Paul's Coffee Shop — Restaurant in Fountain Valley

We were very disappointed in both entrees ordered. I had the pot roast /spinach omelette with hash browns. We both had the biscuits with gravy and my daughter ordered the chicken fried steak. My omelette was flat (not fluffy) and tasteless and the hash brown were limp, tired (not crispy) and also lacked flavor. The country/milk gravy was awful! The predominant taste was an odd, overpowering sweetness, making it almost inedible! This was particularly distasteful on my daughter's country fried steak, on which you would expect, a savory gravy, traditionally with the taste of sausage or bacon. The woman at the cash register, overheard us perplexedly discussing the gravy, and she replied, "We think it's the milk." Her comment would seem to indicate others shared the same feelings as us. Since it was on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives we're wondering if they are under new ownership? Needless to say, we won't...

I was down in OC from West LA and decided to stop into this tiny military themed diner. I’ve been working through all the diners in LA and OC and this was next up on my list. It’s quite small on the inside, but has a great military and history theme to it. The Marines are especially well represented. Our server was very polite and everything that we ordered came out very fast. There’s a large free parking lot attached right out front and pricing was very fair.

They had a lot of great specials available, but I decided to go with one of their more popular dishes, which was the Portuguese Sausage Skillet. It was honestly really good and I especially liked the gravy on top. It was a lot of food so I was not able to finish it, but I really enjoyed trying to. You definitely will not leave hungry after eating at this restaurant. I would recommend if you are in the area and I would stop in again next time I...

Probably the worst customer service experience I have had at a restaurant in a very long time. The waitress came by to give me water, and then I sat for 15 minutes waiting for her to come by and get my order. In the mean time, the woman at the front and the waitress managed to spend 5 minutes chatting with customers whom they clearly knew, and also spent 5 minutes figuring out the order of a customer who had gotten there long after I had. I left after 15 minutes of waiting. I have no idea if the food is any good, but the customer service is enough to put anybody off their lunch.

Perhaps I will return when these people figure out how to...