This was just about the worst Denny's I've ever made the mistake of entering. The location was good and with all the competition I thought sure they can't be that bad but they were rude to us about picking a table then we had to wait forever to be served. I'm not sure when we will get our food but it's like who does a guy have to bribe to get a damn sandwich. And it's 8pm so it's not even dinner push. Don't waste your time here. I'm stuck here and it's too late for you but you can be saved read more

I never thought a chain restaurant could disappoint but today I was proven wrong. Upon receiving our check my boyfriend and I noticed that the single slice of gingerbread french toast we ordered was $4. When we asked our waitress why this was, since the menu said to add a slice was 59 cents, she said it was because we didn't order a special meal. Already feeling a little cheated we just decided to cut our losses and pack the rest for later. While being checked out by I assume the manager, he wasn't in normal uniform, I noticed that below the register it said 15% off with valid college I.D. So as I was getting my id he said, "sorry, already rang it up, maybe next time." You have got to be joking me! Hope the tourist business makes up for all the locals your alienating. read more

I went into Denny's with one of my friends and the only reason I'm giving any stars is because the waiter was really nice, but the guy at the cash register was a horrible to us. My friend and I were going to stay separately and he was being so rude and we had nothing to him. He threw us the receipts and snatched the money out of our hands and I was so angry because we had done nothing to him. I called to ask his name so i could write it and he fakely apologized and I kept asking his name and he would not tell me until at the end which he said his name is Ed but im not sure if that was even his real name(he was tall and African American) to make it worse it looked like he was the manager because he was wearing a blue shirt not a manager, he should not be working there. I will not be returning to that denny's any time soon. I would not recommend it at all. read more

Showed up at 10pm because we were visiting from out of town. When we arrived it looked pretty busy, but it was pretty much a huge group of loud, obnoxious teenagers (about 20)on one side of the restaurant. The hostess, without much common sense, sat us 3 booths down from the group of teens. Literally, my husband and I had to yell at each other to hear each other talk. Our waitress even had to bend over and ask me twice what I said because she couldn't hear what I ordered. My husband ordered the nachos for an appetizer and when it came, just the middle part had cheese and other toppings. We didn't even eat half of it because it was just plain chips! Most disgusting nachos ever!! The rest of our food was really good and fresh, but the huge crowd of loud teens and horrible nachos totally ruined our experience there! read more

This place smells like old mop water with piss. I walked in and immediately was engulfed in this horrendous smell. I would definitely not recommend this place. The smell is very disgusting and takes away from the dining experience read more

Worst place to eat late at night, waited almost 2 hours and they ended up giving us the wrong food and it was Cold !! I regret not going to Jack in the Box it's way better than this place for late night eats read more

I still don't know why I keep coming back to this dennys, sometimes I get friendly service but 95% of the time is down the drain. i ALWAYS ALWAYS order the All american slam with sourdough all bacon and substitute the hashbrowns for the red skin potatoes. So I call Sun 11:45 am 13th of may 2018 some girl answered I said " hi can I place a to go order she automatically says " sorry wrong number " & hangs up WTF KIND OF PPL IS DENNYS HIRING talk about rude. I call back a guy anwsers so I place my order but he says they can't substitute the hash browns for the potatoes like wtf??? I always do it but you know what LAST time I buy from this dennys piece of shit. read more

This place is horrible. So many workers yet it takes forever to get seated, them to take your order, and serve your food. Listen to the reviews. We've been waiting almost 2 hours and we got cold fries. Not worth it. Take your money somewhere else. read more

This particular Denny's is kinda dirty. I realize it is an older building but I don't think the staff are cleaning this restaurant to the level of standards that it should be. The food was fine but I was concerned with the cleanliness of the whole place. When I sat down, I observed a table filled with dirty dishes and food. No one attempted to clean it up for at-least 15-20 minutes. The seating and walls have obviously been neglected by any type of deep cleaning! I observed staff talking and joking around while things needed to be attended to. This Denny's is in sad shape and needs some serious overhauling!!! read more

This Denny's had horrible service. The place was practically empty and we waited for 20 minutes before we even made our order. The food took about 45 minutes and was cold when it came out. I used to be a breakfast cook - the food was well below standards. We then waited ANOTHER 20 minutes for them to get our checks to us. I'm not exaggerating any of this. We got here at 2:00 and left at 3:40 read more

Waitress are not welcoming. Had the demeanors of not wanting to work. Experience was uncomfortable while the server lacked eye contact, didn't seem as though she wanted to communicate with us while serving us. read more

HORRIBLE SERVICE! Not only did we wait over 20 minutes for our food but it was also cold!!!! Why would eggs be cold?! Even the country fried steak was cold. Its almost as if they made it two hours before and it was left under a heat lamp before we came. Scrambled eggs came out as over easy, another order bever eveb made it to the table, bacon was burnt and the omlette had ABSOLUTELY NO CHEESE!! WTF! It wasn't even busy enough for this shit to happen. We literally had to walk the plates up to the front because they were unconcerned with the exception of the sweet waitress Maria. The manager Chris Shelton never came out and apologized and Maria even let us know that she talked to him. I contemplated leaving they wouldn't have noticed anyway. When we got to the register the manager didn't apologize he didn't even say hello just put his hand out for the receipt. I asked why the food was cold and if he was going to do anything about it and my question wasn't even acknowledged. He took care of the bill which was a surprise since nothing was said. That of course doesn't make up for anything read more

I guess this place is okay if you're either really strapped for cash or you really like sub-par food. A simple breakfast order comes with average pancakes, low-grade eggs, and bacon that was 90% fat, 100% soggy and inedible. Service is terrible, they always act like they don't want to be there. But I can't really blame them. It's dirty and cheap... Two stars for being open twenty four hours (for those 4am pancake cravings)... Not the worst, but I would definitely not recommend. read more

My family and I went to denny's on 3/29/15 at 11:00am. We had to wait 20 minutes for a table even though the restaurant was half empty. We ordered right away as we were starving. After 45 minutes we finally got our food. Mine came out completely cold and I sent it back and got my money back. My son's order was wrong and my daughter's toast came out untoasted and with a blob of unmelted butter on it. My husband's grits were thick and dry. The meal was horrid which is surprising for Denny''s as we have never had such as horrid meal as this one. We were just passing though and we will never eat here again. I am so disappointed in the general manager as well as corporate that no one has responded to my email or phone call regarding this experience. I guess no one cares about the customer. read more

Worst Denny's I've ever been to in my life! I should have knew not to eat here when I walked in and the entire place smelled like sewage!! The smell was so gross the food was just as bad and the service was terrible! It was not busy at all and I stood at the door while the employees just sat there talking. Finally got seated had to wait for ever for my drinks while me server sat at the counter eating with the host. Terrible food and terrible service. Me and my son couldn't barely get down any of the food cause it tasted so bad read more

We had a horrible experience at this Dennys. Took for ever to get seated. Tables we're open. Restaurant was only around 60 % occupied.

Most frustrating experience EVER! Ordered food, been 2 hours. Called in, talked to manager. Manager stated they don't deliver! EVEN THOUGH, I got charged a delivery fee and I kept telling him that! I wanted a refund, he argued and said no...call doordash. I stated I was charged by Denny's on Denny's website! I called door dash, they stated the manager was wrong and the Denny's store on freemont Street in Monterey California was supposed to refund my money. So now, I don't have food, or my money back and it's been 2 hours. 2 and a half hours later my food got delivered, they kept calling the driver and he wouldn't answer the phone. He had a smile when he came in, KNOWING he was 2+ hours late! It wasn't even picked up! I kept calling Denny's and they said it wasnt picked up. I am frustrated and honestly hate Denny's now with a passion because of this. The manager of the store was just so frustrating as well. Now, I have cold, disgusting food that was just delivered to me past 12pm and the receipt on the bag said delivery time was 10:20am which is a LIE!!!! I will make sure everyone I know hears and knows about this terrible service. I am so upset I can't even explain in words how upset I am. If ANYONE from corporate wants to speak to me PLEASE call me! read more

Not impressed. I've been to many Denny's & some have fallen short of my expectations (I know my standards are low), but this one takes the cake. The people were friendly & nice, but that's where the compliments end. The corner booth they put my family & I in was not bad, but the smell of vomit was. I understand the place had lots of costumers, but the least you can do is clean off the table & make sure the area is clean - especially of awful odors (vomit). It was our bad for not saying anything, & being hungry & two cranky kids shouldn't be an excuse but we just wanted to get in and out. The dishes we ordered weren't all that great either. So no points for the food. The orange juice was very watered down. Over all our experience was not great. My recommendation would be weary of this Denny's. I would necessarily say stay away, because maybe it was just an off day for the location, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it. read more

Always consistent and a good deal. My omelet was delicious and healthy choices are available. Great, friendly service. Love that 15% senior discount as well. It's Denny's not the Four Seasons and priced accordingly. read more

If there was a way to give negative stars I would this place has terrible service our waiter made us wait at least thirty to fourth five mins to even take out drink order so when he was finally ready to take that order we already knew what we wanted so we proceeded to order our food. The waiter doesn't checkup on you, orders for the same table come out at different times, you have to track down someone for a refill, the hostess doesn't Help either she is tending to her group of friends in the back and it wasn't just a bad experience for us it was also a bad experience for the table behind us who were more ignored then we were. read more

I don't usually write reviews for chain restaurants but had to about this one. After eating breakfast the day before at a local ma and pa "organic place" that had terrible service and marginal food I was SO pleasantly pleased at going to this Denny's the next day. Everyone was so nice, the manager was on getting everyone tables in timely manner (the place was packed) Waitress nice and gave me unsolicited update on my order ETA. And the food was quite good, the new lite menus is nice! And it was literally HALF as much money as the other place I went. Anyways, if on your way to Aquarium or other things, stop here. read more

Sunday early afternoon. Literally the worst Denny's I've ever been to. It took half hour to be seated in a half empty restaurant and another half hour to get what we ordered. Great waitress but a poor experience! read more

I would give this place 0 stars out of 5 if I could. My cousin said that Denny's only had good breakfast meals and everything else tastes terrible, but I wanted to try it out for myself. As soon as I walked in, there was no one sitting around and the place had a strange smell to it. We were seated and I noticed that the seats weren't cleaned and had to move to a different table. The waiter was impolite, and the cups and utensils were dirty. My family ordered over $60 worth of food, and it was all bland and dry. The T-Bone steak was supposed to be a medium, but it was a microwave well-done. The country fried steak looked EXACTLY like a TV dinner meal, the omelette was very soggy and bland, and the beef skewer was too tough to chew. My niece had a chicken noodle soup, and threw up all of it within minutes. I'll be honest, this was one of the worst meals I had in my entire life in America. Even though this is a tourist location, I can't believe they can have such terrible service and food. I know for sure I will not come back to this establishment ever again. read more

Denny's - Diners Near Me - Monterey, California

It was terrible take out service. My family and I were there for an hour just waiting for our take out food. And when we told them we had to be somewhere, the worker didn't do anything to help us out. So if you're going to eat there, then just eat at the dinning. read more

Me, my Grandpa, my Tio, and my Grandpa's friend came here about three weeks ago around 4 in the morning. We decided to go there since it was on the way to the fisherman's wharf in Monterey. The service was great! The waitress was very kind despite having to be there very early. The meals were reasonably priced and while my Tio and I split a Belgium waffle meal,( I getting the waffle) and my Grandpa and his friend getting coffee the total cost of the meal and our drinks of coffee and tea totaling out to about 10-11 dollar which is a great deal to me. One we leave the waitress and staff tell us good luck on our fishing trip for rockfish. Also the owner of the gas station across the street is very kind and remembered me from the first fishing trip I have ever taken in Monterey. That was the gas station I always bought my "special bait." read more

This Dennys is trash like all the people that go there tooo the cooks don't hurry up and plus they don't know how too cook the managers tell the hostess not to sit people because the cooks can't get their shit together they even touch the food with their hand how nasty! This place is a peace of trash and the dishwasher doesn't know how to clean the dishes good come on! On Thursday this person died in the women's bathroom. Don't go here.not a good service read more

It was damp and raining. I felt like a bowl of Denny's Chicken Noodle soup. I went in and the host threw some menu's down. I looked all through them and saw nothing for Seniors. They always used to have a menu on the back. I was about to leave and saw at the end of the table more menus and one that said Seniors. No half a sandwich and cup of soup was on the menu any more. If one didn't ask, you would have to order something that cost more. Trickery! Next, the waitress took my order for a bowl of soup. She quickly brought it and it was luck warm. I found her and made her reheat it. The waitress was uncaring and took no pride in her work. I left her a very small tip. I told the host both my concerns about the senior change in menu and the cold soup. He said the higher ups were going to change it back. We will see! The soup is delicious, but the service stinks. They seem to hire sub standard help. read more

Wow. I am blown away by the horrible customer service I received tonight. Mainly by my waiter Jason. First of all, when we arrived, there was one woman that greeted us and asked us for our drinks that was very nice and professional she was kind of tall I believed her name was Jen. She was so exceptional compared to the guy that actually took our order. Secondly, when our waiter came & asked us for our order, we ordered our food than he asked us for our drinks in which I replied that Jennifer had already taken them. Than he rolled his eyes and mumbled under his breath. I was completely uncomfortable & immediately felt tension as if he really didn't want to be there. Than the REAL ticker was when our food had been sitting there for 10 minutes & our waiter had disappeared than checked on a table nearby and hurried to the back like & didn't even come to us. When i asked another waitress to get our waiter, he came over irritated and pretty much yelled at us that he was busy and that we needed to wait even tho the food was sitting 10 feet away! Very disappointed and I will never go back here. read more

Not crowded and no service. Went in to get a piece of pecan pie and a cup of coffee. Was seated quickly and that when good service ended and no suvice began. Waited for about five minutes and no onr acknowledged my existance. A table of 8 sat down across from me and before they were barely in theit seats a waitress arrived. At that point i got up ajd walked out. Customer service is a disservice. read more

Don't not go to this DENNYs! In my opinion , it's such a bad service, disorganized, and really dirty environment! Not to mention there was a hair on my food. read more

Wow, I have never been ignored like this. This Deeny's is now my least favorite. Can't tell you about the food I walked out after 15 minutes at a table. read more

Cold coffee, slow service, just Denny's. You get what you pay for.

Poor service. The server lost our orders. We had to wait for an hour to get our food. Avoidable place.

Went to Monterey for a few days, our favorite place to visit. On our way out, we "settled" for breakfast at a nearby Denny's. What a mistake! First, the manager, Ed, who was at the front counter, seemed pissed at the world. Not a person who should be greeting guests. We were sat immediately, mainly because we were two and they had a two seater available. The first thing we noticed were people waiting, with plenty of tables open! I'm talking approx 6-10 tables! I also noticed quite a few tables with no food that had been there longer than us. Very bad service here. On top of that, the food was not up to par, even for Denny's. I'm not a huge fan but they're usually okay for that quick meal. I've ordered the Santa Fe Skillet quite a few times. I ordered it here and it was horrid!. This used to be a pretty good place called Margie's so it doesn't even look like a Denny's on the inside. Stay away. Spend a few dollars more for a good breakfast at Rosine's. read more

I have been going to this location for a few years now, and it's slowly gotten worse. My latest visit was a complete disappointment. After trying to flag our server down to place our order after a very long time, we ordered a rather large amount of food. The food arrived and was good, but the service was TERRIBLE. Our waiter did not ONCE come back to our table to ask us how our food was, simply REFILL OUR WATER CUPS, ask if we needed anything or anything else. After we finished our food, we were in no hurry so we stayed around and chatted, but we finally became impatient because we did want to receive our check at one point in time, which did not happen so we had to get up and go to the cashier to pay since we were so fed up. He then had to apologize on behalf for our terrible waiter, track down which table we were seated at, and properly give us our check so we could pay and get the heck out of there. As someone also working in the food industry for many years, I tend to be more understanding, but at the same time more critical of other restaurants but this was SUPER disappointing, and funny because compared to the other location further down Fremont, this one was substantially "better." Guess not. read more

There was 4 of us ladies, as we sat down we all said good morning how are you. nothing from the waitress. we waited 10/15 minutes for our drinks 3 of the 4 of us got coffee it was cold we tried to get her attention, she ignored us helped everyone around us. Finally 20 minutes later we got a waiters attention and he got us some coffee. they ordered our food and 1 of 4 meals was hot. the waitress said ill throw it in the microwave if you want, the bacon wasn't cooked, the French toast was way under cooked, they forgot my eggs toast and bacon. when I asked for it she got mad brought me cold eggs and cold scrapped bacon wasn't full strips. when we asked to speak with a manager she was too busy and sent another waitress over. we were there for almost 2 hours. Food sucked, service sucked! I don't recommend this place to anyone and we will never ever be back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your better off eating food off the street! If i could give a zero i would!! read more

It is American food. We had a T-bone and vegetable salad and one kid menu dish. All is about 36 dollars not expensive. The taste is good and all of three enjoyed the dinner here.it is near to the inn by the bay just a walking distance. The waitress is nice and helped us timely. We will come to visit it in the future. read more

While on vacation here in monterey my kids and I decided to get some breakfast we figured play it safe since we don't know the area so we stopped at the local Denny's now I don't normally review anything but the experience at this restaurant is one of the worst my family and I have ever had. We were seated within minutes of arriving the server brought us our drinks and took our order everything was going well then our server disappeared it took forty five minutes to get our food by this time we were starving and our drinks were empty we finally received our food and we were hoping to get more drinks but the waiter never came back with nothing to drink and waiting twenty minutes hoping for someone to acknowledge us we lost our appetites and decided to leave ended up at the gas station next door buying orange juice and snacks for the road. Do not eat here worst service ever they give Denny's a bad name read more

Terrible service. Waited 20 minutes to have anyone acknowledge us & take our order. Then, waited another 10 minutes just to get a beverage before our food comes. read more

Food was great! And thats what I go here for so keep up the great jobs cooks! I think I met one by the name of Vince. I will be coming back!