Joanna's Cafe - Cafe in Riverside - 17950 Van Buren Boulevard, USA

This is a hidden gem and my new favorite location lately to enjoy breakfast, brunch or lunch. A warm, small place, decorated in countryside style welcomes you once you enter bringing up memories from the time you spend on grandma’s kitchen table. The smiling and helpful waiters contribute to the cozy atmosphere. The food is delicious and the care and love in which is prepared you can taste it in every single bite. My favorite dish for breakfast is the French toast. It reminds me of my mama’s homemade food.

What an absolute disappointment, been coming here for more than 20 years. Nice people, but they have let it go in TOO MANY WAYS for me to go back. 1-service was terrible waitress did nothing to handle the 50. Minute wait for our food. 2-food portions for prices, horrible, how do people demand the money they do for what they provide, utter greed. 3- fries were not cooked through on all three platters ordered. 4-waitress pretty much hid from us because our food took so long. Never mentioned it, or apologized. Pathetic.... Go next door, https://maps.app.goo.gl/KfBL2ATZgDPzGcc78 Much better choice. This is twice in a few minutes row we experienced this. We are DONE.

Came out to celebrate my friends birthday 🎂 great service and food was delicious 😋

As Riverside is now barren of Coco's, we were lucky to find this great place. It has the best gravy I have found in my adult quest. The bacon was THICK. The eggs looked a beautiful color.

First time here and just have to mention: as of 8/26/2017, the sign outside the restaurant says Joanna's cafe, but rest assured, it is the same "Lori's cafe" that you see in the reviews on both Google maps and yelp. The name has been changed, but hasn't been updated in here yet. The food was delicious, and the portion sizes are good. It had that home cook taste that proved the food was cooked to order. My reason for the 4 star instead of 5 is simply because the price was a little on the higher end. Definitely more than I was expecting to pay. The service was great, the servers were friendly, fast, and treated you like family. Overall I would definitely recommend this place for some delicious breakfast!

I was looking for some good biscuits and gravy and I found this little place Joanna's Cafe the food was good the service friendly and that always makes the food better. If you want some good service and great food Joanna's Cafe got my approval.

I don't like leaving such low star reviews, but sometimes you just cannot leave out the details. It was a Sunday morning, so expect it to be full on such at day and time. There was hardly any spots to park at, we circled around once and someone was leaving and I got their spot. The actual lot has a bunch of pot holes, and needs to be redone. I walked in and it was smokey inside, the kitchen may have burned something a few minutes prior to my arrival, and they had their backdoor open for ventilation. I wasn't greeted immediately, but I was seated fairly fast. The waitress was nice, but almost charged for 2 cups of coffee (more on that later). So their food was "OKAY", nothing special. It tasted a little bland/plain. Their menu states that their meals come with a "generous" serving of their Home Fries, but there was hardly any on the plate. Which bummed me out because I was looking forward to them. Their salsa was a small size as well, I had to ask for extra salsa. As I was starting to eat, the kitchen seemed to have burned something else, because there was another big wave of smoke that filled up the entire place. It was bad, I heard people coughing. So I asked my waitress to see about opening up the front door to allow for more ventilation to get rid of the smoke, she nicely replied with, "yes I will let them know asap". About ten minutes went by and the front door wasn't opened. When she came back to check on me, I was done and requested the check so I could hurry up, pay and leave, the smoke was pretty bad. I received my check and there was a charge for two coffees. I was a party of one, so I didn't understand why there were two coffee charges. I asked my waitress and she immediately took it off the bill, she fixed it without a problem and apologized. As I walked out, I walked past the hostess and suggested to them to open the front door because of all the smoke, she said, "oh yes, so sorry about that, we are the new owners here". I believe they may not have things down well just yet, perhaps in a few months or so, I may try again. But as of now, I do not recommend this place.

Food was Delish. I highly recommend the Country fried steak I got wit 3 eggs over medium 😋 with spicy fries n Biscuit n gravy. There Chili size was excellent toooo