
50’s themed full service cafe/diner. We serve an upscale breakfast and lunch menu. Most items are homemade and made fresh daily. On the Breakfast side we have from eggs Benedict to grits and biscuits-n-gravy and Lunch, we have great salads, burgers and grilled sandwiches.
Old-school, mom-&-pop cafe providing American breakfast & lunch dishes in a comfortable atmosphere.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 865 Westminster St, Providence, RI 02903
Phone: (401) 273-0707
Website: http://theclassicri.com/
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Staff – The staff were very efficient and great company. The woman(Tracey) who waited on me spoke to me like family and she did her best to make sure she was helpful. The owner takes care of his business.
Drinks – Cafe coffee with the honey
Food – I ordered a meat lover omelette with hash browns and wheat bread with a side of biscuits and gravy and a side of corn beef hash. You get the food you came for and it comes out like your mom is cooking it has home. The portions were enough for me to take a full bowl to go. The fellas on the grill
Atmosphere – The cafe you came for is what you get. The place feels good to sit and have a good breakfast with friends family or just by yourself.
Several servers were loudly chatting about personal topics — things like mascara and face creams — throughout my meal. One server in particular, wearing a ring on her nose, was extremely loud and kept laughing every time she thought she said something funny. Their ongoing conversation was so distracting that they couldn’t focus on their work and ended up making mistakes on almost every table, even though there were only three occupied at the time.
My server was polite and attentive, but the cook, who was also part of the loud group, got my order wrong. I had requested whole wheat toast with no butter, but I was served white bread with butter instead.
When I politely asked the loud server to lower her voice, she apologized but made no effort to actually do so — in fact, she laughed even louder. I finished my breakfast as quickly as I could just to leave.
The food was good, but the unprofessional behavior and noisy environment completely ruined what could have been a pleasant meal.
First pic is a veggie omelets or something like that (wife). The second is a breakfast burrito that my oldest son pretty much inhaled and wanted more tortillas. The third pic is my younger son’s go-to, western breakfast sammich. That was pretty much inhaled as well.
The fourth pic is my eggs, corned beef hash and grits. Everything was cooked perfectly, even my eggs over medium. The corn beef hash had a seasoning in it I was not used to being in hash but it was good. And I’m no grits aficionado but they seemed really good. I got them with the cheese and bacon but think I would try with just the bacon or even plain next time since I feel the grits were good enough to stand on their own.
Coffee was good, I did not try the flavored coffee but wish I had. The food came quick and was delivered hot. Servers were busy but prompt and very friendly.
Given the covid times we are in I will comment on that. It seems to me that they may have but up wood barriers between the booths. They looked new or at least newly painted. Regardless of when they were installed the barriers allowed separation between the occupants of adjacent booths and probably eased the noise levels a bit. All people that were required to be wearing masks wore masks the entire time we were there.
Overall this was a nice place that had a pretty good variety of food on the menu and it would be worth going back for breakfast and lunch a few times to try different dishes. We went on a rainy Saturday and were able to be seated quickly but I’m betting on a nice day that would not be the case and on post-covid times you’d have a bit of a wait.
Ask for the hash browns extra crispy!