Steve's Diner — Restaurant in Exeter

Good local diner that serves breakfast & lunch dishes only from 6a-3p.

It gets very crowded during the weekends and the small parking lot outside gets packed as well. Inside, the place is relatively small and looks relatively old.

Service is not that good as there's not enough wait staff. There was 2 waitresses when I went and the manager/owner (?) didn't really do anything but man the cashier and sometimes place the utensils to the tables. People were waiting to have their order taken! Had a waitress who seemed friendly but rushed as there wasn't enough servers.

The place has an food menu with your typical all familiar American food breakfast items, salads and sandwiches. Prices were reasonable ~$6-12 depending on what one orders. Serving size also depended on what one ordered though breakfast plates filled up a dish which was good. A place that serves an endless cup of coffee.

Doesn't help much when it's 'Seat yourself!' when tables needed to be cleaned up and people are waiting but there's not enough servers to clean and to serve the customers. Decent food but don't expect much for service which is very slow because it's...

Honestly i read all of the reviews about this place and thought i would love it, because of the home cooked meals, fast service & friendly staff. None of that turned out to be true. Couldn’t say barely one nice thing about the place. It was horrible to get a table, got sat at a dirty one. Took 20 minutes to get a couple of waters, then another 20 minutes to even put in our order. It was busy, but they weren’t seating full capacity. An entire hour goes by after putting in for our food- and no one came to check on us for refills. Our waitress comes back and is like “oh let me check on your food” Goes in and doesn’t come back for another like 10 minutes. Comes back out and proceeded to tell us the kitchen just never saw our order... Got our food and everything was wrong. The taste of the food was horrible, and we had to go inside to ask for refills. Then when they came out to give them to us, basically threw them at us. All in all, this didn’t even deserve a 1 star. For the money we paid, for home cooked food , could’ve fed a whole team at mcdonald’s for better...

I arrived at about 2pm on a Saturday and the restaurant was pretty quiet. Sat at the counter which is a sort of word setup because they don't serve you from behind the counter. I asked the server is the corned beef hash and eggs comes with potatoes and toast and she didn't know and asked another server. I ordered that and the server put the order then. Then she stood directly on the other side of the counter from me, on her phone eating her lunch. My food came out in a timely fashion and the eggs were a perfect medium. The hash browns were dry and the corned beef hash did not taste very fresh. As I ate, the server stood basically right in front of me and ate her lunch and chatted with the other servers. There was space for her to slide down and eat behind a sort of divider that would have been much preferred. Maybe she was new, but this made my experience a...