Margo's Family Restaurant

Margo's Family Restaurant
215 S. Lafayette St.  Greenville, MI 48838

I have said for years that Margo's has the best breakfast of anywhere in Montcalm County. This little unassuming restaurant is charming and is almost hard to find nestled in between a tattoo parlor and the Amber Waves tavern in downtown Greenville.

Breakfast at Margo's features home-made toast - and it is home-made. It is baked there in the restaurant everyday. They also don't used punch press sausage. They buy it like you'd buy hamburger at the store, and then they hand patty it. No two sausage patties look the same. And it's a lot more tasty than that which can be had at other places.

If you are careful to look around it is easy to discern that this was once a drugstore. In fact their counter was obviously once a soda fountain. There is still a metal ceiling and the interior is very unique. It all adds to the charm.

I used to eat at Margo's and then go get my haircut. My barber would always say "You've been to Margo's haven't you?" The place has it's own smell. Well, maybe not as much since smoking has been banned.

The Good:
Margo's features the best breakfast around. I recommend the "Country Omelet." It is an omelet stuffed with onions, ham, hash browns - and it's topped with sausage gravy. I have them hold the onions - which come in chunks the size of quarters. My wife substitutes the ham for sausage, and the place is happy to oblige. Another plus is that Margo's went smoke-free long before mandated by law.

The Bad:
The lunch and dinners are so-so. Their hours reflect that they are definitely a breakfast and lunch place, but recently they are offering evening hours on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Open til 8 pm. ALERT: The coffee is awful. Sewer water. Margo, please have a breakfast with coffee here sometime. The coffee reeks and to top it off you can add powdered creamer and sweetener in PINK packets (the only time pink represents "Let's try and get cancer!") Powdered creamer? Really? And how much is really saved by not having Equal readily available? (You can get it but you have to beg for it). Also, the lunch and dinners aren't so much. I tried the beef barley soup once and two bites was more than enough. And Margo sure loves sizzle steaks. I bet you can't stop in and some form of sizzle steak isn't on the specials menu.

So here's the deal. If you're out for breakfast, this is the place. Lunch? No. Dinner? No. Coffee? What, are you nuts?

Grade: C+