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    Take a Break Restaurant

    2.6 (49 reviews)
    Open • 6:00 am - 8:00 pm

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    Food for 3

    All three of our meals should have totaled well below 60$ all together they charged me and 2 other people 85$ itemizing the receipt with items like bacon for one person costing 10.75 or chocolate chips for 5$ The waitress acted like she didn't want to be there the whole time cursing at us under her breathe from behind the counter because she didn't think we could hear her. Stomach ache after eating the food would not stop here again

    Side French toast
    Philicia S.

    My first diner stop in the area. The food I ordered was their house breakfast something? Forgot the name, but it had bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes, potatoes. Also got a side of French toast. The food was the highlight of the visit. Gigantic portions, eggs were cooked perfectly the way I like it, meats were good, pancakes were a little flat but decent, potatoes were my favorite. Perfectly cooked slices and nice crispy edges, perfectly seasoned. Coffee was yummy and refilled regularly. The French toast was honestly one of the best I've ever enjoyed. Thick bread, perfectly seasoned with the spices. Syrup is served on the side with togo ramekins. Service was great, friendly and aware of our needs and got everything we needed. Ambience. Adorable and cozy local diner feel. I can see myself getting lost in a book and enjoying a quiet morning with my breakfast...mmm definitely my favorite diner in the area. I will definitely come back again. I recommend the plates a dishes ordered.

    Grilled ham and cheese. More cheese please!!
    Cealleigh S.

    Where to start.... Husband and I decided to try this place after reading some pretty good reviews on Google. Just wanted a good diner, with good diner portions, good diner prices and good diner options. Pretty decent options as far as the menu is concerned but we settled on some basic fried mozzarella sticks with marinara. Our waitress was super sweet and very attentive. She put our app order in right away so we would have a nice break between that and our entrees. Mozz sticks came out, the battered kind not the breaded, I like both varieties so I was fine with battered. Sauce was a little sweet for my liking but still hot and tasty. The sticks were crispy on the outside but sadly still nearly solid on the inside. No cheese pull, no melt. Disappointed but still hopeful for some good diner grub. I ordered a hot coffee and a grilled cheese with ham. My husband ordered a water and a bacon cheeseburger with fries. We had a nice pause in between our mozz sticks and meal so we did not feel rushed at all. Our entrees arrived and both looked like pretty good portions. The bread on my grilled cheese and ham was nicely browned and looked like "good bread"--if you're a bread lover, you'll know what I mean. I had been craving a melty ham and cheese sandwich so I was very happy to tear into this one. I have a habit of always "deconstructing" sandwiches or burgers and then reconstructing them before i eat them--due in part to a nightmare situation where i bit into a burger only to find a very long hair baked INTO my burger. Sooo as I take my grilled cheese and ham apart I'm a little disappointed to see that even though the bread looks great, there is literally one square of American cheese on each piece of bread--it didn't even fully cover the bread. There was this big section of bread that had zero cheese on it. Well, i thought, I could just rearrange the ham and cover the bread that way. Nope. One circular slice of ham cut in half. The two slices of pickle chips were the highlight of my plate. So now I'm checking out my husband's plate to see what I can steal. Fries were a lil soggy but the onion rings were delicious. His burger patty def looked like it was a preformed frozen patty but he said that it was very good. I'll have to take his word on that! The dessert case looked very inviting and had lots to choose from. We decided on some mixed berry (strawberries, raspberries and blackberries)cheesecake. We had them boxed to go to enjoy a little later. Check came and I was slightly shocked to see a near 60 dollar total. With tip i paid over 70 dollars for ONE cup of coffee, barely cooked mozz sticks a pathetic sandwich, a burger with fries and some cheesecake. Now if this was the best damn grilled cheese I ever had, I wouldn't bat an eye...but trust me, it.was.NOT. Also, the top of my cheesecake had this maple syrup glaze that I was not expecting. Meh. Two stars only because our waitress was so very nice and my husband was "fine" with his food. I don't think there will be a return trip.

    Chicken Souvlaki Platter

    At the beginning of 2021, my girlfriend and I made an effort to eat at as many different diners around Binghamton. TAB is our stand-alone favorite. The waitresses are always very friendly, not to mention very patient. The food is served fast, it's massive portions, and it tastes phenomenal. We almost always get the Chicken Souvlaki platters because they are delicious. I've seen other bad reviews on here and it genuinely confuses me because we've had nothing but great service and delicious food every time we go. Prices are relatively cheap too.

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    Horrible service, rude and unfriendly wait staff/management. Received the wrong order, food was cold.

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    That was a treat! After MANY attempts (often derailed by my own schedule) finally made it to…read moreDowntown for dinner. As luck would have it, it was Binghamton Restaurant Week and we attempted a walk in - first available was three+ hours later - but the hostess mentioned we could get the RW menu at the bar and two seats were calling. Lots of choices on the menu but friend and I ended up having the same meal! Cup of Cauliflower, potato and leek soup to start was yummy - very comforting, not too thick, good flavor - I could have stopped here! But fortunately did not! Main was spectacular! Salmon with everything bagel spices served over pearl couscous in a risotto style was inspired (honestly, I will try this at home)! I hope this is a menu regular because I will crave this for many more meals! Add a black Manhattan and this meal is a treat! (Took the dessert course to go - blueberry cronuts were better than chocolate but both likely suffered a wee bit from loss of ambiance and slight steaming that occurred on drive - good for sure but did not compare to the rest of the meal). Shout out to Tommy F for exceptional service - attentive but not intrusive. Ambiance is lovely (the lighting dimmed as we sat - hysterical) but we also scored the most comfortable seats in the house (I hate a high top stool with no back and no padding on the seat - those stools look nice but should go away). Also love the hook under the bar.

    This is a difficult review to properly balance. We'd seen the rooftop restaurant from my son's new…read morecollege apartment and went for dinner. After reading the sign indicating we need to see the host inside, we went. It was packed and looked modern chic, with low lights and high tables and tall chairs. We didn't have reservations and got the sorry, but we're full, to which I said we wanted to eat upstairs. To that, we got "okay" but that is a "different experience," which I frankly took as pretension... until I got upstairs. Then we understood. It was mostly empty on this Saturday evening, opposite the main restaurant below, and had a single person working the whole space, a Bar tender who explained we were to pull up the menu with a QRC, order, and they would bring the food; if we wanted drinks, we needed to come to the bar. Ordered food. Went to bar and waited. Good local craft beer on tap. Decent view, pleasant weather. And then a half hour passed. For sandwiches and tacos. Few minutes later, I went in to make sure our order was sent and that the kitchen actually received it. There was no animated chef in toque at a stove to indicate it was working, but she assured me it was. Another 15 minutes go by, and our beers are low, and we're considering.... Leaving or raising a stink when the bartender leaves her bar, looks at us, and goes down the stairs without a word, returning a few minutes later with nothing. That was odd, but seemed like progress. A few minutes later, our food arrives. Perhaps 50-60 minutes after ordering it. The runner tells us the manager apologies for the wait and has comped all our food. Without our having to say a word. We ate a fine arugula salad with watermelon, blueberries, and cheese. A good chicken sandwich with the most unusual Parmesan parsley fries--they were more thick chips, fried into curls, and topped with fried parsley and grated Parmesan. If you order it on the side, it comes with aioli, which was excellent. My burger was outstanding. I could taste the smoke, and it came with not slices, but small cubes of bacon. No need for sauce. My wife's shrimp tacos were very good eating. Frankly, it was so good, I *might* have forgiven them the wait. They did right to acknowledge their mistake. When we visit Binghampton again, we'll make reservations for the main dining room, which we were told has a much larger menu. We paid our bar tab via their Toast app. So yes, table service, but no waitron. It was a different experience, true to the host's word.

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    Great service and good food, always friendly and efficient will def return. My family in last year…read morefor our brothers funeral we all met there like 10 of us and everyone enjoyed everything.

    I was at SUNY Binghamton to drop my daughter off . Prior to my return home, we decided to grab…read morelunch. Overall, this IHOP is poorly run. The hosts kept guests waiting for an hour or longer, even though there were ten empty clean tables available. My waitress was new, overwhelmed, and had no answers to simple questions, but she was very nice. We ordered a cowboy burger, a crepe combo with eggs bacon and hash brown, and a bacon temptation omelette. The food had no seasoning, and took 30 minutes to get to our table. When I say it was all dry, I mean it. It was hard to swallow due to how dry, and overcooked the food was in addition to flavorless. The burger tasted as if it had just come out of the freezer. The bacon temptation omelette had no cheddar cheese instead had a variation of a white and strings of yellow cheese, and the eggs for both breakfasts were runny. The hash browns were underdone and the crepes weren't fully cooked. Ultimately, we stayed, paid, and left because we were too embarrassed to get up and leave after receiving our food. However, we were tempted to leave the food there barely touched. I will NOT return. UPDATE : Two of the three of us who ate at the Binghamton IHOP have been ill all day after we ate the meal there. I believe the eggs were the culprit.

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    Food was excellent, service impeccable and ambiance was very local and charming! I was craving…read morepancakes and Tom and staff delivered! Everyone enjoyed their food, even our corgi! Yeah! Thank you!

    My wife and I randomly stop into places we've never been to for breakfast and we found ourselves…read morenear here so we did. I didn't realize at the time until she reminded me but we actually had a gift certificate from this restaurant hanging out in our refrigerator from like 5 years earlier. So after ordering our breakfast I asked the waitress if it was even a possibility to still use it and she said sure no problem. So anyway, our breakfast was wonderful, the waitress was really nice even if she hadn't given me permission to use an old gift certificate, and the place looked pretty clean. I checked when I got back to the house and it had actually been 8 years for that gift certificate but we went back for lunch and caught the same waitress, and yeah no problem they let us use it Lunch was just as good as breakfast was. They do have a secret sauce there I asked what was in it because I saw it on the menu expecting her to tell me what it was and she said that she wasn't allowed to so it really is a secret. I did get to try some however and it's rather tasty in fact I suggest it to her that perhaps the owners could put it in bottles and sell it maybe just there at the restaurant anyway. I mean I would have bought a little bottle. But yeah, we both had a chicken sandwich and some sweet potato fries, and everything was rather tasty. Next time we are in the area we will definitely go back

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