Mother's Day Restaurant

YUMMY!  I went here for brunch with a friend and it was delicious!  Awesome variety of food, comfy booths, excellent waitress, wonderful hashbrowns, and perfect pancakes.  The service is wonderful here - which I really appreciate because most places just don't seem to care anymore.

This restaurant is the gustatory equivalent of sitting by the fire with a blanket over your knees and waiting to die.

I've never before been to a place with food, atmosphere, and decor so carefully calculated not to startle.  To be bland, safe, and mushy.  To mollify but never satisfy.

I came here and had the blandest hamburger of my life (on a bun that was going hard), a Coke, and a gooey, pustular French onion soup.  It-- ALL of it-- tasted like heavily-salted nothing.  It gave me that particular kind of stomach ache designed by God to warn you that you've committed the bipartite sin of eating food that was 1.) bad-tasting, and 2.) very bad for you.

Most customers appeared to be aged 70+.  At one point, the owner (I think) emerged from the back and struck up cheery conversations with some of these elderly guests.  He clearly knows which side his bread is buttered on.  (And that's the side filled with people who no longer use their genitals for sex.)

The final kick in the teeth was the reckoning.  Somehow, my heavily-salted nothing lunch was deemed to be worth $15.  I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

I see that some Yelp reviewers have defended Mother's Day by claiming "It's a Greek diner.  They're supposed to be like this."  Bollocks.  I've been to Greek diners where the food was spicy and interesting, the decor was lively, and the people were cool.  This is a Greek mortuary where the bodies on display are only technically still alive.

In conclusion, I realize the place is called "Mother's Day," but c'mon; this is 2013!  These days, mothers can be hip and cool, and certainly don't crave blandness just because they had a kid.  Want 5 stars?  Have some truth in advertising.  Change the name of this place to "Great-Great-Grandmother on Life-Support's Day."

Mother's Day is a diner, meaning they serve everything and anything. I do wonder how much of their items are actually freshly cooked. The chicken noodle soup was clearly Progresso which was kind of disappointing considering it isn't that hard to make soup. I ordered the gyro plate without meat which was simple yet tasty (and they took the price down a little!). The service was also great and our food came quickly. For what this place is, I think they are pretty average and deserve a 3 rating, although it would be nice to see more fresh food and less canned, prepackaged, frozen things etc.