The Egg And I Restaurant

I agree with the other reviews; this place has taken a definite turn for the worse over the past few years. I'm really happy that Ancaster has more breakfast options now and, between the new Cora's and a surprisingly great weekend breakfast at the Brassie, I won't be stuck in that massive line-up at the Egg & I waiting to sit at a dirty table to be served tasteless and sloppy food.

Being retired I go to many area restaurants..
This Egg and I is the one of the worst...
*Sausages and eggs...the sausages are dried out and the home fries are tasteless.
*Spaghetti and Meat balls. The tomato sauce tastes like it was thickened with flower and water and the meat balls were as hard as concrete.
* Soup. The flavor was OK but too salty and at times you could actually feel the grans of salt in your mouth.

Haven frequented all three Egg & I's I must say this the consistently awfuller. Many of the waitress will agree and some have told me that they have many times reported such complaints.

The best egg & I is on hwy. 6 south of James ST. the difference if food quality is night and day..

Went there for my 1st mother's day. Waited in a lineup out the door in drizzle. Dirty cutlery. Server nowhere to be found. My pancakes were cold - which I discovered AFTER I applied the syrup. When I called a random staffer over (no server to be found), they returned my pancakes - MICROWAVED with the syrup on it and bites taken out of it!!!!! You can't eat microwaved syrup, by the way. Lesson learned. They handed out carnations to every table with women at it, except mine!!!!!!

I was a regular at this place for years but recently, it's majorly going down hill. The service, the food, the decor...everything. My food was cold, my homefries were damp & mush for some unknown reason, and my bacon was so over cooked that they were black! One would complain to the waitress but you think she ever came back to our table??? Nooooo! We had to ask the cashier for our bill. NEVER going back again!

Place was dirty(especially the washrooms).the food was dreadful-bacon not cooked ,egg whites runny,"cheese" omelette had slice of processed cheese inside with another thrown on top.How do Hamiltonians regularly vote the eggs and I as their favorite breakfast restaurants?also the service was slow and inattentive.

Definately will not go back. The place has changed over the last few years. It seems that the managers at the location that I ate at did not treat their co-workers with respect. The service was horible and the food was lackluster.

I will not be returning there!

I love going out for breakfast, so naturally when friends from out east came to visit, i had to take them to The Egg and I. Great food, and a lot of it, great prices, and good service. However, slowly over the last year this place is changed. Not the food or the service, the general atomoshpere. When you have an open kitchen the kitchen staff needs to understand customers can hear them and when they are harassing the wait staff to pick up food and arguing with vulgar language it turns customers off completely. Who ever owns this place needs to get that kitchen in shape before they loose all their customers. Watching they way some of the kitchen staff talks to the waitresses, makes me think if the treat their coworkers like that, how are they treating my food. I will not be back to this location, I"ll try the other ones, but for such a great place it's such a shame

It is what it is - a diner that serves breakfasts (lunch and dinner as well, though I have never been there for anything other than breakfast).

The food is cheap, the portions are huge. The place is packed on weekend morning which is why the service is not always great. I would not compare the restaurant to a fine dining establishment or even a casual restaurant like Kelseys. It is a good place to get a decent cooked breakfast.

Others are right though, the potatoes are gross...and I really wish they had waffles.

Food was enjoyable (which it was NOT on my previous visit, but I decided to give this place a second chance). However, our main waitress literally threw the cutlery at us, swept crumbs into my lap when wiping the table,and was extremely rude when I attempted to order my meal.
Another waitress came by when I had literally had one sip of my coffee, and asked if I would like a refill. When I politely said "Later, please" she said:
"Well, I'm here now." I have never encountered such slapdash and downright rude staff before, and have no intention of ever going to that Egg & I again. In fact, I regret that I did not insist on seeing the manager. If he or she reads this, please rest assured that you have 2 very ignorant people working for you, who ought to be sacked immediately.

We have tried many places for breakfast and the Egg & I is by far the worst of them all. Almost every time we have to send the eggs back to get them 'cooked' and the potatoes are like warmed up boiled potatoes... not fried. Would highly advise going anywhere else.