Perko’s Cafe & Grill

Walking into this place seemed fine until we sat down where I knew they don’t keep up with this place. The seating had duck tape to cover the holes in them, the bathrooms looked like a truck stop with no up keep and no paper towels. The places is very dirty the food was ok. But looked like a place that should be on kitchen nightmares on how dirty the place is won’t be coming here again

We are staying at the Vagabond Inn right next door and didn’t feel like exploring downtown Sac tonight, so we went down to the little café that is in the parking lot and were pleasantly surprised! We ordered breakfast for dinner and the eggs were perfect, the hash browns were cooked properly, and the pancakes and waffle were some of the fluffiness and most amazing that my husband and I have ever had!
Our server was attentive, but not annoying. Our drinks were never empty and the food was served quickly.
I would recommend! The hotel offers a free breakfast at the restaurant in the morning and we’re really excited to eat again!

The build your own breakfast was a joke… I was with a friend, we both ordered 2 scrambled eggs, crispy bacon and home fries (me), he got hash browns. Service was extremely slow.
The egg looked like one scrambled, not two and both of our egg portions were scorched. My Home fries had enough salt on them to kill somebody. The bacon that was originally served was not crispy, we sent that back. I also had them remake my whole plate of b’fest. The only thing they didn’t screw up was the pancake and waffle. The coffee was not good either.
SO, with all that being said, I will not go there again, it was such a let down for a Sunday breakfast.

Very BAD !! Don’t buy TOGO food here… They TOW CAR.
I was plan to get some stuffs then get TOGO foods,
So my foods won’t get cool. I park my car here, then walk to next street get other item.
When I come back to ready to order my food.
My car is gone!
They TOW my car !! Even I told then what’s going on.
The people work here is VERY RUDE.
They said. YOU SHOULD NOT BUY TOGO.
YOU SHOULD DINNING HERE.
Ask them anything, they just said I don’t know !!
Talk to the tow company.
they said parking only for dinning guest.
I wasn’t gone so long… I just leave less than one hour,
Get stuff. buy take out food, than go…
But… they don’t care… just told you…
YOU SHOULD DINNING HERE…

This place is attached to a motel parkinglot on the buisy freeway exit from old sac and downtown. :) Easy in and out. My review is purely based on one experience on a w@7p. Other than our meeting there were two other tables of two. :/​our group was placed in a area with a podium on the backside of the kitchen. Ok i get it space is limited. We could still hear the muzak from the ceiling over the mic&speakers. I ordered sweet potato fries (crispy plz) that said it came with garlic aioli and a soda $ 8.50. They were NOT crispy and the «aioli» tasted like 1000 island dressing*see pic* YUK! I noticed that the other people at our table who ordered food all left something on their plate. Like all of the broccoli or most of the pasta or the basket of chicken strips with 3left. If i come for another meeting ill eat beforehand :(
So given all the food choices 6 blocks from here if i were staying in that motel id take a walk. *Anything in old sac*

The food was very good for a perkos. More the gramas home cooking. Shocker I know.
But the service was terrible. I had to get up twice to ask for a refill of my coffee. My server was just a no show. It was not busy. I saw her. But she just avoided eye contact or a courtesy visit on her own.

DO NOT EAT HERE– let alone PARK here!
Went with a friend and ended up having a nightmare of a day.
Food was mediocre and the place wasn’t clean.
The parking guy was creepy and HAD MY FRIEND’S CAR TOWED!!! Despite eating there! But then allowed some random people to park there and pay him in candy for not towing their car!!!
What kind of scam is this?!? You know the manager must get a cut of the towing service. If not owns it.
Avoid this place like the plague. Unless you like paying $ 400 for cruddy food and wasting hours getting your car back from «Affordable Towing».

This Perko’s is located near the Amtrak train station. There’s usually a two-​hour layover between my bus and train, so previously I would go to the downtown plaza to get a hamburger at Johnny Rocket’s. Since that location is no longer open, I went in search of a new hangout. I discovered Perko’s. I had a hamburger and fries and it was very good. The patty was cooked perfectly and was juicy. The fries were seasoned well and I enjoyed them. The service was very good and I was pretty happy with the visit. I travel through the Amtrak station frequently, so I’ll be making future visits to Perko’s.

George and Cassy are part of this awesome crew at one of my favorite restaurants! The food is fresh, and the restaurant is clean! Prices cannot be beat in downtown! And if you are staying at the Vagabond 20% off!

I brought my kids here and really enjoyed the breakfast. Everything was very flavorful and not the out of the can affair. I had the egg white omelet which was actual egg whites, not egg beaters. The pinch was flavorful and delish. My kids had the build your own and got exactly what they wanted at a good price. An overall lovely brunch experience.

Got off of the freeway and here it is.
Seated in a large back room with no other folks as we wanted a table, not a booth.
The building seems to be clean but very very old school which in it self I liked.
We were waited on right away and coffee was brought.
We all ordered from a menu the offering that you can choose I forget three or four items.
It did take a while to get the food, but we were in no hurry. Coffee was kept filled.
We each were surprised at how well all the food was prepared and tasted. Very pleasant surprise.
Service was good, food was good and the building gave us something to think about.
Oh and it was very inexpensive too boot.

This was the worst place I’ve ever eaten at in my whole life. My mozzarella sticks came out with no cheese, then the waiter got new ones and they were very soggy. Then I ordered mother load or something like that and the bacon wasn’t even cooked. They were extremely short staffed so it didn’t even give the wait staff a chance to give good service. I can’t even believe this place is in business and I wasted my money! I barley ate any of my food and spent over 30 $. I will never go back! Oh and the pancakes were nasty with no butter. Never again worst experience ever. Our waiter had a lot of potential to be a good server but that place is a joke!

I met a few friends here for breakfast! It’s a convenient and right off the highway.
When you first come in… it gives that old diner feel. They have booths or eat at the counter.
They have breakfast specials or order from the menu. We ended up ordering from the menu.
First off was we all ordered coffee. My cup had lipstick on it! Yuck! I was told the cup is clean and that lipstick stains. I’m sure that’s correct but you cannot give that to your customers.
They only had ONE person seating people, taking the orders, refills on drinks on all the tables, and delivering of all the orders! YIKES! We waited forever for every little thing. Crazy understaff place!
We received our breakfast. It LOOKED much better than it tasted. We needed more gravy and were told it would be a few minutes because they had to make it! Lol. My biscuit was hard as a rock on the bottom. No flavor to the food. Very bland.
Overall…this isn’t a bad place. You get large portions of food. If you’re short on funds and you need a big meal… this is it! Minis the stars for my dirty cup, understaffed, which comes to long wait time for everything. Not the person working hard trying to keep up.

To sum it up, Please don’t eat here.
We came in here expecting a diner type experience, and received worse quality than that of a Waffle House. If any of you ever have been to a Waffle House, you know what I’m talking about. The staff is inattentive, uninviting, and the food is very mediocre. Prices I guess are normal, plenty of parking, when you notice there is someone who monitors the parking lot and has all the cars towed who don’t eat at the establishment. Of which I feel immediately bad for those people. Obviously Perkos must make a cut off the towing company to make up for their crappy food.
I received hashbrowns with a 4×3 inch rubbery thing in it, and when I pulled it out, I thought «what is this fat…» And then stretched it realizing it was a glove! Part of a latex glove… Are you kidding me? After the crappy service with our waitress, I knew telling her about it would just rise awkward conflict. Therefore I just pushed my meal to the side. My family and I eagerly left, and almost made it passed the fact of getting our car towed by the lovely «Affordable Towing». Conveniently there was a taxi cab right next to where I parked to block most of the view. My in-​laws car was jam packed, therefore I was stuck paying for the cab-​so that shitty meal cost me not only $ 50 but the additional $ 420 from my car.
On the way home, My father in law made me stop at McDonald’s because he was hungry… That right there lets me know officially I wasn’t the only one extremely disappointed, feeling ripped off, disgusted, and yet still hungry.
Closing statement: DON’T eat here.

Yeah, I don’t even think «ew» is enough to describe my last experience. I had been here before and it’s changed quite a bit. There was one guy working the front of the house and I think just one cook. Not like they were all that busy or anything! So I saw a picture of the Santa Fe Grill on the menu and it looked pretty good. «Slices of our Famous marinated tri tip braised with roasted jalapeño and Topped with melted Jack Cheese.» I did ask for it without the jalapeño though. So I’m really looking forward to this tri tip, right? «Famous», huh? (Picture big time cute kid pouty face right now.) I took a bite… well TRIED to take a bite, and the meat would not tear! I had to use my other hand to hold the dang meat in the sandwich and fight with it to get one friggin bite! I really don’t think that was tri tip. It was more like a low grade inferior cut of meat. I’ve cooked better tri tip than that crap!!! I thought it would have been just the first bite or two, or that one section, but nooooooooo! It was the whole she-​bang. I had to cut my sandwich with a fork and knife. And not that the knife worked all that great either. I had to saw, and saw, and saw away at it. At one point I pulled out a piece that was not quite bone, but not quite meat either. I was a tad confused. I should have just sent the thing back and I kick myself for not doing it. And by the way, it was just as unhappy with me about 15 minutes after eating it too! Ai-​yi-​yi!
I will say the server was very nice and friendly and maybe that’s why I didn’t want to say anything. He really was doing his best trying to do everything by himself.

Absolutely Horrible! — wish I could have given ½ star
We been here a few times. It started as a great place– food, atmosphere, and service.
The last at least 3 times has been disgusting. Wilted lettuce every damn time, crappy service, meals that are gross.
Yesterday (4÷16÷2015) was the final straw. Salad was F’in wilted again, I ordered the bacon wrapped meatloaf with green beans. 1^st the meat loaf was giant meatball wrapped with a piece of bacon (it was F’ing gross!!) 2^nd the green beans were absolutely disgusting had a disgusting layer of grease all over them. Green beans with more grease then bacon? The garlic toast … was toasted on one side … everything about it sucked; told the manager «next time I’ll hook you up» … are you kidding me dude, there is not going to be a next time.
When the little things add up; it’s just horrible.
The men’s room is always something you might find at a gas station (or worse).
Avoid it if you can; there are plenty of other places Downtown, Old Sac, or go across the bridge to West Sacramento.
I could keep ranting and raving … but, you get my point. Avoid this place at all costs.
with the new arena being built down the street, you can only hope they get their shit together and make it a place people actually want to go to.

It’s our go– to place for:
We gotta eat cheaply, or.
A great menu of good food. Yeah, it’s both, in a cool interior of an old Denny’s, with counter or table service. Always friendly people.
I keep coming back.

** I posted this review then Shawn R a few reviews back sent me a message saying «You’re in idiot. Grow up» so it seems that several of these reviews are by friends or employees. I don’t know any other reason to keep such close tabs on reviews and harass people. **
I should have read the reviews before going here. Stay away!
We walked in and were told it would be 2 or 3 minutes before we could be seated. Then about 5 minutes later someone else came out and took our names and said it would be about 10 minutes.
We sat down and were waiting to order our food. The manager had to call the cops on some guy that was on one a few tables over. The druggie left eventually.
After ordering our food and waiting about 5 minutes, I realized they only have minute maid orange juice. Which is not actually orange juice but some high fructose corn syrup orange flavored drink. I’m pregnant, I can’t drink that crap so I told my husband to go find the waitress and cancel the drink. When he found her she asked him more than once why I didn’t want it anymore. He told her that I’m pregnant.
When the waitress came back to our table she asked why I couldn’t drink orange juice while pregnant. LET IT GO! Seriously. I didn’t want to sit there and explain to her that it’s not actually orange juice so I told it gives me heartburn (which is true). She told me she drank it through her pregnancy. This is so rude.
Then my food showed up. I ordered an omelet with only veggies. The second bite in… HAM! Are you serious? I don’t eat ham. What if I was jewish or a vegetarian?
They gave me a new omelet with only veggies but this place is a joke.

I have lived in midtown and have driven by the restaurant and wondered about it more times than I can count. Finally decided to stop by and was glad I did. The staff was very friendly. My husband had a hamburger, which he really liked. I had a waffle, which was very fluffy and had a great taste. This place is along the lines of that old neighborhood breakfast/​late night sober up food kind of food joint. Prices are reasonable. Good food, good value, good service. This place gets a thumbs up from me!

AVOID! AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!
I am scarred for life after my experience here this morning. We received two meal vouchers from the horrendous Vagabond Inn next door, so we decided to order to-​go for the road (don’t stay there — it’s awful). Anyways, I got the crab cake benedict. What I was served were two grayish-​brown very fishy smelling blobs atop sliced tomatoes, poached eggs and thick, cold hollandaise.
This «meal» was beyond disgusting. It took forever to come out too, so I suspect that the cooks might have found an old can of crab or defrosted expired product. I can’t stress enough how absolutely DISGUSTING this was.
Even the side of fruit had gone bad! Needless to say, this «food» went straight in the trash. I am ashamed to admit that I took a couple bites, hoping that maybe it was better than it looked. I made myself throw up just to ensure I didn’t get food poisoning — a terrifying and entirely probably prospect.
My boyfriend’s club sandwich looked equally as bad, and even had a toothpick in the sandwich hidden under the bun! How delightful! Even the fries were horrible and soggy. How do you mess up fries?!
Please, I beg you — don’t eat here. And don’t stay in that sorry excuse for a hotel next door. Avoid these businesses at all cost!