Kalico Kitchen
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About Kalico Kitchen
Kalico Kitchen is a Chico institution, known for its warm and welcoming atmosphere. More than just a restaurant, it's a place where you'll feel like family. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Kalico Kitchen offers a diverse menu featuring satisfying diner classics. Customer favorites inclu...
Kalico Kitchen is a Chico institution, known for its warm and welcoming atmosphere. More than just a restaurant, it's a place where you'll feel like family. Open daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, Kalico Kitchen offers a diverse menu featuring satisfying diner classics. Customer favorites include hearty burgers, delicious meat omelets with crispy hash browns and country gravy, and a special, varied senior breakfast option. The friendly and attentive service, combined with consistently well-prepared food, makes Kalico Kitchen a beloved spot for both quick meals and relaxed solo dining. Enjoy great coffee, delightful desserts, and a selection of teas in this comfortable, family-owned establishment.
What Customers Say About Kalico Kitchen
Kalico Kitchen is a family-owned American diner known for its friendly staff, welcoming atmosphere, and consistent quality. Customers rave about the chicken fried steak, burgers, and breakfast options, especially the senior menu. Some find it overpriced.
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Tip: Go for breakfast and try the senior menu for variety and good prices. Be aware that it can be busy on weekend mornings.
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Great small town feeling They make you feel right at home
A fantastic place to enjoy great food.
Super awesome service and breakfast with perfectly cooked eggs,bacon, sausage and French toast. Fresh squeezed OJ too!
They have a section on their breakfast menu where you select one item from 3 of 4 boxes for seniors, alot of variety, good price, it includes coffee too. The veggie omelet, mushrooms, onions and peppers, it was delicious, ground round patty fine, pancakes so big and fluffy 😋, their sausage is excellent. Great service too.
Good food, fast service, fair prices. Nice relaxing breakfast.
If you walk into Kalico Kitchen as a stranger, you'll likely leave as family. If you're really lucky? You get hugs, too. This is the kind of place where faces become familiar, where you naturally gravitate toward 'your' table, and where you leave feeling nourished – both heart and belly. After just two years in Chico, finding this sense of community has been invaluable. We're lucky enough to have a reserved Friday morning spot in Chris' section. She knows everyone by name, celebrates every milestone, offers comfort during tough times, and somehow never lets a coffee cup go empty. Chris is the beating heart of this place. The early-riser breakfast is hands-down one of the best values in town, and Rosa absolutely slays in the kitchen! I once playfully teased her about how she cut my toast, and now she keeps a tape measure handy just to poke fun right back at me. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard! Once you find your spot here, breakfast anywhere else won't feel the same.
I've been going to Kalico kitchen for 20+ years. I love that it's always consistent. The staff, the food and the atmosphere stays the same. It's my favorite for diner food
Fun family dining! Great chicken fried steak...everyone is welcoming, accommodating, and friendly!
I love this family owned restaurant. I've coming here almost everyday for the past year. Everyone is on their A- game here... .... the food, the waiting staff and the kitchen.
Delish. I had CFS, son had a big ol burger, and was very good. Our server was awesome! Everyone working there had a smile! Will be back again. Great place to walk to while getting tires put on at Les Schwab..
Great place where they know your name! Candy and Socorro the owners are really kind people. They have great staff. All the waitstaff treats everyone with kindness. My parents really like their burgers. The staff is always accommodating when we bring our toddler as well. Great people that provide great service at a fair price.
Went with 2 other people and the server was great, cooks made a good meat omelette and crispy hash browns with side of country gravy was on point. Been going here for years and it’s still great choice to go out for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
This was my 1st time there I will definitely be back we had tried somewhere else for breakfast but did not feel like waiting for 45 minutes... I loved our waitress, everyone was very friendly. The food was good. There were 4 of us in our party and we all were happy when we left. I'm even happier that's its less then 4 miles from my house.
Kalico Kitchen Meal Review: A Quest for Chico’s Best Biscuits and Gravy In my search for Chico’s finest biscuits and gravy, Kalico Kitchen delivered a mixed experience. Biscuits and Gravy The gravy was a simple blend of flour, water, and pepper, lacking the richness and depth typically found in great versions that include milk, sausage, and a touch of seasoning like thyme or rosemary. The biscuit, though warm and soft, was dense and bland, resembling risen flour and water rather than the expected flaky, buttery texture. Other Offerings The fresh-squeezed orange juice was fantastic, and the bacon was flavorful and satisfying — a highlight of the meal. Service and Atmosphere The staff was very pleasant, friendly, and attentive. Everyone was helpful and responsive throughout the visit. The restaurant was notably clean and well-maintained, creating a comfortable environment. Value Pricing was reasonable and aligned with expectations for a casual breakfast stop. Conclusion While Kalico Kitchen gets high marks for service, cleanliness, and several menu items, their biscuits and gravy unfortunately fall short of the rich, comforting standard that makes this dish a breakfast staple. Unless improvements are made to this key item, my search for Chico’s best biscuits and gravy will continue.
Super friendly staff, lots of seating and plenty of parking. Could be really busy weekend mornings. They have many tasty breakfast options but today I ordered a cheeseburger for the first time. Do yourself a favor and stick to the breakfast menu. The burger tasted like a soy burger or something that was premade and frozen.
EXTREMELY overpriced for diner food. Just around the corner, same items were $2 to $3 cheaper than here. Coffee? You may think you're at the Ritz with these prices. 🙄 Don't get me started...
Decided to order breakfast thru DoorDash once the food arrived we noticed our order was wrong. We ordered sides of home fries but got other items. The food was completely raw!! The potatoes had that starchy flavor and the gravy had that very overpowering flour taste when it is raw. The most disgusting thing about our meal were the eggs they were completely raw. Not like a sunny side up style just completely raw the egg white was clearly green and gooey. The food all together was super bland. This was our second chance trying the food and dare I say it was more disappointing the second time around.
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