"Best Breakfast"?? Uhhm, no. Seriously, seriously ...

"Best Breakfast"?? Uhhm, no. Seriously, seriously disappointing. We chose to stop here on our way through Louisville because of the high ratings it has been given. I cannot seriously imagine who thinks this place is even marginally good, not the great or outstanding its touted as being. This has nothing to do with Covid--it's terrible all on its own.

We were there on a Saturday morning at 11 and it was crowded. Let's begin with the surly staff. The hostess seemed seriously put off when I chose not to sit outside on the sidewalk, right next to a dude who was smoking a foot from the table. Instead, we waited 20 minutes for an inside table, which was our mistake. We should have taken it as a sign and just kept going.

However, we wanted to give it a try since everyone seems to love the place, so we went for the classic breakfast with grits. Let's start by saying that the coffee was disgusting, and for $2.75, I expected something better than gas station quality. It wasn't. Breakfast came in a pretty timely manner, and the eggs were cooked okay for over easy. The grits were fine, once we actually seasoned them with salt since they had none in them. But, the sausage patties were like hockey pucks, and the English muffin wasn't even toasted. They give you margarine in a Solo container--not even real butter--which I would have expected from a place with such high ratings.

My husband didn't want grits, so he ordered skillet potatoes and paid extra for them. They came out raw and crunchy! When we asked the server to have them re-fired, she said, "Well, we don't have a fryer" as if that's what we wanted. No, you don't fry skillet potatoes, but they should be better than RAW. She said it would take 20 minutes to recook them. So my husband had the grits instead, unhappily.

We also ordered one buttermilk pancake, which was really the best part of the meal at Greek Diner quality. The total bill was $29 which seems pretty pricey for food that rivaled a Bob Evans.

Do yourself a favor and take a big hard pass at this place, it's not worth it and I don't see this as just being a bad day on their part. Clearly this place is checked out and I don't know when any positive reviews were written but it's one of the worst breakfasts we've had in a long time.