Ken’s Corner Coffee Shoppe

I didn’t even know this place existed until I went there with a friend, but this place is very nice and the food is great. Good size portions and the prices are VERY good. Highly recommend this stop for any meal any time of the day.

This is a nice local coffee shop with basic American fast frozen food offerings. So, if you like things brown and hot and lots of it, then stop here. There isn’t anything on the menu that you couldn’t cook better yourself.

Darling retro café in a strip mall — grey lineolum with pink and grey wallpaper, upholstered metal chairs with wainscoting and ceiling fans — nothing fancy here. But a very good breakfast — good coffee by a coffee snob’s standards with terrific French toast. Would have been five stars but food was just a tad cold for me — personal taste. Choose this spot over Denny’s or IHOP for local color.

I love hole in the wall Mom & Pop coffee shops, IF they have good food and service… Remember Mel’s Diner? This was retro like that but so much bigger and brighter but talk about attitude!
Laying on my Mom’s kitchen table was a take out menu for The Corner Coffee Shoppe. I opened it up and noticed that she had quite a few things circled, a grilled reuben, liver and onions (yuck) and a slice of coconut cream pie. Well two out of three sounded good, so I asked my brother and sister in law if they wanted to join me at Ken’s the next day, breakfast worked for them and so we went.
On the outside it reads The Corner Coffee Shoppe, but when you pay your receipt will read the same but with Ken’s name in front of it. The place is huge with booths and chairs of red vinyl and metal tables with formica tops. There is a long counter to one side with swivel stools that are screwed down, picture the longest counter you have ever seen.
Being close to Valentine’s Day they were decorated very tastefully but it was an abundance of hearts, silk roses in vases, red and white lights everywhere, heart shaped wreaths, you could not have put up one more decoration if you tried, they even had them hanging from the ceiling.
Before you reach the long counter area on the right there is a large reach in refrigerator with homemade cream pies and lemon piled high with meringue. They also have fruit pies galore, egg custard and pumpkin. They have ice cream, milkshakes, sundaes and a soda fountain and many homemade cakes, apple dumplings and Boston cream pie.
Stop right there, I give them five shiny stars! I would not think twice about getting a dessert to go and admiring their coffee shoppe. The baked goods are all homemade and phenomenal! The pies and cake slices are like a fifth of the pie or cake and gigantic pieces and only $ 2.19! Now for $ 8. and change you can buy the whole pie or cake, what a bargain, but I wanted to take home a variety for my sweet toothed hubby to try.
Okay now we get to breakfast and the server we had. I had a large tomato juice, they had coffee, my sister in law and brother ordered western omelets and home fries. I wanted to make an egg sandwich, my way, so I ordered two eggs scrambled with cheese adding onions, green peppers, mushrooms, an English muffin and a side of mayo. I also ordered a side of the lousiest bacon I have ever had in my life. Three strips of tissue thin sliced deep fried lousy bacon. I asked for onions and green peppers in my home fries and they were good.
Oh my gosh TJ’s world came crumbling down and she shouted at me, «You can’t do that, they will never let me put this in the kitchen, they will ask me why I ordered it and rang it in this way!.» I wanted to say get a grip TJ, I’m ordering breakfast not putting in an order for one thousand shares of Cisco Systems!
I explained to her what my intentions were of building my own sandwich and she said «get an Omelet» and so I did!
I reminded her that I wanted an English muffin and she piped back, well you did not say that as she scribbled and rewrote, ugh. For a fact I said it cause I even asked my brother and sister in law if they wanted a muffin or toast, plus before wanting an egg sandwich I inquired as to whether or not they had english muffins.
As she was walking away both my brother and sister in law asked what was her name and I said «attitude» and they both said uh huh!
My omelet arrived so brown it was not even funny and I said oh my gosh the eggs are burned, my sister in law happens to like her eggs hard and my brother was starving so they just ate it. The server totally ignored my announcement, so I went about making myself the worst omelet sandwich I have ever had, the pepper and onions were raw, no attempt was made to cook them yet my eggs were brown.
One star for breakfast and TJ. I may go here and love soups, sandwiches and entrees as much as I did the homemade desserts, who knows, I will not return for breakfast, for sure.