Ever Open Cafe & Gas Stop

I like the feel of this place. The chicken fried steak was really good. Served with mashed potatoes, bread and veggies it was a great price also.
I can see going in here often.

Wanted a low carb breakfast in a high carb place. Ended up with one of the best I’ve ever had. They cheerfully subbed grilled veggies in a green chili breakfast burrito. Skipping ½ the tortilla and the fantastic blend of flavors was perfect. Its on my do this more often list.

Hmm… I was ready to love this place, but it just didn’t pan it for me.
The diner has a minimalistic but classic feel to it. The tables and chairs are solid with no frills. On this particular day, two women were handling all of the tables as things began to fill up. Our waitress was not able to handle this small rush (still, only about 50% of the dining space was filled at most) and quickly became frazzled. She set a priority on getting orders in and rushing food to tables, but that left us there for nearly 20 minutes waiting for her to drop off the check. Refilling drinks fell down the priority list, too, so it felt like we were no longer taken care of once our plates hit the table.
We went with breakfast dishes and the food was decent. There was nothing that I’d write home about. I ordered the cheese omelet which came out looking very deflated. It seems that the cook scrambled the eggs, dumped some shredded cheese in, and through it on the flat top which meant that the characteristic fluffiness with oozing cheese stuffing was lost. The bread used for the toast was pretty unremarkable.
Prices were relatively reasonable. Feel free to stop by if you need to, otherwise I’m sure you can find some place better.

Great little diner /​truck stop’y place, with solid service and friendly staff. If that’s the kind of joint you’re looking for, pull over here — you won’t find better in north Fort Collins. Everything south gets trendy fast.

I have stopped here before and had a great cheeseburger. This time I was there for breakfast. It was a good breakfast for me, eggs, hash browns, toast and bacon. My wife had an omelette that was disappointing. It was basically scrambled eggs with the rest of the ingredients, mostly cheese, spread on top.
So, I wouldn’t order an omelette, but a basic breakfast was superior.
Staff was friendly and there was a group of older gentlemen that apparently breakfasted here every morning, very congenial place.

Long wait (both for the food and followup service) as others have posted was the primarily hassle. It was sunday morning but the place wasn’t very crowded.
I ordered steak and eggs, she ordered biscuits and gravy. With sides of bacon and sausage. My sausage patty was so-​so, her gravy was really good, as were the eggs and toast.
The sirloin steak was about what you’d expect from the «Steak and Eggs» steak at a greasy spoon. Had a freshly-​microwaved taste, was a little overcooked but I ate most of it.
Hash browns were decent.
Price came to $ 33 for the two of us, which surprised me a little considering it’s a small diner. I think what bit us was the extra cost of the sides.

I don’t know how many times I drove by this place on my way to the mountains since I came to Fort Collins, but last summer after a camping trip we finally stopped and had some breakfast. Maybe it was the meal I ordered (an omelet with green chili, IIRC), but this was one of the best breakfasts I’ve had since I moved here (up there with Vern’s and Farmer’s Table). It’s a nice, roadside-​style diner and it had that friendly, retro feeling to it. I highly recommend this yummy place.

Good Hamburgers, good biscuits and gravy. Don’t go here if you expect atmosphere; it’s a friendly down-​home place that used to be a truck stop sort of in the 1970’s. Prices are average.

My first and only trip to the Ever Open (Barely Open!) Café was horrible. The service was so slow. My food (biscuits and gravy) sat for 10 minutes before it was delivered to the table. The food was mediocre at best. When I finally got the attention of my waitress I asked for a check. It still hadn’t come 10 minutes later, so I went and paid at the counter. While paying the party that was seated next to us walked out after not getting their food in more than a half hour.
In three words…
THIS PLACE SUCKS!

Mother’s Day weekend. Usually it’s spent doing things like breakfast in bed that was lovingly made by the kids with a home-​made card covered in glitter or brunch at a favorite restaurant where nobody has to worry about dishes. Our tradition is to plant spring flowers in the yard, although those plans have been thwarted by snow for the last two years. This year we decided to go hiking and take the boys fishing for the first time up Poudre Canyon, taking advantage of the nice spring weather before it turned nasty.
Whenever we have a day trip up into the mountains, it’s mandatory that we first have a hearty country breakfast at a greasy spoon diner. We originally planned on stopping at Vern’s. While driving up the soon-​to-​be-​revitalized North College, we drove passed Ever Open Café. My husband and I looked at each other, both knowing that Ever Open hasn’t been reviewed. It make an interesting breakfast adventure! He then quickly (and safely) made a U-​Turn, pulling into the sparse parking lot.
I spent an entire week researching details and history of Ever Open Café. Hours upon hours of flipping through endless pages on Google, I came up with pretty much nothing. Odd considering that Ever Open has been around for 50 years. So, this is what I know about the small little diner:
* It’s been in business for 50 years, thanks to the signs claiming so as we drove up to Ted’s Place.
* It was also possibly known as Al’s Café at some point. Don’t know when or why it changed.
* It was also known as Ever Open Café and Gas Stop, although there are no longer gas pumps there if it was indeed a real truck stop.
* Just like the typical American diner, they have homemade pies and chili.
* Oddly, they have free wifi.
And that’s it.
We walked into a place that seemed to be left back in time while the rest of the world around evolved and changed with technology. It reminded my husband of the diners in a very small town his family was from, with a population of a little over 900 people. This is the general feeling of North Fort Collins, anyway. Once you cross the tracks, it’s totally different than the rest of the city.
When going in, we didn’t expect much. Actually, we were ready to relive the horror stories that we’d been told about Ever Open. Really, it wasn’t that bad. Was it good enough to make us stop by every time we took a trip up the canyon? No. But we did have a meal that filled us up for a good hike and some absolutely amazing fishing where The Preschooler caught his very first two fish. Not exactly the prefect Mother’s Day brunch, but definitely, the perfect Mother’s Day.