The Lodge Diner — Restaurant in Detroit

service and quality has plumited since me n my friend has been going really disappointing 3-24-19 at 7 am ish me and my friend sat down after 15 min wait and after sat down still waited, finally waitress finally came we both ordered coffee ,when she brought coffee both was cold ,( right there was a sign) sent coffee back n finally got hot coffee then we ordered,i ordered my omlete n my bud ordered his food n food for his wife,when we got food it didnt look big how motor city normally does it my bud sent wife's food back due to omlete looked like cook ran out of eggs for mine n he cheated on my buds wife's food ,then once we got food still no napkins nor silverware! then she had stupid nerve to ask how is every thing WTF? once again another restaurant that we favored went down into the motor city dumpster with food quality n service what a shame? glad motor city has other restaurant options threw out food court,we are regular customers for lodge n motor city we know the quality n service very well plus we both have worked n resturant field previously! what a motor city dumpster shame this has came to be! seems to me its not worth eating...

A friend and I stopped in for dinner last night 8/24/18 the place was pretty much empty probably due to the late night. We had to call a manager over due to the poor service we received. You could hear the staff cutting up and goofing off in the kitchen all the way over at our table (T10). Our waiter took forever to greet us and then once he took our order we didn't get our soup or salad for well over 20 mins, Once we received it we waited another 30 mins for our food only for the waiter to bring my friend her food served cold (Steak)and never brought mine (Cobb Salad). Once that manager got there he was apologetic and told me my salad had about another minute to go and offered to warm my friends steak and other items on her plate. He had half the price of our dinner taken off the bill when we went to pay. The diner has what it takes to be a great place to dine but the staff is absolutely terrible! There was two couples that join each other at a table that came in to dine while we were waiting and after 30 mins one of the men had to hunt some one down to ask them if they were going to be waited on. So...

For anyone who comes to eat here, expect a wait time around 15 minutes. If you need to be somewhere quickly, find another place to eat.

If you can spare the time, the food is worth the wait. Once, I got the Lodge Special for breakfast (two scrambled eggs, two sausage links, hash browns, and toast) and it turned out pretty good. A little hot sauce and those eggs are great. A shame I had to rush it down due to my schedule.

Recently for dinner, I went with the Fried Cod Sandwich with French Fries. The cod was pretty tasty, great crisp with moist fish. Some flavorful tartar sauce helped enhance the fish even more. The only critique was that the fish was kind of small.

The fries were very good; they were well seasoned enough that I could have eaten them without any condiments.

Just a fair warning: the cod sandwich does NOT include fries. Those (or the onion rings) come separately; $4 for the fries and $5 for the rings.

The service can be slow but the food overall has been pretty good. So long as you aren’t in a hurry, The Lodge Diner should be a good...