Best Breakfast in Town! Awesome tuna melts and hamburgers too!

My wife and I visit the Delray Beach area very often to visit with family, so we are no strangers to the Atlantic Avenue/A1A scene. What we like so much about the Green Owl is that it is not a "scene". Nothing pretentious here, just good food and good service in an atmosphere that reeks of downhome and local. Some of the waitstaff actually own the place, so they care a whole lot about their customers. The food is always reliable and the coffee refills keep coming. The place is nothing fancy amid a string of upscale restaurants and stores, but the contast is refreshing. Just a real good coffee shop decorated with what else-green owls, and lots of them. Owls and more owls makes this place kind of a funky "Mayberry" feel. We have eaten there over 2 dozen times and have never had a bad meal or bad service. It can get a bit crazy in season for breakfast, so plan accordingly. The prices are also very reasonable, especially for the Atlantic Avenue "snobway".

Unfortunately my partner and I had unpleasant experience with the staff at the Green Owl. On a recommendation from a friend we went there for lunch and were totally surprised at the rudeness or for that matter the insensitivity of the staff to recognize some customers special needs.
When we entered we were directed to sit at a table down the side of main counter. My “bald is beautiful partner,” who has been under chemo and radiation therapy for CML and bladder cancer over the past 1½ years, stated that he would prefer to wait in order to get a sunny table in the front to keep warm (he was pointing to a table, in the sunshine, whose occupants were about ready to pay their check.) The waitress said nothing and continued on with her job. Not more than 3 minutes into our waiting we heard a waiter ask the waitress why we were standing there and she replied with “they did not want to sit in the back, it’s to dark.” The waiter then approached us, stated that we “were in the way,” and to “wait outside.” I said to the waiter that my partner was cold but the stare I was getting from the waiter was even colder. I indicated to my spouse that it was time to leave. We did walk out cool mid April day when the temperature was around 60° and winds were gusting at 10 to 25 mph.
There is a happy ending though. We had a great lunch at warm friendly bagel place across the street.

Waited over 1 hour for breakfast and not once did the waitress update or apologize. The food as OK. IHOP would have been way better. Went there yesterday, Sunday April 13. Sure it was packed and there's still no excuse for the lack of good service.