Blue Dolphin

This place is terrible for breakfast. The omelettes are awful. The only flavor the mushroom omelette had was from a hair the cooking staff left in it. The Spanish omelette is just a bunch of salsa wrapped in an egg. The wait staff is indifferent to guests. The coffee is horrid. Don't come for breakfast. There are plenty of better diners in the area.

Drove two hours today to get here to surprise my Mom and sister at lunch.  I haven't been here in twenty years, and I don't think the decor has changed a bit. (The bathroom is especially dated, and though it smelled clean, the corners in the BR were gunky and there was a lovely wad of gum in the floor in the stall.)

We were quickly seated in the back banquet room because they couldn't manage to accommodate 4 adults and child in the front room.  This might not have been a bad thing but for the fact that there was a party of 20+ people in the room.  The rest of the room was absolutely empty.  So where do they seat us?  Right next to this very loud group. It was hard to hear anyone in my party.  The entire time we were there, there were many empty tables, so there was no real reason they needed to put us right next to this crowd.

It was noon, but my daughter wanted an omelet and home fries, so I asked if breakfast was still being served.  The waitress said yes, but no home fries, waffles, or poached eggs were available, so DD nixed that idea.  The waitress seemed seriously stressed and said she needed five minutes to get out order, so we told her take her time.  When she did come back, she was snappy about the order she wanted to take our orders in.  When she brought the drinks, she brought them to the wrong people.  She was finished actively waiting on the large group, so I'm not sure why she seemed so stressed out.

I ordered spanikopita.  Everyone else ordered sandwiches/wraps.  I mentioned that the lemon soup was supposed to have been good, so my mom ordered it.  The soup was...not fabulous.  It had potential, but my mom didn't like it at all, so she gave it to me.  I tried it, and it definitely didn't taste like real lemon.  It tasted like cheap citric acid powder with a bad aftertaste, like in cheap candy or lemon drink mix that has been sitting around too long.  If it weren't for that bad aftertaste, it would have been good.  I suspect that real lemons aren't too closely related to this soup.

The servings of our lunches were huge.  My spanikopita was about $7, and it was three times as big as a similarly priced piece would be where I live.  My daughter's grilled cheese was huge and she said the bread seemed homemade.  

Unfortunately, big doesn't mean good.  My spanikopita was really greasy and not anywhere near as good as any piece I've ever had.  I ate a small amount and was done.  

We asked if the waitress could tell us what desserts they had.  We had seen them on the way it, but there was no dessert menu and there were no signs next to the desserts, so if I asked for the cake with chocolate frosting, it could have been one of four cakes.  The waitress said, "well, I could, but it would be WAY easier if you went and looked at them" in, quite frankly, a very rude way and walked off. How would that help since we didn't know what anything was called?

When I did get up to help my daughter with the selection, the waitress passed me with the box she was bringing for my daughter's leftovers.  She said, "don't you want a box?"  I told her no, I didn't.  "Well, are you done?"  "Yes."  She then went to the table and grilled my sisters about why I wasn't taking my (greasy) spanikopita home.  Lay off, lady!

My mom got a piece of chocolate cake with "fluffy cream" filling.  It wasn't good at all- I'm pretty sure there wasn't any real food in it.  My daughter's cheesecake was somewhat better, but even my little sweet tooth said it was too sweet.

It was very inexpensive ($50 for 5 of us with two desserts) but I won't be eating here again for at least another twenty years because the service was absolutely awful (and yes, I get it, I was a waitress) and the food sub-par.

Delicious variety of foods. Bathrooms left a bit to be desired. Meat done well and potatoes were from scratch. Yum!