Elly’s Pancake House

The turkey club is pretty good. The service is decent but nothing exceptional. DO NOT get the monte cristo. They have pretty good food, overall. Prices seem fair.

I came here today and I ordered a egg white omelette with 5 ingredients. The omelette was very good and also quite a bit of food. The reason I have this a 1 star is because when the bill came and I asked for no toast /​sub fruit I was changed 1.50. I asked for no hash browns, sub fruit I was charged .50. I was charged more money for items that were cheaper for them to put on a plate, and I was never told until the bill came. Stay away from a business that hides charges. #nobueno

i have been here numerous times but for breakfast only… spacious dining area, plenty of parking… quality, quantity, price, and service are ok (not great but not bad either)…the best is fresh squeezed orange juice… the worst are the pancakes (ironic being part of their name)…please make better pancakes or change your name to «elly’s house»…hopefully i didn’t anger their pancakes with this review because i would hate to see them flip…

Really disappointing. We heard great things but our waiter seemed hungover and inattentive. The food was bland. We live across the street but won’t be returning.

We frequent here and it is your standard breakfast food. The fresh squeezed OJ is awesome and reasonably priced. Eggs & bacon are good. Hash browns are freshly made and perfectly cooked. Service is generally good sometimes a bit slow but all the servers are friendly. The bus boys are super efficient.
After church on Sunday mornings it gets super busy and pretty loud. There are few a things that I don’t really like here, the side of pancakes are nothing special and very dry plus the syrup seems extra sweet. Also, they don’t have your standard jelly packets on the table. They serve «their» jam/​jelly on the side in a little cup and it has a very strange consistency and flavor so I stay away those items.
Overall a decent breakfast place.

Well you will be full when you leave — prices are great, parking is good and the staff is fantastic. It could use some cleaning and refreshing and that’s the reason for the 4 star rating!

I won’t be back. Food was fine, but felt like we were being rushed.
We had told the server when we ordered we were going to need a togo order as well before we left. She came back to our table less than 5 minutes after we received our food to take the next order, but didn’t bring the menu back. We were still eating when the togo order was ready.
We were never asked if anything else was wanted and she moved so quickly when she dropped off the check we didn’t get a chance to ask for drink refills-​we had to flag her down. Note none had been offerred/​given during the 30 to 40 minutes we had been there. Then the weirdest thing-​while I’m drinking the coffee refill she comes back to our table and asks if she can have the dish with the sugar in it. I must have given her a confused look because then she asked, ‘or are you still using it?’ I gave her the dish, she disappears and we comment how odd this seems. We note it’s almost 3 and think maybe they close at 3 so that is why we are being rushed. We get up to pay and see other customers were still seated as well as 4PM closing time on the door.

Food is good nice size portions. Prices are OK and service is fast. Prefer Teddy’s down the street but not a bad alternative to change it up once in a while.

We were visiting the area & had breakfast here the first morning. Well, we ended up having breakfast here the next few days! Super friendly & fast service. Just a blink of the eye & your coffee was refilled with a smile. The food? Excellent. perfectly cooked & generous portions. What an endless selection too… I had the Olé’ Omelet with yummy chorizo one morn. Bright & Clean place as well. Wish I had one of these near my home!

It’s exactly what I thought was. Food was perfectly cooked. Just two problems. Corned beef hash shouldn’t come with hash browns. That’s a lot of potatoes. Also, they charge 2 bucks for real syrup. For a pancake house this is becoming common and it should be embarrassing.

It smelled like cleaning solution but we were on limited time and had no choice so we ate. The salad I ordered was ok but not the best. Service was pretty quick for lunch and we were on our way in no time.

Save your money and go down to Uncle Bills. The chicken fried steak is mushy and the fatada is a skillet of unmelted cheese.

I came here once with a group from work, and got the mushroom burger with dijon mustard. It wasn’t bad, I just wasn’t overly impressed with the quality and taste.
Our server was nice enough, and just the right level of attentiveness, so I can’t argue that, it may very well have been the difference between 2 & 3 stars.

I like the big open space of the dining room. Every time I’ve gone to Ellys the service has been friendly and prompt. This place serves your typical breakfast fare, and they do it well. Nothing fancy, but it’s a solid pancake/​eggs/​skillets kind of place. They double the eggs which I always forget. I order two and they give four. Personally I don’t need to eat four eggs and I always end up tossing two. That’s a little annoying.
I like their lunches too. Simple salads and sandwiches. My breakfast buddies also like their juices.

Really nice food and service! Loved the veggie omelette, they even gave me french toast instead of the regular one with no added cost. Very satisfied customers!

Love to go to Elly’s for breakfast or lunch. Week days or weekends. The service is friendly and the food is good, hot, and reliable. We frequent here often. I love their chicken salad sandwhiches.
Highly recommended.

If I knew how to leave zero stars I would.
Waitress took a very long time to come over and as rude and huffy while we ordered due to a few «special» requests such as sauce on the side. How dare we!
She then forgot to put our order in and came back to retake it almost ten minutes later — no apology
My food then comes out wrong — no apology when I send it back
Then the bill comes and its over charged — we asked for it to be adjusted and they were very defensive that we were wrong. They charged a normal meal instead of a kids for my sons food and they looked at us like we were crazy. Speaking with the manager they wouldn’t take off the kids hot chocolates bc they didn’t come with their meals — which our rude waitress didn’t mention so that was an extra five bucks. They did take off two bucks for our trouble
Start to finish a huge fail and $ 50 for a shitty experience with mediocre food and a rude waitress. I’ll never be back.

Our go to brunch place in the northwest burbs :) I can’t help but always get the country fried steak (gravy on the side). There’s nothing better than a hot breakfast. Scratch that. There’s nothing better than a hot, fried breakfast with all the trimmings — eggs, hash, and pancakes.
Paired with a cup of steaming hot coffee (I take mine black, thank you), it is the absolute perfect brunch meal!

Only had a few problems: a weird new furniture type smell, no refill on my coffee, and the place was barely half full but it was super LOUD because there was nothing to muffle the sound.
Food was good, service was generally good. I liked that the kids meal had the option of fruit instead of hashbrowns. Another things that I was impressed with was how hot the coffee and food was, and how it stayed that way. I know, weird comment.
We’ll be back.

It is my opinion that Elly’s food is so typical, average and uninspiring that it approaches the mediocre.
There is no real excitement on Elly’s menu, instead you’ll find the tried and true breakfast favorites as served in hundreds and thousands of other «Greek» diners throughout the greater Chicago area and Northern Illinois.
Service was average to good, nothing to really cheer about, but our needs were met efficiently, quietly and casually.
Because there are so many of this type of place that are successful there are apparently a number of «breakfast people» who want exactly this experience;
— They want no surprises to rock their world.
— They want a quiet place to read the morning paper over colored water that passes for coffee.
— They seem to want only the basics prepared in the time honored and traditional manner.
Elly’s is just the place for those sort of people to meet their milquetoast friends and take their characterless offspring.
I kept hoping for some little something to make our meals interesting, heck even a bent fork would have been appreciated. It sadly didn’t happen.