The Broadway Restaurant Catering and Ice Cream

The menu is varied and interesting. Potato pancakes are great! Breakfast all day. Their specials are consistently good and varied. Their catering service is customized to occasion. Home made ice cream is the best.

Broadway is our third alternative when Annies or Lou Rocks has lines out the door.
We were seated within minutes and ordered coffee. Ten minutes went by and we complained to another waitress that was folding napkins at a booth behind us. Instead of getting us coffee, she disappeared in the back to look for our waitress. She reappeared 5 minutes later and stated” she’ll be right with you and continued to fold napkins. About 90% of the place was empty and we were not the only couple not getting service. When we watched the other booth get up and leave, we followed. Wait in line at one of the better restaurants.

Breakfast is always good. You always have a seat to sit in and the service is quick. I can’t say anything bad about this place other than the freshly squeezed oj is super expensive! I went with 3 other people. The bill was 80 dollars??? $ 45 in just oj hahaha. Food is great tho

Weak
I hate to write a poor review about a place that has been around for as many years as the Broadway, but the place just really isn’t very good.
You walk in and there’s a weird stale atmosphere and the layout is very strange. Also, you know there’s a problem when you hit a spot at 6pm on a Saturday night and it’s dead.
Ordered a couple of simple apps and my friends ordered a sandwich. All of the items were mediocre to poor. No flavor, very unsatisfying.
Sorry Broadway, I won’t be back. The only reason I gave this 2 stars instead of 1 is the amount of years it’s been open, but at this pace it won’t be open much longer.
Thanks

Service was decent. Our waitress was verry sweet. The food was decent I loved the chicken noodle soup. I might go again but it was nothing spectacular.

This is a Worcester favorite. I have lower expectations in the Woo than when I’m in Boston, but the Broadway just feels like home. It’s like having an aunt who is always trying to feed you with heartwarming home cooked meals (with lots of oil and grease and love).
My favorite is the blintz (a diner staple), and the homefries. Everything on the menu is delish, and I love the no-​frills, vintagey, classic Worcester feeling I get when I slip into a booth.
Just brunch it.

No service after 30 minutes while the «waitress» waited all tables around us. Cannot comment on food never received or even ordered. Had to up and leave.

Great breakfast place. We arrived when the funeral for several Boston Firemen was on and the place was a bit dreary. The food was fair and there was a very wide selection. I was disappointed in the croissant french toast, but the potato pancakes were stellar and really made the experience worth our time. Service was good but a bit distracted. I can totally understand that.

The Broadway is one of the best breakfast around. In addition to breakfast they also offer a delicious lunch and dinner. Broadway always have a seat for you within a minute not like the others where the wait line is over an hour. Their food is always fresh and i love their tasty eggs Benedict florentine on their special board. They also have fresh squeeze orange juice and strawberry or orange juice mimosas. I strongly recommend this place and don’t forget to ask about their raspberry cream cheese filled pancakes or their good size prime rib and eggs which comes with their homemade Home fries and your choice of toast. The service is great and the place is spotless clean. I attend this breakfast place at least three times a week and i have never had a complain for anything. Love it love it lovee it. One last thing about this lovely breakfast place, they are known for their ice cream for many years now. I can not wait to have some Baked Alaska which comes with their strawberry jam and whip cream or their smores ice cream.

I hadn’t been here since I was a kid. That was before the place was redone. 30 years later, and probably time for another redo, I stopped for lunch while in the city. The Broadway has been «Famous for over onehalf century» –quoted from, among other sources, their website. Holy cow! It was still stuck in the 70s. The clientele was… um…older, I guess. The specials consisted of Salisbury Steak (!), Sausage Cacciatore, a Fish Sandwich! My first thought was «can I get a Sanka with that, or a Tab?» It was evident where the ‘blue plates’ go to die. When the waitress asked, from the counter (I was at a table), what I was drinking, I ordered a Coke. Little did I know that was the highlight of the meal.
It was a Friday, so I had to try the chowder, as I am a sucker for chowder. It was on the special board, so that was decided right away. As I perused the hokey, garish menu, the one with huge pictures of food from another planet, I noticed the chowder was priced higher than soup. I figured this was an indication that it was homemade. Wrong. It was a bowl of warm milk and dissolving «potatoes» from a can, with saltines on the side. It was, at best, below par.
Rather than get one of the «Specials» I opted for a «NY-​style deli» sandwich I was in the mood for a Reuben and theirs was served with fries and pickle. How could I go wrong? Well, the sandwich was out in a flash, hot off the grill and pretty good. Not that I was expecting or even wanting it, but the pictured coleslaw was just a mirage, the pickle was from a jar; it was that weird, green, cooked dill like in the supermarket. The fries were underdone and mealy, but to their credit, they were underdone in fresh oil and they have good salt.
Service was good other than the initial drink request. I tried to keep things low maintenance as my server had enough to deal with from her other patrons who were a little curmudgeonly. Someones Cacciatore had too much spice and his spouse’s Salisbury steak was not hot enough.

We had given up on not one, but two other breakfast joints before we finally decided to try The Broadway one Sunday morning. While the other places had 1 hour plus wait times, Broadway was able to seat us within minutes. The quick seating worried me that our breakfast would be sub-​par, but I was delighted to find that everything was not only pretty good, but also wonderfully cheap. We loaded up on pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, french toast with fruit, and many many cups of coffee. After the mountain of plates was cleared away, all that was left was a surprisingly low bill and four irresponsible adults in a breakfast food coma.

The Broadway is part diner, part casual family restaurant and part Keno parlor. I’ve never seen anyone playing Keno in the dining area but the TV shows the results just in case you want to follow along.
They’re open until 8pm-​ish so I imagine you could get dinner there but I’ve only hit it for breakfast and it does a diner-​like job of it. If you order coffee you get your own pot at the table– which is a nice little touch. The coffee is the regular diner variety and ample cream is already at the table.
They have one of those plastic menus with pictures of generic food on it, so it’s kind of like the old days at Big Boys, but there’s more care to the food than you’d get in a chain and the daily specials can be pretty interesting.
My last visit was early on a Sunday morning and I got a short stack of Oatmeal Raisin Walnut pancakes with a single egg and toast on the side. Needless to say I couldn’t finish but everything was very good.
The service was fast and the place was busy. There was a family with out of control kids that everyone (including the parents) were trying to ignore. It seemed like the parents were the only ones able to block them out.
They were unruly enough that management should have said something, but they opted to keep the peace at the sacrifice of peace and quiet.
Still a good place with solid food. The OJ is hand squeezed and a little expensive but it’s great.

Another Worcester institution. I remember as a kid the local politicians greeted the customers outside on Sunday mornings as they headed in for brunch it was that popular…
My dad made regular trips for ice cream for the family here. Loved the hot fudge sundae. They were huge (and still are!)
Still a popular place for breakfast, lunch and ice cream! Good value for basic meals… nothing fancy…
I often come for dinner when I don’t feel like cooking. Tonight I enjoyed their prime rib (came with salad, a veg-​tonight was carrots, and rice or potato-​rice for me)…
Basic diner drink menu, although the restaurant does serve bottled beer. I also hear their lime rickeys are fantastic!
Very tasty and served very promptly. Sever was very friendly…

Great morning breakfast place. I brought my dad here on a Sunday morning. Service was prompt, food was good, and the staff let you sit and read the paper. Yummy eggs/​sausage and a decent price!

This morning I decided that I must have lox and a bagel for my morning nosh. I have been craving it for 3 weeks and enough was enough. The Broadway was open! I went in and promptly ordered my lox with a bagel and a schmear to go. I had a cup of ok coffee while I waited. It was the best I have had when I haven’t made it myself. Fresh bagel, light-​handed application of cream cheese, just enough lox, fresh tomato and red onion slices. My one complaint was that for 4 pieces of bagel I only got 3 slices of tomato.
The place was very clean and SO quiet on a Sunday. All adults enjoying low key conversations and no kids around. I did see an option of Mickey Mouse pancakes but that could be for the hungover Holy Cross kids ;)
Anyway, I will have to go back for their Bavarian French Toast — that looked yummy!
PS — We did try their ice cream at the Big Dipper at Elm park yesterday — it was some of the best that I have had in this area. Hubby still loves Trombetta’s better tho’.

The Broadway is more than ice cream, but they do have great ice cream, plus breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is right in the middle of the Water Street area that had been in slow decline over the last 50 years. They stayed, and are now in the middle of the hottest, up and coming entertainment area of Worcester. Park accross the street in the municipal lot.