I have been there 4 times in the last 2 months. I keep going back for the delicious breakfast, but the waitreses are extrememely rude. It feels like when I get there they are having a bad morning, but this morning was the last straw. The waitresses are consistently rude, not just one but all the ones that i have dealt with. I work in customer service so its not like Im being snobby. I know first hand how hard it is to deal with mean customers. I have given them 4 opportunities to redeem themselves. Their behavior makes me think that either they are prejudice against certain people or they dont need the tips.I am a creature of habit, and it feels like a big loss to have to go somewhere else for my breakfast, but I just can not deal with the waitresses treatment. Bye bye delicious pancakes ;-(
Review Source:I don't care what the haters say. I love me G-Nuggs. So much so, I went there TWICE....yes, TWICE in a weekend recently. I ordered The Alamo both times. Basically, they are Mexican themed egg tacos. Get the corn tortillas, way (as in orale guey) better. So, yeah, that's my confession. I think the staff here is really nice. Odette was my waitress the first time, then this other cool chic (who I recognized from my first visit) was our waitress. I really like this location. I go for dinner to meet friends in the area on a weeknight. I know sometimes there are some less desirable folks (aka those hungover late night or in the morning). You just got to learn when to go. I'm happy here -the food is good, it is served fast and the people are cool.
Review Source:While visiting Chicago, my wife and I stopped by here for a quick pre-run breakfast. We saw the crepes loaded with fruit, and had to have them. They were DELICIOUS. Can't speak for the rest of the menu (which was large), but we loved the food here! Staff was very friendly and attentive too.
Review Source:Many years ago, a good friend of mine brought me there afterhours, and I had a taco salad. The next day, I experienced the worst food poisoning I have yet experienced in my life. I don't wanna go into the details but it was bad.
Last night my husband and I went there, and each had a standard breakfast of 2 eggs with hashbrowns and sausage, which one would think a place just can't screw up. They proved me wrong yet again. I could not eat the hash browns because they were entirely undercooked, Â the sausage was cold in the center, and my sunny side up eggs may as well have been served to me in the shell. Â Why do I keep going back? Although it's very rare, sometimes we are up late and it's the only (or the closest) place open.
I am writing this review to remind myself and other people to just not bother. Even at 4 in the morning, there are other places open, that will have better food, and it's worth it to try and find those. Â Even if that requires going out of one's way.
This place is pretty good. I had actually never been to a Golden Nugget restaurant until recently, and I thought it was pretty tasty.
I was there for breakfast, and I ordered the bacon and American cheese omelet with french toast. It's hard to screw up an omelet, but it was good nonetheless. The french toast was soft, sweet and delicious.
When I was at this Golden Nugget location, it was pretty empty. Granted, it was only 6 a.m., but there were just a few other customers. The decor isn't anything special; it is a diner, after all. Its interior kind of reminded me of Hooters with the oak wood paneling. The restaurant was relatively clean. It's an old place, but I suppose that adds to its charm.
I still prefer Blue Angel, but until they're done remodeling, I'll go to Golden Nugget.
Breakfast is my weakness. I could literally eat french toast, eggs, bacon, pancakes, sausage, hash browns, and toast everyday - all day. So it's not surprising that I love the Golden Nuge.
Granted, I come here mostly late at night to sober up, but it's all good. If you find yourself driving along Irving Park and the urge for breakfast is even remotely on your radar, do you self a favor and stop in. I guarantee you won't regret it.
Just don't order the patty melt. It's gross. I warned you.
When all else fails and you can't decide what to eat hit up the Golden Nugget for one of their specials. Â My personal favorite is the $4.99 pancake, eggs and bacon breakfast special, but they have other food there as well. Â Seriously, I don't know how they do it but their pancakes are always crispy and buttery on the edges. Â
This location has a special place in my heart there has never been a wait whenever I've gone and the service is typically spot on. Â The only complaint is climate control. Â Maybe we were sitting too close to the vent but when it's too hot in any restaurant it is too uncomfortable.
If you want crappy food go here... The 2nd star given because the waitresses the few times I went were super nice. Took 20 min to order at 4am, really? Stone cold mushy hash browns & over done eggs. The second time I Went was around 11am, again took forever to order and food was blah. I stopped in for Potato Soup & they didn't have any, thats the best they got. I say skip it!
Review Source:I've been to this Golden Nugget twice. Â The first time was with my mate from WI. Â I had the chilaquiles, he had the biscuits n gravy (like I said, WI).
It was on a Sunday and there was a wait. Â All is good. Â The chilaquiles were served with rice and beans. I furthered stereotypes and was happy doing so.
Today I went on my way to the Secretary of State to get my license plate sticker. Â Did you know that the SoS can and often does forget to mail you that sticker/registration renewal form? Â I think it's to draw you into to their vacant facilities so the employees actually get to interact with the general populace.
I woke up this morning and took a vitamin and immediately left, thinking I would eat when I got back from the SoS. Â Well, the vitamin, ingested on an empty stomach, made me feel quite nauseous. Â I thought about puking on my bitch neighbor's front door, but she'd probably make her children clean it off.
So, I stopped at Golden Nugget. Â It was quite empty. Â I seated myself. Â I chose a corner spot facing the restaurant giving me a master viewing angle for maximum reaction time and destructive capability, if the need arose. Â I browsed the menu while Flo filled my coffee mug with better-than-711-but-only-half-as-good-as-my-Âfrench-pressed coffee. Â The menu at this place is enormous. Â Even though it was about 8:50 in the morning I was debating between a sandwich or breakfast. Â My frugal self opted for the $4.99 breakfast special (M-F 24 hours). Â It consisted of 2 eggs prepared in a manner of your choosing (scrambled, of course), 2 bacon or 2 sausage (bacon, please), hashbrowns, and 2 french toast wedges or 2 pancakes (pancakes, obviously). Â It was a divine meal. Â Plus, it settled the unhappiness in my stomach.
My ONLY gripe about the place is that a cup of coffee is $1.99. Â That means that my coffee was 40% of the cost of my entire meal! Â A bit ridiculous in my opinion. Â
Regardless, Giada's supple curvy body is on the tele now, so I must leave you.
Cheeers!
Normally I am a fan of waffle houses, but I was really unimpressed by this one.
My mother and I went in during the afternoon lull and were basically ignored by the waitress for fifteen minutes. You'd think someone working a slow afternoon shift would give the few customers she had as much attention as she could to rack up the all-important tips.
After she finally wandered over and took our orders with no attention to detail, it was virtually impossible to get water and coffee delivered to the table, let alone refilled. The second I wanted anything, the waitress would vanish into the back for ten minutes at a time.I still didn't have silverware after my food was delivered, and ended up getting up to get it myself from the coffee station by the register.
The food itself was just plain bad. The hash browns were barely cooked, all limp and greasy. The first bite of sausage I took tasted so foul that I spat it out, fearing spoilage. The bacon looked old, and my mother's pancakes were a little underdone. The fried eggs were not cooked the way I wanted them, and were kind of rubbery. The toast however was ok. I guess it's pretty hard to screw up toast.
After this miserable meal, we had to wait another 15 minutes for the check from the incredible disappearing waitress.
I am definitely not going back there.
We miss this place. Our favorite weekend server was Annette. Annette--we miss you! Hub used to get French Toast Combo Number One. When he felt daring he would go with French Toast Combo Number Two. He was never disappointed. And in a big city it was nice to see a familiar face when you got breakfast on the weekends.
I didn't have a usual, but most frequently ordered the veggie omelet, sans tomatoes. It's HUGE. Like the size of a large burrito only it's made of egg. I also had the banana pancakes a couple times. They were amazing. But HUGE. Big dollop of whip cream and sprinkle of pecans on real banana pancakes. I'm pretty sure I didn't use syrup because the bananas in the batter were very ripe and sweet or just soaked in sugar sauce before inserted into pancakes.
Usually when I get a breakfast combo (eggs, meat choice, hash browns and/or pancakes) I get through the core items, and barely put a dent in the pancakes. So huge portions. Big.
This was actually the first place I ended up eating at once I moved to Chicago..... sadly enough. But it looked like a good breakfast place so we chose to eat there. Good service.... the lady was really nice. Had some breakfast and then got on our way. The only negative thing was that our waitress forgot to bring out my toast, so I asked for it.
THE SECOND VISIT WAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY! We took forever to decide what we wanted... probably because it was 4:30 am. I tried to order pasta and she informed me that they only did breakfast at that time. OK? so i chose something else. Finally got our food and ate it. Barely saw our waitress. We finally paid and she was real short and unfriendly. She kept giving the bill to the male... which drives me crazy because the female pays sometimes too! So after reaching across the table to get the card and slip I signed it and we sat there and continued to chat. Next thing we know.... this woman comes up and reaches over us towards the salt and pepper shakers to take the signed copy.......
ok so if youve ever been a server, you know not to ever do that. she didnt even say thank you. she grabbed the slip to go out and smoke. RUDE! just leave it on the table until we leave!
So we awkardly walked out the door with her smoking right next to the entrance and neither one of the employees said "thank you" or "goodbye". Â Horrible service....... good food
Do you like food? Â Do you like cheap food? Do you want to be able to digest your dinner and have it be at least higher quality than Denny's or White Castle? Golden Nugget is your choice.
Really, the food is fine, it's edible, it's probably pretty consistent in it's quality. I mean you can order eggs/hash browns all day and you can be sure they actually know how to cook it.
I think I would actually suggest this place over Ihop, if you find one you want to eat at.
I had the chili with cheese + onions, and the chorizo omelette. Girlfriend had the 24 hour breakfast special thing. Basically, the omelette was good.
Oh, one thing of note. The windows of the place are a bit drafty. Maybe Golden Nugget should offer snuggies! Golden nugget Snuggie! Now in special "I'm a huffer" gold color!
Seriously... the star ratings. Â I wish people could see the time at which people wrote some of these reviews or a user could list down the times its best. Â Golden nugget is "after the bars food" or "booze soaking food". Â That's why it's as good as it is. Â My review is biased because a good buddy worked/s here and typically I've always had good service because of it. Â Still, I don't share the sentiment of others and I surely don't eat at Golden nugget when sober. Â When my buddy isn't here service is hit or miss. Â But the food is consistent. Â There's always parking because I've never seen it busier than other locations, with the exception of the early morning hours of New Years day.
Review Source:The apple pancakes here ... *drool*.
I used to live 2 blocks from this location and it was truly unhealthy to eat here so often. But their breakfasts are addicting and their menu is huge so I'm not just limited to a few diner items. This is by far my favorite Golden Nugget location. The staff is super friendly and the food just seems tastier than the other locations. Definitely try their multigrain pancakes.
MMM...PANCAKES...NOM NOM NOM
I woke up craving pancakes. Â Not new-age, fancy schmancy, gourmet pancakes with lavender-infused this and organic free-range that. Â Just plain old pancakes. Light, fluffy, slightly crispy on the edges, and slathered in butter and syrup. Â
Enter the Golden Nugget.
This is my favorite location in the chain. Â Unlike the Lincoln Park location, the staff here at Irving & Kedzie take pride in their work and are exceedingly friendly. Â
I got corned beef hash, eggs, and banana pancakes. Â Good God. Â Everything was excellent. Â My hash was nice and crisp, my eggs over easy where nice and runny, and my banana pancakes were PERFECT. Â
Expect a wait on the weekends if you're coming with a group, but if it's just 2-3 you should be able to score seats at the counter with no problem.
Indeed, I am a fan. I am a fan of breakfast/brunch in general. Golden Nugget delivers beautifully. Its hard to mess up breakfast food though.
Healthy? Certainly not! But I prefer my eggs cheesy and my hash brows crispy and covered in ketchup. I do go for the whole wheat toast though. Ah yes, and the pancakes are pretty marvelous.
It does get crowded on the weekends and you can come out smelling like greasy food. But this is classic diner brunch food, So I consider it to be part of the experience. Â Especially if you're coming off of a night of heavy partying. GN is hangover heaven.
Today I went to Golden Nugget and ordered the Mexican Skillet, which has been my favorite thing to order the last couple times I've been here, and today there was a HAIR in my skillet!! it was a long piece of hair...ewww.. all in the egg and ground beef!!!
This place is a good place..but the hair was just disgusting. I have never experienced anything like that. I just lost my appetite. Â They asked if I would like something else...but I said no... and they did take it off my bill. Â But what else are they supposed to do. Â I give it a one star because of the hair.
Oh Golden Nugget - you are good. You are nice and close to my house - walking distance. So when the husband and I decide that we want breakfast out, but don't want to shower and brush our teeth, we walk over to you. Thanks for being consistently pretty good. I don't think I could ever try anything other than breakfast though. Sorry.
Review Source:OH IT'S SOOO GOOD...you know you're a northsider when you order from here and you hadn't looked at the menu in YEARS. Â I think everyone has their favorite neighborhood traditional american diner - this one would be mine. Â words cannot express how much i love golden nugget, but i will make a futile attempt
1. Â Golden nugget food is ALL-PURPOSE. Â just left the club and u n your friends are hungry? Â just got out of church with family? Â had dinner with someone else's family and the food was really shitty and you're still hungry? Â feel like mexican food? Â italian food? Â breakfast? lunch? dinner?
2. Â The staff is GREAT. Â pretty much everyone on the lineup's been with golden nugget for a decade or more, and if you're a regular, g-nug's another home away from home. Â judy, candace, michelle, carmela, lindsey, pam, julie, sherry, they're all really sweet. Â I go eat with my brother or friends and they'll ask how my parents are doing (even my parents are regulars and they're the ones that first took me here when i was a kid, and it was mostly the same waitresses back then too)
3. Â I usually judge the calibre of pancakes by how well they taste WITHOUT syrup, and maybe just a little butter. Â g-nug pancakes are awesome.
4. Â they have kool-aid! Â yeah i said it - THEY HAVE KOOL-AID!
5. Â plenty of parking everywhere - no matter the time or day, there's almost always room to park at this g-nug. Â the parking lot, the meters on irving, heck i live only like 2 blocks away and i'll still find good parking (and yes, i'll even drive there since parking's always plenty)
6. Â pancho villa, 2222 (2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 pancakes), 3333, garlic chicken n rotini pasta, fetuccini alfredo, the beef enchiladas, italian style spaghetti, the burgers, the breakfast skillets, country fried steak n eggs, freakin awesome. Â I even made up a dish for when i feel like filipino food - order cornbeef hash with 2 eggs over easy with white rice. Â i tried asking if they have spam, but no they don't have spam. Â oh well.
7. Â great neighborhood - maybe i'm a bit biased because i live near hear, but if i'm coming home from the nightclubs sometimes and i don't want to worry about getting mugged or shot while eating at chinatown late night, trusty old g-nug is in dear sweet albany park
just an interesting tidbit - did u guys know that there are golden nugget restaurants in vegas? Â out there they're called "Blueberry Hill", but the menu is EXACTLY the same. Â yes, I persuaded all my friends when we went out there that we had to visit blueberry hill, and it was awesome. Â all my friends agreed. Â TRUE STORY. Â omg i love golden nugget so much. Â Thank you all for reading my article on why I love golden nugget so much.
Stopped here on thursday and things were pretty good Im a fan of the one on diversey ave. But this one was on my way to the highway so I figured what the hay try em....
Was the same menu so was pretty familiar with it. Ordered the cream of chicken soup with a grilled ham and cheese sammy and did not go wrong with it. It was great. The server was really nice to "Judy" I believe her name was and she was very polite. She even found me a house paper to read while I was  waiting for my meal. Yahhhhhh....
Good value. There are usually daily specials listed by the front door. For less than $10 you get soup/salad, main entree, beverage, and dessert! Their menu is HUGE, so everyone can always find something good.
Most of the staff is helpful, friendly, and kind. There is one waitress, who is probably new, that always forgets to do things. Other than that blip, I love the Golden Nugget.
I absolutely love the Nugg, pretty sure I'm on their list of weekend regulars. Â I think my doctor prescribed it as a cure all for hangovers- a few eggs, toast and always a pancake on the side, with a cup of coffee. Â Of all the breakfast joints in the area, I always find myself swimming back to the Nugg. Â The service is one of my favorites in town, the women here know what they're doing, they aren't over smiley or friendly, rather down to business with serving you. Â I think they've probably been serving their whole life and for as small as the bill is at the end of the meal, I probably tip them a higher percentage than anywhere else. Â
Their billboards never make sense or advertise a special, the parking lot tends to get pretty full on the weekends, but I can't fight the urge to magnetize towards the big yellow dive.
This is my 2nd favorite Golden Nugget. The service is good, not comparable to the service on Diversey. The food is pretty much the same, and the pancakes are prepared almost as well as Diversey's G-Nugg. The resturaunt is kinda tight, but you cant really complain when it's a pancake house.
I LIKE!
My husband and I always make it a point to come here for breakfast or brunch whenever we are off of work and driving around on a weekday. Â The service is usually pretty fast and most of the time the waitresses are very attentive. Â I'd say my last visit was the only time the waitress just seemed to busy to check up on us.
The food is great and I've never had any issues w/ any orders I've placed.
I do think the place could be a bit cleaner or maybe it's just the low key lighting?
my family and I have been going here for years. Probably like 15 years....first couple years when we were dating and my husband lived right down the block , and for the last 12 years that we moved into his childhood home and had a family in it.
Can't go wrong for breakfasts. By far the BEST foods on the menu are the pancakes and the french toast. I still can't find a restaurant beat Golden Nuggets Pancakes...they are the BEST. They also have grea choc. chip, or any other fruit faired pancakes as well. Waffles huge with lots of whipped cream. Egg dishes are big and good, and the mexican dishes like the "tito bandito" or guadalajara skillet are fabulous. My daughter (not so into traditional breakfast food) will order something "mexican" for breakfast all the time. It's the only way to get her to eat eggs. :::Shaking head:::: somewhere I went wrong on this kid:::::
Friendly staff, there was even a time a waitress remembered that I alwasy ask for sliced tomatoes with my egg dish, when I order. I forgot to mention it, and at the end of ordering, she asked "Do you want your sliced tomatoes, with your breakfast". I was pleasently surprised that she remembered me, and my order. It's not like we live there, but do go there from time to time on weekends. A + for customer service. The manager (maybe owner, not sure) always askes how our breakfast was and give the kids blow pop suckers upon leaving.
Great place for breakfast! On weekends...it's packed...weekdays pretty full, but you can usually find a seat. It's all non smoking now, and they have different size tables and configurations to accomidate a larger family  or party very nicely.
I have been to a couple of their locations, and I don't think you can get the exact same eggs and pancakes at other locations. These cooks are the same cooks that have been around for awhile, and everything is always perfect.
The only down side, is I HATE choosing between hashbrowns and toast or Pancakes. This isn't enough to take a star away, because the food is big, tastes great, and reasonably priced. But I wish they had better "specials". I found a new place that does this, so I teeter between breakfast food places according to my cravings for the day. :)
The establishment never gives the portrayal of being unclean or uninviting. I have always felt comfortable there and NEVER had a problem with food, service, or anything in the past 15 years.
Good thing about them, is they are always open, and they have decent lunch foods too. We went there once for dinner, and there food was good. Nothing to write home about, but satisfactory. Breakfast is more their specialty.
Broken heart? Â Upset tummy? Â Broke? Â Whatever your stress may be, I've found the Golden Nugget grilled cheese to be a virtual "cure all". Â I love the Nuggets. Â Cheap food and friendly staff. Â Pancakes are delicious and the burgers ain't bad either. Â
Clean and consistent food quality always brings me back to the Nugget when I'm feeling blue. Â
(P.S. - I love their Mexican menu. Authentic? Â Not really, but the eggs and chorizo offerings are awesome!)
I love diners. Blame it on growing up in Joliet but to me, a pancake house is the greatest culinary innovation since refrigeration. There is something for everyone. Well, maybe not raw vegans- although I'm sure they would put together a fruit bowl for you if you really wanted to waste your time eating one. The Golden Nugget does the diner thing just right. When they're not busy you seat yourself, grab a giant plastic menu, sip your two-star coffee and try to decide between the quite amazing (in price and quantity) French toast special and one of the many omelet choices (because they come with so much stuff, and who can resist that much stuff for $5?)
But it's not all greasy breakfasts and waitresses that call you "hun." The Nugget actually has really tasty homemade soups. I took my son in for some cream of spinach and a grilled cheese with fries yesterday and for $6 we left full and happy. He colored and tried to get away with only eating fries and little packages of coffee creamer for lunch and I couldn't believe how good a 99-cent cup of soup could taste.
Plus, I've heard Brian Urlacher loves the pumpkin pancakes...
Socio-economic barbs aside, this place pretty much delivers what you can ask for from a modestly priced diner: clean tables and food. Â During peak times, the manager serves as an attentive host and the waitstaff is friendly at all times. Â Once in a while attention wanes, but you get what you pay for, right? Â
It's pretty difficult to screw up breakfast food and I'm pretty sure a 'taco wrap' is a burrito, but I do like me some Chicken-fried Chicken or Pork Chops when I need something heavier.
I will always have a soft spot for this place. Â Reminds me of days gone by when I lived out this way, and we'd be out all night then do a big ole wake n' bake around noonish and head on over here to chain smoke and shoot the bull. Â Coffee's just ok, but I always found the food to be purty good unlike some others on here. Â In particular the guadalajara skillet is just slayin'. Â THAT, folks, is hangover food.
Review Source:Golden Nugget - try the "bandito plate" - it's good stuff, man...
My biggest complaint is that I'm not a smoker, and I don't mind smoking but not when I'm eating...
it doesn't matter where you sit in this place - it's super smoky... it's hard to enjoy my food when I can't breathe - my lungs hurt when I leave there...
It's time I face up to the truth--as much as I like to think I'm a slick city kitty, deep down I know I'm really just a hometown girl from Indiana who prefers waitresses who shoot the shit with me and call me hon  to high-styled, pretentious servers.  They certainly have their place in the culinary wonderland of this city, don't get me wrong--but sometimes, I just need a little taste of what feels like home.
My husband and I stopped by Golden Nugget on Saturday morning, sat at the counter and had a relaxed breakfast amidst all the diner hustle and bustle. Â Some biscuits and gravy, eggs and sausage and 2 cups of coffee later, we were sated and happy to pay a nice, small bill for our meals. Â The food at Golden Nugget is nothing spectacular, but it's one of those great places where the servers aren't stingy with their smiles or the hot coffee... Â I'd be content to sit there with the good ol' travel Scrabble, a cuppa joe and maybe a slice of their homemade pie. Â Breakfasts are a must at Golden Nugget--and apparently, so are the club sandwiches, judging by the number of them coming from the kitchen... maybe I'll sample those the next time I need a down-home meal in the city.
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