Denny’s

Excellent breakfast — fast and delicious. Location right next to my hotel :) Good French toast, bacon, eggs. Great and friendly service. Clean. No complaints!

The first time we ate at this Denny’s the service was terrible and the food was just as bad. Waitress seemed grumpy and would only visit our table unless we waved her down. Cutting the pancakes was like cutting a sponge, I had to drown it in syrup just so I could slice it. The cherry sauce on the cheesecake was so sour, I was expecting sweet and tasting sour just made me gag.
The second time we ate there we wanted to give them another chance because we really wanted to love them as much as we love the American Denny’s. Nope, same terrible service and terrible food. The food looked NOTHING like the menu, I order the the «Mighty Meat Lover’s Skillet» everything was meh, but the steak kebab was the worst, it was grey, chewy and had little to no seasoning, I had half of one and just left it sitting on the skillet.
The waitress never asked if we needed refills and we could hear her arguing with the manager to «be nice to me, I’m doing a 14 hour for you.» I felt bad for her but she never came back to our table after that and we had to get the manager and another waiter to get us the rest of our order and to take payment.
They obviously have a lot of staff related issues that need urgent attention, but we definitely won’t be returning.

The restaurant is pretty new and the physical structure itself is clean and in good repair. Ironically, I love how American restaurants like to come to Canada and put maple leafs on their logo and say things like we’re «Canada’s diner.»
We came here on a holiday and there was only one other table. The service was actually quite good, but the food was really poor. Unfortunately, we paid to upgrade to ham, and the ham that we received was practically inedible. Everything basically ranged from inedible to so-​so. We left never wanting to return.

Went for breakfast today what a disappointment. Seated fairly fast but waited around 10 minutes for the waitress to stop and take our order. Around an hour after arrival we still had not received our food although people that arrived after us were eating. During the entire time the waitress did not stop by to refill coffee or anything. When we finally found her she said the manager was going to bring over our food immediately. 10 minutes later she showed up with our food. At that point we paid for our coffee and left without eating — not giving them any more money for such poor service. Found the manager on the way out and all he could say was «sorry sir».
Place is a joke.

I ordered the Cinnamon Pancake breakfast. My pancakes were overcooked, crunchy and hard to chew. My sunnyside up eggs were so overdone it took 3 tries with the fork to break the yolk. Otherwise the hash browns were great! My sausage links were harder than rocks and burnt.
My fiancée ordered the Santa Fe skillet but noted that her eggs were overdone as well.
The server was personable, but only came back to check on us once. I had to ask for Tabasco sauce 3 times.
I observed the restaurant manager yelling orders at his staff when the restaurant was not busy. No one should take verbal abuse like that at work or have to be micro-​managed.
I will not be returning here.

There’s a second Denny’s in Oakville. It’s 24 hours and attached to the Sandman hotel. You won’t find prices like you find at Denny’s in the USA. But you’ll find a decent, clean restaurant with many of your favorites. Didn’t notice Moons Over My Hammy on the menu but you’ll find the country fried steak and grand slam breakfasts.
All n all not a bad place to grab a quick, familiar meal before taking in a flick at the nearby Cineplex.