Breakfast In Columbus

3001 Reynoldsburg – New Albany Road. New Albany, OH 43054

Corner of Clark State Road and Reynoldsburg – New Albany Road

Phone: 855-7472

Website: http://www.flanaganspub57.com/

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I get the impression this is a serious drinkin’ bar; but breakfast is served Monday – Saturday / 8 am till 10:30 am.

The napkin dispenser was filthy and I felt like I needed to wash my hands after touching it.  I didn’t particularly notice any other problems with cleanliness, but that makes me wonder a little about what I might not have seen.

Small menu of typical Ohio breakfast food: eggs, sausage, hash browns, pancakes, etc.  Nothing unusual.

This morning the coffee was slightly worse than average diner coffee.

The western omelet was pretty good, even though the vegetables were raw and the mushrooms seemed canned.  It did appear to have real cheese on it, which was a surprising plus. This was easily the best of all the items we had here today.

The fried potatoes were certainly crispy enough.  Not a lot of flavor, but I’ve had worse.

The pancake was OK; maybe a little worse than average.

The sausage wasn’t very good.

The toast was worthless.

The total food experience was a little worse than an average diner breakfast.  But it was cheap.  The total for two people came to $11.50.  Pretty damn cheap.  So this leaves me in a quandary about the value: it’s not very good food, but it’s really cheap.  So like all value questions, it’s all about what exactly you’re looking for.  If you just need some food and don’t really care how good it is, well, I’ve eaten at places with worse food where it costs twice as much, so this could be considered a good value.   If what you’re looking for is excellent food, this isn’t going to it for you.

743 Parsons Avenue, 43206

Phone: 445-7221

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Here’s a pleasant bar atmosphere with decent Midwest diner breakfast food. The service was good. The coffee was not bad for diner coffee.

Today I had the veggie omlet, which was all right. The potatoes were good. I had a side order of sausage, a hand-formed patty that was very good.  There was real butter on the ordinary white toast.

I enjoyed my breakfast, and hung around to read the paper in this cozy place. The server kept my coffee cup full. It was all nice, but at $16 for an omlet, sausage, potatoes, eggs, toast, coffee and a very small orange juice, I found it to be overpriced.

240 South Fourth Street, downtown, 43215

Phone: 461-8404

Closed Sunday.
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This being my second trip to the Little Palace, and with more time to look around, I guess it really is a restaurant that has a bar — it’s just that my previous impression was more of a bar that had a restaurant.  Maybe it’s because the front door is on the bar side of the place.  Maybe it’s just because it seems more like a bar.

I like breakfast at Little Palace; I liked it the last time I was here, too.  But this time I found something to like about it even more — they offer Greek coffee!  (There are plenty of Greek places, or restaurants owned by Greeks, in Columbus, but not many of them offer Greek coffee. )

Pretty basic, typical Ohio breakfast food, but there’s a Greek omelet that’s very nice.  The breakfast potatoes were good, too.

Good value.