So let me start off with I tend to ignore kitch as long as it's not in my face and this place does…read morean excellent job of that, i.e. you won't even notice unless you are paying attention.
Now onto the review, what's to say? Great service, great prices, and great basic breakfast (I order a denver omelet everywhere I go as my standard comparison for first visits unless specifically going for a certain dish). Staff was friendly, efficient, attentive, and not overbearing, denver omelet was solid and cooked the way it should be (not overly airy, not overly greasy, vegetables el dente) and they had the right breakfast salsa (i.e. grocery store bulk salsa, i.e. Pace) for it though I had to sub cheeses as unfortunately they fall victim to the Midwest problem of "american cheese for everything by default!!!", hash browns were excellent and not overly greasy, and parking ample.
Now that isn't to say it's perfect but hey where is? My three critiques of the place are first off I asked for butter on my toast and I either got margarine or butter so bad it might as well have been and that is as shame as even mediocre butter is cheap and they have access to some excellent fresh Amish butter right up the road. It was so bad I tossed the toast after a single bite and that's telling when it's not even edible. Second off, and this annoys me at lots of venues, was the table. It was too small for our party (four person table, we had six), was too low and I'm not even tall, and was a pedestal table which NO restaurant should ever use period as they both tend to lean over time and near impossible to rebalance as well as severely lean causing food to slide when a person at one end puts their arms on the table. If you must use a damn pedestal table at least get a sturdy one!!! Lastly I utterly despise powdered gravy for biscuits and gravy. Excellent sausage breakfast gravy takes what, ten minutes and four dirt cheap readily available and at hand in the kitchen ingredients. I simply don't understand why restaurants everywhere feel the need to use instant gravy (this place) or foo foo it up (not this place), it's not f'ing hard. White flour, milk, greasy sausage, and tons of pepper .. done, Jesus people!!!
Anyways I would go again if I was ever in the area though TBH given the last time I was around there was thirty five years ago I don't expect to be again in my lifetime but who knows. Still it beats every breakfast joint in all of Honolulu save two and that is saying something both of the quality of this place and the utter worthlessness of breakfast joints in Hawaii. I can't speak to lunch or dinner but breakfast, if you are in the area and come from a breakfast desert, hit this place up if looking for a solid greasy spoon.
