Norma's Corner Shoppe - Ridgewood

Most of the sandwiches are great, the service is great, but the pick up process could be improved. People cut the line for pickup, but keep adding more stuff to their order or they need to finish paying for their pickup...! Pickup is supposed to be quick and not negatively affect other customers waiting on line. If you are going to do pickup you can't just skip the line and then add a bunch of stuff to your pickup order. You should wait inline. I feel like the staff should enforce this if its busy. It is not fun waiting in line for 15 minutes just to have someone pick up and then add an entire order to their pick up order.

This review is coming from someone who has been visiting Norma's since 2014, not long after they opened. It was a triumph that from 2014- early 2020 the Ranchero was only $5-$6.50. However during Covid, the prices shot up and I also feel the quality went down. It's easy to blame this on inflation or the supply chain issues, but this happened prior and prices are not going to come down from $8. It's really a reflection of the neighborhood changing and the gentrification. Also the renovation was a mixed bag, the kitchen needed more space, but now the cafe vibe is gone. It was always busy on the weekends, but was a solid spot during the week to hang. Norma's is still a solid place, but not what it once was.

I got the ranchero breakfast sandwich on a biscuit and it was SO delicious, just really messy. I wouldn’t dare eat it in front of anybody lol but I would definitely purchase again. Iced coffee was really good too.

BEST iced matcha I’ve had in a very long time! The breakfast sandwiches are so good. Can’t wait to be back

I went twice in a row bc I was so excited to try their biscuits but they didn't have any one the first day I went, and I was pretty disappointed by both breakfast sandwiches I got. The bacon in the New Yorker was incredibly burnt that it wasn't really edible, so I ended up crumbling the bits away. And there was way too much cheese in proportion to the rest of the ingredients. The bagel however was a pretty decent bagel. The Southerner was somehow really bland and salty at the same time. The biscuit, while good and crispy, was super salty, which was weird bc the the sausage gravy was the most blandest gravy I've ever eaten. Eating it all together gave weird bursts of salt. I'd probs go back for the biscuits themselves and nothing else.