The Crown Railroad Café - Flagstaff

This is like having a great breakfast in a diner in the United States in 1960. And that is a very good thing. There must be 80 variations on omelettes on the menu (you order by the number). And the rest of the breakfast and lunch menu is quite good. The servings are very generous, the way staff is reasonably attentive and is it is a great way to spend part of a Saturday morning. Not fancy, but good.

Food was decently sized. Chorizo omelette was nice but steak omelette was under salted. The train going around the restaurant was cute.Main fault was the communication. One waitress said there was a 30+ minute wait when the diner was half busy, another said we could get seated right away. At checkout there is a 6.5% service charge on all checks to account for rising food costs- dunno why they wouldn’t reprint the menus instead to reflect that when in the service charge explanation they mentioned that staff get paid minimum wage. Also, the bathrooms were somewhat dirty and in the women’s one was out of order. I wouldn’t recommend dining here.

Cool place to eat before adventuring out for the day. We stayed in Flagstaff and ate here before heading to the GC. Great atmosphere and staff. The kids loved watching the real trains go by every few minutes and the train set running around the restaurant ceiling.

If you’re running through town, like us, you stop at this restaurant, not just for the food. You come for the atmosphere, the warmth, and the memories for the kids!

Save your money for better places. We came here for breakfast and the food was extremely spicy. We were not warned about our items being spicy. My partner had to order something different because it was to spicy for them to eat. They got the vegetarian breakfast burrito which was extremely bland.The waitress didn't seem like she wanted to help us. She offered milk for me when I told her that mine was to spicy. The atmosphere is nothing like I expected it to be, the place was very ran down and dingy. The trains weren't even running when we first got here and one of the main reasons we came here.Overall, I think we'll be going somewhere else than here again.