Datebook Diner Gives Rave Review to PerkUp Cafe's Breakfast

PerkUp Cafe, which won the title of Best Breakfast spot in the Urbandale Patch Readers' Choice contest, this week won a rave review from the Datebook Diner.

The says that PerkUp is the placed to go for biscuits and gravy.

Excerpts from the review:

Fresh biscuits and gravy can make me smile like nothing else, so it came as no surprise when I started grinning like a Wonderland cat during a recent rendezvous at the PerKup Café. The charming Urbandale nook just happens to have the best biscuits and gravy in town.

The star of the menu is a hefty biscuits-and-gravy platter for $5.75, available Friday through Sunday. If you’re interested, get there early. It often sells out by 10 a.m., which I learned the hard way when, on my first visit, an apologetic waitress broke the news that they were sold out.

I returned the next day earlier, hungrier and ready to riot if they were out again. Fortunately, there was plenty and soon my breakfast appeared: a pair of flaky, split biscuits drowned in generous ladles of peppery sausage gravy. For an extra $2, mine came topped with two eggs sunny side up. Paula Deen would have been so jealous.

Urbandale Patch readers agreed earlier this year during our

"PerkUp is the best thing to hit Urbandale," wrote Patch voter Kelly Kearney. "I haven't found a thing on the menu that I haven't loved. The atmosphere is like being in a small town, the staff is friendly and even remembers your name. Keep up the great work ladies."