Clover's — Restaurant in Town of Skaneateles

First the good...the pie is incredible. Whoever is making the pies, especially the cream pies, deserves an award. Breakfast is on point and what you would expect from a quality diner.

Now the not so good...the service is either stellar or downright terrible. Go for breakfast on Friday, quick greeting, quick seating, prompt service all around with two post food drop check backs. Just finished lunch on a Sunday and had the exact opposite experience in every way...there is literally nothing positive to say about the service I just received. The guacamole and chicken sandwich was lukewarm and the congealed cheese told me everything I needed to know about how long my food was dying in the window. Combine this with a French onion soup order that was dragging until the main order arrived. When I inquired about my soup I was told they burned the cheese...fair enough, but then my soup arrives and there isn't a brown spot anywhere on the cheese...just an oil slick on top of lily white swiss. Really disappointed all around.

Whoever manages the front of the house needs to establish sections and teach waitstaff the importance of touching tables and maintaining communication with the back of the house to drive hot food to...

The Clover Diner is located in a sweet little village we stopped for a few hours in our travels. Asked a local for a lunch spot recommendation. She suggested the Clover Diner. It was a very cute/clean place. We just wanted sandwiches/drink to go and sit in the nearby park at lake. The girl who took our order was obviously new and verrrry sweet but took forever to take our order and must've read it back a couple of times. Welllll....we ordered grilled cheese w/bacon and tomato (extra 3.90)and only got tomato...no bacon!!!...and one stinking piece of cheese...a joke! I ordered a chicken salad sandwich....should've been called mayo salad....there was, at best, 5 miniscule pieces of chicken!!! The bread was good. Both sandwiches came with French fries which were just okay. The to-go cups for the drinks are pathetically organic and nearly crumbled before we finished our drinks. I'm all for saving the planet, but there has to be a better solution you could consider. Sooooo we were greatly disappointed to spend $28 bucks on lunch that was a mess..maybe just a bad day...

We were sat immediately, but it took another 15 minutes for the waitress to take our drink order, and we also gave our food order at the same time. It took roughly another 10 mins to get our drinks, the food came over 45 minutes later and it was cold on some of our plates when it arrived - and to be frank, it wasn’t really worth the wait. The whole time, I had 1 coffee refill, and no one asked my family if they needed anything. I had to request eating utensils because we were never given any. I asked for creamer that never came until the end. My husband sat with an empty iced tea glass the entire time after finishing his drink while we waited for food. Meanwhile- we watched people come in after us receive prompt service. The only thing that came quickly to our table was the check - and someone had to find our server to cash us out. Never have I ever, even at a busy restaurant, had such a poor experience. We will not...