Sail Inn Sandwich Shop

Had breakfast last week with the family. Have to say I was impressed. Everything cooked to order, fast service, and cleanliness. I have always loved their lunch menu. I will definitely be frequenting their breakfast now.

** their home fries are delicious!

One of the best part of moving to a new area is the opportunity to scope out new 'favs and I guess find also places you'd rather not revisit. Unfortunately, it's the later at this little mom 'n pop place along the parkway in Gulf Breeze.

I exclusively support the underdogs (not chains) when it comes too a good food at a reasonable price. And based on YOUR REVIEWS my fellow yelppers, my two daughters and I went this morning.

As per reviewers, there's not much in the way of "ambiance" at this shop, which is okay by me. It's hard to spell and nobody eats ambiance anyway. But I was disappointed with the menu, which offered a pretty standard list of omelets, biscuits and build your own egg-and-piggie breakfasts. The menu stated, "famous homemade cinnamon rolls" but no one tried that or specialty coffee.

Order service was speedy but the food came after quite a bit, fresh but surprisingly slow since there weren't a lot of people there. Each plate is, "fully loaded" and so quantity wasn't a problem. For me quality was. The omelets were awful, my daughter and I had the ham and cheese, which was not generous chunks of ham steak chopped up with the eggs, but rather what appeared to be sandwich ham slices which had been grilled and curled. The three eggs were doused with what appeared to be a huge glob of cheddar and my daughter's over-easy eggs breakfast featured bacon burned to a crisp. The homemade hashbrowns looked good, but disappointed.

Never saw the wait staff after the food came out, my daughter went hunting for ketchup on another table and I had to go the register for my check. Not a happily- ever-after-ending to this meal.

Sadly, there aren't enough local spots in this town and way too many fast food boxes: ihop, and waffle house---ugh. Oh well, back out the Native Cafe on the beach for breakfast next time!

Food is always great! They have the friendliest service around! Delicious soups, sandwiches & daily lunch plates.

Found this place two weeks ago and I love it, my wife thinks it was great also.

After my third visit the manager has my unsweet ice tea ready before I am ready to order.

I have tried five different items in my 7 visits (yep, this is becoming my place) and everything was hot and well prepared.

Staff knows a lot of the customers by a first name basis. I came in an hour early today and the manager said wow you are early.

Maybe they have a new manager (I believe her name is Emily) but I couldn't ask for better lunch food and better service.

I am highly impressed. They get busy, today was the longest I have waited for food and it was 10 minutes with a restaurant full of customers.

Try it sometime, I will see you there. Finally after 11 months in the area I have found a spot

Excellent food! Great service! Love this place. It's a must try. Nice change with a hometown feel, take time to enjoy this treasure. The Barnyard Burger (no ham added bacon) is so delicious.

The food and atmosphere is typically good and he order time isn't usually bad. Today, it took 30 minutes to sit, 20 min to get a menu after siting, and I have been waiting 45 minutes to get the food. They gave us an order of cold, grease filled beignets to hold us over. They need to hire more cooks. There are tables sitting around us that have been waiting longer than we have been!

Not much for you if you don't like soup and unique sandwiches. Their salad bar was closed and it was only 1pm.

Breakfast is amazing. Great portions and quality on everything I've ordered! Service is great too. Will definitely be back

Had to edit this review after being back a few more times. Service has remained better than expected, but you can definitely tell a new owner is in place due to the lack of quality food items they have been putting out recently. EVERYTHING I have ordered the last two visits has come out drenched in a grease like substance. This last time I tried the shrimp and grits (thinking it probably wouldn't have as much grease as the previous "egg special" meal). Got my food and was astonished how little effort they appeared to put in my 14 dollar meal. Couldn't have asked for a worst experience

My husband loved the Cuban sandwich. He did mention that the roasted pork on the sandwich was dry, but not a big deal. Pork is usually dry.

I got the 15 Bean Soup and it reminded me of the soup my mom always made when I was growing up. It was delicious and very filling.

Great prices and great staff. We live 1 mile away. So glad we finally stopped to try it. We will return. Can't wait to try their breakfast! I'll update later.

**Edit on 1/25/14: Went for breakfast. It was awesome.

My 4 year old daughter got a pancake and two sausage patties. Ms. Picky ate it all. I couldn't believe it. She even snagged half of my biscuit and ate it up.

I got the New York omelet with corned beef and swiss cheese. So good! Never thought I'd like that combo but it was awesome. Also got hash browns (extra crispy) and biscuits. The biscuits are some of the best biscuits I've ever had.

My husband got a two egg plate (scrambled) with bacon, biscuits, and hash browns. The bacon really is awesome (someone else mentioned how good their bacon is). He's also pretty picky and he liked it.

We shared an order of french toast and that, too, was good. Love powdered sugar on my french toast.

The only negative is the smell in the joint. You end up smelling like breakfast all day. Not a big deal to me. Definitely not a deal breaker.

It was ok, but nothing to write home about. The Newport club was a bit on the dry side and the broccoli salad tasted like sweet coleslaw. Very friendly and quick service. I would go again, but I'd try something else.