Dawn Eatery

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   Trevor L VIP

   Chicago57 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 4
   4. Ambience 5

   Vibrant, well-designed, welcoming place with excellent food!
   

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   Joan

   Chicago1 review

   3.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 2

   We'll be back, but never on a weekend, not even as early as 5pm, which worked fine last Saturday. The acoustics with nothing but hard surfaces made our visit for drinks and dinner but mainly conversation truly impossible. We ordered a drink apiece. Normally they'd get to the table in 5-10 minutes. Tonight: 25. Server couldn't get back to the table for our food order until we'd been there 55 minutes: You're seriously understaffed. But we'd given up. The nearby and not-so-near conversations had become so loud that we couldn't hear one another. At one point we found ourselves shouting to be heard, yet still couldn't hear each other's voices. That's miserable. It's nuts. It's no way to get people to come back. We over-tipped when paying for the drinks, left after making plans to give you one more chance on a less busy night of the week, and strolled to a Thai restaurant just over a block away, had a fine meal there and lots of conversation. It would be a shame for you start losing customers because of the miserable, painfully piercing noise levels we experienced. Please add something to your decor that muffles sound. What a shame it would be for such a good food-and-drink program in such an appealing setting to be spurned because no one can enjoy it when the pain of such high decibels is so severe.
   

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   OpenTable Diner

   Los Angeles1 review

   5.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   A.M. Dawn was an absolutely delightful dining experience. It was like eating a delicious home cooked meal at your favorite aunt’s house.
   

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   Jasmine

   Washington DC3 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   I’ve eaten here twice in the past month and there are still several things on the menu I would like to try. I love this place, and the servers are all so kind and knowledgeable. Highly recommend!
   

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   Tiffany R. VIP

   Chicago54 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 2 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   My husband said that his pot roast and grits was absolutely outstanding. He even ordered a second one to go for tomorrow’s breakfast! The buttermilk biscuits were fluffy and you could taste the butter milk flavor. I ate delicious, blueberry pancakes that actually had the freshest and most juiciest blueberries I’ve ever seen in a pancake. The batter was absolutely delicious and the coffee was piping hot and flavorful.
   

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   Judith L VIP

   Chicago35 reviews

   5.0

   Dined 5 days ago

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Delicious, fresh, generous servings, wide ranging menu
   

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   OpenTable Diner

   Chicago1 review

   3.0

   Dined on March 9, 2025

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   The food is great, the service was okay, the noise level was uncomfortably loud.
   

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   Jillian

   New York City1 review

   4.0

   Dined on March 9, 2025

   1. Overall 4
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 4

   Food was really good. Our server was really slow.
   

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   Chris VIP

   Chicago7 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on March 9, 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Another great experience at Dawn! Love the food and the staff!
   

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    Linda

    Chicago1 review

    3.0

    Dined on March 9, 2025

    1. Overall 3
    2. Food 5
    3. Service 4
    4. Ambience 5

    The food,service and atmosphere was great The only problem is seating and reservations As a first time customer with a reservation my party of 10 still had to wait 45 minutes to be seated Also on the abb it asked was was the occasion and I replied Engagement brunch and I asked if there's a special dessert that was offered and the responds was was not Appealing. You could tell that the owner was not ready for that request . Need to work on reservations and turning tables Put some thought in special occasions complementary dessert
    

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