The Arcade Restaurant

Great atmosphere, I like the merchandising. Food: I don’t like the sweet potatoes pancake.
The traditional one was better.
The rest was good. Service: 80% of the staff were good.
I wish my waitress was looking more the room and was more on top of things.
One of them seems to be really annoyed or done with her job. The Restroom were dirty.

We didn’t plan to go to the Arcade Restaurant but we were looking around downtown and I’m intrigued by diners.
With a big coffee sign on the side of the building, I knew we had to stop. I was surprised to see pizza on the menu.
I was so disappointed in the inedible pizza we ended up with yesterday and my pizza itch had not been scratched so we ordered the Buffalo chicken pizza.
It was so delicious! Piping hot with stringing cheese.
The complete opposite of yesterday’s pizza. I loved the atmosphere of the old time diner.
We got amazingly good service from Aleeah.
We’ll absolutely be back! PS: This is the first time I’ve had coffee with pizza in my life.
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This was some of thee worst service I had in Memphis but the atmosphere and food made up for it.
Visited on a Thursday before 1pm. My server appeared to be working both restaurants (not sure if the restaurant next door has a separate name but the two are connected via a walkway at the rear of Arcade).
She would disappear for long stretches.
I would see other servers passing by and they would say "ok" to my requests and never come back.
I was unattended most of my time there. One example of a few: I had to ask for another coffee because the one I received, I couldn't get *anyone* to bring me a spoon/utensils or sugar to put in the coffee my server quickly dumped on the table then flew away.
It was actually cold by the time she finally returned to the table to take my food order.
The service was a huge letdown to the point I wanted to leave.
But this is a landmark, the oldest cafe in the city.
So I stuck it out and glad I did. That breakfast was delicious! The fried french toast? Frying it gives it like a beignet flavor.
Whyyyy did I only order the sampler that came with one lil small piece??? Don't make the mistake I did - just order the whole plate of fried french toast on the side of whatever entree you're getting.
It's soooo good! The sausage patty and strip of bacon went a long way, surprisingly.
The perfect salty sidekicks to the sweet french toast (!!) and buttermilk pancake, all accompanied by cloud-fluffy scrambled eggs and buttery hashbrowns.
It was certainly one of the most satisfying breakfasts I had while visiting the city. It's a shame that the service was so bad because I was looking forward to coming to this restaurant.
I feel like if it was busy, the service would have been better.
So maybe it's better to go during peak hours. Reasonable prices for it to be a touristy spot.
Parking lot (I think - at least I didn't get towed) around back.
Right next to a trolley station.