Brant Rock Hop

My husband and I went to the hop on a beautiful snowy morning for breakfast. We have eaten at the hop before. I had not been there in about 1 year. The coffe was slightly bitter, and my Lucille breakfast sandwich well stacked the only thing that ruined the whole taste was the grilled English muffin which you could taste the «rancid» oil taste that is associated with dirty grill, not happy about that. So i won’t be going back there for anything grilled.

We’re new to the area so we didn’t know anyone who had been there before. We were a little nervous to try it out after the reviews about snotty service, but we really liked it! Food was not inspiring but it was solid and the space is fresh and clean. Coffee is good. Portions are very large! Biscuits and gravy aren’t on the menu as a side but the server told me that everything can be ordered as a side or a half order… which will come in handy for most people since none of were able to finish our meals. Looked very kid friendly. We’ll be back.

Since the closing of Authur and Pats which was a little pricey but great food and service and always a fun place to eat, we tried The Brant Rock Hop. The food was good but there were three other tables with customers and it took 40 minutes to get sandwiches for lunch. Not impressed at all, next time Dunkin Donuts.

Honestly, great food. Omelettes were totally on point — fresh and delicious and quick & friendly service. This place gets pretty crowded, even on weekdays, but there’s a reason. Good coffee and great food all around.
However, there’s seems to be a culture/​vibe of snippy, almost brazen rudeness behind the front counter. I wouldn’t even mention it (I’ve waited tables for many years and am really empathetic to food service employees of all kinds) if I didn’t hear a particular waitress snap 3 times over a single morning about customers asking for the WiFi code, commenting. disparagingly about their obvious lack of an ability to have a «real conversation.» I couldn’t believe when I watched this woman sneeringly ask if a customer had connected with the code she’d given him, and her «Oh gooooood, so glad to hear it, fascinatingggg stuff isn’t it?» was dripping with unhidden sarcasm and was bar none one of the most unwarranted displays of rudeness I’ve ever seen directed at a customer in an eating establishment. Why even offer (and advertise) the service if you’re going to loudly (for the whole restaurant to hear) belittle anyone who asks for the code? It was enough to ruin my morning and distract me from an otherwise pleasant meal listening to this go on over the course of an hour, even though I wasn’t involved. It’s also a pretty high horse to sit on, and a tired one at that. This town is a dead zone, so many people need WiFi just to receive messages at all in the whole town; also, the Hop has TVs blaring with loud, idiotic morning shows all the time, so it seems a little hypocritical to mock perfectly innocent customers for asking for a simple service that you advertise proudly on the door when your other customers are sitting slack-​jawed staring at Good Morning America.
I’m pretty forgiving, at least I think I am… but this was a sad, kind of disgusting lose-​a-​little-​faith-​in-​humanity moment that kind of put a big damper on my last visit. Perfectly fine place otherwise, but there are enough restaurants in the world that I don’t need to frequent one where belittling customers is not only tolerated, but blatantly audible for an entire morning.

I had the crab cake Benedict, AWESOME. First time visit to the hop and have to say it was an enjoyable experience. We went on a Sunday for brunch and while it was busy and we had to wait for a table, the service was excellent and timely. I would definitely go again. Homefries were not anything to write home about or a favorite of the table, but the eggs Benedict, omelette, scrambled eggs, and BLT consumed in our group were all cooked to perfection!

My sister and I were looking for a good breakfast place on the way to the beach yesterday so we decided to give Hop a try. I ordered the Italian omelet that had sausage and veggies with cheese. My sister got the Greek omelet that had tomatoes, spinach and feta cheese in it. Both omelette cane with home fries and a carb (toast, English muffin of bagel). I felt like the food was bland, had no seasoning. The coffee was good. Hop is overpriced and meh for food.

Nice big chunk cut redbliss potato homefries. I had the biscuit & gravy. Pretty tasty, very large plate of food.

We are regulars at the Hop. I spoke up today and mentioned that our fresh fruit cup had been under the hot lamp for quite awhile while our other food was not up. They gave us a new one, so that was fine. Went to the ladies room, no soap, so I mentioned it to the waitress. When we got the bill we noticed that the waitress added 20% onto the total for gratuity. What if she was only worth 15%. Is it ok to just assume you are worth 20%. Not sure if it says that on the menu. We had three adults and four children. The staff is so busy that its hard to grab someone to ask. FYI, management, you might benefit from a bus person, they can fill your soap, and bus your tables. There are usually dirty tables and a line at the door. Waitresses would turn their tables over quicker and customers would be happier. I know for sure they lose out to the competition on busy days because of this.

Get the apple french toast and let your life change for the better. Extremely friendly staff and fun breakfast place!

The food is meh. I live on the other side of town, so usually I’d choose the Mug over this place. It’s a cheesy 50’s theme, with young girls who dress a little too skimpy. I just kind of don’t really love it.

If you can wait 20 minutes outside and another 30 at your table the food is good and prices right. Good competition to Arthur and Pats.

Great food & service. Stopped here for breakfast before starting our Ragnar Relay at the beach. They were quick and polite. Made it an enjoyable diner experience.

This is by far the best oldies looking breakfast diner in the south shore area. Atmosphere is great, they have coke in glass bottles, great milkshakes, awesome food (hash omlet-​soooo good!) Plus great location if your looking to walk around by the ocean. Definitely recommend.

My husband and I stopped in for breakfast on a recent December Sunday morning. Although that’s prime breakfast time, we were able to snag a booth promptly. After we placed our orders (chocolate chip pancakes with a side of bacon for me, the Marilyn Monroe plate for him), I swear our food was in front of us in less than 10 minutes ~ fantastic!
I’m not always a fan of restaurant pancakes {so why did I order them, you ask? I don’t know}, but these were delicious. The three eNORMous pancakes were fluffy and sweet; next time I might get the short stack because there was a LOT of pancake going on! My husband loved his meal too ~ the two of us were silent for a solid five minutes, shoveling food in like a couple of growing teenage boys.
My one complaint? I don’t know where our {otherwise reasonably attentive} waitress disappeared to after she dropped off the bill. Well, yes I do know, because I could see her ~ waiting on a table of five or six that had recently been seated. We weren’t in a rush and I completely appreciate how overwhelming a large party can be as they get settled in and put in drink orders, etc. However, it took literally FIFTEEN MINUTES from the time the waitress dropped off the bill until she came back to grab our card to swipe. In the grand scheme of life, fifteen minutes isn’t much, but when you’re done with your meal and waiting to pay, that is a LONG time! It actually took longer to pay the bill than it did to get our order. And, even more strange, she did not offer as much as a «sorry for the wait» when she finally came back.
So, the food was good and the atmosphere cute {think 50s-​diner-​style}, and although the staff wasn’t knock-​your-​socks-​off fantastic they were pleasant enough… but that wait to pay the bill was truly ridiculous.

I’m so bummed out… Used to have THE most perfect fries & now they have those fake crispy ones. Yuk!!! Please change ‘em back!!!
Also would it be possible to do a Huevos Rancheros of some sort? You need a new cupla items on the menu!!!
Great service from the girls … Esp love Laura, Taylor & Michelle!!!

I went to the Hop almost weekly during my maternity leave. The staff are incredibly friendly, food is always delicious. Even on a Saturday morning (ie what should be a bust time for a breakfast place) we have never had to wait too long for a table. Breakfast and lunch are both great here.

Pros: nice look and feel, very cheery waitstaff.
Cons: Counter had melted cheese hanging off it, saw a waitress stick the handle of the syrup container in the waistband of her pants (against her skin). Asked if hash was house made, and was told that it wasn’t but delicious. No thanks I can get canned hash at home. Decided on the bacon pancakes. They were heavy and bland. The syrup was the fake corn syrup crap. Sat at counter and could see in the kitchen. The cooks could crank out bland boring food, but had no passion in what they do.
Been to both Arthur and Pats and here. I prefer A&P for food & The Hop for atmosphere. Not really impressed by either though.

Great classic diner atmosphere (which is hard to come by in MA). Best shakes anywhere. The Southern Hospitality is a meal and a half. It is the breakfast to have for biscuits and gravy.

One word: MEH.
I took two twelve year-​olds here as a financial alternative to the «other breakfast place» just down the road, and well… you get what you pay for: bland eggs, Wonder Bread-​type toast (which was supposedly whole wheat!) and hash browns seasoned with too much Lowry’s season salt. Blecch. The amount of food each of us got was excessive, and the coffee was unremarkable. It was also obvious that one of the boy’s hash was from a can.
The service was a mixed bag, as it seems like the waitresses are all over the restaurant instead of each handling one section as they probably should have. I don’t know what our waitress was doing, but it seemed like it took forever for her to greet us and get coffee/​juice, and she would disappear from the floor for long periods of time.
I’d also like to point out, and this may sound mean, that on the day we were there, there appeared to be a lot of «unhealthy-​seeming» folks in this restaurant. It seemed like a haven for very large people who, sadly, may be well on their way to having Type II diabetes and/​or heart disease, and eating here is definitely not going to help with that. There is almost no healthy-​ish food to be had here, and the vegetable omelet, which is probably healthiER is also the most expensive item on the menu. If I were to pay more money for delicious, healthy food, I would happily shell out $ 14 for an egg dish with fresh mixed greens, capers, red onions, salmon, cage-​free eggs and nutty, multi-​grain toast — like they have at the place down the road!
Again, you get what you pay for: cheap, unspecial, unhealthful food served in a kind of sterile, neglectful atmosphere — not unlike the hospital room you could find yourself in after getting some obesity-​related disease because you ate breakfast here too often.

This place is very new and when we go on Sunday mornings, it’s always busy. There’s plenty of tables and they have a breakfast bar with stools but if you hit it at the wrong time, you might have to wait to sit down. They have an extensive breakfast menu but I go for the typical bacon and eggs or pancakes. They serve lunch as well which I hear is good but we have not tried it yet but we look forward to it. I took some pictures to give an idea of what the food and the place looks like, so check them out.
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