Colonial Cafe

Opens early so an excellent spot to carbo load before a race. Nice diner breakfast joint. No oil smells. Clean. Eggs , bacon, waffles, pancakes and more. Friendly and prompt service. Ate breakfast twice. Highly recommend for good food and friendly service.

Pleasant breakfast shop . Often busy as locals eat here often. Wife had biscuits and gravy while I had omelet. Biscuits seemed fresh not frozen and grill reheated. Will return.

Food is adequate only.
Ambiance is old but interesting.
Service used to very good before so many of the great service people quit. Our last weekly visit 5 of us the service was extremly poor. That will be our last of Colonial Cafe for us.

Very nice people. Hubn and I loved breakfast. Happy place easy yes for breakfast on a Friday morning

My family and I ventured out for breakfast one morning during our brief stay in Elizabeth City. There aren't many options in the small town, but we did eventually find Colonial Cafe, a very traditional breakfast and lunch cafe. The breakfast menu is full of omelets, biscuit sandwiches, pancakes, and plenty of bigger platters.

I settled on the fried chicken biscuit, cajun style ($6.99). Their biscuits are really good alone, but adding some spice from the chicken was an excellent choice. I really enjoyed this sandwich.

I also had some of my daughter's biscuits & gravy ($8.99 with a choice of home fries, grits, or baked apples). I would have ordered this had she not done so. But I knew there would be plenty leftover. This was a good serving of biscuits & gravy, again their biscuits are fresh baked and good on their own, but when topped with homemade sausage gravy you can't go wrong!

Have been there for breakfast and lunch a half dozen times, usually with several kids. Everyone has been happy with the food and service every time we've been. If you like a classic diner feel with home cooked style food, you'll like this place.

An old school Cafe. A place that's been around maybe since Moses was a lad. It shows it's age a bit but so do I... It's not a fancy bistro, I don't think I saw a hipster anywhere but the coffee was fresh and hot and the breakfast menu was solid. Its my understanding it is breakfast only these days

I had the $8 breakfast. EGGS over medium cooked perfectly (not every place gets it right , sausage, toast and home fries. No frills bells or whistles just a solid breakfast with good service for a reasonable price. A reasonable price for the 2023/2024 economy. Happy New Years everybody.

Food was really good. Service was amazing. Our young server Chloe was so very polite with an amazing personality.
We had four different dishes and they were all very tasty.
What a wonderful little family ran business.

This place has really gone downhill. It's sad. We ride down from Virginia Beach periodically for breakfast or lunch because of our previous experience. Today they couldn't even make a BLT, because they didn't have any lettuce or sliced tomatoes and they aren't serving lunch. They don't have the wonderful homemade potatoes, only shredded hash browns. Very disappointing. Even the bacon and eggs today were below average. So we got bacon, eggs, toast and and egg sandwich.

Best place in town (e-city) for sushi but prices are so high! Didn't pay this much for sushi in Alaska and cost of living is way way higher there.