Michael D’s Eatery

Great service, food & coffee! The location was across from our hotel right on Coeur d’Alene Lake Drive. We stopped here for breakfast before our drive to Canada, and definitely got our fill. The pancakes were huge, but delicious. Everything was tasty & Aaron was an awesome server! We will be back next time we are in town.

Food and service mediocre, a lot better places to eat, one of the owners Michael should treat his cooks as well as his waitresses. Have traveled extensively and this place is definitely overrated and will let our hotel know not to reccomend.

Came from Washington stopped here to eat breakfast amazing service the staff the food just amazing. Thank you

Incredible paleo waffle! Super fast, friendly sevice-​I had my breakfast in 10 minutes. They also give you the option of real maple syrup for an extra $ 2. Good, hot Doma coffee.
This will be the only place I’ll ever eat breakfast in Coeur d’Alene!

Food was pretty good. I ordered the biscuits and gravy. The biscuits were SO fluffy! They were amazing. The gravy however, seemed to be 99% flour! Heads up to the cook: throw some more bacon grease in that bad boy! Bacon and eggs were cooked to perfection, and service was great regardless of a lengthy wait time!

Michael knows breakfast and lunch! Never disappoints. Always busy for breakfast and don’t forget they do lunch as well. One of CDA’s great places to eat!!!

Our first day in Idaho we selected Michael D’s for breakfast. This was a great choice. Excellent food and service was top notch. I highly recommend this place. At our table we had French toast, waffles, omlet dishes. The sausage and bacon is terrific. Good coffee too.

Awesome breakfast/​lunch today. We had a group of about 25. Owner was super nice. Menu was great. Actually Paleo named items on the menu. Great service. Fast and friendly. Loved it. Will definitely be back again and again and again.

One of my absolute favorite breakfast places in town! Nothing beats the Courageous Omelette with the paleo waffles! NOM NOM NOM!

After reading Unilocal reviews for a great breakfast place this looked like the go to place. WRONG! CFS was preprocessed and gravy was nasty. Might have been from the day before. The rosemary potatoes that everybody talks about where not there anymore apparently. I ordered potatoes and got deep fried potatoes with no seasoning. Coffee at $ 2.55 a cup was not worth it. McD’s better. Service was awesome I will say. Great server. Had to listen to the kitchen staff talk about service staff eating off of plates in the dish pit from another restaurant. Should have gone to Jimmy’s.

After years of trying almost every restaurant in CDA — old and new hipster — this is the BEST breakfast in town. Giant blueberry pancakes are delicious, bacon is thick and flavorful and my favorite — Irish Scrambler! Great for couples, families and family reunions in the back dining room.

Michael D’s feels like home, away from home. The atmosphere is like going to grandma’s cabin in the woods. My husband and I eat here, an average of once a week, year round. When you visit MD’s, you can expect to always be greeted warmly and treated like family. The consistency in both the service and the food, is really what makes this local breakfast joint favorite, a home run! My favorites include the Ham Scrambler and the Eggs Benedict and my husband usually sticks with the Paleo Waffle Combo. The Rosemary potatoes served with each dish, are crispy, flavorful and delicious. Even if there is a wait, you really can’t go wrong with Michael D’s.

Delicious food. Great service. Menu has a great selection without being overwhelming. They even have a Paleo breakfast menu. We’ll definitely be back! Side note — my husband ate free today (Memorial Day) because he’s a veteran and I love businesses that honor our servicemen.

We’ve been ordering for pick up from Michael D’s for awhile and their phone/​pick up etiquette IS TERRIBLE. They pick and choose when they’ll allow you to do take out. (With zero pattern or litgitimate schedule, it’s just up to whoever answers) A lady literally refused to take my order! When I called back to speak to someone else, or a manager… they ignore their phone. Don’t offer a service at all if you can’t follow through with it!!!

We came in about 12 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon. This Sunday afternoon. Today. There was about a 10 minute wait, as there were a few groups ahead of us and the place was full. The hostess was polite enough and cheerful. Restaurant itself is kind of small, but I’m used to places being a little bit bigger.
so we were in a rush to get in and out because we had somewhere to be after. The waitress brought us waters within minutes of being seated and asked if we would like anything else to drink, when we told her we were ready to order. We ordered a short stack of chocolate chip pancakes and the chicken fried steak and eggs.
Food —
Pancakes: generous serving size, I think there were two or three of them in there and they were maybe about 8 inches in diameter. I didn’t taste them myself, but my son threw down half of it within 2 minutes then was full.
chicken fried steak: the meat was heavily breaded and very soggy. Batter did not stay crisp and just kinda turned into one big lump when mixed with the gravy. Served over a side of potatoes which were not evenly cut so different in size. A few of the larger pieces were still somewhat raw and crunchy, not crunchy in a good way. The whole plate was heavily drenched in white gravy, which burned my throat because it was so salty. I had a side of zucchini bread with it which tasted and looked like cinnamon flavored sugary bread.
Service: after we got our food, that was the last we saw of our waitress. She walked by several times and wasn’t that busy at that point anymore, But didn’t stop by to check on us. After we finished eating. We sat there for a good 5 – 8 minutes doing nothing until i finally flagged her down for the check
this may pass for good home cooking in Idaho, but if I were ever passing through again, which I will be next week, I probably would not come back.

My fiancé and I went here today. We have been here a couple times, and have enjoyed the food and service very much each time. Today was a huge bust.
Let me start out by saying that our food was still very good like usual. I would give the food and menu 4 – 5 stars. I enjoy that they use locally roasted coffee, and that there are so many diet options. The zucchini bread was to die for as well.
What really ruined our visit today was the service we received. Our check said Olivia, so I’m assuming that was our server’s name. We were greeted with a smile and lead to a booth, which I enjoyed, but that’s where the good service stopped. I’ll start this out by saying that I work in the food service industry as a barista, and I can understand having a bad day and not wanting to get a smile on your face for all the people during the day. Olivia asked if we wanted coffee, and we enthusiastically said yes please, and then waited ten minutes for that coffee to get to us, even though the coffee/​bus boy was walking around and serving the few other tables around us. We chose what we wanted, and then waited at least another 15 minutes just for our server to take the order, since she decided not to when she poured our coffee. Every time she walked back and forth by our table I tried to smile and make eye contact, and she completely ignored us until she accidentally made eye contact with me and finally decided to come over on her own time. She was very short and curt with us while she asked us questions about what we wanted. The food took another 20 minutes at least, and when she gave it to us she did not come back to check in for a good amount of time. We ran out of coffee and requested more, but didn’t receive any until we were almost done with the food. She never asked us whether we enjoyed our food, or whether we needed anything. We made sure to but the credit card on the table so that we wouldn’t chance waiting any longer. She looked at the card several times and never picked it up until she felt like it. When she finally gave us the check after she ran it there was no «thank you» or «have a nice day». There were around ten tables when we were there, and I counted three waitresses and two bussers. Unless there was some serious problem, there is no way that our service should have been this bad.
Honestly, I have never had service that was this horrible. This makes me not want to come to this restaurant ever again. I tried to think about whether or not we said anything to make her angry with us, but I always go above and beyond to be kind and have a smile on my face when I talk to servers because I basically work the same industry where people are rude to you all the time. This is completely unacceptable, and I hope the owner or manager sees this review to know that this is how their company is being represented.

Usually I get the Aspiring omelette and I love it but today I switched it up for the Irish scrambler; potatoes, Swiss, egg, thinly sliced corned beef with green onions and a dollop of sour cream… So so so yummy in my tummy and will absolutely order it again. I have been here at least a handful of times and was just now told of their punch cards!

Great breakfast. I got the Paleo pancakes with eggs and bacon. Technically the Paleo pancakes are served with butter, and I’m guessing some store syrup so the Paleoness stops at the pancakes, but they were definitely delicious and I was grateful that they had something I can eat! Also, we’re from Rhode Island and appreciated some of the RI décor and history.

We were up early and with a lot of miles to burn before our next stop, Hubby and I needed fuel for the road. Michael D’s Eatery was up for that challenge.
This seems to be a popular place with local residents since there was a lot of back and forth between tables. It is only open for breakfast and lunch and was crowded when we got there and still busy when we were ready to leave. But service was efficient and Amy W., our server, was friendly and helpful. Our order was taken quickly and the food arrived soon after, hot and delicious.
I got an Irish Scrambler, Corned beef, green onion, scrambled eggs, potatoes & Swiss cheese with a dollop of sour cream. It is a really big helping and a very yummy combination of flavors. Hubby ordered Custard-​Style Sour Dough French Toast which is two pieces of sour dough with honey spread, syrup and cinnamon sugar. It was a lot of food for our money and tends to demonstrate why they have so many customers.
They have a large menu with lots of choices, service is good and the food is tasty. That’s a winning combination in my book.

Anytime I think of breakfast in Coeur d’Alene (especially if I want breakfast for lunch) this is the place that always pops into my head first!
Enjoying my food sometimes on the hot… clear your sinuses… side I often order the Courageous Omelet. Can be a great cure in the morning after a local brewery pub crawl the night before :)
Whether visiting town or just a local looking for some breakfast, lunch or second lunch I suggest checking this place out!