Not first visit. Previously had great service, good food and prices. Last visit, we waited 20 min for our order to be taken. Ok, it was a little busy. It took another hour and a half for our food. Waitress did not stop by at any point to inquire if we needed anything or explain delay. Food was prices as previous visits. However, portions were drastically reduced. 1/4 lb burger covered half the bun. Philly steak sandwich was about 1/3 less than before. After finishing, server came with Bill. There was no explanation or apology for the delay. This was noted in tip. If you have staffing issues, fix it. Do better. read more

New owners after years of my go to take out food neighbour's. My $15 dinner last week is now $22.50. Roasted chicken breast was dry, perigies were awful and cabbage rolls just ok. May try one more time but the prices have made it easy for me to look elsewhere. Too bad. Should've known with 8 people inside and 5 cars in the parking lot something is up. Ya better fix it ot you'll lose all your customers. read more

Since the relatives are children of those who started this business have taken over, the quality of food has decreased. I speak of one who has been a customer a blue star for over 30 years. read more

Nice vibe, but not at ALL impressed with the food. Dry, cold toast, and a fried egg folded in half with two strips of unmelted plastic American cheese on it is NOT an omelette. Shame on you for presenting this omelette that a three year old could have made, for which you charged a fee. The jelly packs were the only warm items on the plate. read more

Blue Star Restaurant - An omelette as per the Blue Star restaurant. - American Near Me - Welland, Ontario

+ great service, good food, reasonable prices - decor is dated Went here yesterday with my mother as we were taking her out for her birthday. There was four of us. I made a reservation for 6:00 for a booth, but upon our arrival, there were no booths. I guess they forgot about us needing one. There's lots of seating in this place and we sat at one of the middle tables close to the wall. The decor is showing its age and is in need for a refresh, some of the chairs were pretty worn. Our waitress was very friendly, and she gave some good advice on the menu items and we were happy to hear they were super flexible when it came to the side dishes. Prices are very reasonable, a lot of them under $12. We ordered fish and chips (haddock) and the Broasted chicken with mashed. The entrees even came with a choice of soup or salad. We ordered the Caesar which was made up perfectly and the garden salad. I had the house made vinaigrette dressing and it was really good. The entrees came out within 30 minutes and tasted perfectly. The chicken breast was cooked well. I like how there isn't a lot of breading on it. The mashed potatoes and gravy were really good as well. My mother had the coconut cream pie (on the house for her birthday) and she said it was wonderful. Pieces of pie are only $3, very reasonable. I like how everything is homemade here and the staff are friendly. We'll definitely be back to try out more of their menu items. read more

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My wife a I eat at the Blue Star at least once a month love the Philly Steak Sub with fries as well as the Philly Hash. Food is always hot, establishment is clean, and staff always friendly. read more

Food is always cold. I stopped going here years ago. It's a shame because at one point is was very popular with my family.

Old school menu, great history captured in photos on the walls, GREAT DINER FOOD. You ever remember eating liver as a kid? I do: awful. But I wanted to give it another shot, being all open minded and such. Very accommodating server, I wanted hot hamburger, liver, and chicken (I was being a bit of a glutton) and she made it happen. Chicken was ok, but hot damn the liver and hamburger top shelf. D read more

You cant beat the value for the money. Home cooked food that tastes great. I definitely recommend Blue Star!

Wonderful owners, great food and friendly service. Their pies are to die for!!!

You got to be kidding me, I travel A LOT and this is the best food you can get anywhere, I try to order take out from here almost every weekend I'm home, I love it here and always will read more

We eat here all the time. Food is made fresh, always hot and we love the Roast turkey, Ukrainian trio ( with borscht of course) and the pasta. I used to take my mom here after medical appointments (her choice, and it is near the hospital). Recently I grabbed the 5 lb trays of frozen lasagne ( meat and veggie) for a larger gathering I was hosting. Both were frozen, but made of real ingredients, not the mystery mush that most trays of frozen lasagne are made from. My guests could not say enough good things about the pasta, and it made hosting a large group so easy! Friendly service too and portions are generous enough for leftovers! read more

OMFG THE UKRAINIAN TRIO!. roast chicken, cabbage rolls and pierogies - the holy trinity of eastern european comfort food. its been years and I still remember... this alone is worth a trip to welland. FROM BOSTON! that effing good. p.s. personally I LIKE how sketchy this place is and welland ruleZ. haters to the left!!!!! read more

I remember when this place had really good food, it was like 10-15 years ago. Now it's cheap fatty and the taste is totally different:( not sure if they changed owners back then, but definitely not the same. The only good thing that came from this experience was there milkshakes. read more

How would you feel if you had a fly buttered into your toast? If you'd like to know, try the Blue Star restaurant in Welland! I stopped going there after such an experience and the restaurant management did nothing about it. I had some decent experiences at the Blue Star, but I'm guessing it was just good luck. When things went wrong, I realized that if you want careless staff and bland food, this is the place to go. Fireside restaurant has much more considerate management & staff. I think I would even have to pick McDonald's over the Blue Star. read more

Sadly the complete opposite of what it used to be. Service was slow, spent quite some time waiting to be seated & receive our meals. Waitress was cheery & apologetic, yet very uneducated on the menu; we woild ask questions about certain items & she just read what the description on the menu said over our shoulders. While waiting on our meals to arrive, we saw no less than four plates be sent back to the kitchen; not a good sign. Food was less than mediocre. We got the Ukrainian trio & corned beef special. Considering the corned beef & the cabbage rolls were the daily specials, we at least expected them to be fresh & better than other menu choices. Everything was cold, tasting like it had been microwaved then left to sit on the counter. Meals came with chicken noodle soup as a starter which simply tasted like salt water. Corned beef was an overcooked beef roast, not even resembling corned beef. Fries were soggy, tasting like they had been made several hours prior. Perogies were undercooked, yet still tasted okay. Cabbage rolls tasted homemade, yet as if they had been made a few days ago & reheated. The chicken was a complete joke, resembling something I would get from KFC; one soggy piece of doughy deep-fried chicken thigh. Dessert was limited as we were told there was only a few pieces of apple pie & one piece of blueberry pie left. Blue Star used to be the go to place for an enjoyable meal some years past, yet it seems they have let themselves go to quite an extent. read more

Second review - Here we go .. Alright so , it's only my second review & I had hoped that I would be making snide remarks & belittling some business but then I remembered the dinner I had with my parents & sister . It was amazing .. minus the creepy waitress we ended up being stuck with . She knew my step mom .. Anyways , back to the point =p I ordered chicken fingers , my sister - the chicken parm, my dad - chicken breats ? & my step mom - a salad . The food came in just the right amount of time because my the time I got it , I swear I could have eaten the equivilent of me in stuffed crazy bread (ahaa !) So basically , it was the best service I've gotten in a WHILE . read more

This is a good, old fashioned diner. Booths with sparkly vinyl and all, the Blue Star offers comfort food at affordable prices. They have your usual all day breakfast and sandwiches, but their cabbage rolls and perogies are to die for! They even sell them in trays to take home! As we learned, you probably shouldn't load up on cabbage rolls and perogies when you have to go back to work. The food coma was worth it! The service was excellent and the food arrived quickly. read more

We have been loving this family restaurant for approx 50 years and will continue to go! The food, the staff and the management are remarkable... that would probably explain why this Family restaurant has been in existence for many, many decades. Keep up the good work JOHN and BRYAN and everyone who work there:) read more

Ugh.. where do I begin.. The only positive thing I can say is that the staff were nice. They seemed more focused on their regular customers, and were very forgetful with everything that we ordered. The utensils were dirty, and the tap water tasted awful. The prices were higher than normal for breakfast dishes, and they didn't have a traditional eggs/meat/homefries option. They also added a 1$ premium on the prices because it was after 12pm. The eggs were very runny, the bacon was hardly cooked. The toast was ok, but the homefries weren't anything special. The portion sizes were small, even for myself who enjoys smaller portions. Definitely won't be returning there any time soon. read more

Received worst service ever today, will never go back. Waitress kept serving other customers that had come in much later than us, some had ordered and received their food and we still did not have coffee after reminding the wait staff. Waited almost an hour and had to have the food boxed up to go. After that wait both our meals were cold, totally unacceptable. Have been a regular customer for years, and this is not the first time for the bad service but thought would give another chance, that was the last! read more

Love this place. The perogies are amazing, the chicken i have had is very moist and amazing, steak is my favourite. Only things id like differently is peameal bacon not dry like a peice of old leatyer and super thin, and mashed potatoes that didnt have a weird taste to them. Otherwise no complaints. Very generous in most meals. And the wait staff is paitent and understanding and chexk up on you but not enough to annoy you, but enough to refill your drink should you need one and make sure no complaints. read more

Friendly local family restaurant, broasted chickens are pretty good, very juicy. The star is the 30 chicken wings , skin is crispy and meat is juicy. Everyone loves these wings. My wife like the cabbage soup in particular that came with her party trio platters. We ended up taking home about half of what we order and heated up post Star Wars 7. We all agreed this is now our favorite place for wings. If the men washroom was not clogged this would be 10/10 but my son and I think this time it earn a 9.5/10 read more

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So far, service has been good. Food came and was better than ok. Omelettes and pancakes and bacon. Service was good. read more

The meals at Blue Star quite expensive. My friend ordered the beef hot sandwich and it looked very off putting - too much gravy and wrong colour. The service was great and the serving staff were very polite and nice. The rest of our dishes were very large and a little too much for a single person to consume. read more

Always a great place to eat, food is always good, service is always nice. Only have been for breakfast though can't review lunch or dinner read more

We went for breakie because I heard the food was great. It smelt like a toilet and our waitress was rude. Food was ok. Apparently the catering is really good. I'd def try that but I'll never go there to eat in again. read more

The locals swear by this place but my god it is terrible. Any time I've gone the servers seem miserable to be there serving me. Last time I went I had some very cold over-easy eggs (cold raw yolk is a terrible thing). Pancakes are big and filling but not very tasty. I get the impression it used to be a lot better in the past than it is now. For those who love it there I urge you to try some of the other local diners and see what you are missing. You CAN get better food for the same price! read more

Everyone says to go here, but I think it's the people that have never been out of town to experience something that didn't suck. Unfriendly people and decent food. read more

I haven't been to the Blue Star in a few years, but it is a local institution. I don't know why - every time I've gone the food is salty, mediocre, and either bland or weirdly spiced. Sometimes the service is really bad. But people love it. read more

It took forever to get our food, and then when we finally got it, the rice tasted like a plastic Tupperware bin. Disgusting.

I can only speak to the breakfast I had, 2 eggs sunny side up, hash browns and rye bread (less than 5$). For its price, I think its pretty reasonable. I mean its not Cora's, but it'll do. read more

A small family diner in Welland. Decent sized menu with choices for every palate. Great prices and friendly service. I found the pictures on the wall to be an odd choice though; family wedding photos it seems. read more

Food and service is generic and nothing special. No consistency in food quality. On every visit (My family have eaten here 6 x a year for the last 6 years, only for nostalgia reasons) if there is a "regular" -, friend of the server or owner, or a local politician who walks in after you, don't expect your coffee cup to be refilled any time soon. read more

dinner is served in the back dining room, front dining room has the classic diner look, spaghetti with meat sauce is huge, served really hot with one slice of bread, bottomless cup of coffee hot + fresh, service was fast, washrooms were really clean, many ppl were ordering takeout, complimentary kids crayons we on hand, place has been open since 1947, enjoy read more

Just finished eating lunch at the Blue Star with family ... Great comfortable feel inside staff very friendly.. Service was great. Ordered the perogies as an app were delishious bought a dozen frozen to go.. Ordered philly steak poutine,turkey poutine and Breakfast..portions are huge, prices are very reasonable. Ordered 10 piece broasted chicken to go was very good.. May make this a weekly routine!!! read more

I think that the quantity for the price is better then most restaurants, and the service is good accept for a few of the waitresses. It is also a very clean Restaurant, and the washrooms are kept up as well . read more

I'm giving you two seeing as how my food was edible. Service was slow and not at all caring. Portions could be larger but then again I don't want more crappy food. read more

Bluestar is & always will be awesome! best restaurant in welland! Not perfect not always 100% but pretty darn close, good prices & good specials! You will not be dissapointed read more

Thank you for the great customer service tonight and celebrating my daughters 12th Birthday. We were really impressed with the friendly staff and look forward to coming back read more