Lexi Lu Breakfast Cafe

Was at the theater in rosemont last night and was looking for a place to eat breakfast for my wife and I before we made the trip home. Not impressed with the food at all. Will not be back. Maybe it was just one bad experience but I will look for another place to have breakfast next time.

We had brunch here before I dropped off my parents at the airport for a 13-​hr flight. Neat location — downtown Edison Park I guess? I found free parking a couple blocks away. Looked like nice neighborhood.
Food was good! My mom even made a comment of this is one of our best meals out in this past month when they were visiting me from China. We got the egg Benedict, corned beef hash (both excellent!) and stuffed French toasts with all three different filling options. The strawberry one tasted like cheap jam inside but the mascarpone one was excellent! I boxed the Nutella one and haven’t tried it. Their fresh squeezed OJ is among the best I’ve had, and their coffee is just okay.
I think my server rolled her eyes when she came back with two water glasses and I told her my mom was in the bathroom so we needed three, but the rest of her service was okay. I even paid over 15% tips. The food could be served a little sooner we felt, but overall it was a good experience.

The omelettes had too much egg and not enough cheese. The bloody Mary was good. The potatoes were early. The eggs Benedict was delightful. We will go back it was really really good. Set outside, it’s noisy but sunny and nice.

i LOVE their corned beef hash… so good. They don’t have a ton of options, but good for what I need it for. I don’t really care for the Curragh’s food, but definitely think they do breakfast well! Their coffee is pretty good, too!

I absolutely love this place, it has the best food ever. My family and I always come here and we love it more and more each time. The people here are so nice and they really treat their customers well.

This bfast spot I found the other day when I was in the area. It’s not bad, waiters are pretty nice and the coffee is good! But my eggs Benedict was just okay. I’ve had way better ones! My husband and friends liked their food though, they had their egg skillets. So overall ³⁄₅ from me, and if I go back I will try the skillet and update the review.

I have never been so upset after eating, but there is a first for everything i guess. I’ll start off with the positives: the food was really good! I had the eggs Benedict, a side of bacon, and an order of the french toast splurge filled with nutella– which was amazing! The food is the only reason why I even gave this place a star.
Now with the negative:
Service here is absolutely TERRIBLE! I barely saw the waitress. She came and took my order and made me feel very rushed, even though the place was practically emptied. I ordered a Mimosa (because who doesn’t like a little alcohol with their brunch) but didn’t get it until the middle of my meal when the table next to me happen to order a Mimosa too– making the waitress remembered i ordered one too
I would’ve reminded her but she never came to the table to check on us.
When my mimosa finally arrived– it had lipstick imprints all over the rim of the glass– yuck! I didn’t get to tell anyone about this until someone who I assumed was the manager happened to walk pass and stopped to see how we were doing.
She was very nice about it and took the drink off the check and offered a new one on the house but at that point I just wanted to leave.
So then thirsty me reached for my water, which I haven’t touched at all yet, and silly me what was I thinking to actually be able to drink something in this establishment– my water had hair in it! Super grossed out at this point!
Long story short: good food, HORRIBLE Service, and need a lesson in good restaurant hygiene
UPDATE 4÷29÷2014: The owner recently contacted me because he read my very negative review.. .he was very nice and very apologetic, he even invited me to come back to Lexi Lu for a better experience :)

Love us some bloody’s and Benny’s! My family and I love coming here for bloody Mary’s and breakfast! The eggs Benedict’s are delicious and I always end up eating all the potatoes it come with! The coffee is fresh, and the service is friendly. Thee ocean style breakfast, especially the breakfast burrito is not too spicy and a generous portion. It’s kind if funny getting a Mexican meal in an Irish joint, but we don’t mind the mixing and matching.
I came in with a group of 12 last minute and they were very accommodating. The mixing of Irish sausages and breakfast burrito for me worked!
The only change I would make is having a more attentive hostess, or host. Sometimes you stand in the front waiting to be sat not knowing where to go.
All in all, a friendly warm place for a great brunch!

Cool little place in Edison park with an awesome outdoor patio. Part of curragh Irish pub next door, it was a small but good menu with the tipical breakfast offerings. Try the eggs and bacon with a Bloody Mary. Mexican skillet and apple and Gouda stuffed sausage is good too.

Eh, mediocre at best. The waitress was nice and friendly without being a helicopter waitress. But on a Saturday morning we were the only ones there and the food took forever to arrive. They did not have wheat toast and the eggs arrived lukewarm. Will be looking for a better place in the area.

Really like this place. Our family’s go to brunch spot, food is good, portions huge and in the times I’ve tried to go there we never had a problem getting a table. Too bad it’s only open on weekends. I like the food better here than at the Curragh.

Food was VERY GOOD
Server was VERY GOOD
Everything else was weird, no real host, and its strange to have a loud bar crowd next door while you eat brunch. I’d go again though

Lexi Lu/​The Curraugh is a cute place for Sunday brunch. I’m a big fan of drinking with Sunday brunch and this is one of the few places in my area that has great food along with a full bar.
My friend and I split a Greek skillet and a Mexican skillet. Both were really good because the potatoes were delish. The Greek skillet could have used a little more feta though.
On to the drinks… like I said, I’m a big fan of drinking and drinking with Sunday brunch :) So I was a little disappointed in their drink selection but I guess that’s what you get in the suburbs. They only had a mimosa, ‘Monster Bloody Mary’ and a virgin bloody mary (what??).
There were a lot of older couples and families in the restaurant/​pub on Sunday morning so very different from brunch in the city.
Tip: Pay the meter… I went 10 minutes over and got a $ 50 ticket. Fail.

We we were on the hunt for a good place for brunch and my good olé’ Unilocal App pointed me to this place. It is not exactly a cutesy brunch place, but it is a vary cozy place next to a tavern.
If you get the eggs benedicts, the Truffle oil on their version of the Eggs Benedicts! alone makes this place worthwhile! It was heavenly! Between the truffle oil on the eggs and the prosciutto that came with it… my brunch experience was complete.
Who knew that such a non-​trendy looking place had such gourmet options on their menu? Next time I cam back in my hood… I will definitely be back for brunch at this place.

Torn between 3 and 4 stars. I really enjoyed my brunch (hearty, well prepared, generous portions), and my server was very friendly and attentive. The space itself is a bit odd, however. I think you just sort of need to understand what you are getting into or you might be a tad disappointed. From the marketing (naming, signage, etc.) it seems like a quaint little breakfast restaurant. Not so much. It is actually just the side room of the Irish pub next door that they dedicate to serving brunch on Sundays. That is fine and all… actually a winning idea, I think… I’m just confused as to why they don’t market it in a way that is more consistent with what you are actually going to experience. It is a dark, Irish pub setting. Not a froo-​froo brunch locale. When I walked in, for instance, there was no greeter, no staff, no one. I had to walk over into the pub area to inquire about where I should go if I wanted brunch. If they want to brand it as a breakfast experience, not just going to the pub for brunch, they should at least have staff there to greet people. Once I got someone’s attention, however, she checked back with me often and was very friendly.
The food was A-​OK. Really pretty good. I had the Greek skillet… scrambled eggs, red potatoes, peppers, onions, and feta. Consistent with the pub-​feel (not the «Lexi-​Lu» branding), it was a very hearty dish. Nothing delicate about it. Huge chunks of grilled potatoes, big slabs of pepper, …served in a skillet-​shaped dish. I enjoyed it, though I though I thought it was pretty light on the feta… only a few sprinkles under the eggs. The bread /​toast (with Kerrygold butter!) was high-​quality, very tasty. Coffee two thumbs up.
It wasn’t at all what I was expecting from driving past seeing the signage outside. I was expecting a cute little girly café… but that said, for what it actually *IS* (a pub), it was a solid brunch. I would imagine it’s a great place for a bloody mary and eggs after spending the night before next door in the pub. :)

We have been passed Lexi Lu many times and always said we would stop. Well, this passed weekend we did and it was so worth it!
My husband, who is a huge fan of omelettes was NOT disappolinted! The omelette was big and fluffy and loaded with good stuff! He was really impressed with the side order of potatoes that came with the omelette. They were quartered potatoes with green peppers and onions. Not your ordinary hash browns every other restaurant in town serves!
I had the steel cut oatmeal with cinnamon apples. It was satisfying and delish! The coffee was very tasty and the service was awesome!
We will be back again and again!

The food here was great, the service was so-​so. We sat on the patio and no one came to wait on us so we actually had to ask for a server. I ordered a breakfast burrito, which was delicious. My friend had some kind of egg dish with pesto and she said her food was good too. Our waitress (once we finally got one) was okay. It took her a while to refill our coffee and to get us our check. I’d definitely come back here for the food but I’d hope the service improves.

A damn good bloody mary. Tangy and spicy and just a little sweet. These folks know what you need on a Sunday morning.
The hash is absolutely not to be missed. I mean it. Don’t miss it. I was scooping up every last morsel with the side of my fork. I would have picked the whole plate up and scraped the last little bits directly into my mouth.
I topped if off with some Nutella crepes, because that’s how I roll. I nearly regretted it as I hobbled back to my car like Santa Claus the day after Christmas, but then i remembered how frickin delishis it was.

This was a cute place. I do agree with some of the other Unilocalers like Jennifer B. and Keith E: the selection wasn’t huge, but what we ordered was really good. The Nutella french toast is a must but the portion is HUGE –enough to feed 2 – 3 people as a «dessert» after your breakfast! The coffee was really good too! Dark and rich and was promptly filled. I also agree that the signage outside could be better. We were a little confused whether or not Lexi Lu had it’s own door of if you have to enter through the bar (you do enter through the bar, and it’s called The Curragh). We went at around 10am on a Sunday and it wasn’t overly crowded. There was no wait and we got a booth quickly. I like the area a lot and would def be back!

Cute little (literally, it’s pretty small) place connected to the Curraugh… nothing to race over to, but a nice place for brunch for the ever lacking brunch spots in Edison Park!
Finally gave this place a whirl-​not bad! I went with my bf one Sunday, no wait and not too crowded… weird, but I’ll take it!
The service was right on and the food was pretty good. I thought it was super greasy though. I had a spinach, red pepper and tomato omelet and it was pretty greasy… butter?
I’m not a butter girl, so I wasn’t too happy about it but the omelet was good nonetheless. Maybe if they used olive oil or something… was kind of going for the healthy thing here but the butter ruined that.
Bloody Mary Rating? 7 out of 10