Breakfast Club in Menifee is a new restaurant located in the brand new shopping center Countryside Marketplace off Newport Rd.
The hours of this restaurant are not typical. 6am -2pm most days. It is a breakfast cafe serving ONLY breakfast food. Omelettes, eggs, pancakes, etc.
+ Positives
Freshly ground coffee with choice of regular or flavored creamers
Biscuits (they are so good!!)
Freshly squeezed juices
Eggs that can be made with egg whites
- Negatives
Air conditioning was not really working so it was HOT in there. They are working on it though. A couple behind us left because it was so hot.
I ordered the San Fransisco Omelette which had asparagus, mushrooms and onions. It comes with Hollandaise sauce but I asked to have it with salsa, which is also fresh. It was more like Pico de Gallo. It comes with potatoes. Which I ordered extra crispy but they came almost raw. By the time, the next batch came, all of us had finished our meal.
My husband ordered the BLT omelette. Basically, a BLT sandwiched between the omelette. Sounds weird, and it was weird. He said he was going to try something else next time.
Our friend who was visiting from out of town ordered the Mexican omelette or something similar to that name. He said it was pretty good.
Breakfast prices ran mid range. Omelettes varied in prices from $6.95-$9.95 range.
When you enter the restaurant, to your immediate left was a place to order coffees and espresso drinks to go.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Finally, new restaurant in Menifee!!!
Posted by GOSeeChristy at 11:20 AM
Labels: Breakfast Club in Menifee, Countryside Marketplace, Menifee, Menifee Restaurants
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I ate there 2 days ago. Service and food A+. The service was exemplary. I had a Napa omelette with side of applewood smoked bacon . It came with my choice of various toasts or a biscuit and gravy. The biscuit was light and tender. Superb. The hollandaise on my omelette complemented it perfectly. Food was delivered in a timely manner. I DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR MY CHECK. That is a pet peeve of mine. It was brought when needed and I was given my credit receipt promptly. I am so pleased to have such a fine restaurant in Menifee. Finally something that is this absolutely wonderful place has come to our growing community. My mouth is literally watering as I write this.
Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like they are worked out the kinks. I'm so glad they finally have a place to go for breakfast!!! Nothing wrong with Coco's or IHOP but we need some more non-chain restaurants around here. Sorry, I lived in places that had many different restaurants so I'm a bit spoiled... Thanks again for your comment!!!
With an economy of dinning choices here in Menifee, my wife and I were very excited to find out Menifee was getting a new restaurant. The Breakfast Club of Menifee opened this July helping to fill the restaurant void in the area. Since most new business need some time to work out the bugs, we waited until this Labor Day to try them. We went in excited and with tummies rumbling. And unfortunately we left disappointed and very hungry.
Please note that we really wanted to enjoy our experience at The Breakfast Club, but every time we tried their service and food just got in the way. Maybe it’s partly our fault I wondered as we sat, waiting for anyone to bring coffee. When you opt to sit on the patio you hope to be treated with the same amount of attention as the customers on the inside. But what usually happens more often than not, you become designated second class citizens, and unfortunately that is what happened to us. We became the forgotten. Begging for coffee, tapping on the window like orphans panhandling for food, and having to stand and flag down anyone that would help us.
When the waitress arrived she was very pleasant, well mannered and ready to take our orders. But this being our first experience at the Breakfast Club we had a few questions. Unfortunately the waitress had no answers. She didn’t even know some of the basic ingredients of common items. But we were not going to let that sully our experience so we ordered up two omelets with Breakfast Club potatoes, with one special request, that they put the hollandaise sauce on the side. I’ve had good hollandaise and bad hollandaise, and when it’s bad it’s really bad, so not wanting my omelet anointed with the stuff before I sampled it, we went out of our way to ask that it be on the side. Twenty minutes, and no coffee refills later, what was set in front of us? You guessed it. Two omelets covered in hollandaise sauce.
After sampling the sauce, we both concluded that it was of a kind that did not agree with either of us. So still wanted to enjoy our Breakfast Club experience we decided to just scrap it off. After wiping the forks clean we dived into our omelets, very hungry, and still excited. It took me at least two bites to realize that the chef at the Breakfast Club depends quite a lot on the hollandaise sauce for not only flavor but apparently moistness. These flavorless omelets were as dry as the Sahara desert, and maybe if I could have gotten some coffee I could’ve managed more than three bites of the dry, barren, overcooked, egg-slab. My wife did better, managing five bites before she tossed her fork down, crying, “Uncle.”
So we sat for twenty-five minutes, waiting for our waitress to return and ask how the food was. She never did. In fact we never saw her again, and no one asked how we enjoyed our food. Even the other waitress who picked up our plates that had just as much food on them as when they were brought out, didn’t ask us how our food was. Even the owner, Stu, who came out to apologize for the service, or lack of service, didn’t ask why we had just sent back two full plates of his food. He just apologized for the service (which we did not complain about), gave us the bill for the food we did not eat, and left. The person who ran my credit card, and only made eye contact with me to make sure that my face matched the one on my drivers license, didn’t ask how the food was, if fact she barley spoke at all.
I can only conclude that the reason they don’t ask that question, is that the answer they get is not very positive. I hope that isn’t the case. I hope that our experience was uncommon for them, because even after all that we went through my wife and I still want to like the place. She is willing to give it another shot. I’m more hesitant. I will say that they serve a fantastic fresh squeezed orange juice and a really decent cup of Joe, if you can get someone to bring it to you. But neither beverage is worth a return trip
Seemed I had a better time than most:
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