Goodfella’s Restaurant & Bakery

Good food good atmosphere bad service. I quite enjoyed my food here at Goodfella’s. I have came here for breakfeast and for dinner. The breakfeast was fresh and had a good texture. My dinner was warm but, not hot which disappointed me. The atmosphere is nice and cozy making you feel welcome. At night I stopped by relatively late at around 8:30. The waitresses were standing around talking and i herd some profanity. You could also, tell they were in a rush to leave and go home.

Good cozy atmosphere n decent grub, good place to write n eat! I would definitely recommend it to anyone coming through town and are looking for a cozy diner.

First time visitor but we’ll be back. The food was good for a neighborhood diner. We went because of the name (luv it) now will go back for the food.
We had fajitas (as good as Chili’s) and prime rib dinners and both were very tasty. You will not go home hungry. There were only 3 tables occupied but the staff seemed slow or involved in «other» things. They were very pleasant but not attentive as they could be for being only have a few tables.
Enjoy the food!

Horrible! Cold eggs, uncooked hash browns, hard, cold toast! When I complained at the register, I told them it was terrible. They apologized and basically said their hands were tied by the cooks. I have been a waitress in the diner situation ruled by the cooks being jerks! I get their frustration. I feel like the brunt of complaints in these reviews could be avoided by a good management team sitting down with their back of house staff. And if they can not come to an easy solution, there are plenty of people out there willing to take on that roll!
Extra star given for the wait staff who really tried to make everything better!

Had eggs bennie, pretty good but nothing to write home to mom about. Server was very friendly and was prompt when needed. Prices seem fare for the large portions. I saw several lunch items going out that looked delicious. Ill be back to try some lunch or dinner.

Almost a throw back kinda place, in a good way. The service is excellent and the food is very good .
The menu has a wide variety. Honestly the place reminds me of a Shownies Big Boys from Charrlotte NC .
Agian thats a good thing !
Gary

We love this place. Food is good, comfort food, not gourmet by any stretch of the imagination. Service is prompt and friendly Servings are very generous. I’d call this home cooking like grandma used to do.
One caveat. We were seated in a booth with a view of the kitchen. One cook had no hat, no gloves and was on his phone pretty constantly. I hope this was an isolated incident and that management would have corrected this.

Really tasty! I wanted breakfast food at 4 pm, and they have it all day! Fresh pies and other desserts, too. Really good. We will be back.

This place continues to improve with the addition of outdoor seating and now beer. The menu is varied and can accommodate almost any taste.
Tonight we had prime rib for $ 13.99 and it was spectacular for that price. Service was prompt, attentive and friendly.
It pretty unassuming but the food and service are a great value.

Terrible service! The first restaurant I’ve ever walked out of! We were seated and served drinks and then after that completely ignored. We say there for 20 minutes waiting for our server to take our orders. As we did so, we watched another family arrive, sit down and get served before us even though we were long before they were. If I could give 0 stars I would.

Breakfast is served all day and I got a Haystack (eggs, cheese, hashbrowns with ham but I substituted bacon plus toast). It was pretty good-​not great but not awful. The hashbrowns were pretty tasteless & kind of oily but the rest was normal/​good for a breakfast place. I must say the service was FAST! I also ordered a Caramel Frappuccino (I guess Starbucks has not sent them a letter yet) and it was tasty. The waitress was nice and the place appeared to have a bunch of regulars. The wait staff seemed to know everyone and hugs were given out regularly. A perk for parents-​there was a guy handing out balloon animals for the kiddies. I’d probably go back.

We just went to Goodfella’s for the first time yesterday. It was hard to decide what we wanted for lunch because all of the plates coming past us looked so good. I decided on the chile rellenos plate and was not disappointed. The rellenos were crispy and the green chile sauce was the perfect spice level. There was more food than I could eat.
The baked goods looked so good, I only wish we had a left a little room to try some of them. Maybe next time.
I also wanted to mention the friendly wait staff. In spite of the place being completely full at 1:30 the staff was still smiling and eager to please.

I wanted to like this place. I was hoping the cute, nice waitresses would bring me delicious food and fresh homemade jams and baked goods. Unfortunately, that was not the case. The food is ok, the jams are made with high fructose corn syrup and that homemade, down-​home feeling just wasn’t there. It wasn’t bad, the pie is actually very good. If they bake and make pie why do they have butter in packets and smuckers jams? Would your grandma do that?
I really think more fresh local ingredients would do the trick.
Not to mention a lady was refilling the Ice tub (the Ice that goes in YOUR glass) with a bus tub (the black ones that are used for dirty dishes). I’ve worked in restaurants and that is grosssss.
The heart is there– the fresh local ingredients and as a result that homemade taste wasn’t.

This place is just an average diner. Nothing special to it except that it is locally owned (the reason for the third star). I ordered a waffle with an egg and sausage patty. The syrup and butter came in disposable plastic containers with lids on them. That was somewhat awkward. My sausage was raw in the middle and my egg was not cooked the way I had asked.
The servers were nice however we had three or four different people serving us which resulted in the same questions being asked two or three times. That’s annoying.
There are several other breakfast diners that do an outstanding job in Longmont so I probably won’t come back to Good Fellas.

Meh.
That sums it up, frankly. Nothing special here. I hate writing reviews like this for local places, but it’s just the facts.
This is one of those ‘Cosco’ restaurants. Big huge food distribution companies have ‘packages’ that allow people to open a restaurant by checking off the box. They then deliver low cost food in quantity to these low/​middle quality places by the thousands across America. It’s why you can get a meat filled omelette for $ 5 – 6. The quality of that ‘meat’ is more than a little suspect.
Another way to tell if it’s one of those «Industrial Food» kind of restaurants is to take a look around and do a quick estimate of the BMI of the average customer. I would give this place an average of 33 – 38. (over 30 = obese). It was not pretty.
Anyway, this is one of those restaurants.
Clever name, though. I’ll give them that. Rating wise, it’s a 2 star place for quality, BUT, the service (at least for me) was excellent. Waitresses really do care and they rock it. So that’s worth a star, giving them a 3.
Will I go back? Unlikely. Would I refuse to go if a friend wanted to meet there, no, but I’d try to get them to try City Café, Leenies or a dozen other 4 – 5 star places (Longmont has plenty nowadays) instead.

We needed a desert fix and Good Fella’s came to the rescue! Located in the old Village Inn location in Longmont, the place is completely renovated and provides an appetizing atmosphere.
We will definitely be back for breakfast or dinner!

My husband and I decided to try this newly opened restaurant. We walked in to Goodfellas and noticed a new color scheme from vi but it still had the funky, stale vi odor. It was Sunday evening about 6:45pm. There were only about 8 – 10 parties in the entire place. We noticed an over abundance of staff. There were at least 6 waitstaff and 3 bussers.
We sat In a booth and I had a view of all the crumbs that were under the counter. You would have thought that a couple of staff could have been cleaning. One of the bus staff was wearing an Aunt Alice’s t-​shirt which I thought was strange.
When I opened my silverware it was dirty. I used my husband’s since he ordered a hamburger. His knife was dirty but the fork seemed to be ok. My husband liked his burger. I had a cheesesteak and it was flavorful and on a good bun. The fries were good diner fries. Our wait staff was responsive and nice.
My rating is low because of the dirty floor under the empty counter and the dirty silverware. And they need to clean the ventilation system to get the funky smell out.

My husband and I went to Goodfellas around 10:30am on a Saturday. When we arrived, the place was packed and we had to wait about 10 minutes for a table. The restaurant was uncomfortably hot and humid, and I found myself wishing we’d gone somewhere else.
We got our drinks quickly, but the waitress didn’t come take our order for a long time. The menu isn’t all that extensive, so it didn’t take us long to figure out what we wanted. When the waitress finally came to take our order, my husband asked if he could get over-​easy eggs with the special instead of scrambled eggs, but the waitress said, «We keep trying to get them to let us do that, but they won’t allow substitutions.»
While we waited for our order, I went back out to the car to get something (around 11am), and I noticed that the lobby didn’t have people waiting anymore, and even the parking lot had empty spaces (we’d been hard-​pressed to find one when we arrived), so we must have arrived right at the peak time.
The food took ridiculously long. I had thought about ordering the German pancake, but the menu said «allow extra time,» which I didn’t want to do. But it took so long to get our order anyway, I found myself thinking I might as well have ordered the pancake. But then the waitress brought one out to the table next to us, and I was suddenly grateful that I had not. The pancake was on a plate that was much too small for it, and it draped over onto the waitress’s hand. Once she put the plate down, the pancake draped onto the table. Eww.
Finally our order arrived. I got the «ultimate breakfast burrito» and my husband got chicken fried steak with over-​easy eggs and home fries, and with a biscuit and gravy on the side (see the photos I uploaded).
My burrito was kind of bland, and though I’d ordered it with sausage (you have a choice), it had chorizo instead. The combination of gravy and green chili was a little odd, but not bad. The gravy was spicier than I’d like, but my husband liked it. Overall, my burrito was okay, but nothing special.
My husband really liked his chicken-​fried steak, and he commented that the eggs were done perfectly. The home fries were slightly overcooked. He said his biscuit was okay, but not the best. His toast was cold, and came (skimpily) pre-​buttered in the middle only, with no additional butter on the table. Couldn’t get the waitress’s attention to get more.
My top compliment on this restaurant was that the hostess was extremely bubbly and friendly. I liked her a lot. If I went back, I’d probably give that chicken-​fried steak a try. But the restaurant was just so hot, the service so bad, and the food so mediocre, I probably wouldn’t go there again unless my husband really wants to.

Ugh! Went here for a late lunch today. First off, the fries were disgusting! They were by far the worst I’ve ever had! The «cheesesteak» consisted of steakums. BARF! Seriously, it’s 2013, if your still using über processed filler meat for your sami’s, you should resort to franchising a subway! My lunch partner got a burger that he had sent back multiple times. Over-​cooked, bacon burnt, served on sliced bread instead of a bun. WTF!?!
But wait it gets better, I got uncontrollable diarrhea 5 min after I left the restaurant. I will never return to this establishment!!!
Ps… There was a woman sitting behind us drinking the coffee creamers on the table. kids screaming and running around. The place was filthy too. Makes for a trashy ambience! Where’s Gordan Ramsey when you need him!!!

Not substantially different from the restaurant that was in that location before. The menu is not as italian-​themed as you’d expect from the sign and the name, the food is perhaps a cut above hospital cafeteria, and the waitstaff were every bit as eager to be there as the staff at the vi were. The prices are comparable to other more vibrant restaurants in the area.
This may all be a matter of a new place getting their feet under them, and I will certainly give this place another chance. And if it is better, I’ll review again. But if they don’t perk it up — the staff, the food quality, the menu in general — they’re not going to be there very long.