Muscatine Family Restaurant

Best breakfast in town and huge weekend breakfast buffet! Great quality food for an affordable price. Under new ownership since May 2015.

I’m out of town so my husband and his crew. We eat out at least twice a day. This is the best breakfast in muscatine. Reasonable price and very comforting food. Staff is friendly. I order over easy egg, hash brown, bacon, toast. My husband order all you can eat pancakes with scrambled eggs bacon hash brown. Very tasty… Today I looking forward to go back eat breakfast because they said have the best French toast :)

This place is a joke. The owners are incompetent and have no customer service skills what so ever. My daughter, Me and my grandmother stopped in this morning for breakfast, my grandma orders a diet Pepsi and the cup was so dirty it had an old splenda packet in the bottom of it. So suprise at the end of the cup… DISGUSTING!!! BUT after that fiasco, all they offered was a new drink?!! They owners should have came over and apologised but instead they stand behind the counter and chat. Beautiful absolutely beautiful. I was in the middle of writing a review and the owner came over finally after the meal was over, he apologized to my grandma about the food and looked at me, and said… and I quote. «for you, you little smart ass, don’t ever come back in here again». So in the moment I turned on my video camera and he tried snatching my phone from my hands and said get the hell out of here now. I can not believe he tried assaulting me in front of everyone! I wish my camera would have caught him grabbing my phone and hand, he grabbed me hard. But I have the last few seconds of our confrontation before he went and hid in the back. I was going to rate the place 3 stars but after this one star is to much. Oh and the food mediocre at best. I had the special western skillet. And you can tell the food comes directly out of a bag, no flavour. It’s your typical old person breakfast restaurant where you sit and have shitty coffee. Nothing was made special except for the disappointment he served directly to my table in front of my daughter and grandmother.

The breakfast buffet and dinner buffet are excellent. Great value for the money. The prime rib is delicious.

I have had breakfast here so I decided to try the dinner buffet. Let me start by saying the service was great. The buffet however should definitely be avoided. The salad bar was fresh with quite a few choices. That was the best part of the meal. The mashed potatoes were so sticky it was impossible to get them off the serving spoon. The gravy had a skin forming on the top. The 2 pasta dishes or that’s what I think they were, looked messy and dried out. The beef and pork were as dry as shoe leather. The chicken was at least edible.
Bottom line: go for the menu items and avoid the buffet at all costs.

Good diner food, best gyro in town. The owner, perhaps by virtue of not being from Muscatine originally, is very friendly.

Traveling through the area, food was avg to below avg. Service was the same.
I look to eat somewhere else the next time I come through.

I stopped in for breakfast on a Friday morning. Service was fast and friendly. The food was priced inexpensively and came quickly. I had two eggs with bacon. They were good enough. The bacon wasn’t the greatest ever, but, like I said, good enough. I also had a half order of biscuits and sausage gravy. Very little sausage in the gravy, and it had a slightly sweet taste to it.
They have excellent toast. I know that’s a funny thing to say about a place, but it’s true. The wheat toast was thicker than normal «diner» toast, but not like Texas toast sized. It was basically the perfect toast for sopping up egg yolks. What can I say, it’s the little things that make me happy.
In an ideal world, I would have the eggs and wheat toast from Muscatine Family, the bacon from Farmer’s Diner. And the coffee from Elly’s Tea and Coffee House. All served at Muscatine Family Restaurant, because their staff was friendlier.

I’m not really sure how to rate this place, but Unilocal tells me that 3 stars means «A-​OK,» and I’d say that’s about right.
For brunch, this may be the best place in the Muscatine area. They can accommodate large groups, and there are lots of windows and natural lighting.
The food is very basic. As comfort food, it is slightly greasy but immensely satisfying. I got a skillet that came with potatoes, vegetables, eggs, and cheese. I would recommend it. My friend got the chicken fried steak and commented that the white gravy reminded her of her grandma’s.
The staff is friendly and very service-​oriented.
If you happen to be in Muscatine and want a hearty family breakfast, this is the place for you. Don’t expect anything groundbreaking, but don’t dismiss this little establishment either. What they do is basic, but they’re good at what they do.

Let’s be honest here: this is a diner in a small town, and as such should be considered according to those parameters. But by any standards of dinerdom, the Muscatine is tops.
We came with a huge party of out-​of-​towners after a wedding the night prior, and were well-​accommodated with a smile. I had NY Strip w/​3 eggs over medium and hashbrowns, my sweetheart had the veggie omelet, and another friend ate French toast. All were perfectly acceptably delicious, and to my surprise, my steak came out as medium rare as I’d ordered it. How often does a diner get rarish steak right?! I also appreciated the option of American fries (neither French nor Freedom) instead of hashbrowns, though I didn’t take it.
The French toast was eggy and delicious, looking and tasting pre-​buttered (if you think that’s bad, you don’t know nam), and the veggie omelet was packed full of fresh greens, oranges, whites, and reds. But the real reason to come to the Muscatine is the service.
Mr. Wonderful is the cheerful face that makes the place sparkle, and there’s a framed front-​page article from the local gazette to prove it. He cheerfully inquires where everyone is from and informs you of various and sundry things in a nigh-​impenetrable accent, smiling and refilling coffee from several feet in the air with nary a drop spilled. If you tell him when to stop filling, he admonishes you that he is a professional and with a wink, advises you that anyone can do it. His bright-​eyed partner and hostess is far more understandable, and cannot fail to make the grumpiest grouch crack a smile.
Whether it’s amply adequate diner food or service with a smile, the Muscatine Family Style Restaurant is Muscatine’s place to be. Especially if you’re over 60 on a Sunday afternoon.

Despite the 2 star rating, this is probably where I would go for breakfast in Muscatine unless one of the Mexican places is open early. Your other choices are pretty much chains. Breakfast is actually the only meal I have eaten here (twice).
Eight of us in Ms T’s family went here for breakfast after celebrating Ms T’s mother’s 90^th birthday the night before. The food was all very standard and undistinguished. I had a cheese omelet with sausage patties that I made into a sandwich with the side of whole wheat toast. It was just OK, except for the processed cheese. They also need to find some better sausage. Ms T had the corned beef hash in another attempt to find some that is decent. This was not it. It was very finely hashed and tasted like liver for some reason. I’m guessing poor quality corned beef.
No one except me liked the hash browns. They were not crispy the way they prefer them. I liked them fine because they had good potato flavor and were properly salted. Most of the food was not very hot when delivered, including the coffee.
There is nothing memorable here. It is very standard stuff but an OK way to avoid the chains. No huge issues, but nothing special.

OK, breakfast. Hard to screw up, and hard to make shine. But no matter what, people come away just saying, «yeah, it was breakfast.»
I’m giving this 2 stars based on the 50% raw onion content of my skillet, which might otherwise have been fine — decent mix of (to me) slightly undercooked hash browns, sausage, cheese, etc, and based on the coffee — which, as my father commented, probably contained one or two beans per gallon. Like — the pots of coffee the waitress was bringing around to give refills were definitely translucent. Like watery grade A maple syrup. It barely tasted like coffee — I wasn’t getting my caffeine fix from this stuff unless I drank until I burst.
Service was friendly and prompt, but basically, everyone kind of agreed that it wasn’t much to shout about. I think we knew that going in to it, but it’s where Grandma wanted to go, so no objections were broached.

My son, daughter and daughter-​in-​law tried this place on Saturday morning for breakfast and said the service was excellent, the food was good and the prices were low. So my darling wife and I went there on Sunday morning with my daughter and had somewhat of a different experience. The service was not very quick but according to my daughter it was substantially more crowded on Sunday (as would be expected), I had the chicken fried steak/​hash browns/​eggs and they were really nothing to write home about although there was really nothing wrong (CFS was breaded ground meat that was fried with a litle gravy on top). My wife had biscuits & gravy with a side of pork sausage and she said the biscuits and gravy was good but the pork sausages were ice cold. The waiter actually gave my breakfast to another gentleman by mistake. So overall, the experience wasn’t all that great.