Punky's Diner and Pies — Restaurant in Medford

Can’t imagine why all the 5-star reviews for this place unless people have eaten so much fast food they’ve lost their tastebuds. The place was filled with old people who seemed to like the attention of waitresses there and to heck with the quality of food. $17 for the Sacramento omelet with undercooked mushrooms and green pepper, a little onion, a teaspoon of cheese, brown avocado slices on top, and lots of eggs cooked hard and dry. I’m thinking they used liquid eggs because there’s no hint of real eggs. Potatoes are a strange, soft mixture, maybe with some cream cheese in them, then fried like potato patties. OK, but not great. Biscuit looked good, but dry with almost like a cornmeal texture. Asked for jam. This was a takeout order and no jam included. A piece of strawberry rhubarb pie at $7 for the smallest piece of pie I’ve seen, almost all crust, very little filling. And wait for it!! It had no sugar!! Picture rhubarb without sugar. I had wanted banana cream pie, which would seem to be a basic at a place known for their pies, but not available yesterday. Neither was cherry although it was listed on the board. The price of $24 for the omelet and miniature piece of pie was ridiculous. By the way, Punky’s would have made $56 on that pie at 8 pieces cut out of an 8-inch pie, at $7 per slice. Talk about price gouging. I’m going back to sushi. It’s funny how people think it’s expensive, but the quality at Bonsai on Barnett is always perfect, always fresh. And you can get two California rolls for $15, more than enough food. Best of all, they never forget anything in a takeout order. Asian restaurants are always the best for takeout and American restaurants are the worst. Kind of like cars. Our 22-year-old Honda Accord, made in Japan, is still like new. Too bad, Punky’s. We wanted...

Very disappointing. The service was subpar and so was the food. They were out of the days special but still had the signs up. The servings were small and nothing was as advertised (ex: French toast sticks were whole pieces of french toast, Popeye skillet had three specks of spinach the size of dimes, "crispy" bacon was chewy). The worst part was, it took an HOUR to get our food. They were not busy (had multiple empty tables), had at least 7 servers and 3 cooks. The prices were high for the quality and amount of food. The family in the booth next to us was rushed out, when the serve staff cleared their table while they took their children to rhe bathroom. All of their belonging were at the booth and staff did not ask them if they were done, rather they just cleared the table and the family had to scramble around them to get their belonging out of the staff's way. I saw the father give a questioning and confused look from across the restaurant to the mother as she scrambled to get their things and she said "They are clearing our table". The staff ignored them even handling them some of their belongings. Definitely will not return and would not...

Dear Punkys owners, you are missing it these days. The last 2 times we went we stood for 10 minutes without even being greeted. It was busy, we were 2nd in line. It’s not clear where to put your name in so you stand there feeling stupid. No eye contact from any of several waitresses-around 6 of them. The older lady with the white hair never ever smiles. She was our waitress the first time and we were glad to not have her the 2nd time. Our waitress was busy but took our order. She brought our food and never came back until our check. I flagged down another waitress for a 2nd cup of coffee and she said no she couldn’t get me coffee but our waitress would be right over to check on us since our food just came. She never did. No eye contact to flag someone. Finally flagged down another who was happy to bring me coffee. A few minutes later I saw that same lady going around with the coffee thermos. We ordered orange juice, asked twice for it, and never did get it. Honestly couldn’t say if we will be back-other diners close by with smiles and...