When I used to live in Lafayette I went to this Restaurant a lot. They serve great breakfast. The portions of the food were heaping. Also it was at a price that won't break the bank. The waitresses were very prompt and polite. If you have never been than it is totally worth checking out!
Review Source:Just had breakfast there and somehow payed almost $13 for a ham, mushroom, Swiss omelette and hash browns! Â When I questioned what seemed like an ridiculous amount they said it was correct. Â Everything was an extra fee. Â Apparently an omelette comes plain with no hash browns, and then they've got the nerve to charge $2.80 for some over cooked potatoes! Â Owner sees no problem with charging $13 for breakfast at a greasy spoon diner. Â Never going back!
Review Source:During our little weekend getaway in Lafayette, IN we dined at Triple XXX (which is down the street) a few times, so we figured it was time to change things up.
Enter Sunrise Diner.
Sunrise is a tiny, old school diner down the street from the Purdue campus that serves your standard breakfast items, in extremely large portions, and very low prices. You can eat yourself stupid on pancakes, hash browns, eggs, breakfast meats, and biscuits and gravy for less than ten bucks, including tip. ((My faves were the pancakes and the biscuits and gravy. So. freaking. good.))
The service was fast, and very friendly. The waitress always made sure the coffee and water glasses were refilled. She asked numerous times if we were happy with our food and if we needed anything else. Sunrise should definitely be proud of the wonderful customer service they provide.
Sunrise definitely isn't anything fancy. It's a homey, little place you come for good food, great customer service, and great prices. What more can you ask for?
The western omelette is not a typical western omelettes. It had bacon, sausage, zucchini, radish, celery and a little bit of green pepper. Â Not what I was expecting. Â Food was good otherwise. Â Next time I will order the items I want instead of assuming that the western omelette is the same as every other restaurant I've been to.
Review Source:Worst service ever. Â Would give 0 star if was possible. Â Have given them two tries. Â The wait time and service was very poor both times. Â Last weekend we went in for breakfast. Â Had to sit at dirty table and wait for it to be bussed. Â Waitress finally took our order. Ordered simple breakfast -- eggs, bacon, toast. Â Waited 30 minutes. Â No food. Â No waitress. Â We tracked her down. Â She said we were next order up. Â Waited another 15 minutes. Â Still no food. Â Asked another waitress if she could find our waitress. Â 5 minutes later our waitress comes back. Â Says she'll check on our order. Â She comes back and says -- guess what -- that its the next order up. Â I ask how long that means. Â She says she'll go ask the cook. Â When she came back, she said it will be five or ten minutes. Â Â We finally gave up and left. Â Total time -- one hour from when we sat down to when we left without eating. Â On the way out another waitress at the check out was apologizing to a different table about how long the wait had been.
Review Source:We had an AGS Mini Conference in Lafayette, IN and I picked this place pff Yelp and I think it was an EXCELLENT choice. There were 5 of us and it was also our meet up place, Â People from Chigao, people from Fort Wayne.
Firstly it is  a fun place, There is  a nice vibe, everyone seems friendly. They seem happy.
Maybe it is living in Chicago but the food here is great and ridiculously inexpensive. For under $10 I had... (Drum roll lease) 2 eggs, an Enfglsh muffin, a chicken fried steak, bisquits and gravy and I had a choie of hash browns or corned beef hash.... who picks hash browns???
As I say, 5 of us. Everyone enjoyed breakfast. The mushroom and cheese omellette a friend had was full of excellent mushrooms adn the right amount of cheese.
Anyway, I woulod eat here as a regular if it was local... apparently the pancakes are also excellent... I had the bisquits and gravy not pancakes.
This restaurant is beyond spectacular. I've never been disappointed by eating there. It's very reasonably priced and has a fantastic sit-down diner atmosphere. Since it's downtown, there are lots of locals, so there's not tons of noise and disruption in the air. Their biscuits and gravy are perfect. I could eat them all day. But maybe not because a half order makes me uncomfortably full. All of their dishes are amazing. The service is friendly and fast (as fast as the food takes to cook, at least) and service comes and goes to check is anything else is needed. The only bad thing about the place is that they charge an extra $2 per credit/debit card transaction, so I highly recommend paying in cash to dodge that little fee.
Review Source:Terrible service.
The only positive thing I can say is the food was good. There was four in our party and we were promptly seated, but it was 10 minutes before our server came to ask what we wanted to drink. Another 10 minutes passed before she brought drinks but she still did not want to take our orders. That finally happened about 25 minutes after seating and she didn't seem too enthused about having to pay attention to what we were requesting. Another 45 minutes go by before our food finally appears, which was brought by another server who basically set the food on our table and left, no silverware. I had to go track that down from the counter. Other tables that had the same server also seemed to be experiencing the same problem, while other servers had multiple tables come in, eat and leave while we were there.
It's been a long time since I left a penny tip.
I've only ever been to Sunrise for breakfast and from reading the other reviews, it seems that's what they do best, and what most people go for.
As a breakfast joint, they kick ass. Â It's unpretentious breakfast food the way you or your mom would cook it at home. Â Very tasty. Â
You can order any way you want, from ala carte "I'd like 2 eggs, 3 slices of bacon, and a piece of toast" to probably a dozen different combos ranging from fairly modest all the way to "ZOMG that would feed a bloody army!"
Prices are reasonable-to-cheap, service is fast and friendly, and the food's always good and made/served exactly as you ordered it. Â
Probably the best place around to get an old-school dive-diner breakfast.
So, you're in Lafayette and you want to go to a diner? I understand, I've felt that way as well. You look at your options, and of course you think of the Triple XXX over by campus. You've been there, done that, had the root beer.
Instead, this time, why not head over to the sunrise. You will have your coffee refilled, get a real seat, easy classic dive diner food, and still be in town to go walkabout through the antique stores and farmers market. This actually feels like a community diner, and that's all you need.
Very happy with the breakfasts, can't comment on anything else. I was missing a true diner hang out like I had grown up with, and was not happy with other local offerings (triple xxx, etc).
You are definitely right up next to others when you sit down, but it's the kind of place you can come into and stay a while. Your coffee cup will never go empty, and the prices for everything are extremely reasonable.
Remember to bring cash, and don't come expecting a Sunday brunch type of a place (which is what I thought from looking at the outside).
I have been going to this diner periodically for 10-12 years. Really the place is hit or miss. Sometimes it's great and sometimes it's terrible. I can't ever recall ordered anything aside from breakfast however.
The place does have some very accommodating hours of operation. So, if you come here after a strong night of drinking make sure to order "The Challenge" to soak up the booze and prepare to take at least a year off your life from this monstrous portion of potatoes, biscuits, sausage, eggs and gravy.
The Sunrise Diner is the epitome of "greasy spoon". Â Don't get me wrong, I love a crappy diner as much as the next guy but make sure to set your expectations low so that you are not disappointed.
Great traditional hole-in-the-wall diner for breakfast. I really miss their old hours though, when you could knock on the window at 2am and George would open up the place to serve you. Anyway, I love hitting up the Sunrise for a greasy breakfast of biscuits, corned beef hash, eggs... etc. Not anything fancy, it is what it is. I've always been very happy with the breakfast, but I don't recommend lunch/dinner. Cash only!
Review Source:The Sunrise Diner is cheap.  Very cheap.  And their food is not  poison.  But it might as well be. Â
I ordered the Denver omelet, and out came a huge, rubbery mass of eggs folded over, and stuffed (like a pita) with whatever leftover food they had in the kitchen. Â There was like... one mushroom, a whole piece of sausage, an onion, a salad-style piece of tomato...
Their hash browns were underdone, but that might just be my preference. Â Their toast was fine. Â So at least they don't screw up toast.
The other members of my party ordered everything from pancakes to patty melts -- mixed reviews, with the patty melt winning as the best entree (still average, I am told). Â Hard to pin down the worst.
The atmosphere is pretty dingy as well; they must have chosen the name "sunrise" in a vain attempt to add some cheer to an otherwise dreary place. Â
Go here if you really don't care about what you're eating or where you're eating, just that it is cheap. Â Or maybe as a second date to try to get them to break up with you so you don't seem like a jerk. Â Otherwise, go somewhere else!
5 stars for the cheerful service and the rock bottom prices.
Minus one for unapologetically allowing a crowd of customers to wait at the unattended cash register. Â We must have seen 20 patrons stand in front of the register with their wallet out and their head on a swivel, just looking for someone to take their money.
We got the fried chicken special on Sunday, January 24, 2009. Â It cost $5.49. Â I am not kidding. Â Here's what it included:
- All-you-can-eat soup & salad bar
- A leg, a thigh, and a breast of fried chicken
- A generous serving of cafeteria-quality smashed potatoes and brown gravy
- Bacon flavored green beans
- A dinner roll
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Just had lunch at Sunrise. Â Since it is within walking distance of my apartment, I was hoping for much better. Â After being a little underwhelmed by the menu, I opted for the soup and salad bar. Â As basic as it gets. Â Maybe their rib sticking comfort food and breakfasts are better.
Review Source:My favorite diner in Lafayette/West Lafayette.
This place has a great diner feel. It's not the best diner ever, but it's the best I could find. Service is on the slow side, but moves along just fine. Omelettes are way too big (good thing) and the pancakes are always tasty. Hash browns are nice too. Try this place over the over-hyped triple XXX.
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