Peter Pause - City of Schenectady

Peter Pause is a yummy and mouth-watering diamond in the rough!! The food is homemade and absolutely fabulous and you can't beat their prices!! We try and go once or twice a week!

The best breakfast I’ve had in years. Breakfast Burrito with sausage was amazing and my other half had The Dutchman’s Special 3 eggs, bacon, home fries and toast. He said he wouldn’t go anywhere else when we are in Schenectady!

I wish I had thought to take pictures, because this place was absolutely phenomenal.Breakfast Platter, $14... three eggs, toast, bacon, hash browns, and a short stack of fairly huge pancakes. Everything was just about perfect, though I wish they could have gotten the hash browns a tiny bit crispier.For $8 they have a cinnamon bun French toast, which is this enormous fat cinnamon bun sliced into thirds and then prepared frenchtoast style.The omelettes are fairly large too.Only three real gripes. Number one, they do not have a gluten-free bread or toast option. It d/n affect me, but did affect a couple of other people in the group I was with. Number two, a side of corned beef hash was $8. Maybe that's a really huge side, but that's a pretty steep price, an entree price for a side. I ended up not getting it. I would imagine, that had I goten it, it would have been excellent like everything else was. Number three, there's syrup is just regular National brand quote unquote pancake syrup, and while they do offer real maple syrup, it is a $3 upcharge.But those were relatively minor gripes. The food is great, the service was fantastic, extremely friendly, extremely helpful, and very accommodating of special dietary needs (aside from tbe lack of GF toast) and food allergies, and willing to make reasonable substitutions were possible.A very good experience. Five people ate more or less like happy pigs for only $81.

A local breakfast institution! Italian toast, handmade sausage patties, coffee, eggs....this is the place! ?

Peter Pause is one of the best, if not THE best, breakfast place in Schenectady! Good old fashion diner feel, HUGE portions of food and beyond reasonable prices. The staff is really down to earth, personable and always have a smile for you. I can't recommend this place enough Parking: There is street parking and you can usually park pretty close.