Leon’s Family Dining

Well I ordered a chef salad, came warm with the cheese partially melted cheese on it, I ordered vinegar and oil dressing, I’m pretty sure it’s vegetable oil instead of olive oil, sure tasted like it, good soup bar so one star

Leon’s (owners’ last name) Family Dining has a number of locations throughout the Detroit metro area, run by several brothers. These guys have fed the homeless by the 1,000s for many years at Thanksgiving for free. My favorite location is in Livonia. It’s a diner, warm and friendly with a staff that has been there for years. Always filled with retirees who know a good deal, the three daily homemade soups and fresh-​made rolls are always part of whatever you order. The food is good, plentiful and promptly served by familiar waitresses. Prices are very reasonable. After awhile this place can become your very own «Cheers» where everybody knows your name.

This is easily the best value in Livonia. Great breakfast and the service is good. They actually give you too much food… but it’s good.
You won’t go wrong eating here…

This place is cheap, friendly and delicious. I often order food to go because I live so close but even if I dine in, it’s always the same friendly service. I really like the omelette but everything I’ve ever seen people eat here looks good.

Well I have lived in the area for 20 years I used to come here for breakfast once a week until about 3yrs ago when I came in and had a horrible meal I asked for over medium eggs hash browns well done and bacon crispy which I always have and anybody knows especially the cook that over medium means whites cooked through and yolks runny, well done hash browns means browned through and bacon crispy means not soggy greasy bacon, well when I cut into the egg the whites weren’t cooked through and were clear (that totally grosses me out!)the hash browns were hardly browned and more like scalloped potatoes and the bacon was greasy and limp. I had my waitress send it back to be remade the way that I had asked originally and came back eggs totally overcooked, hash browns and bacon massacred! I didn’t go there for a while because of this incident. then a few months later I tried again this time I went in and sat down and was waiting and waiting and waiting and no one was acknowledging I was there I sat for almost 5mins while several waitresses walked past and still no acknowledge of my presence, and they weren’t even busy! Well needless to say I ended up getting up and leaving. I didn’t go back for 3 years until yesterday when I thought I would give it try once again. Well… same stuff different year, ordered same thing and same thing happened the food came out not as I ordered the toast wasnt even toasted. I will never come here again and will be sure to spread the word to everyone I can to stay as far away from this place as you can to avoid wasting your hard earned money on a horrible meal.

Decent food, clean quiet environment. Nothing fancy or award winning.
Soup bar is a nice, easy option.
Strangely, the service is kinda slow for no particular reason… even when they are slow.

The worst breakfast buffet ever. I was so grossed out. Pricey for bland, flavorless, cheap products. I couldn’t even finish what was on my plate.

Decent food. Great prices. Soup bar is excellent… Along with the rolls. Older nicer waitresses.

This is the smaller of the two «Leon’s» located oddly enough directly across the street from each other (I think they are brothers or cousins or something). I think the pictures displayed on this review as well as the first reviewers review, are of the larger of the two Leon’s.
The prices are great, the food is decent, and the service is good. Hats off to the busboy who is not a kid and who is right on the ball, and is the only one who clears tables, all day every day by himself AND he gets you your first beverages when you get there… now that is what I would call a hard worker!!!
The food is ready pretty quick and the ambiance is just as you would expect from a diner… the friendly regulars and the «not» regulars.
There are no «staple» dishes here, just regular olé diner stuff coupled with daily specials and the soups of the day and breakfast bar on the weekends.
I would recommend this to someone looking for a decent neighborhood diner to just chill out and have an inexpensive full service meal.

Leon’s is a moderate priced dining establishment, that me and my mom switch up and attend every now and then. I believe they have two actual restaurants, but this one we go to for lunch or dinner. It’s a spacious spot, and I especially like the soup buffet they have, and their sourdough bread. If dining here I would recommend the roasted chicken, or maybe even the BBQ. You also have to get some mashed potatoes that they cook from scratch.