Rise & Shine Cafe

Very nice place first thing on a Saturday. The sun rises and shines down the street. The place is bright and the smell of the food is fantastic.
We like to come here before we head the the farmers market.
The food great and the portions are big. If you order a full breakfast bring help.
Five stars.

I went for breakfast. Good service, coffee and food. I will return,

Excellent food! Good service too. Coffee was steaming hot, eggs over easy just right and bacon perfectly crisp! Next time we’re trying lunch!

I was here on a Sunday morning, service was great, food was even better. I had their special from the board, which were crepes, and wow!!! The prices are very reasonable also.

Love the breckfast! Best breckfast place In town! Very very delicious! Servers are very very friendly and bathrooms are very very sanitary!

We decided to try this place with one of my friends after a final exam at school. First of all, the place seems nice and clean. I’ve decide to go with their «Rise and Shine» menu item with turkey sausage and rye toast. Omelette and the toast were fine but the turkey sausage was one of the worst I’ve tried. Our waitress was really nice but it didn’t change the fact that sausage was horrible. Aside from the sausage, it seems like a pretty good place for breakfast, though any place would be nice after a final exam. I might go back to try the other menu items.

This is a wonderful, well priced breakfast spot in downtown Kent. We came in on a Sunday morning around 10 — it was busy but not so much that we had to wait. We lucked out — when we left there was a small wait.
Food is fairly typical breakfast fare — I got the Up And At’Em which has eggs, meat, potatoes, and French toast. The eggs were yummy, bacon crispy, and the french toast well coated. The potatoes were my favorite, very well seasoned and cooked well. I love breakfast potatoes, and these were top notch.
Service was great and the place is clean. Definitely a great breakfast spot up in Ohio.

Loved this place! We went yesterday morning and I’m so glad we called ahead and put our names in! We were seated immediately, otherwise there looked to be about a 20 min wait. This place is open kitchen style so you can see all of your food being cooked.
I had the «up and at ‘em’ and it was a huge amount of food. The breakfast potatoes were delicious and my pancakes were so tasty. My friends and I all agreed that the food was very fresh and not greasy, a huge plus!
The service was good as well. There was a small issue with my friend’s waffle and they whisked it away and replaced it with something else immediately and took it off the bill and did not charge her for the replacement. Such friendly and hassle free service!
Try this place, you won’t regret it! I will definitely be back!

To clarify,
Food 4 stars
Lag-​time 1 star.
Queue to be seated, small dining area, miniscule kitchen.
No one was inclined tp leave, so after 10 minites or so we were seated at the emercency table directly outside the bathrooms.
They have a designated drink person, so they arrived in a timely fashion, but the kitchen just
ain’t equiped for the size of the seating area, or it’s not well staffed back there or both.
The wait HAD to have been knocking on the door of an hour… Long enough that I entertained requesting my breakfast order be changed to a luncheon order, fully confident that preparation of my original order had not yet begun.
My wife got Eggs Benedict which she stated were the best she had ever been served. Each component earned praise independent of the other, and the whole got even more!
I got their «rise and shine breakfast», into which I have inserted two «wait“s and an «and» immediately following «rise» for the sake of accuracy.
It consisted of one’s choice of pancakes or French toast, choice of breakfast protein, eggs and hash browns.
All were nicely done, but none of exceptional note, except that they were ALL nicely done, no weak links taking up space on the plate.
All waitstaff were efficient and Personable.
Despte the fact that there were several heretofore unseen empty tables when we went up to pay our bill, there was a queue there as well.
They seem to do quite a carry-​out business, much of it breakfast fare, which is a new experience to the writer, but this is a college-​town, so somewhere out there are some happy dormies munching on take-​out breakfast!
Street and public lot parking as we are right downtown, bring extra change for the meter if you happen here on a weekend!

This is a hidden gem in Kent that people are just now finding out about. A great place for a solid breakfast that isn’t greasy or full of salt. Everything is cooked to perfection and the service is really great. Their waffles are also ON POINT. Love ‘em. The staff is friendly, and the food comes out quick. It’s almost always packed on the weekend mornings and there is only one hostess. So if you have to wait a few minutes, just be patient. The place is also pretty small, but that gets better in the warmer months when they open their outdoor seating.
My advice: Don’t go here with a big group unless you are going early. I prefer going here when I’m in a group of 3 or less people. You will get seated much faster and you won’t be so crammed at the table.

My experience was wonderful! We stopped in for brunch and it was Awesome! The hostess was friendly and attentive. The food came out quickly, it was fresh and cooked perfectly. I don’t have a single complaint with this place and would recommend them to anyone.

I love this place. Their portions are pretty big for a cheap price. I always get the Rise and Shine breakfast.

So happy my roommate introduced me to this hidden gem. The service is quick, the coffee is awesome (which comes from Tree City next door), and the breakfast is amazing. It is a smaller place, so there may be a wait, but it is well worth it. I reccomend this to any and all breakfast lovers. Tip: Get the French Toast. It is delicious!

Do you want a healthy home cooked style breakfast?! Look no further than rise and shine! This was my first time in here for breakfast and I am beyond impressed. Rise and Shine is a tucked in right next to Tree City coffee. It’s on the smaller side for size but it’s perfect. My entire breakfast was delicious! Everything from the home fries to the French toast was so tasty! The bacon was cooked on the crispy but not too crispy side! Love it! Their coffee even comes from Tree City next door. I would come back here again and again for breakfast. 5 stars for food and service!

My sister and I thoroughly enjoyed lunch – we both agreed they were the most delicious, fresh, healthy salads we had ever eaten! The Rise & Shine Café lives up to its name as a breakfast and lunch diner, but no greasy spoon here! The atmosphere is cheery and very clean, the service was perfect! Definitely plan on returning often to support this special Mom and Pop establishment! Oh, and by the way, the banana muffins are to die for!!!

We are here based off Unilocal reviews. Let me start by saying I can defiantly agree with other Unilocalers when we arrived it’s pretty small on the inside and it was packed. We were told just a few minutes for a wait. While we waited it did seem a little chaotic. The hostess was rarely at the hostess station and they didn’t have a busser so the wait staff was trying to juggle their tables and bussing too. So out visit did start off rocky ended up waiting almost 15 mins after we were told 5 mins.
HOWEVER, as once we were seated things began to drastically improve. Our waitress came over we ordered drinks. I kid you not 5 minutes after she brought out drinks (we ordered at the same time we gave our drink order) our food came out. We couldn’t believe how fast the food came out. Food was great!!! I love that they idea of building your own breakfast burrito. They had black beans which you can almost NEVER find at breakfast places so I was over the moon about being able to customize my burrito w black beans. Also for the kids breakfast you could do a pick 3 for any breakfast items (again loved this) bc my kids are vegetarian and it’s almost impossible to find breakfast places that have kids breakfasts w /​o meat as an option (at other places we always get it their breakfast w out meat but are still charged even though they don’t get it). So we were able to order them pancakes potatoes and fruit. Another plus it was fresh fruit (strawberries blueberries pineapples and grapes) loved that!
Also, some of the friendliest service ever our burritos came w salsa and when we ordered we asked for a small side of sour cream when our server brought our food she informed us they didn’t have any (which was fine) literally 5 minutes later it must have been the owner comes over with a small cup of sour cream she had gone next door to get us some. I literally couldn’t believe it. In my opinion that’s a+ service. Hopefully they get some of the kinks for seating/​greeting guests bc this is a great little breakfast joint

As a frequent customer of Tree City Coffee over in Kent, I always passed by this café and today I decided to give it a try. I’m a HUGE fan of breakfast, to put it simply — it’s my favorite meal of the day. So I was hoping this place would turn out to be a gem, but I have mixed feelings.
The staff was very friendly, great service, and the food was pretty tasty. My only real qualm with this place was the overwhelming smell of the kitchen grease… and when you’re a little hung over (as I was), it became very obnoxious. They designed this restaurant to have an open kitchen so that it gives the place a modern diner feel, and because of that, you’re exposed to a strong greasy odor.
Honestly, I would love to go back there sometime when they fix their ventilation issues. I’ll even update this review to give them an extra star if they do. Don’t let my review deter you from visiting though, they do have outdoor seating! I didn’t sit outside because it was too cold today, but it would be a nice place to grab a meal on a sunny day.

My new favorite place for breakfast!!! Their omlettes are awesome. Seriously the best I’ve ever had. Also, the waitress was beyond friendly. I have some eating restrictions and she was so amazing and offered me extra veggies in place of the food I couldn’t eat and didn’t make it an awkward situation like a lot of servers.
I’ll definitely be back.

We went for breakfast and the food was amazing! Made to order and really fresh food! Try the egg scrambler & waffles!

Fantastic breakfast… Had the Breakfast Scrambler… wife had Acorn Alley Omelet…1^st time there. Guaranteed to be back.