Cafe 290
Cafe 290
2 eggs any style with your choice of 1 meat (bacon, sausage, or ham). Served with 2 buttermilk pancakes and your choice of home fries, hash browns, or grits. Add banana, strawberry, blueberry, apple, peanut butter, walnuts, pecans for an additional charge.
2 eggs any style with your choice of 1 meat (bacon, sausage, or ham). Served with your choice of home fries, hash browns, or grits and your choice of a biscuit or Texas toast.
One egg any style with your choice of meat (bacon, sausage, or ham) served with 1 pancake. Add banana, strawberry, blueberry, apple, peanut butter, walnuts, pecans for an additional charge.
3 eggs any style and your choice of 3 meats (bacon, sausage, or ham). Served with your choice of home fries, hash browns, or grits and a biscuit or Texas toast.
3 eggs any style with your choice of 1 meat (bacon, sausage, or ham). Served with your choice of home fries, hash browns, or grits and a full order of biscuits and gravy.
Ham, bacon, and sausage mixed into scrambled eggs covered with cheese. Served with home fries, hash browns or grits and your choice of biscuit or Texas toast.
2 eggs any style. Served with your choice of home fries, hash browns, or grits and a biscuit or Texas toast.
2 eggs any style. Served with your choice of home fries, hash browns, or grits and a biscuit or Texas toast.
Grilled or fried pork chop with 2 eggs any style. Served with gravy, home fries, hash browns, or grits and a biscuit or texas toast.
Scrambled eggs and cheese with your choice of potato, ham, bacon, or sausage. Extra meat for an additional charge.
Choice of Texas toast or biscuit loaded with an egg any style, your choice of 1 meat (bacon, sausage, or ham) cheese. Served with home fries, hash browns, or grits.
Our famous homemade biscuit loaded with an egg any style, your choice of 1 meat (bacon, sausage, or ham) cheese covered with country gravy. Served with home fries, hash browns, or grits.
Scrambled eggs with pico de gallo, cheese, and tortilla strips. Served with refried beans, home fries, salsa, and warm tortillas.
2 eggs any style topped with ranchero sauce and served with refried beans, home fries, and warm tortillas. Add chorizo to eggs for an additional charge.
Best in town buttermilk pancakes and syrup. Add banana, strawberry, blueberry, apple, peanut butter, walnuts, pecans for an additional charge.
2 large slices of Texas toast dipped in egg and grilled. Topped with powdered sugar. Add banana, strawberry, blueberry, apple, peanut butter, walnuts, pecans for an additional charge.
One "Belgian Style" with syrup and butter. Add 2 chicken tenders for an additional charge. Add banana, strawberry, blueberry, apple, peanut butter, walnuts, pecans for an additional charge.
Add sausage gravy for an additional charge.
3 egg omelet with cheese, one meat and choice of 2 veggies. Served with hash browns, home fries or grits and Texas toast.
Pick 3 items and 2 sauces.
Pick 5 items and 3 sauces.
Fresh house made tortilla chips and house made salsa roja.
Our creamy tex-mex specialty blend of melted cheese served with fresh house made tortilla chips. Add chili con carne and guacamole for an additional charge.
Golden brown onion rings served with your choice of dressing.
Hand battered pickles served with your choice of dressing.
Crispy cornmeal encrusted tomatoes served with your choice of dressing.
Crispy house made tortilla chips topped with beans and cheese garnished with lettuce, pico de gallo, and sour cream. Add fajitas for an additional charge.
Topped with our 290 queso, chili con carne, onions,and jalapenos.
Topped with our 290 queso, chili con carne, onions,and jalapenos.
Topped with our 290 queso, chili con carne, onions,and jalapenos.
Served with marinara.
Served with marinara.
Mixed greens, cheese, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and red cabbage. Add fajita chicken or fajita beef for an additional charge.
Mixed greens, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, sun-dried cranberries, walnuts, and red cabbage. Your choice of crispy or grilled chicken breast. Add fajita chicken or fajita beef for an additional charge.
Mixed greens, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and red cabbage. Topped with roasted turkey, smoked ham, bacon, and cheddar cheese. Add fajita chicken or fajita beef for an additional charge.
Mixed greens topped with cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, hard-boiled egg, avocado, bacon, crumbled blue cheese, and crispy or grilled chicken breast.
Mixed greens topped with cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, hard-boiled egg, avocado, bacon, crumbled blue cheese.
Crispy flour house made tortilla bowl filled with mixed greens, seasoned ground beef, pico de gallo, beans, guacamole, and mixed cheese. Add fajita chicken, or shrimp or fajita beef for an additional charge.
Soups- made fresh in our kitchen.
Soups- made fresh in our kitchen.
Served with carrots, celery and your choice of seasoning and dipping sauce.
Hand breaded crispy or grilled tenders. Served with your choice of seasoning and dipping sauce.
Hand breaded crispy steak fingers. Served with your choice of seasoning and dipping sauce.
Hand breaded crispy or grilled shrimp. Served with your choice of seasoning and dipping sauce.
Served with your choice of white or brown gravy.
Served with your choice of white or brown gravy.
Chicken fried chicken breast smothered in queso, bacon, tomatoes, and scallions.
Grilled or fried.
1/2 lb. cornmeal battered catfish. Add additional fish for an additional charge.
Chargrilled chicken breast.
8 oz. hamburger steak topped with caramelized onions.
6 pieces topped with caramelized onions and brown gravy.
8 oz. grilled chicken mixed with onions and bell peppers on a hot skillet. Served with rice, beans, sour cream, lettuce, cheese, and tortillas. Add shrimp for an additional charge.
8 oz. Beef mixed with onions and bell peppers on a hot skillet. Served with rice, beans, sour cream, lettuce, cheese, and tortillas. Add shrimp for an additional charge.
Flour tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef, topped with queso, Jack cheese, sour cream, and onions. Served with rice and beans.
1 'Belgian Style' waffle with syrup and butter with 2 hand battered chicken tenders served with fries. Add banana, strawberry, blueburry, apple, peanut butter, walnuts, pecans for an additional charge.
Veggie.
Grilled or fried chicken.
Bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo served on Texas toast.
Bacon, lettuce, fried green tomatoes, avocado, Jack cheese and mayo served on Texas toast.
Double Decker Texas toast with roasted turkey, smoked ham, bacon, mayo, lettuce, tomato and cheese.
Large tortilla filled with mixed cheese, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes served with sour cream and pico de gallo. Add ground beef, shrimp, or chicken, fajita beef for an additional charge.
Served on Texas Toast.
Beef hot dog served on a fresh hoagie roll with chili, cheese, onions, and jalapenos.
Served with lettuce and tomato.
Sandwich and fries
1/2 lb. The Classic Chargrilled Burger
The front of the 290 café
Storefront
Manor 290
The iconic sign
Menu
a man standing in front of a red building
Outside
290 Club Sandwich
Great special!
Menu The 290
House salad. Togo
Chicken salad sandwich on wheat
Chicken and Waffle
Quesadilla with fajita chicken
el burrito grande
tortilla soup
Chicken fried chicken Tater Tots Mac & Cheese
Fried Onion Rings Chicken fried chicken Green Beans
French Toast with bacon
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Christina G.
Jan 3, 2025
I usually order grubhub for breakfast from Cafe 290, but today I needed a late lunch, so I stopped by. The servers are always super friendly and helpful. I wanted something light and easy, so I ordered The chicken salad sandwich and side salad, it was really good. They make the chicken salad fresh in house and it was light and healthy. I can't have raw onion.And I was really happy that this chicken salad did not have raw onion. The housemaid chips are really good too. My go to orders are typically the big breakfast with hot cakes or breakfast. Tacos and the boyfriend always gets the grilled pork chop breakfast plate.
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Ari R.
Dec 19, 2024
Standard diner fare, service, and atmosphere. I would say this isn't a place I'd go out of my way for, but the tater tots are next level. Lol. Seriously, I don't know what they season them with, but it's almost magical. I ate all of them even though I was already very full. It's clean and our waitress was fast and friendly. Despite us showing up on a Sunday afternoon we were seated and tended to almost immediately. She was so quick with the coffee refill once, I didn't even notice her stop by. My tired self was extremely grateful. The Herbivore burger is so good! It's a garden patty with carrots, peas, corn and other veggies turned into a circle. I'd order another. Skip the mac and cheese. I saw someone else order a quesadilla and I just might get that next time. It was huge and the rice it comes with looked delicious. Speaking of huge the chicken fried steak portion is generous. I'm told it's also very good and hubs would order it again if he's really hungry. Stop in if you're in the area.
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Carolyn G.
Sep 24, 2024
Three servers behind the counter. The sign says wait to be seated. We wait...one of the ladies yells something that we can't understand. She repeats for us to just go sit over there and motions with her hand. I guess the conversation going on was extremely important. Our server saunters over with menus and asks what we would like...well, water to start. We ordered and there pancakes I got were decent. The fried chicken sandwich was good. It could have used some spice. It's a cute cafe and they seem to have many regulars that got excellent service. All in all I would give them another shot.
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Jack G.
Jul 18, 2024
Wanted to meet a friend in Elgin at a halfway point from Austin. Manor is right in the middle, so we thought we'd give Cafe 290 a shot!It has an abundance of charm and the service was friendly and quick. I thought the "290 salad" I ordered with fried chicken was fine. I appreciated the offered side of corn bread which was very good! The vibes are great, prices fair, location right. 4 stars
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J J.
Nov 30, 2024
Staff is always helpful and cheerful. Food is classic Texas diner- including some American classics like fried chicken livers and chopped steak and gravy. Many sides to choose from and all homemade and all delicious! Prices are very reasonable. I wish they were open later but I get there whenever I can. Chicken fried chicken is a favorite.
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Joe I.
May 27, 2024
I went there to eat this morning in Maynard Texas. It was really good breakfast. I had the three egg omelette. It looks so good. I forgot to take a picture of it. I just dug right in and started eating it. The coffee is really good. I read at the actual café that it's fresh ground from a coffee place in Austin, so the coffee was super good. My waitress is really nice. Was pretty quick for. For breakfast. I have friends that live in Manor. I think I'm gonna invite them to go there with me and maybe have dinner there. I will definitely go back and it's worth the trip.
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Kaycie Y.
Jul 19, 2024
We had a trip planned to Crowe's Nest Farm and needed to pick up some lunch.Cafe 290 is very diner-like. Pies are sitting in a window, breakfast all day, and very nice people working with smiles on their faces. We got a kids burger. For $6 and some change, it's a great portion and it was a damn good/simple burger. We also got the toasted ravioli which was fun and yummy. I wish this place wasn't 45 min away from home but those pies looked SO good that we might just have to make the drive
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Shad R.
Sep 17, 2024
Great service and staff. The food was amazing and environment was very welcoming. The menu in person had a lot more options compared to what was posted on the website. The fries were delicious
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Shelia S.
Nov 10, 2024
Wonderful spot in Elgin. They have a wide variety of dishes so everyone can find something they enjoy. The queso was wonderful, my burger had the yummy char on the patty and the rest of the party was able to order breakfast even though it was almost noon. There is a rich history to the establishment and learning about it was fun. The service was spot on as well.
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Karen B.
Feb 2, 2025
Taylor LocationI ordered the Thursday Special, beef tips with gravy over rice with two sides to go. The rice was not properly cooked. It was hard. I had to dig it out my teeth. The beef tips were tender and seasoned. When I received the bill, I saw where it said they charge 3% for credit/debit cards. I thought I'm paying cash. My bill was $13.51 so I gave her a $20. She gave me back $6. When I asked about my change she said We don't do change. I said then I need another $1. I left the .51 on the register. If you're not using coins, you should let people know just like you do about the 3% charge on card transactions.
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