Waverly Restaurant

The sandwich I had was perfect. The cinnamon roll was amazing the people were awesome and I saw the lemons be cut and squeezed in front of me for some great lemonade. They dont take cards buy there is an ATM right next door!

The waverly touts homemade food with an old-fashioned diner ambiance.

I used to really like this place. They made some really good chicken fingers and fries when I was in high school, but upon revisiting more recently, I've come to realize that this place is merely mediocre. The service is one of the slowest I've ever suffered, the homemade hot food is tasty but too greasy for my taste (i looove chili and could only stomach half of the bowl of beef grease and sparse kidney beans. and the block of mac and cheese was too tough and dry), and the food is far too expensive for the restaurant's quaint, homey feel and customers that it attracts. A plain sandwich will easily run you eight to nine dollars, without any sides or fries, mind you. i'd expect those kind of prices at less casual, more 'upbeat' and flashy restaurants, like panera and such, where they won't make you wait upwards of ten minutes for a monte cristo or a bowl of chili.

i just feel like the waverly could be much better, if they improved their customer service (which means not disappearing in the kitchen for ten minutes, making your customers loiter in front of the counter) and did not offer such steep prices for such a humble establishment. The Waverly, though, does have a loyal local following and its regulars, mostly due to the hospitality of whom I assume to be the owner--that welcoming, affable man who takes your orders, waits and buses the tables, and rings you up at the counter. Anyway, it's a nice, quaint little diner that i wish I could like a lot more, which explains why i keep coming back despite its obvious flaws.