Oliver’s Cafe

Based on the number of recommendations I decided to try Oliver’s Café out. Needless to say, everyone’s was 100% correct about this place. The atmosphere was warm and friendly. The wait staff were fantastic. And the food was top-​notch! I had their famous Ollie Burger and my partner had the cornbread French toast. Both were phenomenal. And the other choices on the menu, especially the specials, looked absolutely gorgeous. My burger came with a small side of their macaroni salad and homemade french fries. Nothing was out of a bag. The french fries were amazing, and I have to say, you don’t realize how much you miss fresh cut fries until you have them.
If there’s one complaint I have for Oliver’s Café, it’s that the hours close a little bit too early on the weekends. I like to have a late brunch and this will force me to get my ass in gear early so I can get brunch there. But it’s definitely worth it.

Best diner I’ve been to! Came here with a bunch of friends and had the famous skillet with BLT fries and rye toast. Very fairly priced, generous portions and extremely tasty! Service was awesome as well. Coffee was great and the experience was everything we hoped for in a diner. Great place, definitely coming back!

So, yes, we returned to Oliver’s Café as we do like once a month :)
They added a new menu item for breakfast. Phenomenal. If you love pesto, if you love mozzarella, if you love eggs this is for you. See my photo. So delicious.
The rest of the menu and the staff, as always, were awesome.
You would never expect much due to the tiny house like atmosphere but it’s always delicious and fresh.
There is usually I wait! I advise that you wait.

Nice staff. Perfectly average food. The famous skillet was the equivalent of scrambled eggs with green pepper and onion plated with a mound of salsa and sour cream. Meh. My husband’s ham and cheese omelette simply had a slice of American cheese on top.
Prices were reasonable except for the OJ– $ 2.50 for tiny glass seemed a bit high.
Maybe today was an off day? Just did not live up to the 4.5 stars I expected based on other reviews.

After a friend recommended that I try this place for breakfast, I decided to stray from the normal restaurants in my neighborhood. This diner is about 20 minutes from where I live– but so worth the drive! I love the old-​school charm, the friendly service, the food, everything. I highly suggested visiting this restaurant for breakfast! We will definitely be coming back.

We went there for breakfast and it was subpar. The eggs in my omelet were not cooked, very watery. Our stack of pancakes tasted like cardboard. Not impressed!

This place is excellent. I almost always get the stuffed french toast or the Texas style hash. Great food and great service! Don’t miss out.

Old school. PLEASE DON’T CHANGE.
Had breakfast here with one of my best friends… loved it. Will be back many times in the future.
Great old school vibe. The food is awesome. Awesome local place. GO!

Awesome. Great little joint with awesome breakfast. Not a typical diner. Food is grilled up right in front of you if you sit at counter, or you can be nice and comfy at a normal table. Service is great.

I want to say all nice things, but it’s hit or miss with this place. I’ve been coming here for years and enjoy the atmosphere and the folks that run it. If you manage to get the place to yourself and there’s not many takeout orders that have been called in, you just might have a wonderful meal. Just a few days ago I met my daughter and granddaughter for breakfast and we shared the place with about 10 others and enjoyed 3 well cooked meals. Today we met again. The crowd was about the same but many takeout orders had been called in that were being worked on and many more were being phoned in. Just one cook, busier than a one-​armed paper hanger and one waitress, the owner. It’s all a rush and the food preparation suffers. My breakfast was a good example, soft-​scrambled eggs that were hardly beaten, and dry as a popcorn fart, potatoes ordered well done that were little more than quickly heated, skin on, boiled potatoes. I ate the toast, sampled the rest and left the majority on the plate. The owner looked right at the mostly uneaten meal but never bothered to ask and so I didn’t bother to share. I could stop in tomorrow and everything would be properly cooked. I’ll keep going though and I’ll keep hoping that ⁶⁰⁄₄₀ odds are in my favor. Even when it’s bad though, it sure beats the competition.

This place has some of the best burgers in the area and I love there macaroni salad. On weekends the specials are usually pretty amazing, last time I had a cream cheese stuffed blueberry French toast that was an orgasm in my mouth. The only negative to me v is it’s an open kitchen so I always leave smelling like fried food.

Very good hometown café. Went there for brunch with wife. She had the traditional pancakes and eggs. Good pancakes. The portion was plenty big. I had the adirondack waffle which had poached eggs and lox on a waffle with hollandaise sauce. Really good and not too expensive.
The people there were very nice.
We’ll definitely be going back and it’s a good place to take visitors.
It’s across from the airport but we didn’t see much activity the morning we were there.

The only place I’ve ever loved their breakfast. Great quality food and price too. There is something cool about watching them cook everything right in front of you. I’m picky about what I eat for breakfast and so far this place is 5 stars from me. I can’t believe it took me 5 years to find this gem.

A welcomed surprise!
Just driving around looking for a place to eat, we stumbled across Oliver’s Café. This cute cottage like café, was warm, friendly and had a staff that was well in tuned with their customers. Very cool breakfast menu. Not your typical sausage and egg dishes. I had the adirondack waffles. Incredible. Waffles topped with smoked salmon, poached eggs, and a delightful hollandaise sauce. Simply delicious. Can’t wait to go back.

You should really check this place out.
It’s one of those local places where everyone from the neighborhood goes for brunch. That means two things; good food, and sometimes long lines. This place is tiny, so accommodations are tight, but even when it’s busy it’s not more than a 15 minute wait. I’m not trying to say they always have a line outside the door, just be ready for a crowd on Sunday morning.
The food isn’t really fantastic, but they put a bit of care into it and I think it shows. They’ll have you’re regular breakfast choices, as well as some unique specials.
Overall it’s a great atmosphere with well cooked food. Try it out, but beware, they don’t take credit.

The food and service here is wonderful. My husband had the Ollie burger and I had the special a BLT burger, both were ordered medium and were cooked perfectly. They make fresh fries, yummy! The cold slaw was very good too, not to sweet.

The food was very good. I had the stuffed French toast and my husband had Oliver’s special. Everything tasted great. The place is very small and only accepts cash. They ARE open on Sundays!

First, this review is for breakfast, haven’t done the lunch there. A very nice menu prepared very well. The blueberry pancakes are some of the best I’ve had and if you like home fries, this is where you will find some to tempt your taste-​buds. The owner and staff are super friendly and the service is great. The place is very small so you may have to wait, but well worth it.

A small breakfast-​and-​lunch, Ma and Pa café in a relatively historical building in Glenville near the airport, that I have desperately wanted to love but must sadly warn you away from, with a few caveats.
We’ve been three times now, two breakfasts and a lunch, hoping it was going to rise to expectations, but it’s time to call it quits.
I will start with the charm. The service is super-​friendly, and it’s a small intimate space that is obviously more neighborhoody than many diners in the area. The old school photographs on the wall are almost worth a visit by themselves, showing it in its original incarnation as a snack shack for an original-​wave miniature golf course, now long gone. As a gathering place, it has some historical chops and I respect that a great deal.
The food has also come out hot and not terrible, although the attention to the base ingredients is inconsistent and they are fairly cheap quality all in all.
Now on to the fatal problems:
— Underdone food. Both runny eggs and pink-​and-​still-​mooing hamburgers (ordered medium well and well-​done, respectively) show that «quick» is not necessarily best when seeking to avoid food-​borne illness.
— Filth. You can see the kitchen from half the tables and it’s not pretty. Dirt on the floor, loose food, grease and dirt accumulation. The restaurant itself hasn’t had a really thorough cleaning in a long time — dust on the sills on the wall, grey floors, et alia.
— Odd tastes. I had a coffee cup come out tasting of soap; the server quickly washed it for me, but the second cup still tasted off, suggesting it was the coffee service itself that had been incompletely rinsed. The carafe itself was dirty. Similarly we found some crud on our breakfast dishes the first visit that unfortunately was discovered UNDER an egg which had tasted funny.
— Cash only. I remain suspicious of places that don’t take plastic in this day and age. Given that places that take plastic always make more business than they lose in fees, nearly always at least, this just suggests to me sloppiness and cutting corners, at least in concert with the other factors. I wonder what other modern innovations, like refrigeration, they’re not using.
I will say this unusually for a two-​star rating, it may still be worth your while to check the place out — other reviewers obviously have had better experiences and the place does have a friendly aura and an old-​time hangout joint vibe. I only wish they didn’t take «greasy spoon» so literally 8-(.

This place does serve a great breakfast, probably one of the best in the area. My favorite thus far though? No. That goes to another business here that I wanted to give a 4.5 star rating to, but only gave a four. That being said, I cannot give a 5 here in all fairness. Sorry to be a party pooper.
Anyways, we stopped here during the week around 9am and were seated immediately. A previous attempt on the weekend ~10am resulted in standing for 20 minutes waiting for a table that just never materialized.
And I can understand why the place is packed. This is as close as you’ll get to an authentic Waffle House north of the Mason Dixon line. (No, the ones in Pennsylvania don’t count because they don’t have 40 years of grease on their flattop) Sit at the breakfast counter to see your food getting made, or take a seat and crane you’re neck. The entire process is on display. A novelty nowadays.
With the kitchen being at the forefront, the place gets *cramped* on weekends. If you’re seriously claustrophobic, go during off hours.
I had a good breakfast — a skillet blend — that had great raw materials and overall good flavors. Homefries were good but not mindblowing. Coffee was meh, but I am *fussy* about coffee so I won’t hold it against them. My Dad ordered french toast, said he enjoyed it. He is a man of few words so the fact he commented means something.
Pricing is very appropriate for the quality of food.
If you go on the weekend, it’s worth the wait because there is little better in this area for breakfast, and I’m confident that lunch would be good as well. I’ll definitely stop here again.