L.A. Pete’s

Great price! Good quality food! Lots of character! I got to enjoy a wonderful breakfast with my fellow coworkers. You get a lot of food for the price. The waitress was extremely nice. Don’t forget to check out their desert cooler.

Good food at a great price. Great service. I’ve never had a bad experience here. Highly recommended!

PLEASE eat ANYWHERE but here. This place has been shut down several times by the health dept. They just change the name and keep going. The last thing I got there had mold on the cheese. All they care about is your money. Not food safety or you.

There is a small part of me that really wants to hold off on writing this review on the chance that I try them again. I sided on editing the review if that day arrives. For now, here is my tale of woe:
Seems this is a family-​run location with a very busy usage on Sunday mornings. We waited a few minutes for a table and both the husband and wife owners kept us and other waiting well informed. They were kind, warm, and friendly. Hence the hesitation to review.
I ordered the Cuyahoga Heights deep dish breakfast. The waitress assured me that the cook would sauté the veggies. I asked her twice and twice she said they would be cooked. Her level of knowledge dove into the realm of nonexistent when I asked if the orange juice was fresh squeezed or not. She said she didnt really know and that it is poured from a plastic jug.
when the plate came out after waiting nearly thirty minutes, the veggies were raw, cool, and crisp. When the server was told this she said that the peppers and onions were in fact cooked. They were not and I showed her by snapping a piece of green pepper in front of her. I asked for it to be sent back and that I would not wish for anything else. I mean, who actually will eat food once it is sent back… spit anyone?
About thee minutes later she arrived with another plate. I told her that I did not want it. She put it down anyway and insisted that the veggies were cooked. Once again, they were not. She asked how I knew and after telling her that there was no way the cooks would be able to do so in less than three minutes, the onions were still crunchy as were the peppers.
When the check came she still kept them meal on the bill. The younger man acting as cashier removed the charge.
Not sure I will be back, which is too bad because we stay in this area almost monthly. Oh well, Bob Evans next time I suppose.

I suppose it would be proper to start with a positive note. The people/​staff are friendly and the service was fast.
Food quality. if there was a way to give negative stars I would. I had an omelet with veggies and a side of turkey sausage. The eggs were rubbery and the sausage links reminded me of cube shaped cardboard. I swear they microwaved my entire meal.
Even the coffee was disgusting as if they reused the grinds a second time. I’m all for recycling and sustainability but NOT for my coffee.
I’ve had better meals at Dennys back in the day of 2am after parties.
My bill was $ 12… yes cheap but what’s the point if you can’t eat the food.
YUCK! never again.

Great breakfast, try the crepes. Clean, comfortable room. Great service. Friendly people. We’re coming back!

Friendly service, but the food is mediocre at best. Ordered cream of broccoli soup and it was pretty much all cream with a hint of broccoli. The side salad was relatively tasteless iceburg lettuce. Again not horrible, but not great. Lots of better options nearby.

Had lunch for the first time here. I liked the location, parking lot, and set up. The food was decent for lunch and I like that there are daily lunch specials and soups. Also with a sandwich you have a choice of potatoes salad, toss salad, or fries.
I order the buffalo chicken wrap. I have had better. There was not enough buffalo sauce so the server gave me extra and the fries were cold. The price is reasonable. I look forward to trying their breakfast. My friend said the turkey Ruben and banana crepes were delicious!

Dined here for breakfast at the suggestion of my wife’s uncle (who lives in Broadview Heights.) The place looks kinda shady from the outside, but their breakfast food was absolutely top-​notch. Large portions, fast & efficient service, quality breakfast meats. Oh, and not to mention they’re rather affordable. If I lived in the area, I would totally frequent this place.

I really like the food and the service and the prices are fair. My only complaint would be that the owner sits idly on his ass chatting with his friends at the front of the dining room and loudly belittles the waitresses (who by the way are busting their butts and doing a fine job) right out in the open in the dining room. His behavior is very off-​putting. What a do-​nothing jerk! I’m torn on stars to give so let me just say I’d like to give the place a 4 and the owner a big old ugly zero like him.

I stopped in for breakfast while waiting on the NTB next door to replace a couple of tires. Business was brisk on a Saturday morning but not overly busy. I was seated right away and received my order in 5 minutes. My server Krissy was very attentive and congenial. I ordered the I 480 which is two eggs, short stack of pancakes, potatoes and choice of bacon or sausage. The portions were very healthy and the pancakes were fantastic, but the rest of the meal was very average. In retrospect I should have opted for bacon instead of sausage. I did ask for salsa on the side and was accommodated.
All in all it was a positive experience. This is definitely a place that caters to the older breakfast crowd (Sirius XM 60s on 6 plays in the background) but perfect for a sub-​$ 10 meal.

The prices are ok, the food is typical cheap diner food. This is the type of place that tries to attract the local retirees and elderly. Nice location, but everything seems worn out.
I have eaten here twice. The breakfast is ok, about what you would expect at a chain. My lunch salad was subpar. There was a big chunk of the lettuce core and stem mixed in. The menus were stained and beat up. I want to like this place, but even the service was poor, and they were not busy.

This is L.A. Pete’s contrary to the Unilocal spelling of «La Pete’s». So it is not some kind of French name. The breakfast is good, cheap and a nice independently owned place to go for lunch in Independence. I don’t know why people eat at the chains like Denny’s or Bob Evans down the road. The chains do exactly what their name implies and hold people captive to corporate slavery. Support a locally owned business and come to L.A. Pete’s. If you decide to dine at Denny’s, you may as well sing the lyrics to Country Feedback by REM. «It’s crazy what you could’ve had» at L.A. Pete’s instead. The view of the cemetery across the road is nice. The trees are beautiful in the fall. The barren landscape of the graveyard with criss-​crossing branches is evocative in the winter. It is nice to eat some warm food while alive and above ground.

Nice place for breakfast, I went there twice and their food is really good and I can planing to go there again. But is it not a place that I will take my friends to …

This place is pretty cool. Not the most fancy but great service and good food. I am looking forward to going back

Quickly seated on a busy day. Friendly waitress. Speedy service. The food was great at a fair price.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH mediocrity.
Me to the manager: Your meals are alright, but your coffee leaves a decent amount to be desired.
Manager: No, it’s good.
Me: Oh, yeah, nevermind.
You can do better within 2 miles north, east, south and west… don’t waste your time.

I like this place. You can always get a table. There’s variety to the menu, french toast, skillets, special pancakes, egg dishes, etc. The food tastes like it was cooked rather than just plopped in a microwave, which I appreciate.
I like their buckwheat pancakes and «Mom’s Sassy Apples» are pretty fun. They are like pie filling.
This is one of our go to breakfast places because there’s ample seating and the food prices are just right.

Pete’s is a nice breakfast restaurant. Word is they are now expanding their hours of service to lunch and dinner as well. The quality is ok. The service is good and food tastes ok. Its not a five star tuxedo service by any means but you know what your going to get. It has a Mom and Pop feel to it. I really like that.

Yet another breakfast adventure in Cleveland, or rather near Cleveland in the suburb of Independence. This place is open daily until 2p, and that sounds like the kind of place that should know how to do breakfast right.
Instead, I’d say they know how to do breakfast well enough. We arrived at about 10:30a on a Saturday, and had no trouble getting a table, as they have plenty of room. Our waitress was quick to get us coffee and for the duration of the meal she was reasonably attentive.
The coffee is nothing impressive; its the «dishwater» that Europeans complain about in the U.S., but it kept flowing. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t have Splenda, but in a pinch the blue stuff will suffice.
I ordered two eggs with cheese, and home fries. And I also got a shortstack of buttermilk pancakes.
My partner got the «Interstate,» which is sausage gravy with biscuits, eggs, and potatoes. He got a short stack of French toast on the side.
We had to wait about 20 minutes for our food, and in the mean time, one of the bus boys came by and cleared off our ketchup and Tabasco sauce for some reason.
When the food arrived, it was really underwhelming. My eggs were supposed to be scrambled, but they came out over easy. They were delivered by someone other than our waitress, and I didn’t want to send them back and wait longer, so I ate them as they were. I also found that the home fries were really bland and under-​prepared. The potatoes and onions were not cooked enough, and they were completely lacking that caramelized crust that makes them worth eating. Instead they were more like a mash of steamed, undersalted diced potatoes with onions. My shortstack was also disappointing, because they arrived barely warm. The butter wouldn’t even melt on them.
My partner’s meal was more satisfying to him than mine was to me, but he also said it was nothing special. Also, the time came when we needed our ketchup and Tabasco back, and it took us at least 10 minuted to get a hold of anyone. His French toast wasn’t bad, but it’s nothing I couldn’t have made at home at the age of 10.
We chalked this one up to experience, and will most likely not return unless we were forced to go by some culinary martyr who loves the place.