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    That table with the pencil is the diner, you could sneeze in the bar and hit someone in the diner.
    Steven T.

    I never knew this was more than an old school bar with your typical Greek diner on the right as you walk in so I thought I would try the breakfast. The place is half old school bar and half Greek diner and I had it bookmarked for the bar until I saw haw early they opened and wondered why they were open at 6 am so I looked at the menu and there was a breakfast menu so I'm there. The place has there own lot so parking is no problem at all. The place kind of looked like an old school steak house was my first impression so I didn't know what to expect when I walked in. There is a nice reverse E wood bar with the old school brass hand rail that wraps around it. Old school stools with the low back and a foot rest if the built in bar foot rest is too close for you. There is no transition from the bar to the diner, it's like someone drew a line in the room and one side is a bar and the other is a diner where you could film a two sided commercial in one scene. The diner is typical Greek style with the light wood, mirrors and purple pastel booths with music playing. The menu is not exactly the phone book Greek style but there is all the regulars with Mexican options also but I would have the Greek omelette for a change. The greek omelette was kind of the weirder ones because it is breakfast link sausage slices, onions, green peppers, tomatoes and feta cheese with the breakfast sausage out of place when gyro meat is on the menu which would make more sense but what ever. It comes with the generic three for toast and hash browns. The service was spot on at first and I was seated promptly and given a real glass of ice water and a menu, two people in the diner section all ready with there food so service should be pretty quick, nope my Greek omelette took over fifteen minutes to hit the table when I was the only person with an order at the time. My server never came back to see if I needed anything or if all was ok and when I was done a good 7 minutes passed before my check was dropped off so I sat there being patient wondering if she would ever return after dropping off my food. When the Greek omelette hit the table it actually smelled really good and looked pretty good with a crumble of feta poking out in the corner. The omelette was pretty tasty but gyro meat would have made for a better offering than breakfast sausage links that were skimpy and sliced razor thin, I think the fork was thicker and there was probably not one links worth of meat in the omelette, see my pictures. The omelette eggs were fluffy and moist, not one of those omelettes with the firm/dense eggs which I liked because it went well with the soft feta and the crunch of the veggies. The toast and hash browns were pretty average and I would have liked a more exotic toast offering like sourdough or something but Texas toast is a $1.95 up charge on the menu which seemed ridiculous when it's 25% of the whole breakfast that I ordered just for better toast, it was not offered as a standard toast option for my breakfast but it's in the extras section. Overall it's a solid average breakfast place with a menu that is a little quirky compared to most breakfast places and it hit the spot and worked but the skimpy razor thin sausage crap did drag the stars down.

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    Waitress suggested Metaterrarian chicken. Yum!! Lasagna not so much. Skipped desert in favor of Korbel and diet-good choice

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