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    Star Restaurant

    3.6 (84 reviews)
    InexpensiveAmerican
    Open 7:30 am - 1:00 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Bar area, breakfast counter
    Stella B.

    Stopped in for breakfast, it has been years and the place is still here. Its clean and vintage she how I remembered. Food is still good, service is great. I love to still see it doing well. I will have to return and grab lunch because breakfast was great and prices good. Since 1901 till present, makes me happy there are memories here.

    Decorated with photos from 1901, when the restaurant started.
    Helen H.

    Not just a meal. It is a chance to step back in time and experience a meal in a simpler time. It has a great American, old time diner feel. It's the real deal. It is California's oldest, continuously operated restaurant. Yeah, the real thing. Hearty breakfasts are their irresistible special. Fluffy eggs, making yummy omelets. I got the veggies omelet with cheese, mushrooms and spinach. Very tasty. I had the golden perfect hash browns and sourdough toast. Oh sweet! Friends had biscuits and gravey. Another had the breakfast special. So yummy! The ambience was Norman Rockwell, meets Americana, old time vintage diner. Service is friendly and genuine. Substitutions are no problem. The pace is slower, friendly and homey. Our waitress was awesome. They have a great tradtional lunch menu, as well. There are burgers, salads and sandwiches. The hot roast beef sandwich looked delish. The grilled cheese sandwich is a tasty, traditional favorite. Don't try the French Toast, as you will be craving it forever. Each bite is paradise. You've been warned. Both the golden hash browns and homestyle potatoes are great! Their soup of the day always good. They do great salads, and traditional sandwiches. It is special to eat something your great grandmother might have eaten. Nothing trendy here, just great food, perfected over 124 years. They are open from 7:15am to 1:00pm. Only Monday through Friday. Closed Saturday and Sunday. Expect to wait, as good things, well done, take time. Step back in time, and experience a leisuely meal. The restaurant is decorated with Americana and photos from 1901. Yes, 1901. Some good things, are timeless and authentic.

    Breakfast special with hash browns cooked perfectly to order - crispy
    Laurence H.

    If you are addicted to snazzy and pop, go to Denny's or somewhere, but if you want to enjoy the type of America when life was easier, most of definitely go to Star Restaurant in Hanford. A return to an earlier time, and decorated accordingly, with lower prices, hard working wait staff, home cooking - nothing sent from corporate freezers, a look at the past -back to1901, and pancakes the size everyone used to serve is what you will find. Don't be like some of the reviewers who are probably so stressed and hurried, they are looking for a McDonald's experience in a jewel of the past. Stop demanding and enjoy what is there. Just be pleasant, smile and say thank you when being served by some of the hardest working waitresses in the west - the way it used to be mostly everywhere. You will leave calm, well fed, and glad you slowed down a bit to enjoy the finer things in life - your neighbors, great food and prices, and poss some disdain toward our more modern ways. Enjoy this hometown favorite!

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    Becky C.

    First time trying this place. Staff is friendly. Service was good. Food was really good. Ambience is old school diner style. A lot of Norman Rockwell pictures and Coca Cola memorabilia as well as pictures from 1901.

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