Firstly I have to give props to Kyle Rancourt for recommending this place to me. I was talking about this blog with him and he mentioned a place where they serve delicious breakfast and where dreams come true. I did a little research and this place is for real. They were featured on Diners Drive Ins and Dives, a Food Network show hosted by Guy Fieri (Yes, the one with the spikey bleached hair and he wears sunglasses on the back of his head). If you haven’t seen the show, you should actually give it a shot. He goes around America showcasing great food joints that do things just a little differently. Voula’s has been in the business of serving up grub for over 25 years now. They are actually located right next door to another great pizza joint that I love called The Northlake Tavern and I never noticed Voula’s when I went get some late night pizza. This place does breakfast with a Greek twist so all of their items are amazingly tasty. Cailin, my Photographer and future wife (wow need to get used to saying that…), and I trekked over to the Northlake area where you’ll find the original Ivars and Dale Chihuly’s Glass shop. Also this place is minutes from the UW campus.
Fairly Inviting
Luckily we got in right after the breakfast rush and we were seated immediately. It wasn’t like those semi-quick waits where you walk in and 2 minutes later you get a seat, but we walked in and they pointed to a table for us. Within seconds, a busy waitress entered our part of the cafe and asked us how we were doing and if we wanted anything to drink. So far the service was exceptional and I figured they were shooting themselves in the foot by doing all of this so early on and setting the bar high but I was mistaken. They served Tony’s Coffee (for those of you that don’t know, Tony’s coffee is the 2nd little brother of big name northwest coffee in Seattle. It’s Starbucks then Tully’s). It tasted pretty good but nothing mind blowing. We had 2 more refills of coffee while we waited and on that last one refill the food was out.
Just a side-note on coffee in Seattle. Let me be clear, Starbucks is not the best coffee in the city. That crown easily goes to all of the little shops strewn throughout the city (not in any particular order — Ladro, Vivace, Uptown, Icon – Caffe Vita, TopPot, and Fuel just to name a few). I’m no coffee connoisseur but I can definitely taste the difference.
Before we left our house we read a couple reviews and the majority of people agreed that the food was brilliant but that their only negative was the wait time on food. This of course was on my mind the entire time but I came to realize how it is actually true. This cafe is a family owned business that has a kitchen that is less than 100sqft with 4 cooks. The quality of the food trumps the wait time by far and really when you plan to come to Voula’s it’s a fun event in which you enjoy your company. On the back of the menu we noticed it said, “If your food doesn’t coming out in 10 minutes then…..Relax!” “It may take 20 minutes or even 30 minutes but the quality of the food counts”. It’s one of those social concepts where if you point out your flaws people have nothing to criticize anymore. So I think telling them that they get food out slower than normal is irrelevant because they have already acknowledged it.
2nd Cup of Coffee staring outside
Smoked Pork Benedict with Chipolte Hollandaise
Smoked Salmon Scramble
Now for the food order. I got the Piñata Benedict, which was in-house Smoked Pork with poached eggs on english muffins covered in Chipotle Hollandaise sauce. Cailin got Smokey the Salmon, 3 scrambled eggs with in-house smoked Alaskan King salmon, cream cheese, and green onions. Both were served with a healthy heap of hasbrowns, say that 10x fast 
Lets just say that for the next 5 minutes it was pure silence as we were both enjoying our meals to the fullest. Of course we shared one bite each and then continued on with our meals. The flavor on the smoked pork was unbelievable and it was one of the best benedicts I’ve ever had. I’m getting hungry again just reminiscing about this meal. Not only that, the hashbrowns were very well done and it reminded me of when my Mother would cook us hashbrowns. From what I got from Cailin and my one bite, the smoked salmon scramble was done right. It wasn’t too fish tasting but just enough to satisfy you. We were both über full and didn’t even get to finish the rest of our hashbrowns 
Defeated
Defeated
The atmosphere of the cafe was very friendly and family oriented. They had 100′s of polaroid pictures up on the wall as well as some memorabilia from their visit from Guy Fieri. The absolute cherry on top was that they had Andes Mints for you when you were done with meal, WOOT!
Andes
Now for the ratings:
Food: 8.5
Service: 8
Atmosphere: 6
Coffee: 5
Total: 27.5
