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    Park West Diner

    3.0 (348 reviews)
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    Open 7:00 am - 11:00 pm

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    Dogs allowed
    Good for kids

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    Johnathan W.

    The food here is decent. Came here for lunch. I started off with fried calamari for my appetizer. For my main I ordered the lunch special: matzah ball soup and pastrami on rye bread with fries. The calamari was fresh, but it could've been better sized. As for the Matzah soup it was very tasty. The pastrami on the rye bread was very delicious had no complaints. I wish they could've put more pastrami. They could've stacked that meat. I couldn't eat all my French fries because they were big and nicely portioned. They have good service and we were seated right away. Good place for a quick lunch date or a big group.

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    Marcela L.

    Can we start with the portion?! I mean my steak panini was my lunch and dinner and it was so good. The calamari was freshly made and tasted delicious. Hubby's pastrami sandwich was good too. I only tried a bite. Service was good. They are very attentive and nice. Big diner with lots of seating space.

    Beef Gyro - nothing on it with fries. This is EXACTLY how it was served. Does this look appetizing?
    Natalie S.

    Upset this is the review because I frequent this diner, but it was a multitude of things that went wrong with today's visit. Let me set the stage that the dining room WAS NOT BUSY and had ~4 servers taking care of it. 1. We walked in and were seated. We were almost immediately greeted by our server for our drink order. When he came back with our drinks, he asked if we were ready to order. We told him we needed a little bit of time. He must've stopped back 2 more times not even 3 minutes after we told him the first time we needed more time. Slightly annoying. 2. When we were giving him our order, we weren't even done giving our full order and he was already walking away from our table. This came to be a theme whenever he came to our table. I also noticed it when he was at other tables as well. 3. The person I was with ordered a side of broccoli. As you can see from the photo, it's literally a whole head of steamed broccoli on a coffee saucer, sitting in a little bit of water (that wasn't even fully drained), and the broccoli wasn't even cut off the main stem. Would that have been too hard? She did order "a side of broccoli." We didn't know it was LITERALLY a side of broccoli. 4. My order was a beef gyro. I got it with the side greek salad (which was an option), and the waffle fries (also an option). My order that I RECEIVED was beef Gyro, in pita, with nothing on it, some waffle fries thrown on a plate, and a Greek salad that was completely dry, no dressing. He didn't even come with dressing. I looked at the Greek salad and said "this looks dry, is there no dressing on it?" He said "what kind of dressing would you like?" I said "well since it's a Greek salad, can you bring Greek salad dressing?" He said sure. When he came back with the dressing, I inquired about the beef gyro. I said there's nothing in the pita except for the beef gyro. He said "well it's not wrapped" I said "what does that have to do with having tomato or onion or anything inside? He shrugged his shoulders and walked away. Annoyed was an understatement. It wasn't like I could chalk this up to him being extremely busy, and/or the kitchen might've screwed it up. The diner was dead, he didn't have a lot of other customers, and he was more concerned with sitting in the back booth being on his phone. If I was not an existing customer, I would never return. Let's get back to quality service, even when it's not busy.

    Rich P.

    Great atmosphere. And don't let the traditional front of the diner fool you. This place is like the Tardis. It's bigger on the inside. Plenty of old diner vibe, with a menu that doesn't stop. Italian, seafood, sandwiches, gourmet salads, breakfast, steaks. If you're on the highway don't drive by too fast. Pull in and fill your belly. I chose the corned beef Reuben. It came open faced and with a tasty side of fries. My wife is on a restricted diet, so she ordered a grilled chicken sandwich without the bread. They throw in the garden with it. She got sweet potato fries. We asked the waitress how they were prepared. She said they come greasy! What the heck, we can always dab the grease off, right? I told ya, it has old diner vibes. We got a side of Cole slaw and a good kosher pickle, too. The sandwich was tasty, the fries were crisp and delicious. The chicken was was juicy and tasted great, too.

    Ordered a buffalo chicken wrap for pickup. This was so poorly wrapped that i couldn't pick it up without it falling apart. Not to mention it looked and tasted like they cooked the lettuce! Either that or they used the most wilted lettuce they could find. There was no ranch, but somehow the wrap was super liquidy. I would not suggest trying this at all.

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    Food was good, service is fine, but $7 for a little glass of OJ or chocolate milk is wild.

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    Cleaning up and getting better. Happy to know new owners care about clean! Will stop in again.

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    Always good when I'm in the mood for the diner! Everyone there is the best! Good food, friendly servers!

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