Beacon Restaurant
909 E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS, 67202
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Address :
909 E Douglas Ave
Wichita, KS, 67202 - Phone (316) 263-3397
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Opening Hours
- Mon :6:00 am - 2:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Breakfast
Parking : Street, Private Lot
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : No
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : No
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Riley L.
This is an every Sunday must for my boyfriend and I! We've been going every Sunday to get our carb load! So much food for very reasonable pricing!
(4)Alisa S.
I came here on a Saturday morning and it was pretty busy. It was hard for us to find parking, but once we got inside we probably waited less than 5 minutes. I ordered the philly steak omelete. While the portion looked large, there was barely any meat in my omelete. I enjoyed the hashbrowns, however, my fiance said they were too greasy for him. Next time, I'll probably order the chicken fried chicken.
(3)Ken D.
Good old choke and puke diner that takes you back to the 70's. Decent food and good service. Stay long enough and you'll surely make a friend. It's not a Jimmy 's Egg and don't expect that from this place. You'll get good diner food and that warm Midwest hospitality.
(4)Jesse P.
I go down to Wichita every year for Riverfest and eating at The Beacon is the highlight of my trip for the last 4 years. Service is fast, food is great, a must stop for breakfast or lunch.
(4)Brianna E.
Great ambiance in this cool little diner that takes you into a 1960s-1970s time warp. The food is basic diner food: pancakes,waffles,omelets,etc like you'd find at Ihop or Denny's but in a locally run business where you're likely to see someone you know.
(3)Dezeree H.
Someone recommended that we stop here while in town. The food was ok, but I don't think that it was anything special. It wasn't enough to make me want to go back. The one good thing was the service was fast!
(2)Chris R.
I don't know why people don't give this place more love. It's a diner. It's where you go in the morning when you've been doing shots in Old Town until 2 am the night before. You're not going to get a smoked salmon gastrique here. You're going to get pancakes the size of your face. You're going to get hash browns that are crunchy and soft on the inside. You're going to get an old waitress named Flo who takes your order and is kind yet a little lippy. We were out in Old Town all last weekend, and this is where we went the next morning. There was a wait, which is a testament to how good the food is. I had the breakfast burrito, and it was fantastic. It hit the spot and allowed me to rally that morning. I highly recommend it for anyone who is in town and wants a diner-style breakfast.
(4)Candice R.
Maybe they could tell I wasn't a local, maybe they just don't care anymore, but I did not enjoy my breakfast here. I ordered two poached eggs with bacon, homestyle potatoes and toast, and coffee. Well, my coffee mug was obviously dirty, with lipstick still on it and spots of coffee all over the mug. I didn't notice until about halfway through my first cup and thought "f* it, the damage is done" so I didn't mention it. My poached eggs were basically hard boiled and the potatoes were awful. I should have gotten hash browns. Oh well. I ate the eggs, toast and bacon, and I drank the coffee. I will never come back.
(1)Abi J.
As you're seated at the Beacon, odds are you'll probably make a few friends during your breakfast dining adventure. The tables are close together, but the food is worth the closeness. The portions are huge, and you'll definitely leave satisfied. Their menu has a wide variety of breakfast classics and a few twists on them as well. Be sure to check out the specials that are posted each day. The service is service, prompt and efficient, these ladies are here to get a job done, not make small talk at your table...and honestly it's nice to have a place where you aren't harassed every two minutes about how everything is going. It's quite busy on the weekends, so expect a wait.
(4)Dr. Robert A.
Chicken fried steak and sunny side up eggs, yolks so gold I thought I was in a new world, a perfect overall old school breakfast
(5)Kris S.
A Wichita institution, the Beacon is the preferred breakfast spot for "real" power Wichitans, and for Tommy Lasorda when he used to visit the city on a regular basis for Lone Star Steakhouse business. People may tell you it's smokey and greasy. Those people have no idea what they are talking about. The place has been smokefree for years and no, it's not greasy. What the Beacon is is friendly- as in, they get to know you so quickly that you feel like a regular by your second visit- and filling. Seriously, consider ordering a half-order of whatever whets your appetites, or share it with someone you're dining with. Even if you eat light, as I do, you'll find the prices very agreeable. Heck, I'll go ahead and say it. The place is cheap. My usual order of two scrambled eggs and a piece of wheat toast dry are a fraction of the cost of the same at the fancier power breakfast spot in NE Wichita. Expect a wait on weekends.
(4)Steve M.
Hard to believe you go to a breakfast place and they still after two tries break the yokes on over medium eggs. After a very long wait for the first eggs then another long wait for those replacements decided not to have the cook get it correct. Alot of locals but I would stay away from their busy times for better service and food.
(3)Kacie B.
The only breakfast place to cure a wild Friday night. Great coffee with generous serving portions. A little slow and the waitresses are a little blunt, but hey... it's part of the atmosphere and culture. A must if you're visiting the area.
(4)Brad S.
Given the food, atmosphere, and high regard, you would think The Beacon is quite a bit older than it really is. Opened in 1987 and named for Wichita's second newspaper, back when people cared enough about reading their news on dead trees enough to warrant two newspapers. The owner, Al Harris, had a hobby in art, and wanted to display it on his walls. With respect to the name, much of the art gravitated towards lighthouses despite this type of beacon being completely inappropriate for a landlocked state. Given Wichita's status as the Air Capital of the World, I think a non-directional beacon would be a more fitting type of beacon, but I don't know if radio waves would make good art, especially in the late 1980s. Despite the name incongruities, it has gained a following over the past 23 years, and weekend meals can get crowded. It's not really worth delineating between breakfast and lunch here - as the writing on the windows indicates, The Beacon's bread and butter is breakfast, which is served all day, and is probably for which the restaurant is best known. It is this line of thinking that inspired me to try the Beacon Traditional - two halves of a toasted English muffin topped with two eggs, topped with cheese, topped with a meat, and alongside an impossible amount of either hash browns or home fries. For me, over easy, bacon, and hash browns, respectively. The eggs could have used a little salt, but had nicely runny yolks, which my toasted and buttered muffin helped sop. I like my bacon crispy, and the generous four or five strips I received had a great crunch, so I had that going for me, which was nice. My big issue was with the potatoes - the hash browns were piled onto the grill, and the bottom layer got a nice crust, but the potatoes piled on top didn't see the grill at all, producing a cooked, but the mushy texture that wasn't good at all. And again, they were completely devoid of salt, though the mineral plays a much more important role in the potatoes than they do in the eggs. There's nothing wrong with simple diner food, but there's an expected tradeoff that the lack of creativity comes with a product that's expertly prepared. I didn't see that in The Beacon's flagship dish, and I think in the future I'll avoid the crowds and go to Brint's.
(3)CJ A.
This is a great local restaurant. The breakfast was amazing. Service was somewhat slow however very friendly. The portions were great. Love the downtown cobblestone/brick streets too.
(4)Don J.
Classic old diner with typical diner food. Coffee is served with real half and half and topped off frequently. Service couldn't have been any friendlier. Walls are decorated with lighthouse-themed artwork -- pretty amusing when you remember that you're sitting in Wichita Kansas. I had pancakes and sausage -- they were good despite the "whipped spread" served in lieu of butter. Overall a good diner stop.
(4)Ryan S.
I've been visiting Wichita a lot lately for personal reasons and have been exploring the Old Town and downtown areas quite extensively. My favorite food categories are basically breakfast and pizza. I've already found my pizza place in Picasso's, and now I think I've found my breakfast place. I'm an extremely picky eater and especially when it comes to breakfast food there are certain things that have to be done right in order to win me over. Eggs are pretty hard to screw up, but hash browns, bacon, and biscuits can be anywhere from amazing to awful. I thought the Beacon nailed all 3. The hash browns were perfectly crispy on the outside and softer on the inside without getting too mushy. There was also quite a heap of them to devour. The bacon was also at the right crispiness/softness ratio and extremely flavorful. A lot of places just basically burn the bacon and throw it on the plate expecting you to be happy. The third crucial category for me (especially bein' a southern boy) is biscuits. It's pretty hard to find a good biscuit outside of the South. The Beacon served up a nice, giant, well crafted biscuit with my breakfast. Not too crumbly, not too mushy. Sure, the staff can be a little awkward at times, but it's a diner and that's kinda part of the charm. All in all, it's great breakfast food. I haven't tried anything else on the menu, but this breakfast had me visiting twice this week alone and I'm sure there are more visits in my near future.
(4)Julieanne F.
This place I heard has been here for YEARS. Lighthouse/Ocean/Beach theme. Older resturant for sure. But FIRST OFF, GREAT GREAT GREAT 5 star Service! They have im not sure if its Daily or Weekly Specials, Which they have written up on a White Board. I had the Philly Cheese Steak Omelet & it was okay. We had gone for brunch the other day & I had the Pattymelt. Burger on RYE bread (RYE IS DELISHHHH) with melted swiss Cheese. Served with a side, which i just had a salad. It was okay again. My boyfriend continues to eat and love their eggs (overeasy), bacon, sausage, hashbrowns OH and, biscuts and gravy to start! The service will definetly keep me coming back!
(4)Nancy K.
Raving about a hole in the wall will get you everywhere with me. After hitting around the 20 hour mark, I would've eaten anything. Others have given you a brief history of this place however, no one mentioned that the art is for sale. Keep your hands off that 1970's woods painting, it's mine. Sadly, I saw the breakfast burrito offered AFTER I had ordered my biscuits and gravy. Regardless, I was excited to plow into the pallate of brown and white. (I ordered a single pancake too.) The country potatoes were the best part, the B & G could have been a little more salty. The pancake was really fluffy and the breakfast dessert it should be. My colleagues got the Beacon special, in addition to various egg and meat dishes with sides of toast. Not sure if I came even close to attacking much of it because the food coma I was placed in wiped my memory of that part. The service was great, I will say too that it does get chili in there. The coffee is mostly for hand warming purposes, even though I had 3 cups. You can buy a coffee cup to commemorate your visit, I suggest you at least give it a try.
(3)Logan J.
This is my favorite place to eat breakfast in Wichita. It is right next door to the Wichita Eagle building (the Beacon was the old afternoon paper of Wichita. Now, there is just the Eagle in the morning). It is usually busy, and has the feeling of a "big city" coffee shop/diner. The staff seems to always be pleasant. As far as the food, I enjoy the breakfast skillet, pancakes, and their omelette selection. They always have a board posted with daily specials. I highly recommend the Beacon.
(4)jason m.
Food was good. Horrible service. Staff was overwhelmed and they were out of several items after we ordered them.
(2)Cameron K.
Best biscuits and gravy i have ever had. The Beacon Traditional is also amazing. I only get to eat here once a year because I live far away and it is hands down my favorite breakfast experience in the world. Haters back off!
(5)serious f.
quintessentially wichita, i suppose. the breakfast is good, got that old time diner-y feel, the breakfast burrito is AMAZE where else in wichita do they have breakfast burritos??
(5)Pat H.
We used to go here every Sunday and it was great. Sadly, the quality has gone downhill and it's hit or miss now. First time back in 6 months and it was a miss today. Friendly and attentive wait staff. Food slow to come from kitchen and not very tasty when it arrived. Didn't finish my plate and I'm a big breakfast fan. Will try again in a year, I suppose.
(2)Brad D.
Greasy Food Decent to Good Service This has been a long time favorite for locals in Wichita Kansas. I have never understood why, other than the fact that it has been there for so long and its located downtown, where until recently, they had no competition in that area. The food has no presentation qualities, is seasonless, unhealthy and is cheap because it is cheap food. You could go to a more upscale breakfast spot in town and pay just a few dollars more and have the best. So, in other words, I have no idea how this place stays in business other than the fact that the baby boomer generation had a lack of breakfast options when growing up in Wichita and have continued a tradition by taking their children there to enjoy the "comfort food" that they serve. Then at this point, Generations X & Y have adopted the idea that they serve good food. I most often find that the X & Y's visit this spot after a long night of drinking because you definitely don't have to dress up at this establishment. It is dingy and needs a severe remodeling job. The artwork on the walls are quite tacky and tasteless. This is NOT a place to see artwork in Wichita Kansas.
(1)Brye L.
I was here on a layover and had heard about this greasy spoon eaterie and decided it was right up my alley. It has potential, I think I may have ordered wrong, but I would try it again when I want to clog my arteries with diner food. I had the beacon breakfast with ham, eggs, hashbrowns on an openface english muffin. My biggest complaint was that the english muffin was almost mushy...it looked toasty but it was spongy. I don't know how that happens, but it did. Loved my waitress...and trust me, this was a waitress, not a server. She sounded exactly like Dolly Parton...loved that part!
(3)Brooke S.
I genuinely feel bad for giving this place a bad review - but it's just not that great. The bf and I stopped in for a late Friday brunch a couple of weeks back. We were both a little disappointed with the lack of variety on the menu. Of course, they had the greasy staples you find at all breakfast places - friend eggs, bacon, pancakes, biscuits & gravy...but I wanted something different! I guess I was in the wrong place for this! I ended up settling on an English muffin and two sunny side up eggs. I know...yawn.... The bf ordered the veggie omelet - and added turkey. Yea, we're a little different... I felt like the service could have been better. Again, I feel bad for saying this, but this place could really use an update in décor. I felt like I was eating at my grandma's house. Maybe that is the draw for some people, but it just seemed a little creepy to me!
(2)Kathy H.
Lighthouse themed restaurant. Cheap and standard breakfast fare.
(4)Regina P.
A line out the door is always a great sign. Me and my baby had mommy/daughter day and started off at The Beacon - great start to our day together. She got the biscuits and gravy, which actually had real sausage in it (SCORE) and I got an omelet, I forgot which one. Honestly it doesnt even matter - everything was fantabulous! The menu is typical, nothing too creative - hence only 4 stars. Nonetheless, the service was great, the food was hot, and the environment was relaxing. Plus the prices are very affordable. This place was recommended to me by several friends; so glad I finally stopped by.
(4)Sally V.
MUST try this place out if you are in Wichita, Kansas! I wish I could give them more than just 5 stars! Portions here are awesome, and the prices are even better!!! This is as good as it gets.... a diner w/amazing food, quick service, friendly staff, and great prices. I've visited here more than a dozen times when I come visit my family in Wichita, and I have not once left disappointed. If there is a wait/line, don't worry, it moves fast! Everything on the menu is delicious, but a few of my all time favorites are Biscuits & gravy, pancakes/waffles, all the omelets, and their BLT w/turkey sandwich. I'm pretty picky when it comes to the temperature of my food served to me at restaurants...and Beacon has ALWAYS served me fresh/hot food. Writing this review is actually making me hungry....I wish I was in Wichita so I could go get me some delicious Beacons!
(5)Dee L.
Love this place! Best breakfast, hands down. Never disappoints. This time had the Waffle Sundae and the Sweet Potato Pancakes ... delicious! Craving it now as I post this. You can definitely tell they use fresh ingredients, and great quality products. Servers are so nice and they make sure you never have an empty cup of coffee. Don't forget to try their Snickers Waffle, French Toast or Pancakes - to die for!
(5)Dustin S.
This is the classic after church Sunday spot. They have the best greasy spoon breakfast in town; a Wichita tradition!
(5)Laura M.
Dining area felt dirty/dingy, food was low quality, coffee not that great. I really want to find a good, simple breakfast place with good quality, maybe local food. I tend to avoid places that have the creamer in little plastic packages and "whipped spread" in place of butter. What's wrong with cream and actual butter? This place is so 1950's military industrial complex.
(1)Jeff J.
First off, I must say Jimmie's Diner is my all-time favorite. But for convenience and variety, I often try other venues in order of preference: Jeanne's Cafe, Doo-Dah Diner, The Good Egg, Riverside Cafe, - they all have expectations, but the locally owned Beacon has history and falls somewhere in the middle of the pack. When we were younger "Dragging Douglas" we'd stop in for a late night omelet to kill the buzz... those days are over, but the tradition of a good greasy breakfast live on. Let's not forget the competition that tries to move in - how the new Jimmie's Egg survives is beyond question - not a good experience there! Other national chains like Denny's and IHop just don't do it for this kid. So about once every other month or so, I hit The Beacon early or to meet a friend/client for breakfast or coffee. I often think a good writer would appreciate the Beacon, because of the atmosphere - which has been nicely updated in the past year (booths, tables, etc.). The waitress, humming out of key to Deep Purple's - Smoke on the Water classic while she refills coffee and the obscureness of the other people lining the walls and various 4-tops....everything from "this is my last 2 bucks" to top level judges and attorneys before they start their day. My mind swirls with opening chapters for a crazy novel. Anyways - the eggs, bacon, sausage, waffles, pancakes and usually the daily specials are typically spot on. In and out in 20 minutes or you can sit for an hour and enjoy the refills. Nothing less than $10 for the sit down service, so if you want McDonald's - hit the drive-thru! I'd recommend this place. Drawback #1: Update some of the plates and mugs that are chipped - that's sorta gross! Food handling 101. Other than that, it's a get what you want joint. Dine on Yelpers!
(4)Julie S.
This is an excellent local breakfast joint - not brunch, but breakfast. It's that diner style joint, free coffee refills, server knows people's names because they eat there three days a week. It's that place, and I loved it. I had the Denver omelette with potatoes and toast, and it was just as you'd expect. Good, a bit greasy, and full of all the yummy fillings. Coffee, potatoes and toast all up to snuff. Hearty enough to get you through a big chunk of your day. It was also very fun people watching - lots of people seemed to know one another, but it's not like a small town. Just lots of people coming and going, and interesting banter while folks waited in line to pay. I would totally come back if the opportunity arose.
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