This was our fist trip to McCrae's in a while and we were really looking forward to it. Unfortunately the quality of the food has really gone down since our last visit. The service is just as friendly as ever, but nobody in our party of four were satisfied with their order. There were two orders of french toast, both of which the bread was over egged which made the texture odd. The bacon was over done, even for those that like crispy bacon. A Belgian waffle was also ordered an it almost needed a steak knife to be cut. Finally, I ordered the 1/2 order chicken fried steak with hashbrowns and scrambled eggs. The eggs looked rubbery and upon first bite matched my observation. It was like chewing on deflated balloon. I then moved to the hashbrowns. They looked great, but once I put my fork in to them, It was as if there was an exterior crispy wrapping looking like hashbrowns that covered an interior of mashed potatoes. I don't know how they did it. Finally the steak. It was over cooked and the breading was chunky and strange. It appeared as if an attempt to cover it was made by pouring an outrageous amount of gravy over it. I ended up sending it back and I just had some toast with a sausage patty. The sausage patty was HUGE, probably enough for two people. I have really enjoyed this restaurant in the past, but I think we will have to wait until conditions improve. read more

Best chicken fried steak I have ever had Cheap comfy and delicious read more

If you love big portions, then this is your place. As far as taste, it's just meh. Nothing special, tastes homemade, but I'd rather make this at home than spend money here. It's good food when you're hungry, but you don't crave it. I got the special of the day of a ham, cheese, mushroom omelette with hollandaise sauce and hash browns. And I love gravy saucy stuff like the next person, but my omelette was disgustingly drowning in hollandaise. Total overkill. I would equate this place to a Denny's, Sharis or IHOP. You'll eat there cuz it's close & convenient, but it's not your top choice. read more

Visit here quite often. Wonderful breakfast food, especially their gravy. If you want a good Saturday breakfast this is the place to visit. read more

A lot of food for the price. My boyfriend loved the omelet. It was huge. I got the ribeye. It was just ok. Not the best quality. Staff was friendly. read more

McCrae's Country Cafe - Medium Ribeye Steak, Hashbrowns, Eggs Over Easy, White Russian. - American Near Me - Gresham, Oregon

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My favorite Gresham breakfast spot! It's just down the street, bonus! It's possible to eat like a sane person, or if you want to be seriously off your diet, you can order GIANT omlettes and burgers. Everything is great, and the owners and staff are wonderful. read more

The portions are HUGE and the staff makes you feel like family. They've added Bloody Marys and Mimosas to their menu which is a big plus. If your hungry or hung over this is your place :) read more

McCrae's Country Cafe - If you are truly hungry or hung over this is the place to be. They are now serving Bloody Marys and Mimosas. - American Near Me - Gresham, Oregon

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Let me suggest just getting half orders , the meals are huge here! Nice little cafe with good food! I got the country sausage and it was great, had good flavor and seasoning inside the sausage, nice helping of hash browns and eggs! I got side of their gravy, it is very tasty! My husband got the chicken fried steak and it was good! He got the half size and I'm telling you, it could feed two people easily. I could not imagine was a full size order looks like. They also have a 12 egg omelette and 1lb burger! The kids pancake was the size of the plate, and my niece got a half order omelette and it was huge! You will not go home hungry that is for sure! It took a while to get service when we first sat down and wasn't very busy, but like any restaurant you will have off days... But it was friendly service and was quick to get you what you needed after the meal arrived! read more

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This is one of my favorite regular stops. 12 egg omelettes?!? The portions are huge!!! The prices are not. Friendly service, I never have to ask for anything, someone is always coming by with coffee, water, or are willing to get another beverage to the table. I've moved to NE but do my best to visit. Today's visit was as always excellent. Busy like Sunday at 1130 am should be but it didn't take long to have a table for 4. And the person working in the far back corner never missed a beat. read more

Heard they had great food and my co-eaters really enjoyed their meals. However I did not. I had the French dip. Weirdly thick and flavorless.aju and the meat was drenched in it. Totally ruined the sandwich. Maybe I would try the place again for breakfast assuming the french dIp was a rare dud on the menu. read more

If you crave a homestyle cooked meal, then this is your place to go. My partner and I started with the chili cheese fries as our appetizer, it as very cheesy but the chili was a little too salty for my liking and I asked for some sour cream to dip in. I had the the haystack with hash browns for my entree. The best thing about it was the delicious home made biscuit! My partner got the half order of the Jerry's special and it was still enormous(she could only finish about half). I usually eat everything at restaurants but the portions were so big that we took about half of it home. Overall the atmosphere was warm and welcoming and the food was fulfilling and savory. I recommend trying this place read more

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best place! best food! best people!!! boom! athena and her family do it well! highly recommend! read more

I came in for breakfast after an event with my family, and I had heard good things about it. I ordered the Belgian waffle. Waffles are the greatest food in my opinion, so I was expecting good things. As the waffle came out I noticed that it was overcooked and smaller than expected. The bacon looked like the pig had been thrown into the fires of mount doom, and the eggs tasted like a hobbit's foot. If you come to McCrae's, I suggest ordering from the lunch menu, or order the French toast, which was less terrible. read more

Beats the heck out of other local breakfast places. They French toast is to die for and their bacon is THICK. Their chicken fried steak is divine. I've never had a bad meal here. This is my family's go to place for excellent food. On top of that, the staff quickly learns your favorites and makes you feel like you're home when you arrive. read more

Wow, my long time friend took me there yesterday morning. He said I must have the 12 egg omelet. It was amazing and so good that I ate the whole thing. read more

Quality is not what you pay for here. You pay for quantity: gut-busting, "Good-Old-Boy-American" super-quantity made with cheap, low quality ingredients. If eating a 12 egg omelete at a divvy greasy-spoon diner is your idea of "going out for breakfast" then boy oh boy, different strokes for different folks, I guess. If you like quantity over quality, then hey, McCrae's Country Café is probably the greatest restaurant you can find because the quantity you get is ridiculous. I mean who in their right mind would want to eat a 12 egg omelet? You would have to not care about your health whatsoever. Even the "half order" (6 egg omelet) is just too much food (and cholesterol) for a single human being. It's 'Merica at its finest. No wonder this country is so overweight and wasteful. A textbook glimpse into American conspicuous consumption. I came here because it was 6:00 in the morning, I work nearby, I dropped my wife off at the airport and wanted to get some breakfast to kill some time before going to work. I spent $16 on a bland, low quality sausage and cheese omelete (half-order, six-egg), a small orange juice that tasted horrible- definitely came out of one of those sticky juice dispensers you see in cafeterias, and a tip for the waitress. The omelet was basically a pound of cheap, ground sausage with a Kraft single melted on top and then wrapped in a thin egg blanket. But I hate wasting food, so I ate the whole thing, along with most of the greasy-wet slab of hashbrowns next to it. I ate it... ...And then regretted it immediately. My regret wasn't just gastronomical but financial as well. If I'm going to eat a lousy, low quality breakfast I'll just go hit the dollar menu at McDonalds or Jack-n-the-Box. I was mad at myself for not just stopping at McDonalds for a couple breakfast burritos. I would've done the same damage to my self-esteem and body but for $2 instead of $16. There are two reasons I didn't give McCrae's one star. 1. The waitress was very, very, very nice. I would hate to see, however, how much food she has to scrape off plates on any given day. 2. I get it. I really do. I grew up in a small country town in rural Illinois and the restaurants I went to during my youth were exactly like McCrae's. HUGE, farm-boy portions of cheap, low quality food that tastes bland and usually benefits from the addition of salt and pepper and/or ketchup to make it taste a little better. I know that this sort of food appeals to some (if not lots) of people. So just because I do not seek out restaurants like this, I know there are people out there who hate me for writing this review because they love McCrae's and think it wonderful. To each their own. read more

If you're really hungry, than there's no better place for breakfast than McCrae's. The portions are huge, the food is delicious, and the staff is super friendly. read more

As we pulled out of PDX enroute to Mt. Hood, I asked my companion, "Damn l could really go for some home-town farmer breakfast". Coming from a farming community, we were happy to find this on Yelp. I'm glad we did! The portions were *HUGE*, just like they serve back home. Gravy was excellent, and over all the food wasn't salty. Giving this 5-stars because they provided salsa with my eggs :) read more

This place is worth driving across town for. Amazing American breakfast food with truly American portions. This is the kind of place you take a German exchange student to show them why Americans are fatter than Europeans. Then tell them they won't be far behind because the food is so damn good there is no going back to plain old small portion snitzel after. Their last two stars are for one spectacular item on their menu. The chicken fried steak. Made by them every morning. Get there early because if you show up near the end of breakfast they are likely to say "sorry sold out on that one." I would call their full order of Chicken Fried Steak the "Three Man Job" because one or two are going to have a tough time finishing it. I'm a HUGE eater and I'm not kidding. Three man job! Amazing!!! I wish I had more time to comment but one of the best down home breakfast joints you will ever find. Pancakes are amazing too. As this can easily be done poorly. Just to comment on other posts in the thread on McCrae's. There omelets kick ass but its a shame if that's what you order given their meat product awesomeness. If an omelet is done poorly I blame the people who ordered it. Its standard American fare so if you want something that tastes different than eggs and cheese you better order accordingly. Hence why their menu says "Eggs Made to Order" on it. read more

Quantity over Quality seldom ever dominates a foodies mind. I came into McCrae's this morning after our church service to have breakfast and kill some time before our baby shower this particular afternoon. This place has crossed my mind many of times cause I drive by it quite frequently but I also have seen a few of my facebook friends post about this place so I wanted to give it a try. My fiance has been here before and boasts about how large the portions are. She was hesitant about going here as we would have a lot of food at the baby shower so she decided on something light there. We came in and the wait was not long at all considering how packed the place was. We sat down and got our menus and as I was perusing through the fare some pretty typical of most greasy spoon restaurants. I ordered the chicken fajita omelet and my fiance orders the french toast with strawberry topping. The wait wasn't long and our server constantly came back and checked on us regularly. Our food arrives and I was ready to dig in. On my first initial bite I found the chicken to be precut portioned and artificially grilled chicken breast. The veggies were fresh and overall idea was good but the execution of it was horrible. The biscuit was horrible. It was more like a dinner roll as opposed to being an actual biscuit. There was nothing very exciting about the meal itself. Even the hash browns came out of a bag. My fiances french toast was pretty basic and just topped with strawberry filling once again something that came out of a jar. Overall, I was not impressed. Like everyone else says, If you want gigantic portions and care less about the quality this is your place. Hate to say it but I don't believe I'll be back again. Not that the service was bad because it wasn't. The food just doesn't do it for me. read more

Quantity over quality. Even after setting my burnt chicken fried steak aside, the waitress wouldn't ask how things were. She already knew and probably tired of the responses. If this was truly Gresham's "Best Breakfast of the Year" in 2014, they have either slipped or they had no other competition. read more

Friendly staff, quick food and good prices. I have driven past this place for years and finally decided to come in. It's a seat yourself diner with a breakfast and lunch menu. We definitely will return! read more

McCrae's Country Cafe - Turkey cheddar omelet with salsa. - American Near Me - Gresham, Oregon

We love McCrae's! And we love coming back here every time we are in the area. My fiancé grew up coming here in high school and couldn't wait for me to come here when I came home with him for the first time. The servings are large and the Bloody Mary's are strong and spicy. What else could you really ask for. Not to mention the service is always spot on. read more

We've been going here for years and have never been disappointed! The staff is great and the food is perfect "diner" food with huge portions! Our go to Sunday breakfast or lunch with the kids! read more

Portions...huge. Great value. Friendly...Super quick service. Warm neighborhood atmosphere. I don't want to downplay these two factors...they are huge positives. Then there's the taste...I don't know if I'm just in a funky taste bud mood or what but everything tasted bland. The chili was...filling, had all the right ingredients, fresh cheese and onions on the side...but just...totally disappointed in flavor. The bacon...plentiful and cooked to perfect crispyness...but tasted like...something cooked? Hashbrowns...looked amazing, perfect golden on the outside, warm to the touch...flavor less. I would hands down recommend this place for the morning after a night of heavy drinking...or for any meal after not having eaten in a day or two...but not for a regular meal or for anything especially tasty. read more

Well the food is about average. Be prepared for LARGE portions. Plates cost more than the usual but its also because the meal is big enough to feed 3 people. I ordered the country fried steak and after a few bites I was pretty grossed out. Super chewy meat, which took me too long to try and chew. Service was pretty fast and my husband and daughter enjoyed their breakfast. Solid 3 stars for me. read more

The food is pretty good but the prices might be just a tad too much. Waiter was somewhat impatient , not just with us but at other tables too... and it was not like we were slow or trying to chat him up or anything. I understand they are busy but feel like it was a little brisk. May or may not be back but I don't think it will effect them too much as they seem to stay really busy lol. read more

I go here a lot. While the food is Hugh Portions and ok and the Service is great , their omelets are always overcooked. I usually get Biscuit and gravy and that is good. I do find their Prices to be overpriced . Love the Staff and the company but it is just Ok on Food read more

We stopped by here on a weekend with some friends around lunchtime, and ordered breakfast food. It was very busy, and I was kind of struck by how it was kind of dirty (food on the floor that hadn't really been cleaned up, for example). That visit was a while back (maybe 2 years ago), but I just haven't been interested in returning. read more

Being a true Southerner I was a little skeptical of a country breakfast place in the Northwest but these people sure are getting it right! This place might just have one of the better biscuits and gravy I've ever had in fact. The service is so spot on that you almost have to tell them to stop coming to ask if you need more coffee- which I appreciate on a huge level actually. As mentioned the food is great. I had the biscuits and gravy along with hashbrowns, which by the way are MASSIVE. I also shared a pancake that easily disappeared. I'm a big fan of this spot and will for sure make sure it is on the list to go to next time we are in town! read more

BISCUITS AND GRAVY IS SOOO BOMB!!! Nice and creamy and HUGE portions! We had our order to go, so I can't speak on the service but our to-go order was so good! read more

Best biscuts and gravy in Portland area acording to my fiance. You get a lit of food fir good prices.

This place is way better than Carol's Corner, Stepping Stone, Breakfast at Valerie's, etc.... Tastier, fresher food and awesome staff. Well worth the price and the portions outshine Carl's Corner Cafe and Fatty Patties. Yummy. read more

McCrae's Country Cafe - American Near Me - Gresham, Oregon

Our family comes to McCrae's anywhere from 2-3 times a year since we've lived out in East County. It's not a place we go to for exceptional or noteworthy food. We come here for a straightforward diner experience on a Sunday morning knowing we can pay for one plate and share it between 2-3 people at more than a reasonable price. The service has always been very friendly and fast; our coffee never seems to run out. We are never rushed to leave despite being provided the ticket upon delivery of the food. I normally keep it simple with over medium eggs, hash browns and bacon or one of the scrambles/omelets split with my husband. Again, the food is basic and not particularly noteworthy but consistent and will do the job for typical breakfast fare. We will continue our leisurely returns, as McCrae's offers that "small town" diner comfort that is reminiscent of my hometown. read more

This place is solid gold, I always get the fajita omelette, it's huge, enough for two meals, with loaded hash browns smothered in gravy... so good!Great atmosphere, waitress are very attentive and cute as well. The ribeye is always cooked perfectly, biscuits are fresh and flaky, I think they bake them every morning, the gravy is just right, not too salty or thin, just perfect, which isn't easy to find... One of the few breakfast places I've gone that, just feels good after you leave. It's usually busy on the weekend mornings, with good reason! They are top notch! read more

Family friendly, community based business. It is not meant for lite eaters or caloric restrictions... it is down home HUGE portions of delicious grub. The staff is very friendly and efficient. read more

Good food and great service. Staff friendly. Portions are huge so bring your appetite, plan to share or take some hike for later. Had the taco omelet this morning and was tasty. Pancakes are great and huge. Everything is huge, drinks come out in mason jars. Love that the lady that cuts my son's hair recommended this place to us. Prices are good, especially for the amount of food you get. Try the strawberry lemonade, you won't be sorry! read more

I'd say it's a bit pricy. Large quantities of food but the quality is not worthy of the money spent. There were TONS of ants crawling around the table, especially near the condiment rack. I got an ant in my coffee. Drank it down for extra protein but seriously dint want to spend that much money again unless the quality is higher and ant count much lower. read more

Theres no doubt that you get quantity over quality at this place, however this is the reason we end up here after a long night of drinking. They have huge portions for a fair price however I can't imagine stopping in here on just a regular day of the week. If I had to pick a favorite here I would definitely pick the omelette, they are so good and so big! There is no possible way for you to leave here hungry, the plate Is completely covered and I typically need tums afterwards. The service is pretty good most times, I have only been there once that I can remember where I had a server who was completely inattentive and was more interested in socializing with her coworkers than attending tables. But for the most part I would say they have a great helpful staff! I am leaving 4 stars for a review because they have a home feel diner, great portions and very fair prices, however it is not the best place I have ever been but not much room for complaints! read more

I am a fan of McCrae's, but not necessarily for the food. The coffee is weak and God-awful. As many have mentioned, the food portions are enormous, but so are the prices for what you get. I get the gimmick of offering a 12-egg omelet, but is it necessary? Another gripe is that you have to specify cheddar when ordering an omelet or else you'll get American, which is so-so on a burger but to me a no-no on just about anything else. What makes me a fan of McCrae's is the service. The restaurant is family-owned and their commitment to the restaurant and its customers is immediately obvious. No matter how long it's been since we've dined there, my family and I are greated with a sincere greeting and a smile of recognition. We'll be back. Now, about that coffee... read more