Country View Diner — Restaurant in Town of Brunswick

We went here with our inlaws this week for lunch. Before I say anything let me mention I actually do love going to diners. It's such a cool part of Americana. I don't expect it to be amazing nor do I think it should compare to fine dining. I get it. However this place...omg...horrible. It looks cute inside like any country diner would. I'm good with that. But the food was pretty bad.

The menu on the placemats we were told is not the menu. ok. So we we're given another paper, which is the real menu (because this we are told has listed what they do currently offer the other doesnt) . Again ok, I can roll with that. Now, 2 of us don't eat meat or dairy so we actually chose this place because they have veggie burgers on the menu. (I checked before coming and besides all diners have a veggie burger.) We've been to many in the Capital District and out of state too. Well... after ordering the waitress comes back and says they don't have veggie burgers and she doesnt know why. Ughh... I'm a trooper, so even though Im disappointed because we only came here specifically for that...I take one for the team and decide to just get the blueberry pancakes. In fact we all order them. Should be fine right...It's pretty standard. Add some home fries and were good. Um...NO! What came was plain pancakes. No blueberries in them to be found. I'm thinking it's just a mistake. Nope, next arrives a separate dish with some truely tasteless thick blueberry pie filling from. a can. Yes, I know it's from a can because my grandmother used to use this exact same stuff in her pies that no one ate. W e all thought it was just awful. Even the pancakes were dry and bland. That's honestly the first time I've ever not finished pancakes...ever. I ate one myself and all 4 of us left our plates unfinished. I just need to add that the waitress was...well she was her. Not nice, not mean, didn't care much about anything really. I say this because I am in customer service in my own business. My family also owned a restaurant as well. I personally treat my customers as does my family very well. It's not hard to do. She would never work in my business nor the restaurant after seeing her demeanor. She is burnt out and should retire. I'm not saying this to be mean, she is hurting an already struggling business. Truth be told I am local. I hear so many bad things about the diner but I didn't believe it. I wanted to give them a chance to ...I wanted it to be at least reasonably good. But instead it was unfortunatly so bad that none of us would ever go back. That's really sad. It won't be hard to correct what's wrong. Lastly...the bathrooms... holy...really gross. Come on, that's important. Sorry this is a bad review. I hope he owner takes heed because it could be a nice place if they cared to up their game just...

Severely disappointing.

My girlfriend and I were in the area and were trying to figure out what to do for dinner. Eventually we decided to go to Country View Diner. Pulling up to the diner the parking lot was empty which seemed strange for a saturday night during what should be dinner rush. We were seated quickly as staff seemed plentiful and there were very few customers. The menus we received had too many options to choose from and were poorly organized.

My girlfriend ordered french onion soup as an appetizer followed by a philly cheese steak. The french onion soup had a weird aftertaste and had too much bread. The philly cheese steak had very gristly meat and the mushrooms had a weird texture to them. The fries that came as a side were the only good part of her meal

I ordered an appetizer sampler that came with wings, potato skins and mozzerella sticks. I also ordered a ruben that I never recieved and asked the waitress to remove from our bill as I no longer wanted it after the quality of the food we were served.

The mozzarella sticks that I got were pretty good aside from the hair that was on them, The wings seemed to be about half the size of wings at other restaurants but they tasted alright. finally my potato skins were over cooked along with the bacon being over cooked.

Our waitress was kind but inattentive. Along with forgetting our food we only saw her after we had nearly finished our meal and after a very long wait for her to give us our bill.

The restaurant itself was clean and appeared to be well taken care of and I do understand that mistakes or bad nights happen. A lot of the reviews for this place appear to be positive. I hope that other people have a better experience than we did but I can't recommend this...

Let me make it simple, do not eat here! Save yourself the money and the trouble! I went for breakfast, and they gave me butter packets that had clearly already been on someone else's plate-the packets had jelly remnants all over them. The home fries that came with my meal were cold when they were served. They had 1 bottle of ketchup for my section of the restaurant! The waitress took it from another table to give it to us, and she took it from us (without asking) before we were done with it to give it to another table! She was very unfriendly and not professional. This place is just scary! DO NOT EAT HERE, save yourself the time and the trouble! I would never set foot in this place again! I was nice, I paid my bill and left a tip; but, I wouldn't go back there if I was at risk of starving. What kind of place gives you sticky butter packets that have clearly already been on another plate, without at least wiping them if you're going to re-use them? They shouldn't even be re-used, but... Also, 1 ketchup bottle for the entire section, so you need to take and pass it from table to table? The owner must be really cheap! The place was just not clean and borderline unsanitary. I wouldn't eat there. If you choose to eat there, good luck! I just considered my money lost and moved on! You will not get anything close for what you pay! We only went there because other places wound up unexpectedly closed; and, as I said, I would NEVER go there again! Good luck if you do! It...