undercooked and damn near just fresh out the ground. For nearly 50$ I was pissed and I made sure to let the manager know which he apologized and took 10$ off our bill.... For my wife she got it sent back to the kitchen just for the exact same plate she already had to be reheated which we waited yet again another 10 mins for. Never never never again. Save your money save your time. Don't go! read more

Not too shabby. Run of the mill Coffee Shop & Bakery that is a Midwest chain type establishment. Consistent from location to location. Have been to a few and never really disappointed. Worth the stop. read more

Pancakes are delicious. Definitely a place to go for breakfast. Not as much of a fan of the appetizers...they just feel too greasy, though that could also be my fault. Service is mixed. Often seems slow and sometimes a bit unattentive, but special requests (like a water pitcher because I had a cough) were taken care of without incident. However, it's worth noting that you can often score $10 gift certificates from the Sioux City Journal for $7 or less. They can only be used once (you won't get any change back) but they don't seem to charge tax on them (it's considered a coupon) and can be used with other coupons. With those, the price becomes pretty reasonable. read more

The waitress was excellent. But when we tried to use the bathroom, the door was propped open and there was a man in there...there was no sign on the door to indicate it was out of order, but it stunk horribly. When I asked the hostess if it was out of order, she said "it's right there." I explained the situation she said "just a minute." We got in ten minutes later. My 78 year old aunt got the handicapped stall. The other options were the stall with NO DOOR or the stall with NO LOCK. read more

They have the worst tasting coffee I have ever had. They should improve it or get a more quality tasting coffee. They used to have the best tasting pancakes, but recently it seems they have changed their recipe. Not as good as they used to be. read more

Half of our party received their meal and were finished eating before the other half even received their food. The soup was cold and the service was slow. We didn't get refills till we were almost done! Just a bad day in general. read more

Wait staff very nice and informed. Ordered cream cheese and strawberry blintzes. Not good at all , inside cold and outside heavy oil taste. Also the entire restaurant had a heavy grease odor. read more

Our hats off to this Perkins restaurant for going above and beyond during a blizzard. It was the only restaurant open for miles, and the staff still had smiles on their faces even though they were having to work through the snowstorm. The food was fresh and tasty. I had a Cobb salad that was better than many higher-end restaurants I've eaten at. read more