the floors were being mopped with strong disinfectant just as we were entering the diner. I had a veggie omelet [not great] with grits which were not edible, more like grit soup and response from the waitress was, oh sorry! she never came back to the table read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

a lovely little spot i've been coming to since i was little! (i'm 22 now) the wait staff is always so cute and kind and the food is pretty good - i really like their french fries and tzatziki sauce as well as their waffles a cute spot to stop in for a little breakfast or nice lunch for sure! read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - cheese blintzes with blueberry topping - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

Food wasn't good. Service was poor our server was such a jerk. Ambiance wasn't good. I wouldn't recommend this diner.

Food is delicious. Not the newest interior, but I personally enjoy the vibe. Staff is accommodating and quick.

I step into the restaurant & have to wait for 20 minutes just to get sat. Then, FINALLY we get sat in the very back corner of the restaurant. We read the menu & choose what we want to drink in about 10 minutes. Now we wait for our server who never came, 20 min passed, then 30, then 40, and our server never came. we asked other servers walking around if we could get a water & no one paid attention to us and just said "one moment" any time we would ask for our server. Well an hour of moments passed until we finally decided we were wasting our time and needed to find somewhere to else to eat. NEVER go here. read more

The food was delicious, the service was amazing, and it was so clean and decorated. 5 stars and I would definitely come back!

A true classic. Fresh and tasty. Carefully prepared soup, gravies, sides. Veggies were fresh as could be. Fairly priced, too!

Just fine. Extremely quick so good for a road trip. Think we were in and out in 35 min? Waiter was friendly. Got the jalepeno poppers, cheesesteak sandwich and the Reuben. Poppers were small - only 6 but were pretty good. Came with a large horseradish dip that almost tasted like a tzatziki. Cheesesteak was okay but bready and dry. probably would go with something else next time. Reuben was good, on par with diner Reuben's elsewhere. Honey mustard for the fries was excellent! Overall nothing to write home about but a pretty good lunch. read more

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The Greek salad was very good. Thick slices of soft fresh feta, plenty of pitted Greek olives, anchovies and fresh veggies were included. Delicious dressing was presented on the side. Husband enjoyed his Caesar salad with a scoop of tuna. The ambiance was dated Greek American. The waitress was very sweet and helpful. We enjoyed! read more

Very clean. Best service. Best chefs, food was amazing good. Chef was very helpful and wonderful. Went there at 8.30pm. Great customer service. Love to take our kids and entire family. Love it. Definitely come back. read more

Good food, great service, amazingly reasonable prices. We stopped here after getting slightly lost and missing the entrance to 95. So glad we did! Service was friendly and prompt, with just the right attentiveness. The coffee, which I really needed at that point, was excellent--always my primary criterion in a diner. My husband had pancakes with bananas--lots of tasty chunks in tasty fluffy rounds. I had the Tuscany vegetarian sandwich, which was amazing with eggplant, pesto, and red pepper. Decor was typical diner, with tasteful holiday decorations. Everything was clean and bright. There was some background music, but the volume was soft. All of this, including tea, for only $27--almost prepandemic prices. Today I checked prices online at another diner we considered and calculated that Penny's scrumptious meal cost $11 less than this competitor. We plan to stop here again the next time we're traveling north on 95 in Connecticut. read more

As others have said, Penny's is a bit of a Norwalk staple, been around forever. I remember coming on and off in the 90's and early 2000's. Recently started coming back, a few times in the past couple of months. Today was the first time for breakfast and have to say I was really let down. Food was below average, service was fair, although found it very strange coffee and water wasn't refilled at the table. Lox looked horrible, and after waiter confirmed multiple times they were good. Potatoes or well done as asked for. Pound cake and corn muffin were toasted for some odd reason. Bagels were limited to plain only. read more

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I'm honestly surprised how many people have a negative opinion on this place. I went here for Sunday brunch today and it was amazing! I had the Irish Benedict and my girlfriend had the Blackstone Benedict. Both were a perfect blend of savory and spicy. Only comment I might add is that the amount of hollandaise make the dish a bit too heavy. I had coffee and my girlfriend had a mimosas; both made well. My waitress was cool, she was funny while also staying professional. I love the old diner atmosphere, if you wanted to eat in a place that has that old timey classic diner vibe. I would rate this place an 7.5/ 10, would recommend! read more

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Such a homey place. Food is good for prices, love coming here! Everyone is very nice to!

This place is so bad. Everytime I come here I'm more and more disappointed. Over priced crap. Imagine going to a diner and spending over 20$ for a sandwich and drink. What a dump read more

Penny's Diner has been around for many many years and the service and food have always been top-notch! I highly recommend coming here especially if you're going out to a club afterwards! read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - Foodatude!! - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

Penny's is what it is. It may not have the greatest food in the world, but service is always good and if you come in to enjoy time with your family then you are going to have a good time. I have been here numerous times. The hours are good, they are open late and it is usually not too busy. It is a good place to have a relaxing meal. Some things I do not recommend you get are basically any sandwich on the menu, or any type of salad. Usually the salads are pretty watery and sandwiches have just never been their best. Things that are great there would include their Belgian waffle sundae, fish and chips, and open faced turkey. They have a very large menu so there are a lot of options for everyone. They also have a full bar and free wifi which I did not know about until recently. read more

Went to Penny's for breakfast yesterday! The Irish Benedict was delicious. The service was top notch! The menu was just a breakfast menu - not an encyclopedia of every dish ever offered there as most diners provide, so it was easy to choose my order. I was not disappointed. read more

Went to penny's for breakfast had a great western omelet ,coffee and girlfriend a egg white Veggie omelet !! My buddy had gyro sandwich All great !! Coffee fresh !! Place clean !! Service good !! What's not to like ??? Will be back !! Mike R read more

You know, I have been to Penny's Diner more times than I can remember, it's a Norwalk staple. It's been around for decades. That doesn't mean it shouldn't strive to improve. I have found diners to be tacky, soulless adventures in food. Each is adorned with excessive amounts of mirrors, shiny booths, and misplaced justification to keep 1970's decorations. Now, this is some people's thing, and I don't fault them for that, I just associate this experience with a (very) late night adventure because nothing else is open. I've been to Penny's, Orem's, Post Road, and other diners nearby, and Post Road always comes out on top (try their milkshakes). But, I am here to talk about Penny's diner. My issue with Penny's goes back decades, to when I was in high school and came here after some event, dropped off my parents. Diners appeal to young people because they are inexpensive and can seat the whole crew easily. This makes high school kids a blight on the establishment, and it seems that here at Penny's the service suffered because of the perception of a bunch of loud high school kids. Fast-forward to today. It's just a diner. The food is diner food, with nothing that I have tried as being extraordinary, but it serves its purpose. It's great to have businesses like these stay around, and keep serving our great city. But, my criticism is heavily weighed in the quality of food, and my last visit, about a year ago fit with my perception of Penny's. read more

Great service. Coffee was good. Had the western omelette and it was excellent plus the potatoes are cooked on the grill and not in a deep fryer read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - Western with egg whites - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

Breakfast was good. Light on the home fries other wise decent. Not sure why the bad reviews ok , it's not the nicest diner in the area but it was ok service was good n owner was very pleasant asked if we were happy with everything. read more

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Let me say I have been going to Pennys for over 20 years. Today the breakfast was terrible. The coffee was very very weak . Like they made 2 batches of coffee from 1 batch of grounds . The filling in the German Apple and raisin pancake was the cheapest canned filling I ever tasted . The waitress didn't seem to care . Water was leaking from the ceiling from multiple places . This is the last time they will see my family and I . read more

Today I had the blandest burger I've ever had and it came from Penny's Diner. I don't like to leave negative reviews about local places (I never do. Only when I travel do I leave reviews and most of those are good ones), but this meal was disappointing enough to deserve a few words. First, though, the fries and fried cheese sticks we had were good, the service was acceptable. The burger was absolutely tasteless, the mushrooms were canned and the bacon was either not real bacon or it was really old. It had absolutely lost all flavor ... bacon!!! I've never had tasteless bacon until today. The whole thing was too yucky to eat. Such a disappointment. read more

I feel bad for this place. I feel they aren't doing well and it's causing them to cut corners. Why the two stars? - Dirty. Like everything you can think of. Table, windows, condiment holder, menus, lighting, annnd the bathrooms. Like real dirt. C'mon - just clean the place. - Service. We were one of two groups and there was plenty of staff but service was still pretty slow. And while we didn't have rude service, it wasn't great either. - Value. The food is good by diner standards. But it's not large portions and it's relatively expensive for quantity and quantity. I love places like this and want them to succeed. But yea - caveat emptor. read more

It hurts me to do this because my family and I have gone here after church, sports games, and after bars with friends. It's an easy place to go to but today is the deciding day for me. I called for a pick up and they said 10 minutes. It took 25..... for two wraps. Deli wraps. The wraps didn't have the advertised ingredients in it. When it came time to pay it was over $25 and we didn't even get French fries or sides. That's a lot of money for two deli wraps made incorrectly. It also took a few minutes to pay while I was the only one standing at the counter and the manager was wandering around (I'm sure he was actually busy but you have to tend to a paying customer). Coming here has always been hit or miss with the good days being great and the bad days being eh but it's not even eh anymore. It's bad. read more

Food and service were ok and the place was clean. Prices were high but this is Fairfield County, aka the Gold Coast so high prices are unfortunately somewhat expected. read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - Remaining half of a sausage egg and cheese on a hard roll. - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

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This place used to be good 5 years ago. After a couple of years out of town we decided to move back to Norwalk and went to Penny's Dinner but found out it's not the same. The food tasted horrible, service wasn't great either, definitely not coming back and definitely don't recommend this place at all. You can get better food anywhere. read more

I come to Penny's all the time since I live 5 minutes away. I've noticed it is really a hit or miss with the service here. There are 3 great servers and 2 horrible ones from what I have experienced. The horrible servers seen to make excuses as to why they can't do certain things i.e. today i asked for chocolate chip pancakes with a sliced banana on top to which the horrible server responded "I can bring the banana on the side and you can slice it yourself", very unprofessional. Furthermore, I for one am very big on wording and how certain things are said. She was very rude on the way she made me aware that the banana would be an extra $1.60, most people realize that if they are ordering something extra...it will cost extra. Stating things in such a rude manner made myself and my party feel as if we were asking for free hand outs or being labeled as cheap-o's which we are neither. To conclude, sit in the back of the diner area or ballroom style area, servers that are assigned to these areas are great and will show you great service! read more

I went here about a week ago to have dinner with my mother. We ate here before in 2015 and the food was alright back then. I was shocked at how much things changed though. The service was decent, the waiters seemed nice but the food was horrible. I ordered pasta and meatballs and my mother did as well. The pasta was plain and incredibly dry with nothing but sauce on top. The meatballs were cold on the outside and piping hot in the inside ( usually indicates they've been microwaved..) While i was eating a meatball, it felt rubbery and it was unedible. A piece of the meatball was undercooked and hard. The salad was soggy and the dressing was watery. The place looked dirty and I could overhear other costumers complaining about their food as well. Overall, the service is okay, i would even describe it as good but the food is disgusting and overpriced. Wouldn't recommend, if you want a decent late night diner to visit go to Post Road. read more

So many fond memories from those good ol' high school days. We stopped into Penny's for a late night snack after a few beers at The Gingerman. After ending up here so many times over the years, I find it hard to judge a diner by their wings. Plainly put, not very good, but I tried my luck anyway. I'll highlight some of the tastier options. From past experiences, I know that Penny's has some fabulous breakfasts, decent desserts, and tasty appetizers (anything fried is a good bet, really). Service is hit or miss, but we had quite the pleasant waitress this evening. Overall, it's a late-night diner. Don't expect anything too over the top. For a midnight snack or a mid-morning breakfast, it's A-Ok. read more

Only giving it a 3 due to no half stars..... I ordered the tuna salad club and fries. And as a dessert a slice of chocolate cake The tuna salad had more water then mayo and was hard to eat as it dripped everywhere. The french fries we're steak fries which I'm not a big fan of and only received small child's handful The chocolate cake I believe was a either a day old or close to it, and the cake itself taste like nothing. My waiter was friendly and checked on me numerous of times. Would I return to give them a second chance???? Yes read more

I checked this place out after a bouncer told me and my girls check it out. The decor was outdated, but so are diners right? The staff was really cool. They were dressed in bow ties. We had Maria. She was so cute and good to us. I ordered an omelet and it was pretty good considering it's an omelet. My girls ordered breakfast and lamp chops of all things. They had no complaints with their meals. One of my girls said that the desert was stale. Overall, I would return because I like diners, good omelets and good customer service. read more

Perfect veggie omlette. Choc chip pancake very fine. Fresh iced tea was a tad weak. Waiter was quick and polite. read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

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I love this place, it's right around the corner from me, their menu has everything, the prices are good, the environment is very comfortable, and the service is good. For locals or any one else, I cannot see how anybody could leave Penny's disappointed. My personal favorite dishes: Eggs Benedict(best eggs benny I've ever had) or Rosecliff Sat-Sun 9a-3p Potato Pancakes Chicken Souvlaki Clam Chowder read more

Deeply disappointed with the service, good quality and cleanliness. Upon being seated, I was asked if I needed a menu. I told her it would definitely help but I just contributed to the fact there is a repeat clientele and most know what they want. After reviewing their extensive menu, I decided on the seafood omelette. Now of course we are all accustomed to the imitation Crabmeat we see at many sushi restaurants. My dish comes promptly and there it was fake imitation crab!! Why didn't they just say that! Not to mention, the ingredients didn't taste fresh. Just when I thought I might deal with it. I looked up, their custom made shades were filthy!! I'm done!!!! read more

Penny's Diner and Restaurant - Diners Near Me - Norwalk, Connecticut

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I've been there several times with my father and for take-out. Always great food and service. However, I called Sunday around 1:30 p.m. with a general question, and the woman answering the phone can barely speak English. Seriously, I in no way want to sound racist, but there's got to be someone who can at the bare minimum speak and understand English, I ended up just going there instead because I live nearby. read more

Stopped in for a quick sandwich and a cup of coffee on my way to a meeting in the area. Sat at the counter because I had very little time, and was on my cellphone for almost the entire time there. Absolutely the best BLT sandwich I've ever had! Perfect proportion of chewy bacon, ripe sliced tomato, romaine lettuce (not crappy iceberg) and mayo. This place makes a good sandwich! Staff was friendly, efficient. Will definitely come here again. Good coffee too. read more

Cute little diner. Nice people and the food is good. Decor is old diner look but cozy cute. The bread is fresh and warm and yummy. I love the fries with gravy and cheese. The music is good mix and it's a very relaxing atmosphere. They also have an amazing house dressing for your salad read more

They make the best Greek omelet. It's called an Athenian omelet. It has lots of spinach, creamy feta, and dill. I order this every time I am in Norwalk. I have never had one anywhere else that is half as good. Order rye toast to go with it and you will be in heaven. read more