Ann Sather's

Elite '08

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Caroline M.

Chicago, IL

I tend to get cranky if I don't get fed every few hours....and this place makes my tummy happy (and minimizes my cranky-ness).  

Quick and friendly service.
Yummy cinnamon rolls.
Good coffee.
Inexpensive.
In my neighborhood.

I heart Ann Sather.

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Bill S.

Chicago, IL

Great breakfast food!  Hot and delicious!  The cinnamon rolls are awesome as I am sure most of you know by now and their omlets are good as well!

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Elite '08

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Kara G.

Chicago, IL

I am not going to comment much on the rest of Ann Sather's food, since it's good but pretty unremarkable. The best part, as anyone who has been to Ann Sather's knows, are the CINNAMON ROLLS. Ooey, gooey, yummy, warm, cinnamon rolls. I could eat them by the truckload, if I wouldn't explode in the process.

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Mark K.

Chicago, IL

maybe i'm becoming a fuddy-dud, but i was fuddy-dudded by ann sather's.  it might have been the windowless backroom next to the bathroom, the cub fans leaving behind all their leftovers (i almost reached over to grab their cinnama-buns), maybe it was the loudness on a day when i wanted quiet time and an elemetary-school-sized carton of milk or maybe it's because ann sathers sounds too much like dan rathers and that reminds me of the smell of burnt toast at dinner time.  whatever it is, the cinnama-bun gets a star, and the coffee gets another.  sorry, ann...and dan.  i'll give you another try because your buns are just so nice, ann's not dan's.

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Julie P.

Chicago, IL

Ann Sather:

Pretty much the worst breakfast I have had in a long while. Yeah yeah yeah, cinnamon rolls are to die for, but I think it's time their reputation be taken down a notch because the rest of the menu was a HUGE disappointment.

I ordered a mexican omelette which consisted of tons of avocado, cheese, cilantro, perhaps some onion with salsa on top. The first cut into the omelette revealed a piece of plastic cooked into the folds of egg. You heard me right; PLASTIC IN MY FREAKING OMELETTE! The rest of the omelette was cold and bland. I added hot sauce, but it was still nasty. Too much avocado inside made the whole thing watery. My boyfriend ordered some potato sausage which came out in a little bowl and looked really weird. They were dull gray in color and nothing about them look appetizing. I took a small bite only to discover they too were COLD and disgusting. I had to spit it out immediately. Just nasty. I think they were even a little raw in the middle. We called over a waitress and asked if they were supposed to be served cold and she said no. We sent them back and asked for a side of potatoes instead. I don't think she spoke much english because a minute later she comes with the bowl of potato sausages fresh out of the microwave! We explained a SECOND time that we didn't want them re-heat, but potatoes instead.

My boyfriend had the french toast special which was a pile of french toast, marscapone cheese, strawberries, raspberries and granola. Sounds amazing, right? It wasn't! How could you have all of those wonderful things on a plate and not pull off something remotely tasty? Go to Ann Sather on Southport for a lesson on how to ruin a great thing (or at least overshadow your one redeeming quality (cinnamon rolls) with a bunch of bland, improperly cooked garbage)).

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Katy G.

Chicago, IL

My husband and I live in Roscoe Village and love walking over to Ann Sather's on Southport.  Two sides come with every dish, and you get a choice of the cinnamon rolls, biscuits, toast, hash browns, tomato, or fruit.  The cinnamon rolls (2) are drippy, gooey, and always warm.  Totally belly soothing!  The biscuits are kind of odd-shaped (like a hand-formed lump), but they're always warm and very soft inside and perfect for slathering with butter and honey.  You can also ask for jam for the biscuits.  My husband likes the Benedicts.  I like the omelettes.  It's always hard to finish because the portions are hearty.  This small cafe looks like a hole-in-the-wall joint, but, hey, if the money they save is going to keeping the food yummy, it's worth it.  The waitstaff are also laidback and nice.

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Elite '08

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Michelle L.

Chicago, IL

This place is just average.  A decent place for Sunday morning breakfast out.  Nothing too fancy...but the prices are a bit higher than your typical diner breakfast food.  The wait wasn't too long at 10 a.m. on a Sunday morning.  The menu has a variety of options from breakfast burrito to speciality french toast to omlets.

The cinnamon rolls are fantastic and very large portions!

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Rachel E.

Chicago, IL

I'm sorry, but I hate Ann Sather's. I think this makes me unamerican or something, but I'm allergic to pretty much everything in cinnamon rolls, and everything but the cinnamon rolls (from what i can gather--smelling the smells, and watching the ooey-gooey frosting drip onto the table cloth and look ooh soo yummy) is unremarkable.

Because I can't eat anything bread-like, I tend to make people wait until after pancake time, so that my "brunch" can be selected from a lunchier menu, and last time I decided to give Ann a chance, I went at burger time. Yum, a burger and fries. WRONG!!!! No fries. NO FRIES!?!? Just sage-y hash browns. What a downer.

So if you like cinnamon rolls, go for it. But if you're in the mood for anything else, go to Orange.  

Disco brunch is kind of funny, though, so that's why the 2 stars.

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Alanna O.

Chicago, IL

I LOVE this place for breakfast!!  The cinnamon rolls are DELICIOUS and gooey and awesome.  Seriously.  The service is great and the food comes fast.  You get a lot of food for your money too.  I almost always have the same guy server who works there, well, a lot!!  I have even seen some of the cubs players dining there as well either alone or with their families.  Very cool.  Easier to get a seat outside if you go during the week, obviously, and I recently found out that they have a back room!!  Who knew??

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Jess T.

San Francisco, CA

I routinely stopped in at this Baby Ann Sather's to pick up two (2) steaming hot cinnamon rolls and two (2) deliciously buttery biscuits.  I could usually make it about four blocks before I tore into a biscuit, saving the cinnamon rolls for later.  This location is considerably smaller than the "real" Ann Sather's on Belmont, but it's usually not super crowded, and the Southport area can be fun to cruise after breakfast.  If you're still not convinced, listen to this: last time I visited Chicago, I  walked fifteen blocks in the pouring rain in my CASHMERE sweater, just to buy my cinnamon buns + biscuits combo, ostensibly to take on the plane home.

Neither the cinnamon rolls nor the biscuits even made it to O'Hare, much less on the plane.

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Elite '08

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Drucilla D.

Chicago, IL

I don't even like Cinnamon Rolls... But I LOVE them from Ann Sather's. I don't know what it is, but I think it's the frosting. I can't even order anything else when I go there! Those absolutely delicious cinnamon rolls are enough for an entire meal. Yum. I want one now.

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Elite '08

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Cindy L.

Houston, TX

The most memorable part about this place is probably the warm and HUGE cinnamon rolls.  The juice were freshly squeezed, so that's a plus, but everything else about the food was so-so.  Another plus was that considering we were there for brunch on a Saturday, we were seated immediately, and we had great service.  My friend got a Mexican dish with scrambled eggs and avocado.  I got a breakfast wrap with tomatoes, lettuce, onion, egg, and avocado.  My wrap arrived and it was HUGE!  I was pretty excited.....until I cut it open.  Where are the tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and avocado?  I only see egg, and more egg, and some squishy guacamole, read, GUACAMOLE, not AVOCADO.  The tomato et al that was advertised were simply a few cubes lost in the mammoth of a roll.  I was really disappointed.  I was basically eating a huge amount of egg wrapped in tortilla smothered with guac.  My friend's dish?  She basically had guac with a side of eggs.  Needless to say, it was all too liquidity.  Basically, in my mind, avocado is sliced up, still intact, and guacamole is the squishy mashed up version of avocado, with some salsa.  Maybe I'm spoiled because I've lived in CA, but come on.  We went there with high expectations because supposedly this is the place to be for brunch, but we had a better experience the next day at Le Peeps (a chain!  gasp.)

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Elite '08

7

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Ang R.

Chicago, IL

Possibly the best cinnamon rolls ever.  I don't even like cinnamon rolls, and I liked these so much that I couldn't leave even one bite on the plate.  The biscuits were also good, and I would advise going with someone else, and each one of you ordering one of the above, and sharing.  

My omelette was pretty standard, though the addition of artichoke hearts was genius.  I liked the hash browns, though they aren't really hash browns, so much as very tasty breakfast potatoes.  The breakfast wrap that my boyfriend ate was extremely good as well.

All in all, nothing about this place.

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Elite '08

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Ray L.

Chicago, IL

My roomate told me this place had the best brunch and I was skeptical because it's a chain.  However, he was damn right this place rocks.  All the traditional foods like crepes, pancakes, eggs, sausages, cinnamon rolls =  top notch.

They also have Swedish foods here but I haven't tried those because I go here for weekend brunch when people from out-of-town come.  Sitting outside is a mixed bag, it's nice on a sunny day but it's right by the El-tracks and the flies can be annoying.

One time my water cup wasn't clean and that was kinda sick but the rest of the time it's great.  Their sausage biscuits aren't as good as Bob Evan's but everything else is better.  Prices are reasonable at about $5-$11.  I usually spend roughly $10 here for a good brunch.

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Jessica S.

IL

I went here before I got food allergies and I looooved the cinnamon rolls. But the last time I went here, I informed the waitress of my corn and wheat allergies and she got upset. Honestly, she made me feel bad for having food allergies, like it was just so annoying to her. I saw her go back and ask the cooks about what they cook their eggs in and I noticed that they were not answering her. They were just picking up objects and pointing to them. I guess that there was a language barrier between the waitress and the cooks. The manager just stood there by the cooks and didn't really seem to have any concern with the matter. The waitress had to actually go and read the labels. Every time she came back to our table she had a bad attitude and made me feel really embarrassed about my allergies. Eventually they just made my eggs with no cooking oil. It was a very embarrassing situation for me because I was dining with other people. My other complaint is that the place is just too small for how busy it is. Both this Ann Sathers and the one on Belmont are always jam packed.

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