Thanks to a late night, post party visit to Courtesy Diner, I now know of the deliciousness that is Biscuits and Sausage Gravy! I had it for the first time there, and it made enough of an impression that I've been ordering it everywhere now. And theirs is still one of the best versions of it I've had. It's a fairly small little diner, and it was really busy when we went, but we didn't have trouble finding somewhere to sit. It's the sort of place that I think is best as a late night stop. Service was good (very quick!) and we were happy with our food. It's a diner with a very retro feel (50s era?) and it's clean, and it's very affordable. What else is there to say? read more

It's good cheap diner food. Not sure what else to say. The service was good and the food was fixed exactly how we asked. Getting a tasty breakfast for under $20. I can't complain about that! It's been in business since 1935 so obviously they are doing something right. We are happy we stopped in this morning. read more

I really enjoyed coming to this diner after failing to find a BBQ restaurant. It was cheap and delicious and the Western BBQ Burger really satisfied my craving. It was a bit too greasy though, but it's a diner so it's to be expected. And whaaaaaaaat it's open 24 hours? Win. Well except on Mondays, but who goes out on Mondays. When I come to STL again I am fasho hitting this place up again. Us college kids need somewhere cheap and delish for our drunk food ;) read more

Had the worst experience and come here often. Very simple order. Knew something was amiss when the cook spent most of his time leaning on the wall and dresses like he was going to the office. Grilled cheese not hot enough to melt the cheese. Slinger hamberger was still raw and pink. Eggs were hard, ordered over easy and there were almost no hash browns on the plate. It was 10:45am. Maybe 4 customers in the place. read more

Great diner experience. Tasty and quick food, good customer service. I had the best steak sandwich today, which is why I had to write this review. Usually steak sandwiches are hard to eat because the steak is tough and bread too thick. This time the meat was a thin 5oz cooked at a perfect medium w/ grilled onions, peppers, and mushrooms, golden-brown buttered Texas toast and I topped it off with some A1 sauce. The flavors were bomb! read more

Went here for the first time and loved it. Friendly staff. Cute place takes you back in time to a better time. Food was fast to the table and was great. Onion rings are a must. We will go back again. read more

Courtesy Diner - Diners Near Me - Saint Louis, Missouri

Mmmm. Courtesy Diner. This is my favorite spot to wander to at 2 in the morning on a weekend when I'm not ready for bed. Courtesy is my staple-diner. They have a wide variety of very typical food - they're breakfast selection doesn't boast much out of the way of your normal wafflehouse type fare, and their dinner selection is pretty straightforward as well - but their 'typical food' is always really good. The place is cleaner than most diners, and the decor is a throwback to 1955. The staff is friendly and the late night staff especially is prone to random chat with the customers. I highly recommend it tipsy or sober. It's good either way. read more

Dirt cheap food done right. Waitresses who call you 'hon' and step outside for a smoke as often as possible. Food was fast and fresh, 5 of us ate on 35 bucks. For a late night chowhound or a quick bite anytime, this place is super solid. No 5 star because it's cash only. Come on. 2014, here people. Is this Netscape? read more

The food is cheap and tastes good as long as you remember how little you paid for it. Service from the waiters is OK. 3/5.

This is a great after closing time food. Their slinger was really good. Didnt have hashbrowns so used fried which i thought it actually tasted better. Overall, if im in the area ill be eating there again. read more

This place was great! The authentic diner vibe was real, juke box included. The food was delicious. I had a milkshake and BBQ burger. Prices were excellent. Be sure to bring cash, they do not accept credit cards. read more

This place is the antithesis of it's name. Cash only. Rude waitstaff. Frozen prepared food, nothing really fresh unless you count the iceberg lettuce. Poster board hung up on the walls behind to counter to list the "specials." Perhaps a renaming should occur something something dive. Go there if you want cheap, processed frozen, rude, cash only experience. Good luck. read more

Love this place. Have been coming here since I was a little girl. The food is very cheap and their burgers are delicious. They have a jukebox if you wish to listen to music. The only drawback is they take CASH ONLY. They have an ATM but I was charged twice for withdrawing cash. read more

Best Slinger in town. Over medium, with cheese, no onions and white toast. Best while drunk. Come in, find a seat, order a slinger and enjoy the people watching! read more

Rude. Horrible service. My fiance ordered take out one weekend, go there a few weekends later and they said they've never done take out on weekends. Then the waitress says, I've never seen your face in here before, I've worked here 20 years blah blah blah, after he explained that we have done this in the past while the waitress continues to act extremely rude and basically saying we are liars and we've never ate there. Perhaps waitressing is not the greatest career path for her. Too bad because we live close and its good for a drunken "carry out" order. read more

Overall great experience. Service was fairly quick considering it was lunch time. Portions were moderate, but priced very well (inexpensive). Food tasted great. When we left we didn't feel stuffed and sleepy, but fed just right. See you next time.. read more

My family stopped in on our way through town. It's easy access off of I64 near the zoo. My daughter raved about the pancakes and the biscuits. I got the Hoosier. The gravy was ...meh, but my son loved it. All in all it's the quintessential American Dinner. Certainly worth your stop in. They only accept cash. read more

Not bad for diner food late night great wear off drinking with! Be careful parking tho I've had my car window busted and things stolen in parking lot here read more

I'm really not a fan. I can see the appeal for others, but honestly I'd rather have Dennys. The menu is small. The service is fast. I just can't get anything off the menu besides an omlette which are quite thin. Never want to leave breakfast hungry. Eating here I will. read more

Here 20 min now and no one gas even asked if I want a water and I'm at the drink counter it's been 20 min

This is my favorite greasy spoon in the whole world. Excellent little gut bombs. Chili's good. Service is great. Place is clean. Very clean.

Congratulations to this Courtesy Diner location because I have added this location to my OH HELL NO! list. Why? You must read more: This place disgusts me. It isn't deserving of any stars at all, and truly one of the most disgusting places where I have ever been. I checked out the Yelp reviews and looked at their menu online so I went with an idea of what I wanted. I was debating about going to the location on Hampton or the new location in Afton. I decided to go to the Hampton location which was a huge mistake. When I got there, the place is set up kinda like a Waffle House Restaurant, and I sat at the counter and looked at the menu while being ignored. I sat there for almost ten minutes without being acknowledged by the "server" or the "cook." I looked around at other people's food and it didn't look good to me at all. I watched the "cook" and what she was doing when she "cooked" the food and it was nasty looking and unappealing. They pulled something out of the fryer that was almost burnt and I couldn't tell what is was at all. When she finally got around to asking me what I wanted, I asked if she was going to wait on me or ignore me. She was curt and rude, and obviously they know nothing about good service for their customers. After that, I decided that I wasn't going to stay and walked out without placing an order for their nasty looking food even though she asked me what I wanted. I will never go to this place again. And the health inspector needs to make several frequent visit to that place because it looked really dirty to me, too. read more

Omelet? More like om-LIT! Everything was lit lit lit. Seriously. Get the omelet. Or anything really. The staff is lit and so is the food!

I have to couch my 5 star review in a very specific context. 1) you are extremely intoxicated, or you are with a large group of extremely intoxicated people, but 2) you are not so intoxicated that White Castle sounds awesome 3) you are in the west-end/mid-county area. 4) It is after 12 or 1AM You might ask "Well Stephen, why don't I go to Denny's?" but that would clearly be a ridiculous idea. I mean honestly, we live in a city with much better 24-hour options than some bass-ackward place like LA. "What about Steak'n'shake?" No. Who wants to eat in their car? Who wants drunk people to eat in their car? Exactly what I thought. Clearly, the only logical place to eat is Courtesy - you get super cheap, reasonably edible food, and you are supporting a home town institution. read more

One of my favorite place to get a slinger in STL. Servers /Cooks have always been friendly to me any time I have been there. The only draw back is its cash only, but they have an ATM there to make up for it. read more

The owner of this place is a complete jerk who treats his employees like slaves. The staff rarely wash their hands. The food is thawed out crap and they really work the hell out of their microwave. Good pancakes and omlettes. Good milkshakes. Service is not great but what do you expect? Dirty, gross, don't waste your time. read more

Most disgusting diner food I've ever had. Wait staff was very impressive and incredibly friendly, but the food was so terrible I could never think about returning. read more

Courtesy has the best slingers, which if you're not from Saint Louis, are the best way to soak up the booze at the end of a night out. It is inexpensive but make sure to save some cash since they don't take credit cards. read more

One of my friends wanted an authentic "diner at 2am" experience. When we walked in, the floor was sticky/greasy. Later, we saw at least two bugs crawling around. I hope they were just beetles.... I got hashbrowns and a chocolate shake. Hashbrowns were super oily. Shake was a'right. The water cups were huge. Probably would not go back.. read more

Ive been going to this diner for atleast 7 years or so. Ive tried a few of their other dishes, I recently had the western bacon bbq burger but I thought their fries weren't anything great, and the bun wasn't anything special either, I pretty much try not to stray away from the slinger. Their white gravy sauce on their hangover is delicious. The slinger is just delicious. It kind of ranges, sometimes you will get skeeted on the hashbrowns, a couple times I got charged for cheese I didn't order. But keep in mind Ive probably gone there a hundred times. I have gotten a perfect slinger with so much hashbrowns that I had to take some of it home with me. The slinger is delicious, I love their chili, and even though the other things on their menu aren't quite as good, if you get the slinger its all you really need. I got their early bird special once, but you may as well go to Denny's if you want that. Its got a friendly atmosphere, and the food is reasonably priced, I always tip decently, since the food is so lowly priced, I would recommend tipping more than a mere 15%-20% read more

Their cheeseburgers taste like home! Chili isn't the most fancy but I think that's what made it so good! Simplicity sometimes is the best with food. Coming back for sure! read more

Avoid this location if at all possible! Service is abysmal. Waitresses walk past you and avoid looking at you so they don't have to tend to you. Food is lackluster at best. I think this location has really gone downhill in the last six months. read more

Just what a diner should be - hot, quick, cheap, good food. Had the chicken tenders with fries - perfectly fried "school fries". Mozzarella sticks were also good. Nice, friendly service and a great juke box! Definitely recommend! read more

First of all....I only dine here whilst drunk or post drunk/near hangover stage. If you get here early enough to get a seat for the bar time madness crowd, it is well worth it. My first experience involved the entire restaurant singing happy birthday (drunk I might add) to one of the patrons. I enjoy watching all the drunkos attempt to consume the slinger. I enjoy the chicken version of the slinger. They give you hella food for very little dough. The service is not exactly speedy, but what service is when dealing with a small venue jam packed with drunks. It's filling and entertaining. If you need to fill your belly with greasy deliciousness after a night of binge drinking....this is the place for you. read more

Loved this place. Quick service, great food and great prices. Loved that you can watch your meal being cooked. Cash only!

Shisty little diner. Like white castles its a five starer if your drunk and a zero starer when you wake up in the morning. If you are sober enough to read this review then don't go, if you are tipsy across from Talanya's not on yelp then have at it! read more

Less stars than kingshighway location for the lack of a dungeon style bathroom and less surly employee-customer relations.

The place had a kind of dirty feeling at first and when we ordered our drinks, my lemonade was watered down greatly and tasted like lemon water. We asked for another one and they had to fix the machine first. The creamer bowl had some odd red sauce on it and looked very unclean. I ordered the veggie omelet and when it was delivered it had a hair on it. The omelet itself had waaaaay too much cheese in it and the omelet was very greasy. The individual jelly containers that we received were dirty and had some odd substance caked on it. Also, the restaurant only took cash which was inconvenient. read more

Maybe Missouri doesn't have Waffle House, but this is Waffle House. Quick and greasy, meets the needs for late nights or but you're getting what you pay for here. I had bits of potato in my eggs, and didn't order potatoes, but this isn't the type of place you can complain about having potato in your eggs. It's more the kind of place you have to go, "hmm, thanks for extra potato, I think". read more

Excellent as a late night diner. Food is very bit as authentic diner grill as you could expect. Classic counter service, 1950s style booths, Jukebox, classic diner dishes, good parking. Daytime 3-stars, night 4-stars. Can get filled with drinking class after 1am, but rather lively. Service is hit or miss, but generally fast. read more