Addie's Diner — Restaurant in Midland

Took the family for a day into the city of Midland for a day of shopping and pleasure. We live in a small town many miles south of Midland after moving away several years ago.

About lunch time we wanted to go somewhere we had never been to. I grew up in Midland so I have eaten at almost every place in town. So Addies Diner was new to me.

It a small building that is noticeably old. Even though the building isn't very attractive or in one of the better locations of town it is a little jewel of a place to eat. Its reminiscent of a 50s diner.

Now the food is what were here for. And do they ever have the food. I ordered the double cheeseburger with added bacon on the sourdough bun. It comes with homemade potato chips. My wife ordered a regular cheeseburger on the jalapeno bun. We ordered a regular burger for 3 kids to eat. And an order of onion rings to share.

I didn't expect that a burger was made from what seems like half the cow. These things were huge. My double burger was around 2 pounds of beef cooked. I only was able to eat 1/2 of just the top half of the burger. The sourdough buns were big but the meat overhung the edge by about an inch all the way around. See picture the picture posted with this. The 2 patties of meat were an inch thick each and each patty was 5 1/2 inches across. (Yes I took the leftovers home and actually measured the thing.) They were perfectly cooked. It took me a while to figure out how to eat this monster. I just had to pull the top half off and work on it.

My wife couldnt finish but a 1/4 of the regular sized burger. Then we have 3 young kids sharing one burger between them and they couldn't even eat all of their burger.

The flavor was like a burger should be: flavorful, juicy, thick, meaty.

They have many other items on the menu. As we came into the restaurant we noticed the plates on other people's tables. They are large plates well filled. The breakfast food plate on one person's table looked really good as well. I almost ordered breakfast for lunch but decided on a burger expecting something not as big.

Needless to say we had to get a couple of take out boxes. I ate the other 1/2 of the top for supper that night. And still have all of the bottom half waiting for a full 2 meals the next day in the fridge. Thats pretty good to get 4 meals out of 1 burger. I not eating another burger for a while.

This place is a jewel...

How do I give zero stars? Never again. I'll never come again. Saw the reviews and figured me and my sister tried it out. We both ordered the Waffle Plates, and she didn't want her meets, so I got hers and mine. The waitress said it was cool, and my sister said no beans. I ordered something else, I'm allergic to beans. Our food comes out. Why do both plates have beans? So the waitress says "they come with beans regardless." Which when we ordered she didn't mention that nor did the menu say so. If that's the case you need to make mention up front. My sis said no beans so why put them on there anyways? My sister also asked for potatoes they forgot those. So they didn't listen 2X. Then we go pay why is our bill $55? Both meals being $16, that's $32. So you telling me 2 lemonades and a side of ham is $23? Oh and since my sister didn't want her meats that's included in the meal and I got them they charged extra for ham? My sister even asked and the cashier caught a attitude with my sister! For what? You didn't even let her finish talking. "I know what you're about to say..." That's not how you talking to customers. Don't cut people off because you think you know what they about to say. I was already done. But $55 for bad service and an attitude that was not needed. Yeah. This is a big no for me. Never again. Almost forgot. The 🧇 was way too doughie (I know not a word). Food had no flavor. If the food was good I wouldn't mind the abuse we took so much. The potatoes was the best thing. The...

I've been coming here for years and normally it is great. But today was not. For starters the menu prices are blacked out where you can't see how much anything cost. Ordered my burger without the veggies it listed on the menu and still came out with a mountain of pickles and didn't even say it had them on the menu, i sent it back and they simply just took them off but the juice was already soaked into the bun and burger so it tasted like pickles and was dryer than the Sahara dessert. Then my girlfriend ordered the Caesar salad and she was given a mix between that and a house salad that was covered in parmesan cheese. She returned it for the correct salad and the dressing she was given looked like it had been sitting out for a while then put back into the fridge because of how it had separated. After we finished we waited for not sure how long but was definitely longer than a few minutes to pay the employee was nowhere to be seen that could ring us up while the other 2 employees in the dinning area looked confused when we asked if they could ring us up. And on top of it nowhere did we see a sign that said a $5 charge will be added for credit card orders. I used to think very highly of this restaurant but after today I won't be back. Update to my review after a few hours and I believe we both got food poisoning from our food and how it was handled...