Hubby and I went for breakfast while our daughter was touring! We got the cinnamon roll pancakes and the breakfast totbowl, recommended by the lovely cashier, it was delicious! I also enjoyed the cafe brûlée latte and it was yummy! Highly recommend this place for any parents with the kiddos! read more

Been here before a long time ago but didn't really remember it. I guess now I know why I hadn't gone back. Got Avocado toast today. It was a single piece of sandwich white bread with a light smear of probably store bought guac and an egg. The egg was cold. Nothing horrid just not good or worth the money. I could have stopped at Starbucks and gotten the same amount of food but better and for less money. read more

Ordered "To Go" order and the scheduling application stated it would be ready @ 9;10 am. I arrived @ 9:25 am to see a line out the door. I made my way to the pickup area and ask about the status of my order since it was already 15 minutes past the scheduled completion/pickup time. Everyone was working but why couldn't I get a text update or something to tell me it would not be ready for another 40 minutes!!!! I care about quality as much as I do service and the service was not here. I paid a premium price for breakfast and I was sorely disappointed with this experience. This is my first visit, and last visit! Update: the food was really great! I would recommend it. But if ordering to go check and see what the actual delivery time is going to be. Especially if you are a really busy person like me with no extra time to spare which is the whole reason for the To Go order in the first place. read more

I could say much much more but trust me, this place is absolutely horrible - service, food quality, atmosphere, all bad. Oh, and let's not forget it's ridiculously expensive. read more

Oh man, how I really wanted to love this place! It is bright, cheery and clean when you walk in and the hostess was amazing. But that's about where the goodness stops. The food is just bad. The other yelp reviews said the same thing and I thought I might be different but sure enough it was absolutely horrible. The pancakes were dry and hard. My biscuits and gravy were cold and my husband got a croissant sandwich which had plenty of goodness potential but was just bland and he didn't even finish it. This place could do so much more if they could just lock in their kitchen. Hope they take reviews seriously and change their ways! read more

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Staks is a cute place in downtown Auburn with a nice dining room with an elevated diner feel. There's usually a line out the door when it's busy but it goes pretty fast as the dining room is huge. The downside of the huge dining room is that it can take a while to get refills etc. and there's a small chance you ask someone for something and they never come back with it. There's a few tasty food options if you dig for them but the pancakes are cheap-tasting and overly sweet-- like if IHOP was twice as expensive. That's the main reason that I gave it a mediocre ranking, but it's a decent brunch spot overall, especially since there are few brunch places in Auburn to begin with. read more

Management is completely indifferent to the quality of their restaurant. I've been 3 times; the first two times underperformed Waffle House, and the third I was served RANCID hash-browns cooked in black oil. I'm no critic normally, but Staks is as close as I'd ever to paying for a stomach ache. read more

Staks Pancake Kitchen - Sandwiches Near Me - Auburn, Alabama

Food was amazing! Ordering process was not complicated. Staff is super friendly and accommodating. read more

This place has a confusing service model that feels like it's trying to reinvent the wheel for no real benefit. You're given a table number and asked to seat yourself, then expected to return to the counter to order after reviewing the menu at your table. It's an odd hybrid of counter service and sit-down dining that manages to take the convenience out of both. Unfortunately, the food doesn't justify the extra friction. The grits come pre-seasoned with an herby blend, which removes any real choice from the diner and didn't improve the dish. Plain grits with optional seasoning would have been a much better approach. The pancakes were mediocre at best, and overall the food quality felt low for the price and setting. With an unnecessarily complicated ordering process and underwhelming execution, the experience comes across as more gimmick than substance. read more

The food is tasty, but there are nicer places with better food for similar prices. If you want to try it, I recommend going when school is not in session. read more

Yum! Great breakfast/brunch spot. Get in line & order at the counter. There's something for all...great coffee & drinks available! Pancakes are great. The peanut butter protein pancakes were highly recommended by our table. Friendly service after you order to the table! Enjoy! read more

Disappointed at lunch. We've had 2 great breakfasts this year but today was first lunch and it was mediocre at best. Barely warm grits. Tough fried chicken sandwich could hardly cut. Average turkey sandwich with good bread. Pretty pricey for what we had. Food was slow to come out with only 3 tables occupied. Do better or stay with breakfast read more

Alrighty! This is a hard one!!! lol I wanted this to be a great review. I should have paid attention to Yelp reviews instead of google's. Lol The atmosphere is great! Bright, pretty and fun, energetic! The staff were all nice and helpful. Everything moved quickly and food was out fast, like as fast as my coffee (honey vanilla latte) which was delightful!!!! Soooooo yummy! I ordered the Pancake stuffed beignets and added on 2 eggs over medium. My hubby had the breakfast croissant sandwich with chicken sausage, hash-browns and added a single banana pudding pancake. He had sweet tea which was the best we have tasted in quite some time. My exact reaction was, "oh! It tastes clean!" I don't like when the tea urn isn't clean and makes the tea taste off! This was fabulous!!! For the negatives, unfortunately it's the food. My eggs weren't over medium, as I had runny whites. I do not like runny whites at all and usually I can't eat the eggs. I did eat them. It wasn't too much, but still disappointing. I'll continue my search for the perfect over-medium eggs. lol The pancake beignets weren't stuffed at all! They had a tiny amount of cream coming out the top of them but hardly enough to taste. I kept searching the insides of them to find the goodness. It wasn't there, sadly and they were a little overcooked. Very dense and dry, unlike real beignets. I get it, they are pancakes, but still! My hubby thought I somehow ordered hush puppies lol. The glaze was good! The hubs food: the sandwich was good but it was brought out so fast that the cheese was not melted at all. The hash browns were warmed not cooked, and the chicken sausage.........was NOT breakfast chicken sausage. It's more like your brat type chicken sausage. They should really cut it in half and grill both sides, rather than throwing 2 huge, long, round chunks in the sandwich. Lol The croissant and very small amount of eggs were good tho. The chicken sausage tried to steal the show, but unfortunately it failed and wasn't even eaten. It felt like their concern was getting the food out fast, rather than it being cooked and hot. His banana pudding pancake was good. He liked it and said it tasted just like banana pudding. The banana pudding cream was actually too sweet for me and had a fake banana flavor, but I didn't eat it, just tasted. Anyway, we won't go back. Definitely wasn't worth the $40+ we paid. read more

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Wow! I was totally going to be OVER this place, because they messed up my STUFFED French Toast order 3x (it takes a LOT for me to complain too), but when Hailey, the manager came up to check on me and that my order was rectified, that turned it all around! She explained that situation, with their cook and how she'd make it up to me, with a gift card! Cheers to great customer service! Also, definitely order the Siracha Candied Bacon!!! #yourewelcome read more

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Food order was wrong and the pancakes were basic. I had to pay for a tip before they offered service which I thought was weird. Won't be going back. I got there around 10:30 music was very loud and there were 2 other customers. read more

We came during a baseball series for breakfast and will definitely be back. The food was unreal and it came out in less than 5 minutes. Make sure to get a biscuit! And pancake! read more

Staks Pancake Kitchen - Biscuit & Gravy - Sandwiches Near Me - Auburn, Alabama

The food is nothing to write home about. But the real issue with the place is the service model. You're not immediately seated. You're given a table #, forced to wait in like to order at a counter (even if you have a revelation), then you sit down at table & someone then also waits on you? None of it makes sense. And it creates a less than satisfactory breakfast experience. Pick a side! Either be a true dine-in experience, or don't. I don't see the benefit of this confusing model. read more

Great food. Highly recommend the tot bowl. Service fantastic but get a reservation on Open Table-- saves you the line

Walk in, have seating assigned, order at the register, sit, and food is delivered. Probably better for breakfast, we stopped in for lunch. The chicken breast was more than ample and well cooked. Something about it had a strong taste of garlic, which was too much for me (unusual). The cheesy tots were excellent. Fruit salad was okay, but they tried to use too much of the pineapple and got some of the inedible center in there. read more

Staks Pancake Kitchen - Chicken sandwiches cheesy tater tots and fruit. - Sandwiches Near Me - Auburn, Alabama

The shrimp bechamel (spinach, mushrooms, scallions, Gouda cheese) omelette was large and flavorful. Seems like it was served with a Hollandaise sauce. The smoked Gouda grits were a perfect complement. We were disappointed that the batter for strawberry shortcake pancakes was not available at 7:45 am on a Thursday. Buttermilk pancakes with strawberry compote didn't quite meet those expectations. Placed our order at the counter. Nonetheless, table service was reasonably attentive. This is a good choice for a somewhat upscale breakfast experience. read more

This a pretty cool breakfast/brunch spot in downtown Auburn. It's right down the street from Toomer's Pharmacy. The staff was very friendly and attentive. The portions are pretty big. The food was good. I would have taken a pic of my son's breakfast bowl, but he ate it so fast. My small stack was not so small. My husband had the grits. They were delicious! read more

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Don't go to this restaurant if you have food allergies. Most unaccommodating restaurant we have ever been to. They serve peanut butter pancakes and said they are cooked on same surface as eggs and everything else. They don't take allergies seriously yet serve gluten free pancakes. Owner was rude. read more

Outstanding! Great breakfast and even better people! All of our food was great. It was busy...but got us seated and our food very quickly.

Staks is conveniently located right beside Auburn's campus and walking distance from hotels like The Hotel at Auburn. The menu has so many breakfast options with their signature pancakes being the highlight. Interestingly, everyone around me were ordering the protein stacks. They also have some fun breakfast items for kids like Oreo beignet bites. The biscuits and gravy were just okay and the sausage patties were spicy (which I liked), but overall, the food is just average for the price. read more

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the guy at the front wouldn't gI've us a table and he was super rud. the food was also horrible and looked nothing like what was on the menu

We couldn't wait to try this new breakfast/brunch spot in Auburn. The first thing I'll comment on is the portions: huge portions for the price. We couldn't finish the pancakes or the French toast (definitely enough to share). When we walked in, we were welcomed by a greeter and directed to the cashiers for ordering. Ordering was easy and fast. There were so many tasty-sounding menu options that it was really hard to choose. Once we were seated, our food came pretty quickly. We enjoyed everything and can't wait to go back. read more

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I went there when it opened a few years ago and never returned. My girlfriend and I love going to breakfast places, and would have loved to have a good one downtown, but this place was truly awful. I ordered pancakes (what the restaurant was named after), and the plain pancakes were extremely expensive, despite being one of the cheapest items for restaurants to prepare. The coffee was also quite overpriced, which just felt like taking advantage of the venue (everyone wants a cup of coffee with breakfast). I am willing to pay a high price for premium food, however, so I was extremely disappointed when the pancakes came with fake butter (whipped spread) and fake maple syrup. I can let this slide at waffle house, but at a premium priced breakfast spot that specializes in pancakes, this was ridiculous - half of the joy of eating good pancakes is the delicious flavor of warm maple syrup: This was substituted with the cloying sweetness and bizarre artificial maple mockery of "syrup". The coffee was also quite bad - despite the high price it tasted like standard folgers coffee that you would find for free in any office building. As for the pancakes, they were utterly bland and flavorless - clearly they use the cheapest possible ingredients to make these lifeless balls of dough - I guess most people are expected to order some sort of novelty pancake covered in candy to mask the poor quality. As I halfheartedly stabbed at my disappointing pancakes, I saw some other nonplussed customers across from me fiddling with a barely-eaten croissant sandwich. This sandwich looked truly vile - the sort of sandwich that you might see lying on platters in the dozens or hundreds at a cheaply catered conference, or the nursing home-sponsored funeral of an unloved man. They got up without looking at me, as if ashamed of the food they had ordered, and walked to the exit without looking back. I tried my best to finish my pancakes, but their gummy, doughy texture and the oppressive presence of the croissant sandwich that was left behind so depressed and disappetized me that I eventually succumbed to the malaise that had overtaken my unfortunate neighbors and left. I have never been tempted to go back, but each time I drive past, I hopefully look over to see if it has closed yet. I generally do not look at it directly, for when i do I am filled with an inexplicable sadness, which I do not want to examine more closely. For now I will go on hoping that it will eventually be gone and with its leaving begin to heal some of the wounds of the time I suffered there. read more

Staks is super cute! They just opened on May 30th. When you go in they will assign you a number which you take to the counter to order and pay. Once you order you find your table based on the aforementioned number. Everyone was super personable and had lots of energy. I had the lemon blueberry pancakes with lemon glaze and I am already craving it again. Thinking we will go back tomorrow before heading out of town. My wife had the chicken and pancakes which she loved as well. I thought the cheese sandwich is on my agenda for tomorrow. read more

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I have been here once before and my experience was great, but I guess they were just pitying me because my brother was in a wheelchair. This time around, I had the complete opposite experience. First of all, we had to wait outside in the burning heat because of how terrible of an ordering system they have here. We arrived in line at 10:15am and did not sit down until 10:57am. They only have plastic little tiny water cups that wouldn't even be enough for my cat. The only nice thing that happened here was that our food initially came out very fast. As soon as my plate hit the table, I asked our server for some extra butter. I enjoy my pancakes sweet and salty. 10 minutes go by, no butter to be seen. At this point my pancakes were cold and dry enough to pick up and slap someone with. I also ordered eggs with cheese, the cheese never melted... maybe it's because the eggs were lukewarm to begin with. My friend got cinnamon roll pancakes, but if you had a blindfold on you would've thought they were cornbread. No cinnamon or no brown sugar taste in the slightest. Now, about 20 minutes have gone by. I ask a different woman for more butter, but she never brought it. So I got myself up and went to the counter to ask for some more, they said they would bring it out. 7 more minutes passed before the first guy comes back out with my butter saying "so sorry about that" while giggling under his breath. The butter was COLD!! Let me just put freezing cold butter all over my freezing cold pancakes. Overall I had a horrible time. I am really upset because I was hyping it up to my friend and now i'm embarrassed that I ever thought highly of this place. read more

Let me start off by getting a few things off my chest. 1. How dare people get on here & do ridiculous, uncalled for negative reviews. Like you people can't give a new business time to work the kinks out? And you wonder why we can't keep great things in our beautiful city. It's YOU, you're the reason. 2. You give them negative feedback on their pricing like you don't have high expectations on your food, but your cheap selves want to pay Burger King prices. Now, as a business owner of a franchise myself, I understand how things take time to run smoothly, BUT mine and my three assistants good and service was EXCELLENT. I wouldn't change one thing about our experience. Keep up the fantastic work, Staks. You have many new customers with our group. We are people who can appreciate hard word. read more

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Such a cute, quaint place with amazing service, ambiance and food...we had to visit twice in the same week!

The restaurant was clean and well maintained, however the the menu is unclear. I asked for just one speciality French toast and I repeated just one to make sure they understand and they charged me for the whole platter. When they brought out the platter I apologized for the misunderstanding and explained I wanted just one. I'm pretty sure the menu said specialty French toast was 6 dollars, but maybe I was wrong. Food was decent not impressed read more

Great food and and very inviting atmosphere. Interesting new concept on service. Once we realized how it worked, it was good. This place provides time to enjoy good food while spending time with their student. read more

Both our food and our coffees, which were supposed to be hot, were cold and none of it tasted good. The people who work there are nice, and we were seated and served quickly. That's the only reason I'm giving it two stars instead of one. The restaurant was clean, but its ambience is kind of institutional and sterile. We definitely won't go back again. read more

Met a friend during rush week and was very eager to try. Got the French toast sticks and an orange juice. Service at counter was excellence and lady kind. But... when I got my meal French toast sticks were slightly oily. I ate regardless. Getting home, I immediately threw up my French toast sticks everywhere. I had no prior meal to this meal and was throughly hydrated. I blame Stacks. This act permanently ruined my relationship with my suite-mates as I threw up all over their bathroom on only the day after moving in. Can't even look at stacks anymore without getting PTSD. Will not be back. read more

We enjoyed our first visit here today. Everything we ordered was great. My first time to try chocolate gravy. The pancakes were great and the biscuits huge. Will definitely be back. read more

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Just had birthday breakfast at Staks! Excellent! Thanks!! Gyrations start to my birthday! read more

We were a party of 4 all but one got their food quickly. We had to ask twice and the owner was very rude when we asked where our food was after it took over 30 minutes to finally get the order they delivered to another table. Very disappointed. read more

Food and service and clarity of the menu was awesome all the way around. Great breakfast bacon awesome.

We were excited to try Staks Pancake Kitchen and were happy to get seated immediately upon arrival. Unfortunately, the food was just not good. My eggs, hash browns, and bacon arrived cold. After sending them back, I received warmer food but the hash browns had a rubbery texture that makes me think they might have just thrown it in the microwave. The other food at the table also fell short - two other egg breakfasts were ordered with the same issue, the pancakes were so dry they were basically inedible, and coffee tasted burnt. I like to give restaurants the benefit of the doubt that perhaps it was an off day but looking at many similar comments on Yelp has me confident this might be the norm. Way overpriced for what you get, but even if not overpriced it still wouldn't be worth your time or money. read more