two people one breakfast. we are on a quest to eat at all of the "diners" in st louis for sunday breakfast. the main items we seek as small local diners in and around the st louis metro area that open before 8 am, we are looking for diners after all. the things you see and read, gave this place a better than passing grade by all accounts, so it being at the northern edge of the area we had not been there until last sunday. we arrived just a bit after 7 am sunday only one other patron, what appeared to a local guy, sitting drinking coffee but not eating yet.
we were greeted warmly in this small (less than 10 tables and limited bar seating) and promptly got the required doses of coffee and menu. we placed our order by 7: 25 and proceed to wait for the cooking to be completed, looking forward to having tasted another small diner in the area.
it that point all seemed well. our 2nd cup of coffee refilled, then our third and then our 4th cup. then my pancakes, two eggsbaconarrived along with the french toast portion my friend's breakfast. then a "missing" piece ofbaconwas delivered to me, completing my order. we had been there for almost 45 minutes being close to 8:00 am now, before this much was delivered to the table. wanting to eat my breakfast while it was warm and thinking the rest of my buddy's meal would arrive soon enough i began to eat.
as i ate, my friend waited for the rest of his breakfast to arrive. he waited as his french toast breakfast awaited it s' companions of bacon, eggs to arrive as well.
i finished my breakfast about 8:15 am. without his breakfast having been completed.
we began to note between ourselves that after the first few cups of coffee, the waitresses were more interest in socializing with the grill cooks (2 working) than providing more coffee and commenting on the lateness or lack of the order being delivered.
upon finishing my breakfast, which i must say the pancakes where under cooked a bit and the over easy eggs a bit harder than i care for, we arose a paid for my breakfast, with him simply giving up on breakfast altogether. only on declining the a take out box for the undelivered breakfast was even a marginal apology offered.
once it was clear we were leaving one of the 4 staffers wondered aloud if any other of the current 3 tables orders any had requested the items that were not delivered as ordered to us. nothing like first rate thinking going on in this place . . .
as i noted this is a very small place and it had 4 people working and could not get out an order that would be less than ten or fifteen minutes in other diners in the area. at one diner we like - one with only a counter and one cook\waitress doing both jobs she has cooked and served 5-7 people all 20 minutes or less. how 4 people failed so badly just can not be explained.
if you really want to eat the food you order i would suggest wither diane's in overland mo or olivette diner, in fact the staff at this place should take a field trip to see how a real diner actually works.
i am not sure who award them the big sign in the front window the "best food in florissant", it must have been a ver long time ago. as i am sure that is not the case and my buddy noted that due to his lack of food he really cannot comment on the food at all.
if in florissant any time day or night go just around the corner for a true florissant treasure - old town doughnut, which is where my friend finally had something to eat the caramelbacondoughnuts are to die for.