The Inn on Coventry
Cleveland, OH 44106-2883
Phone: (216) 371-1811
12/22/2007 Posted by fooodee
For a Saturday or Sunday morning, the breakfast/brunch experience isn't great. The place has no parking. You stand outside or in the cold for 45 minutes (my average), wait about the same amount of time for the waitstaff to fill your orders as other people bump into your chair and step on your coat with its close quarters. The table and chair sometimes wobble, cleanliness is only fair, no caring waitress as they run around taking care of the busy place. Unlike other restaurants that I've reviewed, the Inn does have a few delicious dishes like Lemon Ricotta pancakes and Eggs benedict/mando. Unfortunately you really have to concentrate on the food cause that's all there is. Just when you think you're done with the meal and ready to head out, you have to wait another 20 minutes to pay your bill unless you have exact change and the checkout person allows you to cut the line, as she slowly work her dial-up credit card machine from the 1980's. If your time isn't worth money, you've found the right place. As a place that is long established in a college area with low prices, as well as one of the very few breakfast place around, the Inn has a strong foothold with young customers who had no choice, and now continues their patronage. Unfortunately due to that, they have became greedy and complacent as they herd customers around and does not update the place with changing times/demand. I think a Sunday breakfast at home or at any other breakfast place (like Pancake house and others) would prove to be a nicer and more relaxing experience than treated like cattles being very slowly herded around and packed in cramped quarters for feeding. But maybe some people are used to being treated that way.
Pros: A couple of decent dishes, but I can make that at home
Cons: Extremely crowded, noisy, long wait.
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