This place is amazing I love the new location. I usually get the fish and chip but I switch up to whatever special of the day. Great service and it's usually chilled.

I love the Lafayette coffee shop! Last of the good old Chinese American coffee shops. Honest food made fresh with real ingredients. Not greazy, & I always feel good after I eat there. Example: Turkey special- delish! Turkey carved right off the bird! Love the well marbled prime rib too! Steamed stout on Friday, with Clam Chowder!! Need a grubbin' cheeseburger? Oh yes. Great breakfasts? Oh hell yes! Corned beef & cabbage special makes me feel like it's St Patrick's day! Hearty, served with fresh steamed cabbage, carrots & chunks of potato. Yum. Specials rotate by day, try em all! Quirky Tenderloin atmosphere? For sure!-- Be understanding! This ain't the Ritz, & don' t come in with a fussy 'tude expecting everything "just so", they are too busy for people being jerks! Salad dressing: you better like thousand Island, cus that's sometimes all you get... Potatos that come with burger are delicious, but are prepared in a "smashed hash brown" kinda deal... Love the daily meal specials! (I stick to the specials)- Specials come "ala carte": (Ala carte is the main dish plus a nice serving of the side- veggies,rice, potatoes - varies with special) , Plus for a small extra fee you can make it "full meal" that gets you daily soup & lil salad. Great Deal!! Lafayette Coffee Shop is a hidden gem on Larkin @ Eddy in Little Saigon! DC says: CHECK IT OUT

This is a no nonsense place. Less salt. Checked. Hugh portion. Checked. Awful neighborhood. Checked. Family owned. There's a lot of food. After getting the lettuce and tomato salad and soup, I'm pretty much full. Two pieces of sourdough bread. Friday's soup is a big bowl of clam chowder. This is as cheap as it gets. $21 for all this food. You can say no flavor, but quantity is the key, but everything seems to be hot and fresh. Fast service. Yes. Prime rib comes with mashed potato and corn. Great big cut and natural and juicy. Perfectly medium rare. Tender and full of fat. Jello at the end of the meal. No fanfare. Diner style. They even serve pancake and sausage at night. The waittress is super friendly. Talks to her customers like old friends.

This place is amazing. For the same price as a meal at McDonald's, you can get a four course meal. I don't know how they do it; it's truly an impressive value. Dinners consist of a salad, a soup, fresh sourdough bread, the entrée with likely a side of corn and mashed potatoes, and then finally, if you are lucky, Jell-O dessert. The salad is a simple salad of crisp but watery lettuce topped with a slice of fresh tomato and an equal part of French dressing. The soup is typically a chicken soup with carrots onions and celery with some pasta or barley. There is no meat in the soup though. The entrée ,whatever it is, a generous portion of protein the corn might have been frozen, but it's good and fresh. The mashed potatoes may have come from a box. Do people complain that McDonald's serves food that was frozen or powdered? You're paying 10 to 12 dollars for a meal. It's good food but it's not gourmet. After the entrée, you are supposed to get Jell-O or pudding, but normally the waitress will just bring you the bill instead. Frequently you will only get the dessert if you ask for it. While this is a little defect in their service, if you ate everything that had been brought to you up to that point, you are absolutely stuffed already and really don't need the extra calories. This little dinner is not pretty. The seats need to be re-covered, but the tables are clean. It's not a place to take someone you want to impress unless that person is impressed by extreme value.

I enjoy the meals from Lafayette Coffee Shop I have eaten pork chops and spaghetti and meatballs, breakfast meals with pancakes bacon, and eggs

Different Special each day. Check out the menu. Wednesday Special, Stuffed Bell Peppers are my favorite. Only place in town you can get them. Short Ribs are good too. Everything here is good at half the price of other places. Portions are big. The prime rib dinner is better than the House of Prime and is only $20. Fillet of Sole is better than Original Joe's. Complete dinner comes with entree, mash potato, vegetable, bread/butter, soup, salad, desert. The bread is specially baked and delicious. bon ap·pé·tit.

A spot on example of an unpretentious cheap eat in the tenderloin. Can't beat a prime rib dinner for $20 or a full lumberjack breakfast for less than $15. Mom and pop place since forever so please tip your server kindly!

Greasy spoon, check. Dive, check. Tough neighborhood, triple check! While on a banh mi run, I happened to park in front of here and read their window taped menu. I took a photo and drove out of Dodge, knowing this neighborhood's reputation. A few weeks later, I studied the menu and the daily specials made my stomach growl, especially Monday and Tuesday. It brought me through a time tunnel in recalling the food I grew up eating. I got here around noon on a Tuesday morning and found a metered parking space around the corner on Eddy. When I walked in, the first two booths were taken so I walked towards the back of the restaurant near the kitchen at a table for four. The lady manning the front of the house was in the kitchen and gave me a menu as she brought food to the seated diners. I didn't need to look except to confirm whether I'd order the ala carte or dinner portion. Opting for the latter, I quickly received my glass of ice water and, shortly afterwards, my soup and salad (https://www.yelp.com/user_local_photos?select=njtUEMghO61IQlNG-BDC4A&userid=saJuyv784apZzH--psHZ3Q); the soup was chicken barley and was pretty stocked with carrots, celery, and chicken. The salad was your typical iceberg lettuce and large tomato slice drenched in thousand island dressing. A few minutes after I finished them my beef stew with potatoes (https://www.yelp.com/user_local_photos?select=xfHTCeG6xYrZ301AstxLxQ&userid=saJuyv784apZzH--psHZ3Q) arrived. I was happily surprised by the portion especially given the price point. I forgot to mention that I wanted rice so potatoes were served. Totally impressed by the number and size of the beef stew, all lean and mostly fork tender, I liked that some pieces had lining attached to give them a nice chew as a change of pace. There was no shortage of flavor and ingredients with generous amounts of carrots and celery though the sauce was a tad on the sweet side. I packed half of the entree for dinner that night. As I dined, a steady flow of familiar customers came and went in picking up bagged takeout orders. A couple more tables near the window were filled as I left. As I walked out, I noticed a single diner in a booth feasting on a plate of turkey with the trimmings, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and all. Guess I know what I'm having next time I visit on a Tuesday.