Good atmosphere great food good price the staff there is good they strive to learn your name. Food is a fair Amount for the price. Limited parking spots the turn around time for tables are excellent. read more

The vegetable scramble is my favorite! I get that just about every time I'm there. Also great is the Catalina special. The menu is awesome; there's something for even the pickiest of eaters (me!)! Everyone who works there is so friendly and treats you like family. The restaurant has a small town feel, with so many great homey touches. It's a breakfast-lovers heaven! read more

I like Sunny Side, the quality is consistently good the service is usually good and the pies are excellent. Personally I think their lunches are better than their breakfasts. I especially like the taco salad and the soup and sandwich as the soups are all homemade. I can give it a good recommendation even though the prices have risen little bit in recent years I still salute them for maintaining quality in the face of rising food prices. read more

Good all American breakfast. Nice customer service from waitress. Excellent customer service from woman who cashed me out. The only complaint that brought it from a 4 star to a 3 star is my glass had lipstick and the man behind me had lipstick on his coffee cup. Oh and the waitress forgot about us after bringing us coffee but then came back and apologized but forgot she had our area. My biscuits and gravy were awesome! The half order was plenty :) read more

We've been going for breakfast here for years. It is very popular with the locals and for good reason. Good food, reasonable pricing, clean and the waitresses are just great. Most have been there for years and know their customers. Very homey feel. They have bike racks outside and we often ride our bikes there in warm weather because it opens early. One of our favorite places! read more

Nice staff, quick service and a comfortable place. The food (eggs and ham) was good but on the greasy side. I will definitely hit the place for breakfast again when I am in the area. read more

This is one of our favorite little breakfast spots since moving here 20 years ago. You can always depend that the food will be great, service is outstanding and there's always a fun mix of locals who are regulars here. Saturday's can be particularity busy. I have never had a bad experience with the service even on those busy days. I usually order one of the breakfast items and it's just good comfort food. Pancakes are great and price is reasonable. Just a great place with that old fashioned diner feel. read more

Awesome little breakfast place. Staff is super friendly. Food is very tasty. Very quick service. Always packed!

This is one of those great old-fashioned American breakfast / lunch places. Food is simple but excellent; service is fast, efficient and very friendly. HIGHLY recommended! read more

Ate here for the first time today and it was great. There was a special of French toast with toasted coconut and walnuts, just right and delicious. Service was also great, server was always one step ahead on brining coffee and checking on us and the place was packed. read more

The staff is really friendly and the food is really good. The service is fast. The parking lot is large enough and they even have motorcycle parking as well. They have very limited outside seating. This s a great place to eat, visit with friends and have a great meal. read more

Totally disgusting breakfast and will never, ever return to that dumpy place. Once upon a time this place was okay but through the years it has completely declined. The omelet I ordered was more like a watered down, malnourished cheap crepe. The hash browns were frozen with an attempt to fry them to warm up for serving. All of this for a price that was not worth even 25¢. This place needs to close down or start over!! read more

I ate here for the first time today and have to say, I am really a fan (almost got 5 stars!). As others have said, the staff is very genuine and friendly and the atmosphere, though like a diner, has a nice old-school American charm to it. I have to say I also liked that it seemed clean and there was a lot of natural lighting. They had a number of pies displayed that looked enticing as well. I had the french toast with eggs and bacon and my friend had a giant omelet. Everything was great, warm and nothing overcooked. The reason I only gave it 4 stars was because I found my portion a little small compared to other breakfast places, but to be fair, I'm a big eater. For the typical person, it likely would have been just right! Looking forward to going back and trying their lunch and dessert options! read more

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We have been looking for a good place to have breakfast in the Catalina area and we have finally found one The food is great and the service spectacular Our waitress Doreen is great and charming but the entire staff is good Great food and great service what else could you ask for read more

Mediocre quality. Small portions. High prices for a dinner. The coffee is weak and tastes weird

Great food and prices. This is a neat diner type of place. Not fancy but reminds me of something you would see in the south. The food is very flavorful and you will not go away hungry. They have mid-week breakfast and lunch specials that are pretty cheap. Good service and even being busy my coffee cup never goes empty. read more

Horrible service, I ordered a side of hash browns and never got them. The French toast had no flavor, coffee wasn't fresh, the waitress we had was distracted easily and did not put the order in correctly. I commented to the manager that I was disappointed and he just shrug his shoulders. If you are in Catalina don't eat here. Claire's Cafe is much better. You pay a little more there but the food and service do not disappoint like this place. read more

Breakfast was delicious. The pancakes, bacon, and omelettes were cooked just right. The restaurant was very busy on a Saturday morning, and although we had a short wait for a table, it took awhile for our food to arrive. read more

Hearty portions, friendly service and reasonable prices. I found the hash browns and chicken fried steak to be a little bland, otherwise everything was very tasty" read more

Have loved this place for years, but prices are going through the roof! I understand about new minimum wage issue, but when eggs with bacon and eggs with corned-beef hash for two people with coffee and one small OJ cost $27.10, it's time to rethink the whole process. Shame, but we will be scaling back breakfast. It's a lose-lose situation for everyone. read more

My husband and I stopped here for breakfast. We both had the breakfast burritos and they were big. Great food for reasonable price.

Pleasant atmosphere with good food. Wait staff was polite but the menu was misleading in the senior section where they required an "up charge" to get the biscuit advertised with the meal. read more

The best place to get a great hardy breakfast! The food is always excellent and the service is wonderful.

My favorite nearby breakfast eatery. Also good for lunch. Never had a bad meal here and the service is very good. This place is almost always busy but worth three wait. read more

Went to this place this morning for breakfast with my wife. The food was just horrible. It appeared that most of what we had was out of a can or box, less the eggs. Our server seemed to be uninterested in helping us. I've scratched this dump off of my list. read more

The dining room was full. But our order was promptly taken and the food was very good. The bacon crispy. Loved the down home banter of the waitresses. Great place for breakfast. read more

I was very disappointed with my breakfast today. I wasn't able to come in for breakfast so we ordered out and my husband waited over 30 minutes for 2 omelettes, the hash browns that came with them we're not even fully cooked they were practically raw the toast was not toasted it was basically bread and the cheese in The Omelette was as hard as a brick as if it were overcooked. The Waitresses there have always been wonderful and they did give him a 10% discount for his 30 minute wait. Two omelettes and a side of sausage was $25 and we were not even able to eat our food read more

Love all the food and quality of service from the waiters! Definitely recommend for anyone looking for a great breakfast or lunch meal!

This has been a family favorite for years. Love the sass and friendly service from staff. Food is great diner selections.

This is the best casual restaurant in the Tucson metroplex. Mike, Leslie and their entire team serve the best breakfasts in Tucson. Great food and outstanding service create a one-of-a-kind experience where you are treated like family every time you come in. This is truly a don't miss family restaurant for breakfast or lunch 7 days a week! read more

This is just the cutest place. The server was very friendly, hostess was super nice, and the food was great. Good price and a beautiful location. read more

The food was delicious, the service quick, and the staff friendly. They have a pretty big menu with all of the classics-- you won't get anything super fancy but that's not their game. If you're looking for a good ol' fashioned breakfast spot this is the place for you. read more

Food was just average. Not really any special to have this place to stand out from anyone else. One good note, food was out quick.

This USED to be my favorite place for brunch in Catalina. With the new ownership prices have gone up, portions are seriously smaller, apple juice seems watered down and more. Great staff has seen a big turnover. I am going to IHOP for brunch today. Probably won't go back to this once wonderful place. read more

Yesterday was the third visit to Sunny Side Up Cafe. Both of the other times were with long time customers. I took a family member to the airport and thought "why not". I will show him a quaint spot restaurant full of Tucson charm. Wow, what a disaster. We came in around 11:30. He ordered breakfast and I decided to eat a BLT with fries. I mean how bad could it be? It was awful. The fries were not only greasy from sitting under a heat lamp but were so salty that they were not edible. The waitress traded the fries for cottage cheese. I tried to get through the sandwich. It was two pieces of cold toast with a wilted piece of lettuce, a tomato slice of sorts and two very salty pieces of old bacon. Coffee came around sporadically. We payed the bill and I said wait for the little pastries that they are famous for. I asked a waitress who said that they had served the other side of the dining room first and run out. How about customers who have been there the longest? She said it would only be a minute. In five minutes I asked another server and she basically implied that that they would be out when they came out. After 10 minutes of waiting we left. The waitress told me there were two new cooks. Okay. But there seemed no interest at all in helping me remember what I liked and found so charming my other visits. Can't imagine going back. read more

I love to come here often for breakfast and brunch. I love the savory as well as the sweeter alternatives such as pancakes or waffles. It is a perfect, cute little diner with awesome service and great food. There's nothing else I would expect from a breakfast/brunch cafe. I really love everything Ive tried so far, but some of my favorite dishes are the breakfast quesadilla, all of their omelets (they dont use milk for them which is good for people who are lactose intolerant), their fish sandwiches, and of course all of their desserts-and these are only a few of the dishes I've tried and really enjoyed. Their portions are large, and leave me feeling more than satisfied whenever I leave. This spot is easily one of the top places I prefer to go to for breakfast/brunch! read more

Great casual atmosphere. Large servings. Very courteous staff. Great place for breakfast or brunch.

There are certainly occasions where I want a unique breakfast experience. But, most of the time, I just want a quick, convenient meal at a good price, with good service. That is precisely what this place is. read more

Had a chef's salad for lunch here. Went home and got sick a couple of hours later. I am guessing you should not eat anything uncooked here. Everyone was drinking the water so I assume that was OK. read more

Our server, Beth, was awesome--friendly and efficient--but that is the only positive aspect of this restaurant. I ordered the vegetable omelet which was quite small and did not have much of a variety of vegetables. The mushrooms were canned, not fresh. Luckily the server warned me that it comes covered in salsa, so I was able to ask for the salsa on the side and it was quite good. I selected the pancakes for my side and they were large and tasted fine. I do not understand why they do not serve potatoes with the omelette with the option of one pancake instead of toast. The small omelette was definitely not worth the price of $9.69. My husband ordered the chicken fried steak and it, too, was very small and did not appear to be homemade. His eggs were almost cooked to his liking. He also chose the pancakes for his side. We definitely did not feel that his meal was worth $10.69. His glass of soda cost $2.69 which seems outrageous. The coffee was horrible. Although the service was wonderful, the lame quality of the food, the small portion sizes, and the price guarantee that we will never return. read more