Park Cafe

My family and I stayed opposite this café at Central Park which meant it was our go-​to breakfast place in New York. The staff are very friendly, the service is rapid and the prices are moderate for a Café near Times Square.
Most days I had the French toast with bacon and I strongly recommend this. The bacon was crispy and you get two pieces of thick bread. Every sweet dish is brought with maple syrup and butter sachets so you can control how much you would like. My parents decided to have omelettes which came with two pieces of toast and home fries/​potatoes. Apparently those were good too!
The second morning we came, we had to wait for a table but in a very short queue which only lasted about 5 minutes if that! This place is very busy but does not have a noisy atmosphere which is really good.
The food was decent overall and a great place to have breakfast. They offer a lot of beverages at a good quality and the overall service of the place is very high. The food is brought to you in under 7 minutes on average across the week we were present.
Overall, a great place to go for breakfast.
Also, on one occasion we went for dinner and the burger I had was delicious. They serve quickly for dinner as well, with a different set of staff!

Food was good. Service was very good. I had the pastrami sandwich. Good with plenty of meat but a little dry for my taste. My wife had the bacon omelet. It too was good.

We were wandering around from our hotel at West 57^th by Hilton in New York City, looking for a place to eat breakfast, as our hotel despite costing $ 400+, declined to furnish breakfast.
We looked around and saw Park Café at the corner of 57^th and 7^th, with tons of people standing inside –despite it be being May, it was raining and cold outside. Well if it’s that crowded, there must be something good about this restaurant –when in doubt eat where everyone else eats.
Turned out the line of people inside the restaurant was for guests standing in line waiting for a table. We took our place and took a glance at what everyone sitting down was eating, but otherwise kept our eyes to ourselves, keeping quiet, blending into the décor, and hoping not to disturb the sitting people eating.
After about 10 minutes, we got ourselves a narrow 2 person table in the back, no doubt speeded up by the waitresses being on their toes and giving and collecting meal checks pronto. After all this is New York City on a weekday, and everyone is in a hurry, even the customers eating their breakfasts.
Middle aged waitress with a Slavic accent, too much makeup, and dyed black hair takes our order. Reminds me this is New York, not California, where not too many immigrants from Europe.
Wife asks if I want to split a meal. I tell her that I can easily eat this meal by myself. I get the Denver omelet, while the wife gets the over easy eggs with sausage.
Service is prompt, and each meal comes with shredded potatoes and two pieces of toast. My Denver omelett is delicious, with the eggs cooked just right, with green peppers and ham.
We get out of there for $ 29 after tip and tax, a bargain in New York city.
Meanwhile the line of standing customers waiting for a table gets longer. Two Chinese ladies sneak into an empty table for 8, sit down, and are promptly admonished by the watching waitresses, one for jumping the line, and two for having two people take up a table for 8. Just like my ex: native born Chinese ladies the same all over, always trying to take advantage at others expense!
Wife goes outside, realizes she’s missing something, and scrambles back to get her purple head band. Don’t want to miss that, when it’s windy, rainy and cold in May in New York city.

Fastest omelette ever. Decent service. Everything is quick. Decent coffee. Nothing amazing about the food. The feta cheese in the omelette was lacking.

This restaurant was a nice place to stop in for lunch. The food is not phenomenal, but it is not bad. The portions are huge, probably enough for 3 people.
The waitress was nice enough and it was clean. It also had an «A» in the window from the health department, which I have discovered is quite important to look for in New York.

Eggs were not cooked all the way and the potatoes tasted old. I should have checked Unilocal before my boyfriend and I even went inside.

Adequate diner food, but nothing special and grossly overpriced (but of course that’s nothing new for midtown). It’s not the cleanest place, but we’re mostly just talking some splashes of soda and crumbs on the ground. And service is fine but again, nothing to be impressed by (sensing a trend here?). Overall, I would only go here if you have literally no other options, but you don’t need to be scared away by the low reviews (it has an average 2.5 as I’m writing this).

Meh — like any other diner — nothing special. About $ 11-​$ 13 for an omelet. Service is OK

This place served its purpose for us during our stay in NY. Our hotel, Park Central, was right across the street so it made for easy breakfast. We kept it simple with just sunny side up eggs and whole wheat toast and coffee. I will say that the service is HORRIBLE. They employ an older staff, which is fine, but they were so slow with everything. I mean, bad. Attitudes all day! Oh you want more creamer? HOW DARE! It only seemed to be bad with the female staff. When we’d get a guy, it was smiles and laughs all day. Anyway, if you’re hungry and your hotel doesn’t offer breakfast, the food is good, so this place will do. Just set your expectations low… very low.

We we’re suffering from jet lag from a red eye flight to New York and just needed some coffee and food in our stomachs. I got the Mediterranean omelet which looked like it was made by a 5^th grader. Taste wasn’t bad but I honestly could have made something better. The potatoes were bland as well and lacked any personality. My wife got a sausage breakfast sandwich which was good but not great. The coffee wasn’t fresh at all, but it was coffee. There are other options than here so I would look elsewhere.

Eating at the Park Café was really convenient as we stayed at the Wellington Hotel which is right upstairs. Very busy, we got sat and served really fast! Breakfast was really good overall, I had the Lumberjack French toast. The only downfall is the super high price for basic breakfast but that’s New York prices. Wish I would had stayed long enough to try some lunch.

Standard diner fare. Not bad not great.
If you want a lot of basic food this will work.
Service was very good. Chicken rice soup was also good.

Park café located right next to the corner, right next to the 57^st. — 7 av. subway station. The Wellington hotel ist just right steps away. I’m not sure if this place is belong to the hotel, or just supporting the hotel, but as a hotel guests you will get free breakfast ticket from the reception and you can use it for breakfast here. This was the case for me, I was staying with my partner in the hotel for quite long for holiday, so we came here quite often during the staying. The breakfast card only offer really limited options, for a short time, it probably wouldn’t become a problem. But visitors like us, who’s planning to stay here for awhile, it could be a bit boring after awhile.
The breakfast itself wasn’t bad at all. It was a typical amercian style breakfast, bacons, ham and eggs, pancakes and sausages. I found it quite oily each meal. probably put on some weight aleady. Well, It happened quite often in holiday anyway.
After awhile we tried it order soemething else, they would accoding the breakfast ticket value added up the price of what you ordered. that extra guest can paid at the end of the meal. I also checked about the price on their menu. I did find it quite expensive, maybe not for the standard here, it probably because of its locaion, just 10 mins on foot to reach Central Park.
Inside the place didn’t have wifi, hotel policy. It was quite rogical, since the hotel charged people for internet. The staff which working here were quite efficient. although we came here usually need to wait on the line, it didn’t really take so long till we got a table. sometime might took around 10 mins, but I haven’t realls seen somebody was waiitng so long. Overall, I found this place was alright. At the morning could be a bit chaotic, but they managed to keep everything together.

Excellent spot for breakfast or lunch. Prices are reasonable for the city. Breakfast at one of the nearby hotels would be 2 – 3 times higher. If you are near Times Square check it out.

Good breakfast place right across the street from our hotel. An average plate is about $ 12.95, coffee $ 3.
Friendly, efficient service. They open every day at 6 am, so you can eat and get an early start to sightseeing.
They also serve lunch and dinner and gave a bar. Open until 1am.

Went here early morning Saturday to come in out of the rain and grab so grub during a visit to the city. The place was pretty crowded with some people that seemed to have breakfast coupons for their local hotel. We were sat right away and had our order taken quickly. Coffee and food were great and fast. Reasonably priced, especially for NYC. Basic diner fare but a lot to choose from.

Park café is located smack on 7^th ave right below central park. The cool thing about this place is that it’s open 24/​7, and is very well light, and has impressive lighting outside, so there’s definitely no chance that you’ll miss it.
Unfortunately, that’s about where the good things end. The servers are all pretty nice here, but they don’t really pay attention. When I came in the early morning, I asked twice for coffee, but still didn’t get any! As for the food, it was borderline acceptable, but the prices here are really exorbitant. I understand rent is probably pretty high, but it’s just not really affordable to eat here, especially considering the quality of the food.
Probably wouldn’t come again.

We came in here knowing it was poorly rated but it was close to our hotel and we wanted to avoid the impending downpour. All of the diners in this area are overpriced. Park Café is no exception. The place looked nice enough and we had good service and a nice waitress but I had the worst hot open turkey sandwich (see photo). For about $ 15 you’ll get what looks and tastes like bad school cafeteria food, from the dry turkey to the bright, mustard/​curry colored gravy. It was chicken gravy btw. They even screwed up my baked potato! So dry.
The other people in my party were more satisfied with their dishes: a decent chicken breast pita plate, a bacon cheeseburger with steak fries, a chicken salad sandwich and a sausage omelette.
NOTE: NO FREE refills and drink sizes are small. Expect to pay nearly $ 3 for an 8 oz glass of soda.

The wife told me about a great diner in a hotel with some of the best breakfast food in the city. As I am walking down 7^th Ave, I see hotel and diner. This must be the place. I am salivating with anticipation. Boy did i go to the wrong place.
I knew as soon as I walked in I was not in that magical breakfast place. I was smack in tourist central. WHY me. WHY did I not just 180 out the door.
Oh well, how bad could it be.
I was seated promptly with menu. Water service was quick. Ordered, pancakes and coffee. Diner staples. Easy stuff.
While the coffee was hot. No refill without asking. No biggie.
Main unhappiness was the desire to get a stack of fluffy pancakes. You all know the deal three babies piled high. Soft, moist, thick, but airy. The Norman Rockwell breakfast I was hoping… NOT.
What was served was two pancakes just slightly thicker than a crêpe. A crêpe I tell you. No beautiful stack of pancakes two or three inches high, just some lame ass crepes. BUMMER.
At $ 16 plus with tip, oh well, I have done crazier things. I think lol.

Strange diner for a few reasons, for one to go to the bathroom you walk through a hotel lobby and have to ask somebody for a key so thats kinda annoying, another is an oddly limited menu unlike most diners who have menus that are like novels. Basic stuff, burgers, breakfast stuff, sandwiches. I had a cheeseburger deluxe which wasnt awful but wasnt great typical way too broiled diner burger that came with not very good fries, a small KFC style coleslaw and a pickle. Not even those two big onion rings most diners give you on a deluxe. Well i was only paying 15 dollars lol
My friend had a spinach omelet and not being a potato fan asked for a salad on the side and of course she got fries. The coffee was poured and that was it, no refills/​touch ups or even to ask until we were long finished, kinda sneaky for the price they charge.