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Sally's Waffle Shop
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Breakfast
- Alcohol:
- None
15 reviews for Sally's Waffle Shop
This little breakfast nook holds a special place in my heart, as it was the breakfast stop for the beau and I on our first trip to Catalina Island early in our relationship. I zeroed in on the blueberry waffles while Dan S. dove into the omelets, and I've never looked back. Hands down the best blueberry waffle I've ever had, and I loved the coziness of the restaurant. Then again, we didn't exactly have to rub elbows with our neighbors.
I personally didn't mind the paper cups... Water conservation, anybody?
I see a LOT of native Californians rating this place highly or decent, and most of you folks are near joints like Harry's and The Broken Yolk out in San Diego. Sally's can only aspire to be like those places. Only decent because it's probably the best place to get a waffle in Catalina Island.
I've tried Joe's the day before, and they're everything Yelpers hated, so I figured I'd give Sally's a go and found they're under the same management. Why else would the staff at Sally's wear the "Eat at Joe's" t-shirts?
I had the bacon waffle because I've been craving one since my last visit at Harry's, and I'm glad to say it was just about decent. It was almost tasteless by the 3rd quarter, only because the syrup had dried up and away, sad to say it relied on that syrup for flavor. They serve the drinks in cheapo paper cups, and charge over $2 a cup if you got juice. No refills on the juices of course.
In a few words: stiff seats, but cozy. Fast service, but forgetable. Decent food and decent prices. Better than Joe's though.
For everyone else, just go to Harry's. They have a killer bacon waffle.. killer everything actually!
When you serve waffles with bacon cooked inside of them, you deserve a standing ovation.
When you serve me the best sandwich I have ever had in my life, you deserve 5 stars.
THE ORDER:
Allene's Special: 5 stars. I dunno who the hell Allene is, but I'd like to have an affair with her. This will sound so simple, but my mouth had an orgasm. Roasted Turkey, melted cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, mayonnaise and I ordered it with pickles....all on grilled sourdough. You know your food is the bomb when u keep saying to your boyfriend, "oh my God, taste my sandwich.... take another bite...you wont believe this!!!"
Bacon Waffle: 5 stars......i was expecting bacon-bit sized pieces, but no, sir! big pieces of torn bacon were the perfect texture and flavor to contrast and balance the sweet, crispy waffle.
Mary's Special: 5 stars....An open faced English muffin with hashed browns, an ortega chili, a fried egg, shaved ham and american cheese....this was SOOO GOOOD!! my bf said, "if I lived in Catalina, I would eat here everyday." I concur.
The SERVICE: I loved how the cook is also the hostess "Sit anywhere you'd like." It was awesome!
Took a couple of minutes to get our order, but everyone was pleasant.
I DEF RECCOMEND THIS PLACE!!
i am adding pictures :)
xo-
andrea
Eew! Canned mushrooms! Really? I didn't realize when jack's said fresh mushrooms that the other places would be using canned if they didn't specify. Disgusting!
I guess I should have stuck with he waffles like everyone else. They did look good, but the fruit looked canned as well.
The linguisa was the only worthwhile thing here. Skip over and head to jack's.
I really hate being crammed into small places, so it really says something about my love of Sally's that I'm only dropping them one star for their microscopic size.
I ordered a sausage, sour cream and green onion omelet, and it was to die for. I wasn't sure what to expect when I ordered it, but the omelet was cooked with the sour cream *inside* and apparently, my personal heaven serves warm sour cream. Who knew?
Be ready to rub elbows. I mean it - this place is ridiculously small. Even the kitchen is right there in the room with you. Watch the chef do his thing while you wait to be seated.
So, I'm in dire need of a hearty breakfast to help me nurse a rather substantial hangover from a regretful night of overindulgence with my friend from Ireland, John Jameson.
Thank my lucky stars that the Waffle house is nearby and serving up my favorite type of scramble....thats right...the kind with bacon, bacon and more BACON.
The place is empty so we're seated promptly and service is great, very friendly and helpful waitress. I get some much needed rehydration via my bottomless H2o cup and I order the chopped bacon scramble which comes with potatoes. The wife ain't too impressed and has potatoes while my baby has a $1.50 banana, yea, $1.50....she loved it....so it musta been worth every penny.
My scramble was excellent, fluffy, well cooked scrambled eggs with thick, juicy, chopped chunks of my favorite section of swine in every bite. This went great with the toast and potatoes which were brown, crispy and very tasty.
Thanks to Sally for the hangover helper which happened to be just what the doctor ordered....well, with the exception of the extra strength excedrin my head screamed out for.....lesson learned Mr. Jameson....lesson learned.
This place is ok but not anything special. My friends always want to go here because of the pretty awning and because it's right in the middle of front st. The Pancake Cottage is so much better, though.
i was so hungry. so frickin hungry. and they had build your own hash browns, which is my kryptonite. i was salivating. hash browns, jalapeno, (the waitress said fresh and i got so excited, theyre so much better than pickled ones, and cheese)
Le Sigh. what came next was upsetting. not much more than a cup of hash brown, about 4 pickled jalapenos, and that damned plastic raincoat singles cheese laid on top. god it should be considered an act of heresy to put that drivel on anything. Overpriced.
Craptastic.
I can't go to Avalon without having breakfast at least once at Sally's. Even if I'm only there one morning. And it's always the same breakfast. The scrambled eggs with crab & spinach. I guess they have other things on the menu, but I just settled in with it. I think they call it a S-2. If it's working, don't fix it.
The last time I visited this place was in 2005, but I can still remember how good the peach waffles were. I miss you, Sally's! =(
Bacon waffles?! Bacon INSIDE of a waffle?!? Heaven. Yes, I could be a pescatarian, but god knows I have a weakness for bacon. They have other waffles too, like Pecan waffles, peanut butter... plus other breakfast and lunch food too. Its all here. And its pretty delicious.
Seeing as how there aren't many options to eat breakfast at when you're stuck on an island, the hubs and I ate here at Sally's Waffle Shop because it was crowded so that meant it had to be good, right? Well, it ended up being decent. I had a spinach, mushroom, and swiss omlet, which was good. Service was fast, but the food was expensive for what it was.
Pretty much a greasy spoon (but a good one). On the day that I visited, the only options for cheese in my omelet were Swiss & American, I went with the swiss. This place is small which is quaint and ensured good service. I believe I had five iced tea refills while there and the waiter kept our coffee filled all the time. I wish more locations on the island had service like this.
For what it is, it's a bit overpriced. The waffles aren't the best I've ever had, but they're pretty big. Pretty standard when it comes to breakfast. It's definitely a dive.. but.. most of the places on the island are.
For a place that specializes in waffles they sure do make a bad waffle. First, I ordered the bacon waffle, because the waffle they call peanut butter is just a scoop of peanut butter on top of a plain waffle (this is not a peanut butter waffle; this is a waffle with peanut butter on top). Typically, I like my waffles with very light syrup and usually no butter, but these waffles were so hard and dry that me and my husband had to drown them in butter and syrup just to keep from choking. However, I am giving them 2 stars instead of one because they have very delicious bacon.
