Judith M.
Yelp
I like to find a good breakfast spot where we might roam into, and this was on my "must try" list forever ago, so when I finally woke up early one morning after my sister offered a good spot- we gave this place a shot. I had high expectations for The Coffee Cup since my family members love it there, and speak highly of the food.
The coffee cups were neat, each diner who had coffee had one of their signature cups in different colors, which I felt was a nice touch to the place. We were seated right in the front of the restaurant, which was a good view of the place, the staff and the diners waiting outside to eat. It is sort of a small, sfamily feel restaurant that provides you individual creamers, sugar packets, and syrup in a squeeze bottle. I was willing to sit in front of the restaurant and put my nerves aside because I was expecting to be blown away, and to be taken to another flavor world.
I ordered the hangover, and everyone else got different dishes that seemed good off the menu. I tried my dad's chile verde omelette, their cinnamon roll, the waffle, sausages, bacon, the short stacks pancakes, the plain jane, and the ribeye and eggs. For a cafe that is "world famous", I expected the flavor to be out of the world and it was not. Everything I tasted was very plain, my gravy needed more flavor, and the omelettes, steak, pancakes were not anything that would make me want to go back. The restaurant was busy, but the food was coming out quick to every table, so that was a plus.
The service was okay. We had plenty of offers for coffee refills from the staff, but had to ask multiple times for napkins because they seemed to give us about 3 with the dishes they brought, and the servers were not friendly. We have experienced other servers asking if we'd been there before, or even attempting to suggest their favorites or popular dishes on the menu and our server came once to ask for our drinks, then came to ask for the order. She checked on us once after we got the food, and then to bring the check. They were not over friendly, or didn't try to make a conversation to seem friendly or helpful.
The decor is old pictures of people, either around town, the owner(s) family, vets and etc. There is also a big picture of Guy Fieri who made an appearance there, maybe when it was in its glory. I left sad from The Coffee Cup, I don't know if maybe there was another dish I should have tried, or maybe there was a disconnect with the staff and guests- or just us since we didn't get much talk from them at all besides them asking if we were ready, okay, or us asking for things we needed form them. Maybe they are not as attentive as they should be, or maybe they just had a lot going on; but I was not impressed and would not go back.