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    Gus Balons Restaurant

    4.1 (209 reviews)
    Closed 7:00 am - 2:00 pm

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    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Hot turkey sandwich.

    This was an excellent hot turkey sandwich! Exactly what l wanted. Fresh turkey a choice of gravy (brown or white) and additional sides. I will come back for this! The service is very friendly and helpful. The seating is pleasant, clean and comfortable. I wanted the Rhubarb pie, sadly they were sold out. What a great place!

    Chicken fried steak, potatoes, over easy eggs, and white toast.  In the background is my husband's delectable omelet.
    Jennifer S.

    It is truly wonderful to have an old fashioned diner that is now over 50 years old in Tucson. It is even better when you go on a Friday morning and have wonderful food and service. I opted for the chicken fried steak, potatoes (with extra gravy), over easy eggs, and toast (which is from homemade bread). It was so good!!!! My husband opted for the omelette with ham, bacon, sausage, cheese, tomatoes, and peppers topped with salsa and hash browns (my potatoes were better than his hash browns in my humble opinion, but both were outstanding!). I was also thrilled with my Diet RC (RC products are just so good!). But, back to the service - the kindest and most attentive server - she was great! What a great way to start the day!!!! Oh, and pies - their pies looked incredible, and I might cheat for Thanksgiving.

    Hot Turkey sandwich
    Martha C.

    Amazing lunch at breakfast time 10:30 am . Had a hot Turkey mashed potatoes gravy on toasted fresh bread. The waitress was amazing!! This place down home cooking. Closes at 2 .Oh they serve diet RC !!

    Desiree B.

    It is like walking into Alice's restaurant the show not the song. The staff is really friendly, but the food is your average breakfast diner. The hash browns were cooked perfectly for me, crispy on the outside and soft and yummy inside. The sausage was ok not a lot of flavor and the eggs were cooked just right. Perfect over easy is not easy.

    Lacey G.

    This is a Traditional eatery serving up classic American diner fare for breakfast and lunch, featuring homemade bread, sweet rolls, pies & more in an old school type of diner setting. I also love their well made iced tea. We've been dining here for years, it's one of my husband's favorite places to eat breakfast at. Service is friendly and fast, and the food is tasty.

    Pork chop, potatoes and omelette.

    Service was top notch! Ambiance was typical cozy diner, smaller than I expected but I like it! Food was great! We had breakfast, eggs, bacon, pork chop, potatoes, and Belgian waffle. No complaints! We ordered their giant cinnamon roll to take home. It was also delicious! We will try lunch next time!

    French toast with the upgraded cinnamon roll bread for 2 bucks more
    Allison P.

    Stop by for fast and friendly service. Typical breakfast staples with sandwiches and burgers too. Closed on Sundays. If you get the French toast and upgrade to the cinnamon roll bread, you can split it with someone.

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    Allie R.

    The food was delicious! I ordered their special along with their coffee. A worth it meal! The service was friendly and fast. Great environment, an original local spot. Definitely will be coming back.

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    a must for me when i visit Tucson....what's better then eggs fried in BUTTER....Mmmmmm...ohhh...and their pies....is just amazing.....

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    I had a terrible HANKERING for biscuits and gravy. No one ever gets it right. I looked through…read morepages and pages of mixed reviews. I finally landed on Little Anthony's Diner bc the picture looked the most appealing and closest to what I was expecting. Did a pick up order 7/8/26 around 10:50am; customer service was great. Bc I called close to 11am the woman stated they were serving lunch. I stated I really wanted the biscuit and gravy and the woman asked the kitchen if that was okay; which they obliged. This was a deliciously classic and perfect rendition of what I want when I eat biscuits and gravy. There was lots of sausage crumbles and flavor. Bc the pieces were so small it made for a perfect bite throughout the whole dish. I could not believe how good this was. I'm sad I only opted for the the single biscuit and gravy (5.49) and not the two (6.49). This place will be my go-to every time I have a taste for it and happy I'm to support local while doing it!!

    We have been frequent and normally satisfied customers of Little Anthony's for 25+ years. Up until…read morerecently there has never been an issue that warranted us asking to speak with a manager. Now there have been two pretty complete failures in only a couple of months. The first one involved getting getting food cold and waiting until over halfway through the meal for at shake to show up and it wasn't even blended completely. There were large chunks of unblended ice cream in it. Now for tonight. We got there and they were fairly busy. They got us seated in a reasonable amount of time. We were at our table long enough to figure out what we wanted before the server came to ask us for our drinks so we ordered everything together. Queue a 30-minute wait. We got one refill and a promise it was going to 'be up in a couple of minutes'. We waited another 10 before deciding to leave. The order FINALLY came up as we were getting to the counter to play for the drinks (which they didn't offer to comp), so they asked us if we wanted it bagged up to take home. We said yes they bagged it up, charged us full price, and when we got home the role for the salad had been crushed. The chicken on the salad was cold. The onions rings with the tuna melt were old and gummy. If this is the service and quality of food we can expect from Little Anthony's now, we won't be coming back. It is very sad to see such a great place lose their touch.

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