Stargate Diner — Restaurant in Seaford

REAL MASHED POTATOES!!!...that alone is enough for 6 stars...but there's more...come close...gather around...while I tell the tale of a magical place that I thought to be long extinct...When I set out to find a true small town family style diner, with good food at very fair prices, and the warm atmosphere I remember loving a long long time ago...I knew what I was trying to find was basically a unicorn nowadays, in a land full of bland...the chain restaurants. I had 3 options in the area and I picked this restaurant based off all the great reviews it already had and the spacious layout in the pics...As I walk in I'm surrounded by beautiful and kind hearted servers...full of life and too young to know Stargate was also the name of a popular sci fi movie. I sit down at the counter and in less than a min...my lovely server Alex is already putting warm soft dinner rolls and my Pepsi in front of me...A Pepsi that tastes like a true fountain soda should...before everybody started stepping on the syrup and cutting it with more water (ur plug and their connect know what I'm saying 😆). I'm almost too stunned at my good fortune to read the menu clearly, but then there it is...King Prime Rib meal...and it's actually available to order (unlike places like Longhorn that are always out of prime rib or only serve it when the stars and planets align once a millennia). So I order it room temp, state minimum regulation, whatever the pinkest is they can legally serve, let there be blood...and pretty inside pink it was. Delicious is the word to describe the prime rib that came in second place to my prime rib...mine was beyond delicious. Did i mention I didn't have to season anything?...No?...okay, so I was proud to compliment the chef by not touching any seasonings, he was on point. The lettuce at the salad bar was so glistening I thought it was an Olive Garden pre oiled thing going on, until I saw the selection of dressings and realized it was just washed so clean and that fresh. For my 2 sides I chose applesauce (for the kid in me) and mashed potatoes (for the adult with a hungry kid inside him). Alex says they're real, not instant...I politely call her a liar without actually calling her a liar, and she says if they aren't real she'll buy my dinner. With nothing to lose and everything to gain I take my first gravy smothered bite. Holy $#!+ they are real. There is a food god and he has blessed this restaurant with the knowlege and ability to use actual potatoes to make mashed potatoes out of. The gravy is thick, rich, and has better hints of steak flavor than actual steaks do at other places...it's not thin or super runny or that weird kind of yellow colored thick fluid that forms a thick paint skin when in contact with the air like some call gravy. So far I'm just in disbelief that everything has matched the dining experience I had pictured in my head earlier today. Rolls, soda, salad, side dishes, REAL MASHED POTATOES, and my prime rib all spot on. Then Alex says there's still desert and lists all the choices...So if mint chocolate chip is the only ice cream flavor you acknowledge like I do, guess what, on top of the usual basic vanilla/chocolate ice-cream and many different flavored puddings...they had mint chocolate chip as an option, and not only that, they have that kind that's a super solid neon green color and packed full of actual chips...not that light pastel green crap with dark specks in it that are supposedly chocolate chips. Finally the bill comes, there must be a mistake....it's only for a King Prime meal and under $30...where's the 20 individual line items each billed out like an inflated emergency room visit? At this point my friends, I've realized against all odds...through faith, perseverance, and hard work...I found my unicorn. (actually this restaurant was also closest to my hotel out of the three, but that's another story, and I ain't no story teller) Shout out to the other great servers there who made for awesome company and conversation...Tiffany, Alexis, and last but not least Tyler....

My husband and nephew and I were there yesterday afternoon. I ordered a ribeye steak. When I got it back it didn’t look right. First after examining it , it was a prime rib. First I didn’t order prime rib. I called the waitress and told her that I didn’t order prime rib. She assured me it was a ribeye steak. Now I know my steaks, because I worked as a butcher at a butcher shop. I am very disappointed with my order. She did ask me if I wanted to change. I said no because someone else paid for it. I tried to eat it but it was dry and had au jus on my plate. You don’t put au jus on a ribeye steak. When I got home to finish it , it was so tough I couldn’t chew it. So I had to give it to my dog. I really couldn’t enjoy it at all. I hate to say this , but it was the worse steak or ribeye that I have ever had. I have been here a lot of times but never have I been so dissatisfied with my meal. I don’t know who is cooking out there but they need to learn how to cut or serve a steak. All I got was a thin piece of meat that looked like a breakfast steak. I know it wasn’t nearly a pound as advertised. I can’t say I will return right now . Was not...

We used to enjoy an occasional meal at this diner. Last night we went there. There were 3 adults. We were so disappointed. The 2 gentlemen both had meals served with pasta.. They were buried in pasta! The alfredo was swimming in oil and very greasy. It was not a creamy alfredo sauce. The flounder frenchaise had ample fish but too much bland pasta. Pesky flies persisted at our table. One landed in the flounder and died there. So much for that meal. I had 1/2 rack of ribs. They weren't hot enough, never saw a grill to finish them, had a thick layer of fat on them covered over with bottled bbq sauce, cold, poured over them to bury the fat. Absolutely horrible. I sent them back and had a crabcake touted as large lump meat. It was finely shredded meat and not even white. It was full of filler and extremely dry. The bill was over $50. We...