Manhattan Cafe

The ratings not for the food. The food and establishment is wonderful. With as many customers as there are a possibility of customer service improvement could be applied. The wait for our dish in my opinion is longer than Normal since this restaurant is breakfast based and not fine cuisine in which I would expect the wait to be longer due to the elegance and placement of the food be like a Picasso painting.

I stopped here on a whim while on a road trip for breakfast, turned out to be a phenomenal decision. The café still has its historic charm, excellent service, and great value. Next time I’m in the area I’ll be back.

The cook is clearly an amateur. The food was undercooked and abnormal. The vegetables in my omelette were julienned instead of diced. There were chunks of ham as large as a shooter marble and some as small as a tic tac. The dishes had smudges and fuzz or short hair. It was slow when I ordered. It was 7F outside, and about the same temp inside for some reason. I won’t be returning anytime time soon just based on the food quality.

Chicken Fried Stack was the special of the day.
Full of flavor and joy

Manhattan always delivers AWESOME food! BEST service out there. Thank you for being down to earth and delivering delicious food!

Great food! Great staff, and love the old world charm of the place. You won't leave hungry

Not what we're used to from Manhattan. This is our go-to breakfast spot, but the last four visits have been rough. We chalked it up to bumps after a change in cooking staff but the bumps haven't smoothed out. You can watch the cooking staff struggle, with the cook stomping around the kitchen performing all tasks while his commis chef stands there looking walked-over and overwhelmed. You can literally taste the chaos.
Everything for several visits has been *greasy*, and not 'mamaw's cooking' greasy. Potatoes especially were saturated with oil and flavorless, cooked too long and too cold. My skillet tasted like poorly-cooked individual components and none of it meshed. It was all bland, soggy, and under-seasoned. On the previous visit, it was an undercooked/overcooked situation with both our dishes; even the toast was a crouton. The kitchen churns out plates during a rush but the quality suffers.
This is a heart-breaking review to write. Mountain Home is limited for dine-out options, and especially for consistently good dining options. For the last six years, Manhattan was consistently good. It was a reliable family day out or breakfast date. We've hung in there for the last few months, but the rude response to our concerns on our last visit was a sign that, for now, we should look elsewhere when dining out.

DO NOT TOUCH KIDS THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. I think it is ridiculous that my server literally took my child's shoe off because she though it was so cute she had to show another sever that had the same pair. Then the server who has the same shoes as my daughter pulled her highchair away from the table to talk to my 2 year old about her shoes. All without asking me. This is beyond unacceptable and very unprofessional. I understand that it is supposed to be a family friendly small town diner, but there is a line and that line was crossed today.

Awesome people, great food. We traveled 4000 miles to eat there. We have before and probably will again when we can.

Thank you chef for making me turkey with eggs and pancakes and the people here are truly kind and amazing loved the small spot very much