Golden Nugget Pancake House

The staff was VERY friendly.
The restaurant was very busy.
The menu is what one would expect…
What we didn’t expect were the prices.
The window against which we were seated (and every other window we could see) was covered in TINY FLIES (inside and out). The people at the table next to us asked someone to clean up the flies (alive and dead). We opted not to say anything as we thought the flies were less dangerous than the «non-​toxic» (employee’s words) chemicals he sprayed all over to clean up the insects.
The restaurant is shabby and dirty. There are too many other cleaner/​cheaper restaurants with similar low-​quality food on the North Side…

Nice go to breakfast spot in Chicago. Prices are decent and the food is good. One thing I would definitely recommend are the pancakes. They are very good! Came on a Sunday morning at around 10 AM and were seated immediately which was a plus.
I would recommend this spot if you are in the area.

Say what you will about a diner, and a chain diner at that, but 95% of the time the breakfasts are exactly what we’re looking for… recommend the wild west omelette, chorizo breakfast wrap (not on the menu anymore but they will gladly make it), and mexican-​style chilaquiles. Lunch and dinner is a little less reliable but the BLT is, well, a BLT. SUPER friendly and attentive, hardworking staff. Tip well!

A great breakfast spot if you are looking for a hearty and delicious breakfast/​brunch spot. I love that there is an extensive menu with literally every option you can think of, they also serve lunch and dinner but I have only indulged in breakfast. I always battle with trying to decide between a savory breakfast but also getting in my sweet-​tooth fix paired with coffee. So I like the extensive options for sides as well. The ambiance is family dinner (does not serve alcohol/​nor is it BYOB) friendly waitstaff and never a disppoitement for breakfast.

Not bad at all!!! I was actually pleasantly surprised. My friend invited me here and not know where I was going I was disappointed when I walked in. I mean, it looks very outdated. Kinda like an old Denny’s. I ordered a chicken fajita skillet that was actually very very good. The potatoes in it were seasoned to perfection. They didn’t have sourdough toast but the white toast I did order was fresh and toasted perfectly and the server was very kind. I can’t say I would go back because it was aesthetically pleasing but it was pretty decent.

Will this be «The Edge» 2? Maybe. It was nice to see my son’s face when he discovered so many servers from the edge were now here.
The food was good… ill be back during my next visit.

Came here and wanted hash browns, meat and, eggs. I order as I always do at any other breakfast place. I wanted one piece of sausage and one piece of bacon I was told I couldn’t do that unless I ordered an extra side. If my meal comes with 2 pieces of meat why can’t I get one of each? I said fine and ordered sausage. She ask d me if I wanted pancakes or toast and said neither and she said it comes with it so I said I’d like chocolate chip please and she told me it was almost 3 $ extra just to add chocolate chip. Then I said I wanted cheese and onion on my hash browns and she said they don’t come with it but I can put an order in for u I asked if I could swap the pancakes for the hash browns and she told me no and I said ill pay the difference … I never wanted pancakes in the first place. To sum it up my hashbrowns and eggs were extremely greasy… My entire plate was shining and so were my eggs and the only good thing I had was. The pancakes.
For eggs pancakes hashbrowns and sausage my bill was 19 $ not including tip. Never again

First time I try this place we move to the neighborhood afther carried boxes
me & family diside eat somewhere
So We Stop Here
Was few tables
2 waitres, 1 busboy 2 cooks
We order
Burgues
Eggs
Chilaquiles
Turkey club
Coffee & soda
Food took forever
My rice & beans was cold
My guacamole look dark fake guacamole or old from the day
The pancakes look under cook
Refills only for my coffee…
Not pop or soda Pepsi none of it
Not impressed at all

The wife and I met friends here for lunch and were mostly pleased. The service was good and there is a parking lot. I also like that there was no wait for breakfast at 11:00 on a Saturday. I hate few things more than being invited to meet people for brunch and being forced to wait 45 minutes for a table.
Golden Nugget has good regular breakfast food. I ordered the Wild West Omelette. It was good, but requires either salt or hot sauce. The side of hash browns was not good. It tasted like pretty much nothing and looks like alfalfa sprouts in my photo. The pancakes were delicious. Next time I am here, I will probably order just the pancakes.
The wife ordered spinach and cheese Omelette and found it acceptable, but a lot of salt was required.

Attention people this restaurant is under new management AGAIN! I usually have breakfast at this location once a month, but lately i have seen a lot of new faces, i personally don’t like changes because i was used to my regular waitress, you treat me good and i tip u good. I had breakfast on Sunday morning and i never saw my waitress smile once during my whole breakfast.
1 — she took forever to take order.
2– the kitchen has new COOKS also, my food took forever.
3-​the flavor wasn’t good at all
4-​this place is like having breakfast at willis tower
«Super expensive»
5-​is just horrible!!!
6-​my waitress only gave me two refills of coffee :(
7– everyone looks out of place and confused, even the new manager looks all stress out.
8– Where are all the old waitresses? bring them back at least they knew what their were doing.
9– Golden nugget you are going from bad to worst.
10– don’t wasted your money people and take your business somewhere else.
11– the worst experience ever after this place have seen my daughter grow. :(really upset.

My family and I have been coming here for years!!! Great place great staff!!! It’s our Saturday tradition to come and eat her! Great food and the staff is so hopeful even remember us every time we walk in! My top try going early because after 10 am this place is packed and be prepared to wait. I just wish they had more parking.

Listen to me. This place has the best pancakes I have ever had in my life. I am not being dramatic. I don’t even need syrup. They give you a little thing of syrup and I use maybe an 8^th of it for a short stack. They are crispy and fluffy and soft and amazing and I would eat them every single day if I didn’t have bills to pay.
I literally only get the pancakes now. I’ve had other things and they’re good too but the pancakes man.
My fiancée gets a different form of omelette with meat each time and is always satisfied. But me? I have dreams about the pancakes. Honestly I can’t over express my undying love for them.
I have to stop now but do yourself a favor and get them.

Your typical diner, but expensive. Everything is decent but make sure to review your bill as everything is extra! I had to add cheese, ham and green peppers to my omelette which cost me an additional $ 6! Coffee is ok but nothing special, pancakes are really good and huge!
Service is great and they have free parking! I’ll definitely try again as its the only greasy spoon late night diner in my neighborhood but I’ll calculate what I order and note it!

What’s not to like? Open 24 hours, great customer service, *FREE WIFI*, and GINORMOUS portions. Good food, great service (this place is constantly packed — the waiters & waitresses never broke a sweat and were so polite & professional). I will say that some of the entrees/​prices are a bit high ($ 15 each for the Husband and I), but we ate till we were stuffed, still had food left to take home (2 meals worth), and had a good experience! Will be back…

Yum! Quick service. It gets the job done. Service was good.
I ordered just eggs and toast. The eggs have such a weird oil. If I’m gonna spend money for someone to cook my eggs, it would be nice if they could use decent quality oil.
My step son always orders the Oreo pancakes and he loves it. I like it too! Heheh

This Golden Nugget is not as homey as your favorite family-​owned train car diner, but the staff has been super-​friendly on the two occasions I’ve been and the coffee is better than expected for a diner chain. The basics are decent here but I really liked the Honey Coconut Chicken Waffle — impressively juicy white meat coated in crispy sweet coconut shred breading with honey butter. So good.

I LOVE THE GOLDEN NUGGET.
I’m completely biased, I can’t lie. I’ve been coming to this Golden Nugget (AKA the ONLY Nug) since my childhood days. It was a special treat to go to the Golden Nugget as a kid, it was fun watching the 2am crown here as a teenager, it’s a great last stop after a night of boozin’, and it’s the perfect weekend breakfast spot for my boyfriend and I.
Oh, the Nug, you make me so happy. From your delicious pancakes to your gigantic biscuits, your ham and turkey wraps, and tasty fries. Where I have a handful of favorite waitresses, and I can arrange creamers into little flowers, where the bathrooms are always super cold (my only complaint).
In a neighborhood that now screams gentrification, I can happily say my Nug is unchanged, and that’s the way I love it.

If you come in a party of 5 or more check your receipts! Gratuity is already added (15%) most people don’t and end up adding more on top of the 15% which I think is stupid. I like to tip minimum of 20% but not when it’s already been taken out.
The food is par to sub-​par. And the menu that you can take to a book club for discussion. Really?!
But in the end, it’s after 2AM, where are you going to go that’s better than this? And for that alone I give you ¹⁄₂

Three friends went for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning. The restaurant was only about half-​full at 9:30, but quickly filled up.
Water, menus and silverware appear almost instantly. A waitress comes by within half a minute to offer coffee.
The menu is large, and there was also a small Specials menu today. Do not think that this place is inexpensive! In fact, some of the prices are on the high side. It was $ 2.69 each for a Sprite and a Diet Coke, and coffee was $ 2.59. The Sprite drinker was especially shocked how expensive her soda cost.
I ordered a Denver omelet without the ham. I got it with hash browns and a buttered English muffin (I was asked if I wanted it buttered). When it was delivered, it was clearly full of ham. I noticed it immediately; the waitress hardly had put it on the table. She apologized and took it back. She brought me hash browns on a separate plate, and then the correct omelet came a few minutes later. BTW, when we got the check, I saw that she had ordered it the way I wanted it. The kitchen got it wrong, and she was probably too busy to notice.
It was a large omelet. I couldn’t finish it, but I came close. I like pepper and onion in my omelet, which is why I chose this item, but the pepper and onion were raw. Most places will cook them first. I’m really not crazy about raw green pepper and onion in eggs; they’re fine on a salad. So, I wasn’t crazy about this.
The Sprite woman ordered the Oreo Pancake, figuring ahead of time she’d take half of it home. When she ordered, the waitress asked if she wanted two or four pancakes. «You mean I get a choice?» Sprite woman asked. The woman said, she could even order only one if she liked. The restaurant had learned that customers didn’t always want too much. Sprite woman was very happy with two, and she liked her entrée very much. But, she was shocked when the check came. I know, I know, we all should have paid more attention to the cost when we ordered, but we were overwhelmed by the wide variety of choices.
Diet Coke woman ordered the special; two eggs, two strips of bacon, two pancakes, for $ 6.99. She was not surprised when the bill came, but she did say she sure was paying a lot for soda.
I was not shocked about the cost of my omelet, but I had already read some Unilocal reviews and looked at the menu online. When you look at Golden Nugget, it looks very old-​fashioned, Chicago diner-​type. You may not expect the same kind of prices charged by Over Easy or other brunch places, but it is not cheap.
I got numerous refills on my coffee, and the sodas were refilled often.
Not perfect, not outstanding, but decent. I don’t know if it would be my first choice if I were going out for breakfast again tomorrow, but I admit, the crepes did sound pretty good.
It’s not the Ritz-​Carlton. It is what it is. Solid, unremarkable, pleasant, fast.

When the rest of the brunch spots in ravenswood are full to the brim, golden nugget is a solid alternative. I’ve never had to wait, even at peak brunch times on Sunday mornings.
All of the food that I’ve gotten here has been really good. I tend to stick with their breakfast offerings. Their pancakes are my favorite thing on the menu. Even a short stack is too much food for me. I recommend the breakfast potatoes as opposed to the hash browns.
Their coffee is also really good, and usually getting refills isn’t too much of a problem. It depends who you have waiting on you and what time of day it is. But usually they always keep my cup full.
I’ll agree with some of the other reviewers– it is kind of expensive here. It’s definitely not a cheap diner option, although that’s what it feels like inside. But I don’t mind the price too much because I think the food is worth it.