Denny's — Restaurant in Texas

So me and my wife having eating at a lot of restaurants recently have been on a mission to try to eat at places we don't normally eat at. So after driving around three cities we landed on Denny's.

We haven't had that diner feeling in a while and I remember places like village inn and Denny's being 24 hours coffee shops and having a good place where you can hang out as a youth and smoke cigarettes.

That vibe is totally changed and it is definitely now more sit down. Diner which happened to be closing at 11:00 on a Friday we come to find out as we sat down at 9:30.

I will say for the thought process looking at the menu a lot of sugar up front. You are bombarded with sugar but when you move over to the entrees you are hit with some fairly decent prices for the offerings.

I went ahead and went with the 8 oz sirloin with two sides. Sirloin with two sides . I substituted my broccoli and bread for the choco Nana pancakes. I went ahead and got the oven baked macaroni and cheese for my other side.

My wife got the berry liege waffles that came with bacon and eggs.

My wife said the bacon was perfect and it was very crispy. No extra grease residue. Definitely a must get item. The eggs were average fluffy but nothing extra special to call home to about. The waffles were good. They had a thin crispy sugary coating along with the caramel glaze and fresh strawberries and blueberries. It was delicious. However, she wishes the berries had been cut more recently. They look like they had been sitting out for a little bit.

My steak was cooked how I asked which was medium rare. The steaks being a sirloin, it's not the best cut of meat, but for $14 you are actually getting a pretty fair shake of a deal more relative in line of steak prices of yesteryears. Sorry I make that joke because Texas Roadhouse is $22 so $32 for a steak so think about that. The mac and cheese was fairly good. I definitely think it was oven baked like they said. The pancakes were slamming. I needed some of the chocolate nest to go with the banana and buttermilk pancakes and everything was really good.

Now for the decor these coffee mugs were fantastic. I mean take it a selfie calling it a mugshot chef's kiss.

Also for large groups of six or more, the tables that flow between both sides of the restaurant are very cool and I think very unique.

As always, we don't really review the service, but the speed times for the order to the kitchen to the table were very long over 28 minutes. There was some issues with table settings and having the tools to eat but there was a lot going on.

You definitely enjoy diner food. You would like the selections. At least what we tried today. I would come back again. Definitely not closer to closing time. Maybe more when there's more energy...

I was so excited to have another late-night dining spot in my area and Denny's is an oldie but goodie in my book. When I arrived inside, I noticed how new and clean everything appeared to be because I stood at the front door waiting for about 10mins to even be greeted by the woman behind the counter. The woman then stated that she couldn't seat us because she's ready to go. She then asked a second woman to seat us as she walked away.

The second woman greets us by saying, "Y'all see me limping right? I'm so tired so I'm not seating anyone else after y'all. I've made my $300 today. We reluctantly followed her to our dirty booth that had been cleared but not cleaned. As I turned to ask the second woman to clean our booth, she had already hobbled to the other side of the restaurant. So I grabbed spray cleaner and napkins that were only a few feet away and cleaned it myself.

Rachel, our sweetheart of a waitress greeted us immediately with menus and continued with that level of service throughout our time there. Once our food arrived we noticed it was absolutely sloppy and below the usual Denny's standard. My turkey bacon wasn't cooked at all and my eggs were still in liquid form. My french toast was the only thing on my plate that was actually cooked.

After finishing our drinks and deciding not to complain, I approached the register to pay for the meals that we left on the table. We were greeted by the manager who had no idea how to ring us up. He asked the first woman that refused to seat us, for assistance.

Long story short, if you want a good meal with good service....

6/1/22 Don’t waist your time at this Dennys, came on Wednesday morning, walked in at 10:55 waited 20 mins to be sat, when there was lots of empty tables. They only had 1 server, and 1 manager on duty, and one cook that sat us down, and told us multiple times he’s not a server he’s just a cook and there’s not enough help.

He sat us down by 11:20am, we waited 20 mins to hopefully get some drinks and nothing. We waved down the cook because you can’t spot the manager she’s running around like a chicken with her head cut off. i understand the being behind but we asked several times can we get at least some water, it’s already 11:45am. We spot the manager and say excuse me she looked at us and walked off and brushed us off.

you have a cashier girl young lady with black hair that was laughing at the register as she can hear us trying to get some help and she looks over at her customer in front of her and continues to laugh. Manager walked by acknowledging it and walks off. This new location definitely need a manager that can manage this restaurant and hire enough staff to run this place. Your cashiers and cooks al need training and guidance by someone who actually cares about this industry. I don’t recommend this Dennys!! VERY POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE, OVERALL DONT WAIST...