For pancake lovers, you’ll be happy to find that for any breakfast item that normally comes with toast, you can substitute pancakes. For places like this the safest (i.e., most predictable) meal would probably be breakfast. Rather, the food is typical of any American family-style restaurant (like, say, a Denny’s). If you’re looking for contemporary, cutting edge farm-to-table cuisine, you won’t find it here. The important thing at a place like this is to keep your expectations realistic. The large vinyl booths, the rotating pie display and the numerous keno-style monitors showing the latest lottery results (hence the name “Keno’s”) are truly reminiscent of a 60’s- and 70’s-era Las Vegas hotel coffee shop. What differentiates Keno’s operationally from those cafes is the fact that they also have a separate sports bar, which I have not visited. Located on La Palma Avenue between Dale and Magnolia Streets (not far from Knott’s Berry Farm), Keno’s Sports Bar and Grill is a throwback to roadside coffee shops that once dotted the United States. Before the rise of specialty coffee shops like Starbucks, the term “coffee shop” referred to casual, diner-style family restaurants.
