Shari’s Restaurant and Pie Bakery

Best hot chocolate for the price! Exceptional Waitress effortlessly served a post dental procedure customer still flying high as a kite from prescriptions. I couldn’t get my eyes to stop seeing double so we just talked like mom and daughter at the dinner table and BEHOLD awesome comfort food appeared.

I love Shari’s! We don’t have this in Southern California so it’s such a treat when visiting up up north. Their jam is like heaven and their pancakes taste like cupcakes. I always order eggs (over easy) and bacon and switch between pancakes and hashbrown/​toast.

We arrived and were seated right away. Drink order was taken. Nothing special 2 coffees, 5 waters and a soda. It took 34 minutes to get and we had to ask. Waitress took our order, when she comes to the table with the food — we are informed that they didn’t have 3 of the items we ordered. No rye bread for the ham sandwich, no lemon meringue pie, no quiche Loraine, those of us who didn’t get what we ordered changed up and asked for new items, which 2 of came out pretty fast and we were informed that they didn’t have the new pie we ordered. Seriously it’s a pie house. No apologies, just shrugs of shoulders, ya I guess we’re out of that.
Terrible service, food was ok — nothing special. Party of 5. @ 1:00 pm on a Sunday. Not busy, ridiculous. We will not be back.

Nice location but they need to pick up on the service time. We usually have to wait about 15 – 20 mins for our food, no exaggeration. I am fond of their food but not the time it takes for the making of the food. I could cook faster and be fed by the time they deliver it to the table.

Start off:
SERVICE WAS HORRIBLE! Came in and no one was at the counter. Waiting for someone to come up and finally a young man came up and we let him to it would be a to go order. The tone this man took with us was just sassy and rude. When I go to a restaurant in a good mood, I do not want to be greeted with someone with a sassy attitude. Shari’s is supposed to be a place to go with families. RUDE! AND he didn’t even take our order! He just walked right past us, not even informing us that someone else would EVENTUALLY come to assist us.
Finally after ordering a small simple order, it took 45 minutes of sitting and waiting. Our food was poorly made too.
I’m no stranger to Shari’s and I have never seen it that bad. I know they have it in them to give their best, but I am just offended by how we were served today.
Customer Service rating: A BIG FAT 0

5 am on Saturday. I’m here right now. Very clean. Kari, my server, has been awesome. My eggs and chicken fried steak cooked perfect! First Shari’s in a long time to put a smile on my face.

What can I say:
–chain restaurant –like a Denny’s –usually get sat quickly –usually friendly service –food come out hot & fast

I’m a repeat offender, I keep going back thinking it’ll be better, it’s not.
It’ll do in a pinch, food is just mediocre, presentation of food is poooooor, and service is ridiculously slow when you account for how many workers they have on and how many customers are seated.
Not sure how this place survives?! Surely Tualatin can do better than this chain restaurant as it’s breakfast centerpiece. The restaurant has gone through a nice transformation, I remember way back in the day when it was the Friday night hangout Izzy’s Pizza, dark wood and a kid arcade hallway.
Maybe someday Tualatin will get a rock-​star breakfast place in this neat location.
Plenty of parking and free wifi is a plus.

Horrible service. Fruit was soggy and not fresh. Egg beddict had canned sauced, tasteless. Steak was so rare are inedible. NOT RECOMMEND FOR ANYBODY. Discusting. NEVER AGAIN

Half of our extended family, including us, got food poisoning after eating here tonight. No there were not any raw meats involved. Not impressed or happy.

Extremely average. Service is poor, food is not much better… But if you really need some food it will do.

We attempted to eat their last night and after an hour and a half we still did not have our food. We did get out water promptly, then it took 15 minutes to get our drinks. The waitress to our order and we never she never came to our table again. My son ended up falling asleep because the food took so long to get. The worst customer service ever. We were not the only customers that got up and walked out.

Gets the job done. You know the food quality to expect. Don’t get all uptight about it. Quick, good breakfast. I had the ultimate chicken fried steak. Huge portion, good food for $ 10.50. Great service to boot.

Way, way better service than the Shari’s in West Linn. They could use more omelets on the menu. The one I had with shrimp was good. The portions aren’t huge. Food was good. Watch for coupons for this place.

The best Sharis I’ve ever been to. It was really clean, and the waitress handled my indecisive friend really really well. The food seems to have become more expensive than I remember (although the price of everything has gone up, along with min wage… So is it reeeally more?). I got breakfast and it was better than I expected.
With that said, it’s still not my first or second choice of places to go. But with a group of friends who can’t decide, itll be a good option to make everyone happy.

When you can’t find a Denny’s, Shoneys, IHOP… whatever, there is Sharis. $ 15 for a Tbone, so can’t complain ha
Too bad the weather in this hick town sucks :)

We had lived in Tualatin for a whole year and had never given Shari’s a try, even though it’s less than a mile from our apartment. On a Saturday morning before heading into Portland for a day of rambling, my wife and I stopped in for breakfast.
We recently made a change in our diet — no meat, no poultry — and was initially worried that we’d be stuck with no options. While there are indeed fewer options for us, the ones they do have are pretty fantastic. I had the Spring Spinach Omelette, which has eggs and spinach (duh) along with cheese, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, and avocado, along with hash browns, a side of wheat toast and delicious blackberry jam. A very nice breakfast!
The only con I can think of is that it’s a bit pricy for a neighborhood café type place. The aforementioned plate was $ 9ish, and the coffee wasn’t of the bottomless variety that pretty much every other place has. That said, the food and coffee were both fresh and tasty, so I don’t feel it wasn’t worth it. We’ll definitely be back.

I’m currently sitting in a booth at this Shari’s and they’ve been nothing but spectacular. I’m working away from Seattle and they found me a booth with an outlet, served delicious food, and told me that I could work here for as long as I needed. The manager, Stuart is great and the rest of the staff is incredible. Thanks for being my office away from home, Shari’s!

I’ve only been here once — but it was one of my best experiences in a Shari’s ever (and as a rule, I like Shari’s restaurants). The interior is nice, clean, attractive, and comfortable. More importantly the staff is friendly and helpful. We had a great time and our food was wonderful.
And, while it only matters to some, the men’s room had a changing table… which meant my husband got to deal with the diaper. Bliss!

After having to wake up at 5 AM last Friday to catch a flight with my family to Portland, Oregon, I have come to two conclusions. First of all, it is obscene to make a human being get out of bed before the sun comes up (especially a senior who is used to late arrival and getting to school at 9:06 AM). Second of all, eat something before you get on the plane. Chances are the mid-​flight snack of a beverage and a pack of two cookies just won’t cut it (I’m sure the flight attendants would appreciate it if you didn’t end up gnawing on your seat cushion).
By the time we all got to the place we were staying in Tualatin, Oregon (about a 15 or 20 minute drive from Portland), my family was ready to jump at the first restaurant we saw. Luckily for us, that place just happened to be Shari’s Restaurant and Pie Bakery.
There were a couple of families already seated at tables around the restaurant, but we were still seated promptly. As we followed our waitress to the table, there was a large refrigerator case that had shelf after shelf of perfect looking pies (apple, no sugar apple, banana cream, burst-​o berry, cherry, chocolate cream, peanut butter chocolate, coconut cream, lemon meringue, marionberry, no sugar marionberry, Oreo cream, S’mores, and strawberry rhubarb). Talk about having a hard time choosing just one slice!
After we were seated, the waitress gave us our menus and asked if there was anything we would like to drink. My parents and I had water, while my two little brothers decided on chocolate hand-​dipped jumbo milkshakes. Throughout the entire dining experience the waitress that seated us, as well as other waitresses that happened to walk by, made sure we had everything we needed (great service overall)!
I might have entered the restaurant with a bit of Bay Area IHOP and Baldie’s ‘elitism’, but after looking at the wide range of food they offered at Shari’s, and not to mention finally getting to ‘dig in’, I must give Tualatin’s breakfast restaurant its dues. I don’t think I’ve ever been one to struggle over the breakfast menu of a place I’m trying out for the first time. I usually just order pancakes and figure it would be the hardest thing for that place to mess up (but there are instances where I’ve been wrong). For some reason, the picture of the flat iron steak and stuffed hashbrowns platter had me hooked (you can probably call it a type of ‘love at first sight’). So while the rest of my family members ordered their pancakes, I stuck to the hashbrown platter.
It didn’t take too long for the food to arrive, and I must say that I was very impressed. I’m sure that others have experienced the sinking feeling you get when something you see in a picture doesn’t quite match what you get when you order it. I must admit, the smell of the grilled steak and the golden color of the hashbrowns was just beautiful. I looked over at the pancakes of my youngest brother (he’s usually the easiest one to grab food from without much of a fight) and the triple stack looked very fluffy and filling.
I grabbed hold of my two favorite weapons (a fork and knife of course) and prepared to do battle with the hashbrown platter. The hashbrowns were a perfect balance of a soft center and crispy exterior (not to the mention the delicious filling of melted cheese and sour cream). There were three scrambled eggs that were also cooked well (neither wet and gooey or burnt and dry). Last but not least, I truly believe that the six ounce flat iron steak was delicious enough to turn vegetarians in carnivores (or maybe just an omnivore).
One of the biggest surprises had to be the check (and not in a bad way). Having lived in the Bay Area for most of my life, I’m used to stores tacking on the 8.75% sales tax (Alameda County actually has the highest sales tax rate in California). But in Oregon, there is no sales tax! So when the menu says $ 4.99, you can expect to pay $ 4.99 (not $ 4.99 plus an additional $ 0.44). The reason for this is probably because Oregon has a lottery, and I’m not talking about the random gas station/​supermarket kind we have around California. If you look at the picture of the Shari’s sign closely, you’ll notice a hand with fingers crossed with «Oregon Lottery» written underneath. I really wish I could have gotten a picture of the inside of the restaurant, but it was the most amusing thing I’ve ever seen. To the right of the cash register was a little room with a clear glass door and inside was what appeared to be a slot machine and a table to seat four. Now that’s what I call multi-​tasking!

After such a positive experience at Shari’s, I was disappointed to see that the nearest location in California was one in Sacramento. But if there is any one that happens to be around that area, I definitely recommend a stop at Shari’s Restaurant and Pie Bakery!