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best in town, small venue
UPDATE: May 5, 2023 evidently this place has gone out of business. Great place for breakfast. Good food, good price. Quick service. Huge plate sized pancakes 🤤
A few customers were looking for this place. There is a Big Blue Bear. I guess Cracked Egg Moved to That's Italian or something. But Just ate at Bog Blue Bear because we walked in.
Delicious breakfast country skillet brought sizzling. So tasty and just amazing. My partner ordered the corned beef hash skillet and that was delicious too. Only a few tables (small place) but we only waited for tables to be cleaned off. First time to Kernville, CA so unsure how busy in busy season.
Love the atmosphere of this little cafe, and although it was a tight squeeze, they fit five of us on a little table which made it cozy and comfortable. My boyfriend came in for the biscuits and gravy and we were immediately told that they don't have anymore biscuits and gravy. LOL. Everybody else's order was fantastic. The pancakes were thick and fluffy, the French toast was devoured, and the sausage and bacon and ham were delicious. My order was that chili verde lunch burrito. First of all, tortilla was good but the burrito fell apart immediately. And the flavor was completely bland inside. Since the burrito fell apart and was impossible to try to pick it up I opened the burrito and was shocked to find maybe at the most 10 chunks of beef. This was a giant burrito that filled the length of a plate and to have such a little meat was a shock. If it was a good flavor I could have forgiven it but it was completely bland and the beans were even bland... But the biggest shock of it all was it was white rice in the burrito! And not even good white rice, it tasted like Uncle Ben white rice from the microwave package. Don't get me wrong I can eat Uncle Ben's rice if I doctored up, but this wasn't even doctored up. Tried to drown it with my empty tapatio container, but just ended up eating my remaining few chunks of meat and left the rest of the mess on the plate. You would think that their waitress would have asked was there something wrong with the meal considering this massive amount of food was all left there on my plate but I do understand she was alone and busy. I would go to this place again but I definitely wouldn't order anything off the Mexican side of the menu. Stick to what you guys do best guys.
The service was great the food was not
Great little hole-in-the-wall diner. Asada breakfast burrito was awesome! Homemade gravy just like mom used to make.
Excellent place for breakfast with good prices and friendly service. Can't go wrong here.
Very small town feel. Only had like 6 tables total. The place is alil dirty though.
Good food and service, lovely little town
Great breakfast and fantastic service.
Really nice food and a friendly local vibe. Definitely the place to go for a local breakfast experience!
This place has the YUMMIEST food, we’ve been to like 10 diners on our trip and this was stand out the best, we’ll come back
Super good food and very friendly service. Definitely a little rough around the edges, but the Eggs benedict was the best I've ever had, and the O'Brien potatoes were delicious! Loved overhearing the staff talk about Cheryl's Diner - sounds like there is a bit of a town rivalry between the two places!
Great menu and priced well. Breakfast and lunch picks were both delicious.
Owner was rude, shut the door without asking us. I had to ask our wonderful server to reopen the door for us. The kitchen gets hot only because they are cooking up an incredible storm of DELICIOUS food! We had the chili Verde omelet and burrito, be aware the burrito can be spicy if you aren't used to that. The side of biscuits is actually, biscuits plus gravy, (winning). Overall this place deserved a 5 out of 5 but the owner was rude and that ruined it for me. Additionally the bathroom could use a deep cleaning.
They have the very best French Toast I have ever had!
We've eating here many times in the past. This particular day we went in for breakfast with family from out of town. We got seated, then took the server 20 mins to take our drink and food order. After that, took another 20 mins to receive the drinks and 1hour for our food. We finally had enough when we found hair in our French toast. We live here locally and very disappointed with the service and quality if the food. I will never eat here again.
We are from Germany and were on a two weeks roundtrip through California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. Sequoia national Forest was our last stage before heading back to SFO. We got the recommendation at Corral Creek Lodge were we stayed and went there for breakfast twice. This is why: The Cracked Egg Cafe looked purely "original" to us, not at all touristy. It has its very own character and that is what we almost enjoyed the most about it :-) It does not even try to be perfect in a mainstream way - it is just perfectly itself. Other than that the food is of really good quality (I had the oatmeal twice , my daughter pancakes which were really fluffy inside and slightly crispy outside and the Denver omelet at our 2nd visit, which was also great and was big enough to serve us (the rest of it) as a lunch pack for our hike that day. Comment on the picture: We had never seen these bug fans before :-) They didn't have a lot of work to do, but we liked them. Comment on the Date: we were there at 29th and 30th Aug. I just found out that I had posted this comment wrongly at the Cracked Egg cafe in New New Jersey :-) I hope I am in the right place now (Big Blue Road, Kernville, CA).
I've called little places like this "hole in the wall" since I was a young boy and they are the best places to eat. The Cracked Egg is no exception. Great food and wonderful coffee. Friendly staff welcome you and keep your coffee full.