Golden Nugget Pancake House

Breakfast is great and place feels nice and cozy. Always busy. The waiters are great. I’m not complaining but just needs more smiles from the waiters.

It was my first time going to this golden nugget location. I remember coming here with my girlfriend (at the time) and her friends (about 10 of). The waitress was super fun and kind! got us seated immediately and served within a few minutes. Loved it! The food was hot, very filling and it tasted great!

I ordered a sandwich to go and found a HAIR in it. Looks like coffee will be the only thing I order.

I just ordered soup, salad, and an entrée and the waitress served the whole thing at the same time. Stupid. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want cold food.

Golden Nugget used to seem like a treat back in college — I don’t know whether it was just youth or if the quality of their food decreased over the years, but I stopped going there over 10 years ago after deciding this was just overpriced institutionalized food. My visit to this Golden Nugget today was suggested by my teenage son, and against my better judgement I said yes.
Ordered Chicken Fried Steak — what a mistake. The plate was huge but 60% of it consisted of gravy from a can, which asides from being insanely excessive didn’t even taste good. There was a small piece of steak, but to get to it I had to scoop up tons of gravy. There were also some steamed vegetables, a biscuit and mashed potatoes — all of it mediocre, and all of it drowning in the aforementioned gravy horror, and soon I decided that scraping off the gravy wasn’t even worth the effort.
Honestly, this was the first time in my life that when the waitress came over to ask «how’s everything,» I had to tell her that I couldn’t eat it. Usually even if I’m not pleased with the food I can fake it out of politeness, but this was too much. My teen son was not too impressed with his tuna melt either, so the only satisfied customer was my 3-​year-​old with his «Smiley Face Pancake.»
I half expected the waitress to take a couple dollars off the tab, but not only did she not do that, she merely offered a half-​baked «sorry,» and later proceeded to ask again if everything was OK, forcing me to reiterate my complaint. So I got charged $ 13.49 for the sorriest, most inedible excuse for a dish I ever had, and the full tab was $ 39 and change for a meal that wasn’t even worth half as much.
Verdict: Never ever EVER again, avoid at all costs, whatever leftovers you have in the fridge would be better.

1 star because can’t do 0, food is bad around lunch time, don’t know about later in the evening. Service was good up until the point where I was 10 minutes in to my meal and was already being asked if I needed a to go box, I’ve only been sitting here for 10 minutes. Am I supposed to be done that fast? Were they mad because my cousin sent back their burnt corn beef hash? They couldn’t even make over medium eggs. My omelet was ok until I had a piece of the steak, bland, over cooked and no flavor, at all. By far worst golden nugget I’ve ever been to!

I’m nothing but utterly disappointed with this place. They don’t understand the meaning of consistency. Well, other than consistently messing up my order. I always order the same dish, I can just never actually get the same actual dish. And I can’t count on the manager to fix it, unless I want to wait for him to get around to it. Smh.

Hash browns are atrocious. Eggs rubbery and overcooked. Prices too high for a dive. Waitress was nice… actually too nice for a dump. Could have enjoyed food any place but here.

I have been coming to this specific location for as long as I can remember. I’ve never ever had an issue. The food is always great, the waitresses always know exactly what I want to drink (cuz I’m the grown up that only drinks kool aid lol), and they genuinely care about whether everything is to your liking. Five stars all around =]

I’ve been a regular customer for a while now, great food and good service, the French toast are excellent and almost all of their Mexican breakfast dishes on the menu, like the chilaquiles that I’m totally hooked on. The pricing is just right as well, just wanted to give them some of my perspective, the one thing I think they should work on is the service, nobody likes when the server «forgets to put an order in» but I also understand that accidents happen, other than that it’s still a favorite for me.

They give you tons of food. We ate here for breakfast. Food was good, not exceptional, not bad, just good. This is your typical pancake type house.

Golden Nugget is my favorite diner! I have been here more than several times now & I have always loved eating at diners. The feeling of eating at diners makes me feel Happy & it’s because I have had such great memories. I am mentioning this because it just goes to show you that when you have delicious food & a great staff, you get customers like me who really appreciate the good things in life. I have had some Wonderful Memories here with Loves Ones!(: I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves eating at diners or eating with there loved ones.

Love all the servers! Love the breakfast special! Everybody soo cool in here for years! Been coming to this place for more than 10 years ! Excellent food!

Drunk? Hungry at 3 am? Want deliciously greasy food? Come here, it won’t disappoint, because I sure as hell am enjoying it right now.

Golden Nugget has the BEST Pancakes I’ve ever had, nothing more satisfying than having a short stack of DELICIOUS FLUFFY flapjacks. I’ve been coming to Golden Nugget locations all my life and every time I go I LOVE all the menu options available, as I grew so has the menu. GREAT for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner at any time of the day because it’s open 24 Hours a day! The portion of food is AMAZING for the price. All I can say is the food is GREAT and the service as well.

I thought about giving this place four stars, but I went back to three. I will tell you why now!
I was starving. That’s the only reason I thought about it. I could have eaten anything and it would have satisfied me. I hadn’t eaten in four hours, but man, I was hungry!
The menu is HUGE! I love diner type places, so this place fit the bill. I feel like I was in Vegas at the Golden Nugget. JACKPOT OF EGGS, baby!
I went with the Four Egg Veggie Omelette with no cheese! I also upgraded to three whole grain pancakes (UPCHARGE FOR FIBER? That’s rough (age)). I love how you have not one, not two, not three, but FOUR options (pancakes, chunky potatoes and toast, French Toast, or hash browns and toast. Variety is the spice of life! I thought it was cinnamon, but I digress.
As much as Fatty Patty wanted the Oreo Pancakes, he decided to keep it simple today. If you’re looking for a diner on ‘roids, this is the place to go!

ahh. Good ol’ Golden Nugget. I remember coming here quite often in my 20s (i’m old :-() after a night of debauchery and adult beverages. Open all the time, this was the place to go in the city at 3AM, as there were fewer IHOPs/​Dennys in the city.
This place is a diner which offers a LOT of choices for food. From breakfast items like eggs, pancakes, omelettes, etc to sandwiches and wraps, to mexican food (yes, mexican food) this place boasts a menu with more pages than a Stephen King novel. It was hard to decide what to get as the menu was all over the place. Perhaps
BATHROOM REVIEW — Located alllll the way in the back, the bathrooms were a long walk to get to. Inside, the bathroom was somewhat clean. But to be fair, the entire Golden Nugget restaurant has the old, vintage, always open, never enough time to clean thoroughly, vibe. This was no exception to the bathroom. It was less dirty than a Chinatown bathroom, but still not that clean. Sit or squat? Squat!

My first time at golden nugget was very good. Everyone was nice and the food was delicious! Definitely going back very soon. It’s decently priced and you get big portions so that’s fantastic!(:

Recently visited after a long time away — I had forgotten how good this place is. Menu is huge; the orange juice is fresh-​squeezed; they only use real butter; the half and half is real, not creamer… for heaven’s sake, they have Bailey’s Irish Crème pancakes. They even make all their fruit compotes. I’ve never even gotten into the dinner menu as I’m always here at 4am with a group. In a perfect world I could order one of their delicious and ridiculously large Mexican breakfast items (various types of chilaquiles, huevos rancheros), AND a waffle AND their onion rings (how do they still offer onion rings for less than $ 3?) AND a milkshake. Maybe even a piece of their cheesecake, which is a typical very-​good-​but-​we-​live-​in-​Chicago-​so-​we-​take-​this-​for-​granted cheesecake. But I live in the real world so when I eat here I have to choose.
The wait staff is friendly, though they don’t come by to refill coffee as often as I’d like (they’re easy to go find and don’t get upset if you hunt them down looking for more coffee), and when I was there last night my food arrived somewhat lukewarm — I suspect they were understaffed. I still left thinking «man, I need to come here more often.» Terrific local diners like this (they’re a local chain) are one of the things I love about Chicago.

Walked here for a late lunch on Sunday. place was moderately packed which I haven’t been to a golden nugget that wasn’t at least that. Sign said seat yourself so we did, but it did take quite a long time to get a waitress. even though they all saw us walk in and even greeted us when we came in. SO I was surprised that it took so long.
Ordered omelets and coffee. basics and both were very good. prices seem to get higher every time I go in, but what ya gonna do