A good little breakfast joint! We got: The western omelette - yum! I'm getting this next time. Stan's breakfast - also good and came with a huge piece of ham Corned beef hast - only okay. Not a lot of corned beef in my hash and I wish I came with more than one egg since it was mostly potatoes. read more

Rounds Restaurant - Western omelette, pancakes, corned beef hash, Stan's breakfast - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

Pictured is the raspberry French toast! Highly recommend! It was delicioussss. I got the sausage gravy biscuit omelette, just biscuits and gravy with some protein. Very yummy! Basic breakfast joint with an interesting history shared on the front page of the menu! Service was good and fast. read more

Rounds Restaurant - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

Ordered their French toast special. Best French toast I've ever had. Qaint little place with older theme.emu and photos of food included read more

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Great Mom and Pop diner type restaurant with fresh food served hot with a smile. Reasonable pricing too. Service was quick.

Classic old school breakfast. Great service and the food is consistently good. If I had to complain about something the hash browns aren't hash browns but cut up baked potato. read more

Rounds Restaurant - Stan's breakfast - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

I enjoy eating at Rounds when I want to go out for breakfast. It is an old classic diner that has been open for decades. The diner feel takes you back in time. The decor is older and it feels homey. The staff are always timely and kind. I like the biscuits and gravy. The biscuits taste homemade. My most favorite item on the menu though is the Toni's breakfast. The Toni's breakfast is a baked cheese hash brown casserole topped with eggs. To me, it is the best item on the menu! The pricing is reasonable and the food is always good. Visit Rounds to support local. read more

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I've been a regular at Rounds 8th Street Diner for the past four years. I always tried to support local, and up until now, this place was one I recommended. That changed during my last visit -- and frankly, I won't be returning. I brought my 22-year-old granddaughter in with me for the first time, and instead of being greeted with any kind of kindness or professionalism, the owner made an insulting comment that essentially called her "white trash." It was completely out of line, deeply disrespectful, and absolutely unacceptable behavior -- especially from the person running the business. There was no provocation, no misunderstanding -- just blatant rudeness. After years of loyalty, this is how we were treated. No customer, let alone a young woman who did nothing wrong, deserves to be spoken to like that. If this is how the owner chooses to speak to guests, I can't recommend this place to anyone. Disrespect has no place in a diner -- or any business. Avoid. read more

We had a big group with four toddlers and the staff was still nice to us!(not always the case) We all had breakfast food and the Toni's breakfast was great! French toast and sausage was a hit with the littles. A local had recommended this place so that is always a good sign. It has a diner vibe inside. read more

Great food and fast, efficient service. My large group was in and out of this restaurant in 30 minutes.

We are on vacation here. We were driving from the airport and we happened to see this restaurant and decided to stop in. The restaurant was clean and reminded me of the old time diners and home cooking. Since it was late morning I wanted breakfast and my wife wanted lunch. I ordered bacon and eggs with home frys with toast. My wife ordered a tuna melt. It was very busy with lots of customers. It took about fifteen minutes to get our food. The food arrived as we had ordered. I loved the taste of fresh home cooked potatoes. The bacon was perfectly cooked as I ordered. I had the eggs scrambled and toast browned. We both enjoyed our meals and would go back . I give this a 5 rating. read more

Great food, fabulous service, and a charming place. Will visit again and would highly recommend to other families.

Great old breakfast place with a lot of character and great service. Their potatoes are actual real potatoes, peeled, cut up and grilled. Very tasty. I had the big breakfast that also included ham, pancakes, eggs. Everything was wonderful. She had an omelette, which was one of the biggest I've ever seen. It was also tasty. Service was friendly and timely. You can tell a lot of locals eat here. read more

First visit. Old style, small cozy place. Friendly and attentive team. Fast service. Ordered the French toast, mushroom and cheese omelet w/ whole wheat toast, and Dave's homemade red velvet corn beef hash. The corn beef was tender and potatoes were flavorful. French toast was good and pancakes were fluffy. Omelet was flavorful and well seasoned. If you want that homey old time feel, some well seasoned food and a simple selection, I highly recommend Rounds Restaurant. Clean restrooms. read more

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Delicious fresh food. Friendly service. Very clean. Affordable and filling. Home made look and feel. Small comfortable.

From the time we sat down, to the time our food was served, it was almost 45 minutes. The worst part is that everything was cold and some items weren't cooked. Never again. We left and went someplace else. read more

Super cute, quirky place. Host is adorable, hilarious. Servers names start with 'S,' often sassy ladies of indeterminate age. Pancakes the size of the plate. My dad is partial to the he-man breakfast with all the meats. Hot cocoa comes with an enormous hat of whipped topping. So, Randy's potato's are #1, but for atmosphere, Rounds is tops. Chickens, roosters, farm nostalgia in every nook and cranny. read more

Order: --------- Coffee-- Good Omlette with Sausage gravy-- Good Pancakes on side -- Average Pros: ------ Free Parking Decent Food Friendly staff Cons: ------- Lil crowded and every one seated almost close They got my cheque wrong but they corrected it on spot when i mentioned. read more

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fresh food great service from Shelly and a real welcoming vibe. first time visit very very happy read more

Interesting local breakfast place. When visiting from out of town, we always like to try the local venue's. Place must be a popular place, it was crowded and we were able to get the last table. It looked like limited staff, our waitress was hustling. She did greet, get coffee and take our order in a decent time...I wish I remember her name (Maybe Christina?), she was rocking. I ordered The Toni's Breakfast and my wife ordered the 1/2 order Biscuits and Gravy with a side of sausage patties. It was nice they add a pot of coffee to the table. The breakfast came in a decent time considering how crowded it was. The Toni's breakfast was pretty good, Cheesy Hashbrowns topped with a large slice of ham topped with eggs over easy. My wife said the Biscuit was very light and the gravy was bland. I tasted the gravy and would agree on the bland. She was happy she order the side of sausage, the biscuit was too light. Definitely an old school diner. We tried it. read more

A local favorite and someplace I go to every single time I make my way to TC. Great portions of classic comfort breakfasts served with some old school sass read more

Really good breakfast spot. Cornbeef hash with poached egg was delicious and the have excellent bread and great hot coffee served with a smile. read more

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The waitress was great but the food was as good! Short hair tattoos and and great smile and personality read more

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My wife and I stopped at Rounds today. it was 1:50 and their door hours said they close at 2:00. We were about to turn away and leave when we were waved in by the staff. We were welcomed even though we were the only customers and the staff was in the midst of cleaning up to close, I had the daily special of goulash and my wife had breakfast. So good! And so happy they waved us in today. We will be back! read more

Sunday we waited over an hour for an omelette. Crowd far exceeds capability of the kitchen. We will not be back. Limited menu.

Does anyone else get behind in writing reviews? We've patronized Rounds a few times, most recently a couple of weekends ago. I always like this little place. It's definitely got the old-school diner feel in several ways, my favorite being the coffee mugs I remember my mom drinking from when I was a kid. The food is always good -nom, nom, nom - - big, ol' fat, fluffy, tasty PANCAKES (with reasonably sweet syrup ;) ; fairly priced food with generous portions; servers always friendly and attentive; it's clean; and I've never been and NOT seen the owners on-premise working in some capacity or exchanging with guests. Noting another reviewer's comment re: masks: we were required to wear them, observed all others being required to wear them (although not at our respective tables), owners and staff wearing them, as well as there being table designations to lend in social distancing. So, there's that... read more

Surprisingly expensive, bland food in a very worn out restaurant. A cold turkey sandwich with French Fries = $13. A bland veggie omelette with caned mushrooms and a English Muffin = $9 Will not be back read more

My family and I were recently vacationing in Elk Rapids, Michigan, and were searching for a great place to eat breakfast before we hit the road to head home. The friends we were traveling with read some reviews about Rounds Restaurant, so we decided to give it a try. Rounds lived up to our expectations! I ordered the Raspberry French Toast, and it was absolutely scrumptious. The French Toast is coated in crushed corn flakes, which made for a crunchy treat. It was perfect and not too sweet. My husband and I also shared an order of biscuits and gravy, which were completely made from scratch. Yum! My son ordered pancakes -- and they were the biggest, fluffist pancakes I have ever seen! Needless to say, he loved them. I highly recommend you give Rounds a try. Just remember to bring your appetite with you. Bon appetit! read more

Rounds Restaurant - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

This place was just what I was looking for in Traverse City...an independent, one-of-a-kind breakfast spot that has been around for more than 70 years - the last 47 of which were run by two generations of the same family. That kind of longevity means one thing...great food and service and that is exactly what I found at Round's. Looking for a protein boost this morning, I ordered my eggs with a hamburger patty...and a side of flap jacks. I have always found that it is the little things that make a difference...like the 'soft' butter that my server purposely brought out to my seat at the counter stating how frustrating it can be trying to get 'cold' butter to melt on a stack of cakes! Very thoughtful. I also enjoyed a few laughs with the locals at the counter about the clock on the wall that runs backwards. It is always nice to shoot the bull with the locals when eating out of town. This all contributed to a really enjoyable breakfast experience. Yelp had it right. Four big ones. read more

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Breakfast was good. Stick. With. Breakfast. I stupidly got the fish & chips thinking if their breakfast is great then so is their other food. NO, it's not. The fish & chips was clearly frozen as were the mashed potatoes. The fish was legitimately chewy. I have no idea how and why but it was chewy and tasted fishy. Our waitress was very nice and took it off our bill. Stick. With. Breakfast. The homemade corned beef has is amazing and so is the sourdough toast. read more

I wish I could give this place more stars because it's been in Traverse City forever and it's a well loved place by the locals. Came in a weekday during the off season so the service was pretty good. I had the corn beefed hash and it was nothing like the photo that someone else on here posted. It was pretty much hash and not very much beef. It was good, don't get me wrong, but I was definitely expecting more actual beef in it. If you are a meat lover, you will be disappointed. The egg and toasts were good, but overall a little bit disappointed. read more

This place left a bad taste in my mouth, no pun intended. Here's the deets: We seat ourselves and are promptly greeted by a server who takes our drink order and let's us know our actual server will be right over. Here's where the whole experience gets off on the wrong foot, we wait for what seemed like f o r e v e r for our server to come over. We see her, standing in the window waiting for a takeout order that's not ready yet. As far as I'm concerned she could have taken our order and delivered our food in the amount of time we watched her stand there. Anyhow, I digress. Service: poor Omelettes: disappointingly proportioned considering the price, that doesn't include hash browns by the way Biscuits and Gravy: very good, seemingly their specialty Toast: good quality American fries: meh, tasteless Price: higher than you'd expect read more

Rounds Restaurant - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

I love little diners, especially those that are off the beaten path, so I really, really wanted to like this one. It started out promising; the young man at the cash register was pleasant and understood when I said I didn't want to sit at the counter because I'm short & it's hard for me to balance. I only waited a few minutes for a booth in the side room. The decor was cute & kitschy, the server was very friendly, and they gave me a whole large pot of coffee, just for myself! So far, so good. I was boring and ordered eggs with a hamburger patty and pancakes. When the server asked how I wanted the eggs, I was very explicit that I wanted them well done, dry, starting to get brown, not wet. And then I waited. And waited. And waited. I ended up drinking the entire pot of coffee. After FORTY (40!) minutes, my breakfast FINALLY arrived. And the eggs were wet, but I was hungry by then, so I didn't want to send them back. The hamburger patty had a funny taste and I decided it was probably wise not to finish it. The pancakes were fine but nothing special. Such a disappointment. I will do as one of the locals suggested and go to The Omelette Shoppe tomorrow. read more

This is the last restaurant in TC with decent food at decent prices. Service makes you feel at home, food and ambiance makes you feel like grannies home We STAN. read more

Their food is so bland! They don't use any seasoning! Pancakes were terrible I had to send them back and asked for toast. Food was boarder line cold, not hot, not warm. I was very disappointed. Only thing that was good was the toast. Syrup was cold as well. read more

We went to Rounds on our way out of Traverse City for Sunday breakfast. We had to wait about 20+ minutes to get a table. While we were waiting we looked over the menu so that we'd be ready when we sat down. We were all very hungry and couldn't wait to eat. We sat down and our waitress came over after a bit. She asked us if we needed something to drink and we told her that we were ready to order because we were starving. She told us that she couldn't take our order because the people by us came in first and she had to take their order before ours. She had already been to their table and they weren't ready to order but we had to wait until they did because that's how they did things there. I told her that we were very hungry and that we were ready but she wouldn't take our order. After another 10 minutes and after the other table ordered she came back to us. She took our order and it took at least another 30 minutes to get our food. We were all so hungry and were very disappointed with our experience overall. read more

Great breakfast food, great service! I had the home fries, scrambled eggs, bacon, and pancakes. All were fresh and tasty. Clean restaurant. I'll definitely be back. read more

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Fabulous local find. Our waitress Rachel was friendly, fast and informative. I had the Toni's special which was delicious. My husband had the Farmers Omelet with very tasty cakes. Definitely a great breakfast place while in Traverse City. read more

Rounds Restaurant - Great breakfast place! - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

Great breakfast.. Service was good, need to ask for a bigger water if your a heavy drinker. The omelette was fantastic! (Couldn't even finish it all.) the biscuits and gravy were avg but the rest of the meal was fantastic! Wife got the he-man breakfast and loved it. We are from out of town, but will definitely be back next time we are in TC. read more

Rounds Restaurant - Farmers omelette and biscuits and gravy - Breakfast & Brunch Near Me - Traverse City, Michigan

Got Stan's Big breakfast sub toast for French toast. A good homemade breakfast. American fries were fresh potatoes not frozen stuff. Cute mom and pop kind of place. read more

Solid diner breakfast. Fast service and good coffee. Server was super nice! Several seating options, for just you or a larger group. A little loud but not bad. Great portion sizes. Wonderful pancakes and bacon. read more