The Diner Vancouver — Restaurant in Vancouver

AMAZING!!!! This restaurant went above and beyond!!! There head chef or kitchen manager, whichever it is, is an amazing leader and cook and you can observe her at work if you sit at the bar through the serving window. The cooks all seem to be on point and I hardly had to wait but 5 min for my meal. The setting and ambiance are that of an old style country diner and it was pretty quite when I went in there. You can hear the work in the kitchen, like the chef calling out orders and the expo confirming, it was like being at a high end gourmet restaurant with an open kitchen with how much they interact with each other. My food was ON POINT!!! I ordered the crab cake Benedict, I consider myself a bit of a crab cake expert, and they were absolute FIRE🔥🔥🔥!! The crab cakes themselves were sooooo good but the hollandaise sauce was the best I've ever tried I think!! Came with a delicious side of perfectly cooked asparagus as well and some delicious country style Tate's. There menu is constantly changing just like at a high end gourmet restaurant, which is fun in my opinion, and they ALWAYS have something that sounds amazing to me. If you haven't checked this place out I highly recommend it and I will definitely be going back there. I enjoy sitting at the bar because I like to watch the kitchen staff and listen to them firing off orders like pros. The wait staff was VERY kind and expeditious, and they checked on me at all the right times to make sure I was pleased with everything.

I also forgot to add that this is a Meals On Wheels restaurant, one of the first of it's kind, so in that respect the money that is earned is turned back to the community to help the elderly and those in need who can't necessarily cook for themselves!!! How awesome is that?! The servers don't accept gratuity because they are paid a living wage, which is once again "amazing", and instead your proceeds will go towards helping those who are in need!!! So you can get an amazing meal and help your fellow human beings at the...

Stopped in for breakfast over the weekend. Their system was down, which meant they had to do everything by hand and it caused service to be incredibly slow. Our waitress was very nice and apologized, but it did seem like everything took way longer than necessary for just having to hand-write things.

Pros: the biscuits are amazing and it's well- worth stopping in for these alone. This diner has a great mission and an old-school feel. The pepper comes out of the shakers easily. Coffee is decent and the gravy on my husband's chicken fried steak was pretty good.

Cons: the food is bland - we had to season everything pretty heavily. Perhaps because they cater to an older clientele who generally need to watch salt intake?? I got the veggie hash and the veggies were cut way too big so they didn't cook all the way through or get a chance to caramelize.

We also had a weird experience in which my husband tried to order eggs Benedict and the waitress told him they were out. Just "I'm sorry, were out of eggs Benedict". No information on what component they were out of or suggestions for substitutions (if English muffins are gone, how about a biscuit... or the hollandaise is out and it will take x- minutes to make more...) 20 minutes later another customer ordered eggs Benedict and no one said anything. We watched their food come out and they were indeed served standard eggs Benedict.

Overall our experience was underwhelming but they were clearly having some issues so we will probably give them another try in the future. I only got one bite of my husband's biscuit so if nothing else I must go have...

I always do take out here and it’s never been an issue. However this time, these guys served me rotten eggs. I had been coming here for close to 2 years and they’ve had some ups and downs, but nothing you can’t fix with new cooks. Well a few months ago, I got rotten eggs with my country fried steak order and with my eggs and bacon meal. I called in to the restaurant, since I was already home with the food. I go here instead of Ihop or dennys because it’s better and local. Well this day idk what happened because Rick is usually on top of his customer service, but this day he literally told me “come back and I’ll make you new eggs” even when I refused and told him I was going to take him the food and ask for a refund. He was super annoyed that I wanted a refund and not more food. He actually even hung up the phone on me he got so upset. After my phone conversation I went back in person and gave him all the food down to the last crumb of toast, and I asked for my money back again. He still insisted on trying to make me more eggs and I said “no thanks”. Because a restaurant manager that can’t even check for freshness in his place’s EGGS, means he must’ve missed a lot more than that! Just for reference, EGGS last for weeks when refrigerated and even then, they take forever to get to that rotten, sour taste… unless they’ve been improperly refrigerated. So this is completely...