Johnny Pamcakes 2

Tldr: order to go. Listen. It's no secret their breakfast foods are amazing. Every location is packed. I saw the pictures for this location and got so excited for them. How cute right? I instantly fell in love with all the plants and sun. We live right next to the Rockford location but becuz we got incredibly bad service the day before by a very rude and snotty server we ventured out to Belvidere to try the new spot the next day. Sadly, I will not be returning. Yes it's beautiful and yes the food still has an unmatched parallel but boy. It was so crowded it was genuinely off-putting. I mean way to go for them but for the patron...ehhhhhhhh. kind of miserable ngl. The space is beautiful but it's very small and knowing how busy they get I don't see how they can keep up using this space for long. Watching waitresses walk up and down stairs with a massive tray of food is actually scary especially coupled with so many people standing around. Service when Sat was hectic. Things forgotten. Things spilled. Stress from servers is highly evident. Yes the food was good. But to go out and feel stressed as a paying guest is not the experience I wanted. The wait was 30 mins and told to wait in our car becuz space was limited and then the dining experience is stressful as the servers are clearly overwhelmed and overworked forgetting, spilling, and long periods of waiting. I love the food. We go out to eat daily and work in a restaurant ourselves. We are grateful and try to make the servers life as easy as possible. But I can't return to this location with how limited the space is for waiting customers and then how stressed the service is there after Food quality is excellent tho. The charm of the location is spoiled by the staffs stress. We will just get to go from now on. I will miss the coffee which is 65% of the reason I go out for breakfast at a diner but ho boy. Too stressful for me anymore. Try it for yourself though. Becuz the food is great the pancakes linger in your mind for an eternity. Constant coffee refills is amazing. The amount of food you get is incredible. Price is reasonable. And the location is beautiful and modern.

Fri fish is sub par served dry peas and a minimal baked potato.

New restaurant, which we needed! Staff was friendly, food was good, huge menu, not just breakfast. Very crowded after church on Sunday, but that's true everywhere decent. Three sections, and an upstairs area. Middle downstairs section is an atrium with plastic roof, but the sun was VERY bright. We'll be back!

We ordered for pick up and food was awesome, my husband got the farmers roast beef sandwich and I got the Rueben, fries were great and so was everything else. Plenty of choices for your sides also. Can’t wait to have breakfast there!!

Best pancakes ever

First time at this location. They recently moved from the Cherry Valley location to this one. Great service and good food .

Second visit to Restaurant! Overdone burger with no tomato onion or lettuce which was ordered. But still good. Steak sandwich was real tasty and cooked correctly. Fries were steak fries and real good! My previous breakfast meal was really delicious. So the server today didn't bring us drinks til after the meal was served. She was not attentive at all. The last time we had a fantastic server

Awesome place!