Red Apple Restaurant

Now the manager is not allowing the heat to be turned on its colder than well you know the word. The owner needs to get someone in here to do the job correctly. This manager is not worth a well you know the word.

Give this place a shot if you are looking good old American café. The bacon and eggs are just like you remember. The prices are right. The food is what you would expect. Well worth it.

I would have given four stars if the server would not have stuck her fingers in my husband’s burger searching for the cheese he did not order. The burgers were average and so were the fries. We were definitely not bored in Boring, OR thanks to the server. :)

The Chinese food here is good. The chicken is all white meat and the beef is tender and cut thin. I’ve been impressed by everything I’ve ordered. It’s my family’s favorite Chinese place! The atmosphere is very typical country restaurant which is why I gave 4 stars, but the staff has always been courteous and prompt.

Only if you are starving. Biscuits were from a can. Gravy also canned and sausage nowhere to be found. Waitress snarled at me when I ordered decaf coffee. I’ve been in here before when it was edible but not anymore. It’s the only game in town but I think i’ll go play elsewhere. Cook needs to go back to biscuits and gravy school.

How many times I have driven by thinking, ‘try it, try it, you know you want to”… well… yuck. I could probably end this review there, but if I save one person the trouble of experiencing a bad meal, worth it.
I had high hopes, since I could not find parking at lunch time. Yes, busy usually means good. We hit them at about prime lunch time. We first tried to order a steak and burger. No, the waitress says, they are in the middle of cleaning the grill and nothing that requires cooking on the grill can be ordered. Okay, really? Who cleans the grill at lunch?
Now the menu is cut way down and I am not in the mood for chinese. We get the waitress back over to ask for some appetizers of hot wings. She comes back and tells us that the wings are frozen in a big ball and it will take microwaving and then deep frying, would we be okay waiting 45 minutes for wings. I am not kidding… I could not make that up, I am as shocked as you reading this. Forty-​five freakin’ minutes for 8 wings. I could have ran to the gas station next door and gotten some off the deli in less than five and brought them back. Not to mention, just the description of how the wings were going to make it to the table had turned me off, sometimes ignorance is bless.
We are now in deep discussion of leaving, but vow to go deep into the menu and find something. I pick fish and my son gets egg foo young. I posted pics of my fish. It is not worth the nearly ten bucks. Very greasy and not much flavor. The frys seemed like the fryer needed to be hotter. I left them and left kind of sick. My son said the egg foo was okay, there was a lot of it that is for sure. He normally will take it with him and he left more than half.
Not every divey looking place is that awesome place which people speak of, if you decide to go, I hope the grill is up and running and the wings are closer to be cooked.

The Red Apple location has had several incarnations famailar to locals of Boring. Red Apple Restaurant is the newest.
It is unique because it combines American greasy spoon diner with Chinese cuisine. It is a solid place to get what my buddy Lucky Mike calls a «contractor breakfast». A contractor breakfast is a hearty breakfast that you would see a working man eat before starting the day’s work. Country gravy and some form of potato are required. I love that the standard bacon and egg breakfast is called The Usual on the menu (see pics).
The omlettes are made competently and the portions are average. I particularly enjoyed the savory home fry potatoes.
The service is not quite fast enough for a hit and run breakfast. The prices are fair. My veggie omlette and iced tea was ten bucks. There was also some question if the waitress runs the tab or if you pay up front.
The interior is bright and clean. The parking is ample.
Lucky Mike feels that the Chinese takeout is above average. I don’t know if he means above average in general or above average for Boring, which only has one Chinese place.