Had breakfast Saturday 10/15/22 with a party of 8. The best service ever and food was delicious! The wait is worth it! Definitely recommend the Benedict with the cornbread OMG! read more

I decided to give this place another chance since it hadn't been open that long during my first visit. Plus, my husband hadn't tried it yet, and he loves biscuits and gravy for breakfast. The bump up in stars only reflects better service but the food is still subpar. My husband said the biscuits were fluffy and the gravy was fine, but we both disliked the breakfast potatoes. They are underseasoned and undercooked sliced red potatoes. Give us hashbrowns any day! My huevos rancheros wasn't good at all. With my first bite, "marinara" popped into my head. Their ranchero sauce tasted much less like anything Mexican and was more like a spaghetti sauce. I couldn't really taste the beans because the potatoes were jammed between the layers of tortillas. At least the eggs were cooked properly. The food came out very fast which is the mark of a well operated breakfast place. The coffee is still bad, and they still insist on using the non-dairy creamers. We won't be revisting Henhouse. read more

Food is great every time! Servers work as a team quite well and we're always treated with a smile! read more

Henhouse Cafe - Y'all need reheating instructions on the Togo boxes for these things! - Cafes Near Me - Gilbert, Arizona

This is my favorite place to go for breakfast, fun country atmosphere and great service!! Haven't had anything I didn't love!

The French Toast is amazing. Great service and competitively priced. Would go back again when I am in AZ

Hard to find at the end of a strip ball, but well worth the search. Open environment very clean, restaurant, friendly, and attentive staff more than enough to eat at a reasonable price. I was there for breakfast. The toast and potatoes were excellent. The omelette was as expected. I would certainly go back and recommend the henhouse Café. read more

Is it the responsibility of the customers to let the waitress know that the debit card was placed inside of the pocket of the check book? Is it the responsibility of the customers to have to constantly explain themselves to the shift leader while being brushed off and ignored for the reason that they "have a lot of matters to attend to"? My family and I went to Hen House to celebrate my brothers birthday today as we had heard a lot of good comments from my aunt and her friends about the breakfast they serve and the service. The waitress was really nice and took care of our table quite nicely. At the end of our eating we asked for our check and so my mom had placed her card in the pocket of the check book. One of my younger brothers having the "class clown" personality he has ends up giving the checkbook(with the card in it) to the waitress and jokes around that the breakfast was on him. The waitress then returns, gives the checkbook back and says that the card declined and then shortly after laughs and says she was joking. My mom then took the card back out of the checkbook and asks my siblings and I if we had any cash on us so we could leave a tip for the waitress. No one had any cash on them and my mom only had a $50 bill so she asked the waitress if she could break it so we could leave her a tip. The waitress comes back with 2-$20 bills and 2-$5 bills and then we proceed to leave a tip for her in the check book. As we head out of the restaurant and as we are getting inside of the car, we realize that my brother had been stopped. He came in the car and relayed the message that the lady at the front had taken his to-go plate. When we asked the reason, he explained that they said we didn't pay. We were astonished as we had gotten the check book that had the card in it back from the waitress and not once did she mention that there was no form of payment in the checkbook. If she had mentioned or explained as such then we would have let her know that the card was in the pocket of the checkbook. My mom went back into the restaurant to pay for the meal we thought we had already payed for and then came back to the car. We decided to leave and start heading to drop my brothers off to school. On our drive back we were discussing what had happened in the restaurant and we came to the conclusion that not only did the servers take the food from my little brother, but they didn't even try to figure out the situation before coming to the conclusion and assuming that we had tried to dine and dash. My mom then made a u-turn at the next street light and went back to the restaurant to explain the situation and talk with the manager. The reason being that this is a place we usually go to celebrate our birthdays and we wanted to clear any misunderstandings that might have occurred. When my mom went back into the restaurant and asked for the manager, she was taken to the shift leader, as the manager was not present at the time and as she tried to explain the situation she was given a line of excuses as to why the waitress had thought we were trying to leave without paying rather than an attempt on their part to try and understand where we were coming from. Not only did the shift leader continuously try and brush my mom off saying she had other things to take care of but we didn't even receive an explanation or a sincere apology from the waitress herself. This experience was very embarrassing and overall disappointing especially since this incident ruined my brother's birthday breakfast all of this due to the waitress who didn't check the pocket of the check book in the first place. Is it not the responsibility of the waitress to look within the pockets of the checkbook for a card or even explain that she did not see anything in the checkbook when she handed it back the first time? Is it not the responsibility of the shift leader to take care of such matters with an attitude of understanding and with the least bit of care towards the customers? Are the pockets within the checkbooks not there with the purpose of holding cards, cash, and other forms of payment? In the end we didn't care about the discounts on our meal they were offering because it wasn't the money that was the problem, but the way they were handling the situation, the way in which our attempt to resolve any misunderstandings was brushed off so easily, and the way the waitress hid behind her shift leader instead of apologizing in person. This whole situation has my family and I very frustrated and upset at the way this situation would have been handled in a better manner had the waitress communicated with us in the first place rather than stopping my 12 year old and just turned 16 year old brother in their tracks and proceeding to take their to-go plates out of their hands. read more

The good unfortunately is just not good. I would see that the restaurant is constantly busy, so I wanted to try it. I have tried it now 4 times to get different menu items and each time I am disappointed. The eggs don't taste like eggs, if that makes sense. Everything is absolutely covered in grease. The first time I went, multiple things that I asked for did not come out and was just forgotten about. It's just not what I was expecting with the amount of people that wait for the restaurant to be open. read more

Today was the worst service and wait for food I have ever encountered here. We sat down at 1040 & we walked out at 12!! I have had long waits here before but this was seriously a 30 minute wait to get our food. The server never came to us and said hello so after a good 15 minutes I had to walk up to the server station and ask who our server was & then she acted like I was rude. Also they don't have Cholula even Denny's has Cholula! read more

Food and service was great, but their menu is misleading. Specifically the "small stack" pancakes. Seeing as the pancakes above those say that they're huge, I figured these would be small enough for one person to eat. No. They're f***ing MASSIVE!! Three pancakes the size of a medium pizza. It was enough to feed our whole party of four. I honestly thought it was a joke or a mistake at first. I would hate to see what the HUGE pancakes looks like. read more

5 stars for sure! Our food and service was amazing. I thought we would be waiting but got seated right away. We had our drinks already ordered and at our table before we even finished reading the menu. The food was great and everything was fresh. Just moved into the neighborhood and glad this is so close!! read more

The breakfast is amazing! Cute restaurant with good prices. Reminds me of what a Cracker Barrel used to be - great food and a good time. read more

The food is delicious! I had the famous pancakes and the house sausage. Wonderful! I met the owners and they are amazing people! I definitely recommend going here! Especially for the price you can't beat! read more

Henhouse Cafe - Cafes Near Me - Gilbert, Arizona

Average at best... the cinnamon roll was dry and the large glob of icing in the middle did nothing but cause a mess. Breakfast burrito was overrun with potatoes and the classic Eggs Benedict, eggs were cooked perfect but the muffin was undercooked almost raw.. read more

Service was great. Lisa was an excellent server and seating hostess and manager were really kind. Just didn't like the food. Most of what my wife ordered was cold. My meal lacked flavor. Iced tea and water very good. Coffee a little bitter. Pancake had a cinnamon flavor that we didn't care for. read more

I have only been here for 5 minutes. We don't mind waiting to be sat. A guest just walked in with her own water bottle and an older lady with longer hair told her she couldn't bring her water bottle in and had to drink their water if they wanted water.. WTF???? There is something wrong with this place. We left. read more

My brother and sister in law were visiting this weekend and my BIL loves breakfast, so we decided to try Henhouse. We got there about 11 on a Sunday and there were only 4 or 5 parties before us. It wasn't long before the hostess called our name and lead us to our outside seating. That's when it all started to go awry. A man sitting at another outside table jumped up and moved to the table she was leading us to (and had been set up with a highchair for us). The hostess looked baffled and obviously didn't know what to do. So she sat us at another table, but this table was in the sun. Personally that other customer was rude, but she should have been trained to know what to do. Something like, excuse me sir, we've set this table up for this party, if you'd like to move your seat, please just give me a moment and I will be happy to work that out for you. But no. She didn't. So my BIL and SIL both had their back in the sun the whole meal, to the point that both had quite the sunburn. I have several thoughts about this, but I'll address those in a minute. The waitress was friendly, brought drinks then came back and took our order. We mostly ordered pancakes, sides and one order of chicken and waffles. This is where it gets worse. An hour passes. No food. All the tables around us have their food despite 3 of them arriving after us. The party that was seated before us has paid their bill and is driving away... we are sitting in the sun with 2 kids and no food. Another waiter comes by and asks why we don't have food. 3 other people bring our food right after that. The pancake kids meal were huge. My 2 littles under 5 could have easily shared one meal. The pancakes were larger than the plate. Odd they didn't have syrup pourers, they brought these tiny cups of syrup for giant pancakes. My B/SIL shared a small stack which were pretty big. My husband got chicken/ waffles with gravy on the side and I got the lemon mascarpone pancake. Everyone agreed mine was the best tasting. The chicken was dry, like it had been sitting for a while. My SIL didn't receive her side of sausage and poached eggs for quite a while and when they did bring it, they brought her scrambled eggs. So back again until she finally got poached. The sausage was pretty good. The gravy on its own was good too. Oh and we had a side order of beignets that were pretty good too. So honestly, this was a mixed bag. I'm not sure we'll ever go back. While some of the food was good, the service time was unforgivable. Why the owner has not addressed the outside seating issues really baffles me. They have 4 oversized picnic tables that don't fit in the space easily and really only sit 6 comfortably- so why don't they just trade those out for regular patio tables? They'd fit better and wouldn't have so many issues in the sun. Secondly, they know the sun is a problem, so why not get patio umbrellas for the two tables in the sun? They could easily fix that problem temporarily for around $100. Long term an awning would be the smart thing. The fact they haven't seems irresponsible. It's one thing to sit in the phoenix sun for 45 min, but when the service takes an hour 15 minutes that really is uncomfortable and unacceptable. So if you visit maybe make sure you sit inside or at least in one of the covered tables, just know it's really loud inside, likely because there's nothing to catch the sound. Or maybe skip this place altogether since there are so many other breakfast choices in mesa, the only thing you'll miss is the sunburn read more

I finally made it in to this hot spot for breakfast!! It's cute but small & always busy! The service is great. The menu is small but has fun items! I love the omelets, rye toast or the cheesecake French toast if you want a fun treat?!!! A nearby table ordered the giant pancakes today it's the size of a pizza-- literally blew my mind!!! read more

Was driving by and saw the sign for the Henhouse Cafe and thought I would give it a try. The service was prompt as the place was not too busy. I went towards the end of their business hours. The food was good and served in large portions. The coffee was brewed fairly weak, but strong coffee is a personal preference. read more

Great eats! The food is always hot, fresh and the atmosphere has that mom & pop feel that makes you love it right away. But be warned, the "Moms homemade pancake" has been know to destroy any who dares challenge it alone! Their crazy huge! Whatever you order you'll be pleased. A definite winner!!! read more

I'm torn - I love breakfast food, and I love their prices but they just don't really do it right. Worth a shot, maybe you'll disagree but I won't likely return. read more

Best breakfast ever. The crunchy French toast is quite a surprise and a must try kind of taste. Anything with carnitas is AMAZING. The staff are friendly and helpful. The owners and their children are a delight. This place is home cooking on FIRE! Let's support small local businesses! read more

Just came from having breakfast at The Henhouse. The food was outstanding!! The service was fabulous!! Curtis was our host. He was alot of fun and very curteous. Every little thing we needed he ran and got it for us. I would highly recommend eating at the Henhouse. Ask for Curtis!!! read more

Henhouse Cafe - Our friends enjoying conversation after an awesome meal. - Cafes Near Me - Gilbert, Arizona

No outside food and drinks? Lame. Turn away someone for grabbing coffee prior to coming to have breakfast...? Nice way to lose 40 dollars because I probably will not buy your 2 dollar coffee as I eat... wow. read more

Incredibly dissappointed. Pre-ordered yesterday for Mother's Day breakfast. Almost an hour and a half past my scheduled pick up time and still no food. It is clearly obvious they vastly under prepared for the day. There seemed to be no system for getting people's orders out. In fact, the servers admitted they weren't really going in ticket order. It's clear they don't have skill set or logistics knowledge to run a takeout business during a peak time. This my first time doing business with this place. Maybe I'll give them another chance after they allowed to have customers inside again, but that's a big maybe. read more

The food took forever. Service was nice enough. Coffee was good and constantly refilled, however food was so very slow. I think it took like 30-40 minutes to come out. The server apologized and acknowledged the food was slow, which was nice. Nothing worse than a server that doesn't even acknowledge the long wait time for food. So for his honesty and sincerity, I was thankful. The omelet was good. I had the chorizo omelet. The chipotle sauce was well seasoned and had a velvety texture. I asked for tomatoes on the side, which were mushy and overripe. I actually wouldn't serve that to my family. I can understand the want for a restaurant to get rid of overripe produce by serving it to paying patrons, but come on! So the food didn't even compensate for the wait. If I'm going to wait that long for food, it'd better be good. Sadly it was not. read more

This a great new breakfast place that my parents and I discovered. They don't have a huge selection, but what they do have is unique and interesting. In each category they have an item that meets a specific taste (spicy, sweet, healthy, down home). I had the Cali Benedict. Their hollandaise sauce is on point and the egg was poached perfectly. The flavors blended together well. Dad had the Country Benedict which was basically biscuits and gravy with poached eggs. The server told us that the sausage patties were hand crafted. And they were super flavorful and delicious. Some of the best sausage I have ever tasted. Mom had the French Toast which was made with Hawaiian bread. Also very delicious and not overly sweet. Great food coupled with friendly staff makes this a great choice for breakfast or brunch. We will be coming back soon. read more

Good food but light gravy/sauce. They also have a poor policy regarding substitutions. It's sad these days that some places are not willing to do the little things that make a customer feel valued. And the prices charged are certainly sufficient to cover a little extra here and there when asked. I was even willing to give up one ingredient for another. Answer was no. Extra charge. It was a fair request. Luckily, there are other places to eat a good breakfast and feel valued. Last time I will eat here. Might as well just have machines serving and quoting policy. read more

If you order the gigantic pancake... you DO NOT need any other food!! It's the largest pancake we've ever seen and the order has 2 stacked! Their cinnamon hot syrup complements the pancake well! Our family of 4 couldn't finish the thing hahah read more

We try to go here once a week. Food is great! However today I bought a $5 coffee from down the street before my wife and I showed up. They would not allow me to bring in the coffee drink. So, we went to IHOP. Just seems short sighted. read more

Horrible experience! Food took too long for a simple order, juice overpriced and low amount Sausage was literally cold and potatoes were barely warm ( I live .2 miles from the store) and when I contacted the store there wasn't a manager to speak to until the next day, no apology, and felt as if I was a nuisance from the very beginning. Multiple other issues but done wasting anymore of my time I used to see ratings close to 5 for this restaurant but now saw it is only 3.5, no wonder. DISAPPOINTED read more

We wanted to take my sweet mother-in-law out for breakfast and decided to try out a new restaurant. What a mistake that was! We were told it would be a 35 minute wait but waited almost an hour. Then we finally got seated, it took awhile for a waitress to come to our table. 20 minutes later, we got our food which tasted ok but then I realized that I had sticky, chewed up gum on the bottom of my plate. I then realized that when they had served it to me, strands of gum had gone across my son's plate. I will NEVER go back!! Gross!! read more

Henhouse Cafe - Cafes Near Me - Gilbert, Arizona

OMFG!!!! I remember this place back when it was located on Chandler Heights Rd. I met the owner and he hooked me up with a bomb breakfast. I never made it back. My ex wife had mentioned the name the other day and I asked if it was the same joint. Low and effing behold. 2.5 miles from my house.........THE HEN HOUSE!! And it is still amazing. My server was chill and somewhat prompt. One negative point; he forgot to keep my coffee full. I ordered The Barn Burner. IT WAS FANTASTIC!!! And priced perfectly. Atmosphere is nice. I'm now a regular and will be returning almost every weekend. Buh Bye Black Bear Diner!!! read more

First time coming here today! And wow! We loved the food, the decor, the staff! Great place! We will be back!!!!!!

Another first since moving to Gilbert. Having breakfast at the Henhouse is a nice way to spend a Saturday morning. Friendly staff and good food are a great combination. The portion sizes are huge! Pancakes are the size of a dinner plate. Hubby had a huge portion of biscuits and gravy, which he enjoyed. I had a delicious veggie omelet and fried potatoes. My only disappointment was no gluten free options for toast. I asked for sliced tomato since I couldn't have toast and was told it would be 99 cents. Not cool. We will probably go back, but I will look for other places that do have a GF option. read more

Henhouse Cafe - Biscuits and gravy - Cafes Near Me - Gilbert, Arizona

This place is ok. I just can't get into a breakfast restaurant that serves fake juice and margarine. The food isn't bad, much better than those disgusting chains like Denny's. But not nearly as good as Snooze or First Watch. read more

I highly recommend this cafe. The staff is always attentive. The food is on point with great hot coffee.

The Henhouse Cafe has horrible customer service. Terrible management. At first glance, the place has decent food. However, the lack of customer service and the lack of management skills at this restaurant makes it one that you should skip at all costs. I used to patronize this place at least weekly, but never again. I was in a referral group that met there every other week, but management could never remember to put our meeting in the books so the room was never set up for us. And now, for today's downer. I like my potatoes crispy and my sausage done; after all, it is sausage. I expressed this to my server stating "I want my sausage well done and my potatoes crispy, like burnt." My food came to me and the potatoes were not crispy and the sausage was not well done. The server asked, "is that crispy enough?" I said, "no." And before I could even tell him about my sausage, he took the potatoes away. Five minutes later, with no server interaction in between, my potatoes came back. The server asked, "is everything else, okay?" and I told him about the sausage. He took the plate and walked away, sans comment. Had he waited 2 seconds more, I could have told him that he forgot to bring butter for my pancakes, but he didn't. 5 minutes later, the sausage came back and it was this weird color brown, as if it had been in a deep fryer. I don't desire to die of a heart attack from grease overload, I just don't enjoy eating raw pork. When the server dropped the sausage off, he dropped it as he walked by, so I still did not have a opportunity to say anything about wanting butter. 5 minutes later, he returned and I asked for some butter for my now cold pancake. He brought the butter. 5 minutes later he dropped off the check and I asked to speak to the manager, and this is where the story gets even worse. The manager, Bo, was very defensive and repeatedly interrupted me when I tried to tell him about my experience. For instance, I stated, "I like to eat my food when it's hot and all together." He stated, "well it was all together, you just sent it back." Me - "Well I want to gauge what should I say to get my potatoes crispy, the way I like them, on the first time?" Him - "say you want them so burnt they are inedible." Me - "That is rather rude." Him - "Well, I can't tell you what you like but my kitchen did nothing wrong." Me -"Bo, I am just trying to tell you about my poor experience in your restaurant." Him - "No, you are telling me you had a problem with the food, not the experience." Me - "Well, it was a poor experience, the server set the sausage down while rushing by and I couldn't tell him about the other missing items." Him - "No, he didn't. At that point, I was deflated and frustrated about the experience so I simply paid and left. I hope whoever reads this does NOT patronize The Henhouse Cafe, located at 3244 E Guadalupe Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85234. read more

I am vegetarian, and eat egg whites because egg yolk and meat make me sick. I was told this place does not serve egg whites, and I was confused because I got those last time I ate here. I told the waitress that egg yolk makes me sick, and a neighboring customer chimed in to inform me of the chicken egg shortage. I asked, can't you remove the yolk? They said "no" and "we are very busy", and the waitress said I can speak wth the manager. At this point the neighboring customers and few workers were listening in and watching, I felt uncomfortable and left. Couldn't but wonder, is this everywhere in AZ? We have no problems in California. I wanted to see and called a nearby restaurant (4 minutes away from this place) and the manager said they serve egg whites, and removing the yolk was easy and possible to do. Why couldn't the Henhouse do the same? Do they serve egg beaters or some other egg alternative, hindering them to do so? I wouldn't know cause I only got "no" and "we can't" and "we are busy" and the final "you can speak to our manager". My advice to the restaurant: Please post on your menu - WE DO NOT SERVE EGG WHITES - To avoid costumers feeling put in the spot. Please don't make them feel like they have to explain why they can't eat something, certainly in front of other costumers. FYI: OTHER CLOSE RESTAURANTS SERVE EGG WHITES, JUST CALL read more

They don't skimp on portion size flavor or quality ingredients. Eat alfresco, it's worth the wait!