Catherine’s Restaurant

Food: It is mediocre. Seems as if they pre cook everything then serve it. Waffle was hard and cold and cream chipped beef was too thick
Price: way to expensive, especially for the area.
Décor: cool and interesting theme. Like the menu and the food on it, just wish it was fresher.
Service: hit or miss. Some people are little rude and some people are very very nice.
Bottom line is, breakfast for 2 is not suppose to be 25 dollars an of it is the meal should be very good. For example, Fred’s in new hope or silk city in northern liberties.

Catherine’s is GONE! Now under new management by someone who understands the business. New name is Frankie’s Galloway Café. Old Hollywood pix are gone. Owner Lou Pettinelli serves up some really tasty entrees, at reasonable prices. Specialty Italian dishes from the Pettinelli family recipé book are offered. Try them — I haven’t been disappointed. Also, theme dinners are offered with reservations a must.
Next one is a fish Assortment. There has been an Italian night 3 –4 courses. All have been sell outs.
Previous waitpersons were retained (a good thing). Friendly and they keep the restaurant CLEAN. Can’t be beat for breakfast. The whiteboard as you enter should be depended upon for a good meal. Beverages are bottomless.
I tried a breakfast casserole, and was filled ¾ of the way through. Nice portions. Well prepared. Wife had pancakes with Craisins in them.
Fabuloso!

if your thinking of going here to share a plate, they charge a $ 2 fee and don’t even tell you there doing it. We tried to talk to the owner about it and he said he didn’t care. The food was not that good and the service was bad… if your in that area go to pookies it’s just down the road and they know how to treat people.

The breakfast here is pretty good but the service definitely very slow. My prosciutto, fontina, and spinach omelette was very good but a little lacking in the amount of prosciutto; there was plenty of spinach and fontina but I kinda wished that there had been more meat. The homefries were great! They were simulteaneously crispy, soft, and hot. Add some onions and a little salt and pepper and you have a perfection. Not the most tasteful ambiance, aesthetically speaking, and the décor is rather gaudy but the food is good. The only thing is that you will definitely wait a while for it. Patience is a virtue, right?

Good portion size & reasonable prices. The décor is a bit tacky and very bright but the restaurant is very clean and neat.
We had breakfast on a Sunday afternoon and I have no complaints. The Western Omelette was large and cooked just the way I like it. The sausage links were big and very tasty.
I will stop in here again.

I would not recommend going to Catherine’s. I went for the first time today and was pretty excited to try it out. Normally, when I go out to breakfast, I get 2 eggs, home fries and toast, or a breakfast sandwich. Simple — always tends to be the best in my opinion. Today, for some stupid reason, I decided to get the belgium waffle. Fail. They made it sound so delicious on the menu, but it had clearly been made hours ago and had been sitting under a heat lamp. And the «fresh maple syrup» was just Aunt Jemima’s (not that there’s anything wrong with her — just false advertising). The bacon was hard as a rock, even for a a crispy bacon lover like me. At least my home-​fries were good… Our server was not very nice and didn’t seem to really care about us at all. Not to mention, breakfast for 2 cost us $ 23! I’m sure that some dishes are good there, but overall, I say Catherine’s is not worth it (unless you go on the days it’s half off — and even then I don’t know if it is worth it) and you should probably go to Red House bagels on Street road… YUM!

The good: cozy with good menu
The bad: slow service, mistakes on bill, food that sounds much better than it tastes.
All in all, I gave it two chances, and both times I was not happy with my choice. I tried soups, salad, fish — all disappointing.
French Onion — way too hot, way too much sherry in it, enough to make it sour :-(
Clam chowder — this one was definitely nuked. Found very little clams, but a lot of large undercooked chunks of bacon, also there were clumps like you would find in a bad porridge in it.
Chicken salad — chunks of chicken with mayo and mustard, dry and tasteless
Potato Crusted Cod — this was a winner for me on the board and completely tasteless on the plate, did not feel much potato crust there or seasoning, just overfried white fish.
French Fries — also microwaved or not freshly fried, soggy lacking seasoning

Catherines used to be a neighborhood favorite with large dinner specials and a cute salad bar kept behind glass with a server dishing out what you wanted. A great value for a great meal… Not so much anymore .I wonder if this place has changed owners? It is really now hit or miss and the hours have been cut. We have had too many meals sent back and not fixed, but rather argued with why it is good to recommend this place to anyone.

Catherine’s is an old family run business, they are opened for breakfast and lunch only, from 6:00am to 3:00pm, seven days a week. This small restaurant is tucked in between three other businesses in a small shopping center, which I have passed numerous times. Hubby and I were both starving as we approached Catherine’s and finally decided to give it a try for breakfast.
Walking in you are immediately taken in by the pictures of Hollywood legends adorning the bright colored orange walls, heck even when I used the ladies room Mr. Rhett Butler was there to greet me as I entered the stall, I could think of much better places I would rather have him hanging around in and Lassie would have been a preferred choice in this instance.
There were two fairly large dining rooms, with only the first one being seated and we were greeted almost immediately by a young hostess who quickly seated us and asked for our drink order, as she did with the other patrons entering the restaurant. I liked this plan, as it kept anyone from sitting and waiting until your server was able to greet you and take your order.
That is where the efficiency stopped. The décor of the restaurant follows through to the menu with each menu item having a Hollywood legend’s name. Michael chose the Humphrey Bogart, which included coffee, two pancakes, two eggs, two sausages and two strips of bacon, toast was an extra charge.
I was torn between the Elvis, which were two poached eggs on an open face toasted English muffin and then topped with cheese, this also came with home fried potatoes or one of the blackboard specials, the crab and Swiss cheese omelet with home fries and toast, finally deciding on the omelet.
Hubby enjoyed his breakfast, the pancakes were very good, eggs cooked perfectly over easy, plump sausages grilled perfectly, the bacon was barely cooked and all curled up in a ball, not even sure how this could happen, two seconds in the deep fryer maybe? Bottles of Aunt Jemima are present on each table and what is used to grace their wonderful pancakes and waffles! UGH!
The service here is horrible, other than the gal who greets, seats you and delivers your drinks, by the way, she is also the one who clears dishes, buses and cleans the tables and I witnessed it from both of the two servers on. They stand and hand tally checks in the middle of the dining room, while ignoring guests who are still dining and in need of their service.
Our server, Pat, never came back to check on our meals until she was ready to tally us up, hubby had to say excuse me, three times to the other server to request more butter and two times she glanced at him with a disgusted look and finally the third time she responded but looked at him like he had four eyes.
SO, four bites into my crab and Swiss cheese omelet, I was not seeing or tasting any crab meat, now I had added onions, mushrooms (canned mushrooms) and peppers to my omelet, so I decided to open it up and scoot around looking for the crab! Where’s the Crab? Hubby says, why are you not eating and I said there is no crab meat in it and if I eat it all, how can I prove it?
Michael is almost finished eating his rather large breakfast when low and behold our server comes by to tally us up! I said, there is no crab meat in my omelet, just adjust the price and bring me a box, because by then it was cold. Instead she says, no I will take it into the kitchen and have him add crab! I said whatever, just please bring me a box.
She comes back with a box and my original plate and says the cook said there is plenty of crab meat in it, he scrambled the crab into the egg. First of all that was a dumb response because he had also scrambled the veggies into the egg and they were very evident. For the second time, I sat right there, in front of the server searching for crab meat, I found approximately ¼ teaspoon of crab in the outer edge of one side of the omelet.
She kept apologizing as she tallied our bill charging me $ 10.50 for the omelet instead of the $ 8.50 posted on the special board! Okay, not arguing anymore, understanding that I may be paying extra for canned mushrooms, a little onion and peppers, but paying for crab meat when it was not there pissed me off to no end.
Sad thing is, their food is good, it really is, except for the bacon and charging me an outrageous price on an omelet that was void of crab as posted. The home fries were outstanding, sliced thin potatoes, some crisp, some soft, I added onion and peppers to these as well.
I paid on the way out and the cashier never said hello, how was everything, have a nice day, nada! I finally intiated conversation by askig her if she was Catherine, which she replied, oh no, that was the original owners wife, but it is all one big family and we have many Catherine’s. Greet me damn it, ask how I did or did not enjoy my visit, thank me for coming in, smile, anything!
I will not return! They could care less anyway!

This restaurant is terrible. It changed owners not to long ago and the new owner is killing the reputation and product of the once great restaurant.
I went there this morning Sun Sept 6, 2009. With a good friend. I ordered the Cheese Steak Omelette for $ 8.95 he ordered a Spinach Omelette.
Now I thought that my Cheese Steak Omelette was little over priced but I expected a nice big fully omelette, home fries, toast and deliciousness.
We waited just over 30 mins for our omelettes to come to the table. The restaurant was not busy, we were the only table to be seated during our stay. So I am not describing a pack restaurant in the middle of a rush. After complaining to the waitress twice, the waitress talked to the owners wife and told her that I was unsatisfied with the wait time and then the skimpy omelette. The omelette was small, and the presentation was terrible. The omelette was waters and broken and a mess on my plate. The home fries were cold and dry. The rye bread I ordered was good, so no complaint there. I did not want to eat the omelette but i was fear full that sending it back would not only ruin breakfast but incur another 15 to 20 mins I would have to wait for my food. Besides the presentation and the small portion size the omelette was gross. It was extremely oily from being on the grill, there was not flavor and it was bland. The home fries were the worst I have ever had.
I spoke with the owner. He was a complete Dick! he told me that I should never come back. Right off the bat, not sorry, or I am sorry that we did not provide you a delicious breakfast, just «do me a favor and don’t come back» He told me that I should be happy I did not wait longer then 30 mins because he had a lot of checks to cook. What a JERK.
In the end, I will never go back, I refuse to give this guy a dime. The food was TERRIBLE and BLAND, The service was SLOW and if you have a problem you are told to go Fu*k your self. WHY WOULD ANYONE GIVE THIS GUY THEIR HARD EARNED MONEY IN THIS ECONOMY. I love to support local business, but this guy is a jerk and I wish him the level of success that he shows towards his customers satisfaction.
He could have comp-​ed my check or offered me an apology and a hand shake or anything to just acknowledge that I (the paying customer!) was not happy with his work!
Good luck in making it to 2010 you JERK. Your failure will be because of your business acumen and lack of respect for hard working paying customers.