Famous Toastery

The coffee is wonderful and so is the food. My eggs weren’t overcooked and the grits were creamy. The service could have been better. .. I had to ask for coffee refills. Overall, I would go back again.

I am in LOOOVE with Toast and all of the franchises that are popping up! The food is the same no matter which location I decide to visit.
Stonecrest is closest however I ate at the Dilworth location to meet my sister for brunch (she is a newbie). She was so pleasantly surprised that the 25 min table wait was only 10. The food was fresh and full of flavor. The staff assisted with all of our needs especially since we had 3 children with us.
YES! GO TO TOAST! TRY THE CORNBEEF HASH AND SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH GRUYERE CHEESE. (My order EVERY time) you will not be disappointed.

If we’re looking for a quick breakfast, this is our place to go. The food is always consistent, the staff is always friendly and usually if there is a wait to be seated there are seats at the bar and your able to get right in! Great breakfast place!

I really enjoy the food here. I’m usually overwhelmed by the delicious options but always seem to settle on some variation of their stuffed French toast. Their bacon is outstanding too. Nice thick cuts.
Speaking of outstanding, their wait staff is on point. You don’t seem to get one server, you get a host of them checking in without over doing it. I’ve never had a cup go dry until I was ready to stop drinking coffee or water.
One of my favorite breakfast places in Charlotte.

Socialist breakfast.
Overall the quality of the food is decent, but not gourmet. They serve basic breakfast foods that are prepared quickly.
Be prepared for sub-​par service. The Toast business model is to use a «team» of floating servers, food runners, and busboys. Our first interaction was with Eric who took our order, then we never saw him again during our visit. Near the end of our breakfast (approximately 25 minutes) we had our first coffee refill. The table to our left had an issue with their meal due to the fact a wrong order was brought out and dropped off then the food runner ran away quickly and they had it sitting on their table for five minutes. The table to our other side had a patron that had to walk to the bus station to attempt to get himself a coffee refill. There is apparently no incentive to provide fast/​friendly/​quality service if they share the service responsibilities. We paid $ 28 dollars for an omelet, French toast and two coffees. A Socialist Breakfast.

Famous Toastery, previously Toast, is a casual and good breakfast spot.
The menu consists of typical breakfast items, with daily specials offering unique items. The menu sometimes can seem overwhelming I always struggle with what to get. So, needless to say I have tried a variety of items, eggs, omelets, crepes and pancakes, along with several side items.
The eggs are always great, how can you go wrong, right? As for the omelets, every one I have ordered has been wrong, and isn’t anything special. The mushrooms seemed canned, and the peppers and onions are always overcooked, never with a fresh crisp taste that you should have. The pancakes were great, light and fluffy.
The most disappointing items I have received consistently are the potatoes, or home fries and the english muffins. The potatoes are not worth it. Always underdone, dry and just wrong. Please learn how to make home fries, and learn how to keep them warm. As for the English muffin, please learn how to «Toast» one. I have yet to receive one that is pretty much right out of the English muffin box.
Overall, I still am not sure what the hype about this place is. Expect a long wait time, shotty and random service and decent food.

Soo not impressed, not worth the money.
I took some friends for sunday brunch. Had a great! Server… service was on par… but the food… the food… i had the avocado omelet I had a side of hash browns, a waffle and a side of bacon.
1. The omlete did not inspire me to even take a picture. It wasn’t well presented, and the taste was just okay, not even great tasting. Nothing I could not have made myself. Barely any avocado in it.
2. The hash browns were horrible. Too salty and not even hash browns more like smoshed country potatoes
3. Waffle was good, but that’s almost impossible to mess up.
4. The bacon was soggy, and not crisp like I requested, and wayyyyy too greasy. They didn’t even blot off the excess fat.
One my friends there said the french toast was way too sweet, one friend ended up with peppermint toast, she did not order it, she ordered the regular one, said it was fine.
I had their coffee and a bloody mary… coffee was good, bloody mary was the worst! Thank god it was not a 10 $ bloody mary I would have been pissed.
The cost of the meal overall was too expensive for the quality of food they served.

Had a great brunch here last Sunday ! Service (our server) was a little off, but other servers were happy to help us. My son had the waffles and they were delicious, with grits that were creamy and yum! I had an omelet, The Runner, good taste and healthy like I wanted. We will have brunch here again !

The food and service is declining and prices have risen significantly. Breakfast was just okay. We ate and paid. Tega Cay and Ballantyne locations have way better service and food, but this location is closest. Here’s hoping the University one is here soon…

We loved it. Tupelo was a nightmare wait time and I’m too hungry for that shit. It was busy, but we were seated immediately. Cute place, very quaint. Waitstaff was attentive and friendly. I had a mimosa, Frank had a Bloody Mary and he said it’s the best he’s had so far. Frank is a pain in the ass with his bloody Marys. So, I ordered the eggs Benedict with extra hollandaise sauce and it was delicious. They ask you how you want your eggs done with it and I asked for medium and they came a little bit overcooked but delicious nonetheless. They came with a choice of the usual and my fat ass has the homefries. They were good. Too. Frank had some type of eggs Benedict also but his came with tomatoes and onions and then avocado almost like it was a salsa. His eggs were perfectly cooked. He orders a side of fruit, boring fuck. Their coffee was delicious and I was very surprised. Nobody makes a good fucking cuppa coffee around here and I finally got one. Anyway the wait time was minimal for our food and we were in and out in the time it would’ve taken us to wait for that fucking table at the Tupelo Honey Café. But don’t get me wrong I will get there eventually! Toastery rocks and I will be back!

We came here because of the great reviews. The restaurant was previously called The Toast but was renamed for legal reasons. No matter because every local calls it The Toast.
We had a good meal very average with an above average price tag for the quantity and quality of food that they serve.
First, the service of our greeting house and the wait staff was great.
Second, the specials were well varied and interesting. We tried the cheddar grits and shrimp with added sausage. The grits were slimy definitely prepared according to package instructions. The Shrimp was Cajun and tasty. The sausage was less than desirable. It was not the usual sausage in this dish more of a hot dog sized red sausage quartered and placed on the top with grease poured on top to slide around the surface of the grits and fill the valleys left by the shrimp. If you are used to try Southern fare this presentation is disappointing.
Sanitation — This is the reason for the rating of 2. Waiting for my food I saw a busboy use his hand an upper arm in place if tissue then open the kitchen area to stick that hand/​arm with snot into the icemaker to fill up a translucent «barrel» then take the polluted ice to the drink station (soda) to fill it with contaminated ice for use by the entire staff serving iced drinks. When I told our waiter/​host, he apologized that I SAW him do that and told me that he would talk to the busboy.
Nothing else was done. Waiters continued to use the contaminated ice during our meal. Ugh!
To make matters more disgusting a second male waiter wiped his nose with his hand and went to take orders from the table beside us.
The food is good just don’t look up at the fuzz on the cute lattice screen hanging above your head as you eat. The bathrooms are cute but the toilet paper dispensers are in disrepair.
I think the usual crowd has stopped paying close attention to the service that they receive and the cleanliness levels. I guess that is a good thing in thus case. Yum!

Nice place, and environment, went at 2 pm and although the staff was not busy they found a way to ignore me…
Ordered 3 scrambled eggs, 2 pancakes, 3 pieces of bacon, hash browns and coffee.
Only the coffee and eggs were serve able. The pancakes were doughy and looked like they were made with waffle batter and sprinkles with sugar. The bacon was literally sitting in it’s cool greased fat. The potatoes were not what I ordered and lacked flavor.
I rarely give bad reviews but you could not pay me to go back. The breakfast was over $ 20 which is highway robbery for the quality of food.

Love this place for breakfast and lunch! The left coast blt is delicious, the best ones I’ve ever had. Their bread is fresh and toasted perfectly. You can substitute the sides for a salad.
The wait can be long on weekends, but they take down your number and text you when your table is ready. The free coffee, corn hole, and Tuesday morning (located beside toast) makes the wait go by quickly.
I have ordered to go multiple times to avoid the wait.

4 stars for food
3 stars for service and the inability to make gluten free toast. 4 attempts for toast (I know) the last two they just brought back the original third attempt but flipped it over.
That was the last star.
35 minute wait on Sunday.
No longer my go to spot. This is the second time they were sloppy in food prep.

More commonly known as «Toast» we decided to try this for a brunch spot while my car was getting cleaned at the Dilworth Car Wash.
On Sunday morning the staff «tag-​teams» your table so the service was pretty good considering how crazy packed it was in there. You can expect a wait and although the line looks like it is out the door and all the way to Gastonia, it moves fairly quickly.
The food was decent. But hey, its tough to mess up breakfast food. For about $ 30 for the two of us we left satisfied and happy.

Egg-​cellent breakfast
But yeah it is killer food. My girlfriend loved the corn beef hash
My breakfast burrito was bangin

Stop #3 on my Charlotte Sunday Brunch experiment, and we had already tried out the Toast of Ballantyne and were pleased. We arrived and were told 15 minutes or so, so we wandered off into the shop next door (Tuesday Morning, it’s like a homemade Home Goods! Check it out!).
After we were seated, the Lady and I both ordered off the specials menu; I got the Crab Salad Rolls and she got a Crab quiche, and then I ordered the godly candied bacon w/​a spiced rub. Holy hell that was good.
Toast is a really cool concept (the whole «everyone is your waiter» thing), and in both locations they’ve delivered quality food in a timely manner. We’ll continue to go back here, and I’ll update my review once I see consistency. Nothing against you Toast, keep doin’ what you’re doin’.

Don’t go at 7am
The music is loud and about 9 magillion employees will hawk you the entire time you eat and not give you one moments peace.
On the other hand– everyone was nice, food was good, bathrooms clean and they were open early!

First time visit (I know!) and couldn’t be happier. I was promptly greeted and seated (yep, slow Monday), and ordered The Usual with a Joe. During my leisurely breakfast I had five different persons either ask about the food, refill my coffee, clean my table, or bill me out. Got nuttin’ but praise!

I attended a meeting here with the local BAR for breakfast. The staff was very accommodating
with our group, assisting with moving tables as the group grew and having patience taking orders as people arrived at various times. I ordered fruit and hash browns at the same time as others around me. I was the last to receive my food and my hash browns were luke warm at best. While they had a good flavor, someone obviously forgot my food when it was ready. I would’ve rather they made me wait and served hot food. Nevertheless, overall I think this is a great local place for a weekday breakfast.

This place is super cute and the coffee is amazing! Very homey feeling, nice staff, and the menu selection is wonderful! The pancakes are ginormous — you can even order them as a side :) They have indoor & outdoor seating, bags (corn hole) to play while you wait for a table — you can seat yourself as well as you pay upfront at the end. This is a great greasy-​spoon type of place for the mornings.
Best tip about this place: They give you cornbread to munch on while you wait for your order.

Yummy breakfast! Quick and friendly service. Variety of options. Not too long of a wait on a busy Saturday or Sunday.
I like the Greek omelet and I get the hash browns grilled. They serve wonderful cornbread and apple butter as you wait.
Now for the best part: outside dog friendly seating!!! My girlfriends and I bring our four legged counterparts here to enjoy some outside time. Tables are in the sun and shade. Servers even brought the pups a water dish!
Check out the park across the street for some doggie and people play time after to work off your delicious mean.

There’s a guy outside dressed up like a piece of toast. How could you not like this place?!
The key phrase you must remember if you want to have brunch here: arrive early. They do not take reservations. Expect a wait. However, it’s not so bad. Toast has a complimentary coffee bar (cute little paper cups) and cornhole outside. The place is hopping. Diverse crowd. Kids, families, boozy brunchers, dogs of all kinds.
Our group of seven arrived at 10AM Sunday. The wait for us was only around ten minutes. We were seated outside on the patio. Beautiful day for brunch outside.
I debated forever on my order. Basically, I fought with myself over which version of eggs benedict to get. Come on, there’s nothing better than cutting into a soft poached egg and watching the delicious drizzle. I finally landed on the Cali Benny: Poached Eggs, Avocado, Tomato, English Muffin & Hollandaise. Great sauce. It came with a side of potatoes. I’m usually not the biggest fan of home fries, but these were seasoned and yummy. Didn’t even need ketchup or hot sauce. I ate everything on my plate.
Quite possibly my favorite thing about this place: you pay at the counter. Think about it. When you go to brunch, you usually have to split your check up a bunch of different ways. Takes time for a server to do that, close everyone out. Here, you just take your check and go straight to the cashier. Makes turnover time for tables quicker.
I’m definitely a fan. If I can ever get my crew going by 10am, this is the place we’ll hit up for some breakfast goodness. Now if only we could get the state of North Carolina to serve me a mimosa before noon on a Sunday…