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Denny's
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Breakfast, Late Night
22 reviews for Denny's
3 because it's better than the one in san pablo and because i haven't tried any other denny's except for these two.
but yo, check this out--the one in san pablo? ghettoooooo
i'm so fucking surprised my friend's car didn't get jacked or robbed when someone forgot to lock the door.
THIS DENNYS SUCKS
Super Bowl promo ad offered FREE GRAND SLAM breakfast till 2 pm at all Dennys. GREAT. Me and the Ms. drive over and arrive at 1:30 pm to find a big gnarly guy essentially blocking the doorway and directing a tiny frightened looking young female employee to give the gathering crowd little coupon books good for NOTHING of value (free drink with dinner, etc, etc,)
When questioned, the guy (manager?) says we are too late ... no more free grand slams !!! We all ask for a rain checks and he says "NO WAY... not available!" How can we be "too late" when it's only 1:30 pm and the offer runs till 2 PM?" the crowd asks. Oh says he ... there are long lines .. over an hour wait inside. So when he turns to block another party at the door I scoot past and look inside ... NO LINES .. NO BIG WAIT .. just folks eating as usual. ALL LIES
Back home I call Dennys corporate at the 1-800 where a very tired but polite woman takes my complaint and offers to mail us a rain check ... which I won't be using this rotten franchise.
I love this dennys. I come here once or twice a month and order the chicken strip dinner with double mashed potatos, brown gravy and ranch on the side...it's a weird ass meal I tend to crave. I've been to a million dennys and they always give me the sadest portions of mashed potatos or just smothers the gravy on them instead of serving it on the side like I ordered. The El Cerrito dennys gives me generous portions of mashed potatos and gets my order right. The staff is friendly , fast, and always checks on my table to see if we need anything. I never once found a hair or lint in my food which is always good. I always come here with my boyfriend..its become our monthly thing, and we always leave happy.
Just like every other Denny's, this location is nothing ordinary.
Think of it like this: Denny's is sort of like an fast-food restaurant where the servers annoys the shit out of you, but lacks service to refill drinks.
If you're desperately starving for an midnight stop for food, then go here. Since it's open 24 hours, it's just my place to go after either clubbing, or well... having the munchies.
Nearly empty on a Sunday evening - never a good sign; a loop of cacophonous commercials playing on medium-screen monitor hanging over room; and a too-much-bacon & graphically jammed menu. Ugh.
Sticky table, sticky desert menu distracted 'til wrong item came from kitchen. But that was "ok" to the waitperson - really, it's ok. No, it wasn't really ok, even if you the waitress likes the not ordered cranberries, and weird and bad avocado brought to try to turn it into the ordered salad didn't help.
Ok, so several complaints later wrong salad removed from the bill; thank you. The veg and cheese omelette was strangely tasteless, the english muffin was spoiled by too much liquid yellow margarine supplied by the errant kitchen and pico de gallo w/ stray pecan peeking out. Ick.
Won't go on. Just really poor service, bad food, sad atmosphere and now heartburn. Yes, it's just Denny's, but still, I've been to some acceptable; wouldn't recommend here. And you know, not that cheap.
let me just be frank and as blunt as possible.. don't go here unless you want slow service, below average food, and a waste of your money. seriously. i've ate at both locations. the one in san pablo and this location in el cerrito. and everytime something goes wrong. my best advice is to just not go. don't spend your hard-earned money here.
You do the Berkeley-Albany-El Cerrito dive bar crawl in a northerly direction. After you close the last place, you can go to Nation's, Daimo, or Denny's. Denny's and Daimo has the most menu options. Nation's and Daimo has the longest wait after last call. Each option has its pros and cons, so what do you do?
I have a soft spot for drunken feasts at Denny's, though. One time, when the cops busted a house party, it was too late for us to make last call so 24 hour East Bay food options were tossed around. I don't remember where we decided to go, but a very drunk, bleary-eyed friend whined in the most pathetic tone:
"Moons Over My Hammy. Moooooons. Over My Hammeeee."
It was as if the Hangover Fairy told him, "Look, child, you are sooo FUCKED. You're gonna wish you were dead tomorrow morning. Got any last words before passing out?" The designated driver thought he wanted us to go to a place called "Moons Over My Hammy" but I knew better. He wanted to go to Denny's and eat the ham, egg, and cheese sandwich with the best-worst pun for a name. His drunken plea and the invocation of the sandwich by its trademarked name had us doubled over in laughter. Who can say no to that? So we stuffed his passed-out ass in the back seat, took ourselves to the El C Denny's, pulled his passed-out ass out of the car, and ordered him his Moons Over My Hammy. Miraculously, he woke up when the sandwich arrived, huffed it, and promptly passed out again.
If I'm drunk and at Denny's I usually get the appetizer platter which consists entirely of fried appetizers like mozzarella sticks, buffalo strips, etc. Or I get the chicken fried steak dinner. When I'm not drunk, I love the Denny's chicken ranch melt sandwich--enough that I sometimes replicate it at home. Sometimes, I sleep in, walk over to Denny's, drink shitty coffee, and read the paper as I eat one of those skillet breakfasts which doesn't come in an actual skillet, but in a skillet shaped dish.
Ok, it's a no brainer that Denny's isn't the best food and I can't forget the discrimination claims against the chain from the 90s. But who doesn't have a great drunk-at-Denny's story to share? Yeah, thought so.
4 stars on the Denny's scale. Clean, open 24hrs, cozy with a pleasant staff in the wee hours of the morning. Food comes pretty quick at 3:30am!
So yeah, everyone loves to rag on Denny's. Why? Look, if you go to Denny's expecting a 5-star meal and world class service, then you're a couple bacon strips shy of a Grand Slam Breakfast.
I bet I'm the only one who will give this Denny's five stars, but that's because I'm not dumb enough to expect a great meal or service. Punch a hole through that logic!
Anyway, Denny's is a great stop for a (really) late night/early morning bite to eat after a long night of partying. It's almost like watching a really bad movie: one derives a perverse amount of pleasure from enjoying something so crappy.
How can something so bad be so good? Denny's Fever. Catch it.
I feel sick. Like, really sick. Like, I don't ever want to go here again because the food makes me sick. Denny's is a lie. You look at the menu, and the food looks good. Then when you get it in person, total sadness. Don't ever get your hopes up at Denny's. It's only good for late night food when nothing else is open.
You fooled me Denny's with your millions of pictures in your menu. Next time I won't be fooled again. No more ordering based on looks for me.
Now excuse me as I go to the bathroom.
I have the following to relay regarding this Denny's:
1) Superbird. One slice of turkey, folded over on itself, two miniscule strips of bacon, bread so grease-logged I could squeeze out a slice of it into my car's engine in lieu of a quart of oil in an emergency. I can get a quart of 5W30 for $1.97 at Target, why do I need to pay $8 + tip for it here?
2) From an actual overheard conversation: "When a girl lets you watch her take a shit, that's true love."
I must have something better to do than to write a review of a Denny's (and I just thought of three such things as wrote this sentence), so I'll just say that this particular Denny's stands out somewhat in that it's the only one I've been to where:
1. The french toast doesn't taste like fried sausage, a Boca burger, or whatever was cooked on the grill before it.
2. I have never seen a fight break out.
3. The decaf coffee doesn't taste like fried sausage or a Boca burger.
what else can you do when Nation's is packed? You have no choice but to go down the extra mile to Denny's.
the specials in the window? they're all a lie. they don't apply during late-night, even though it says, "available any time of the day." we won't get technical and try to discern what exactly they mean by "day."
the service is slow, and the food is all-right, especially for a plan B.
if you're a Cal student or familiar with berkeley/the east bay, you'll probably run into one or two people you know, every time you visit.
denny's serves it's purpose - to fill you up when you've got the late-night (alcohol) munchies.
Pecan pie and coffee in the middle of the night? I'm there!
Not gourmet, but not bad either. It's truck stop food, not Chez Panisse. Don't get fancy ordering something exotic like spaghetti. Stick to the basics: cheese omelettes, sodas, burgers, pecan pie, and a cup of non-shade-grown non-fair-trade probably-Folgers-instant coffee.
Two stars for the food, two stars for becoming more and more surreal as midnight approaches.
typical dennys. it took forever for our order to come and people that came in after us(there were only two of us) got their food first. When we finally did get our food the server had this look on her face and I could tell she had forgotten about us.
Let me start by putting it out there. I like Denny's. The food has a bazillion calories in it. It is not pompous or pretentious. Very few people seek out Denny's. It is an end-up, but it is a good one.
I had a boca burger. I asked for no bun. It took a while for the server to understand what that meant, but my burger came with no bun. I asked for veggies instead of fries and, lo-and-behold, that is what I got. I asked for salad with lo-cal dressing on the side and, ta-da, that is how it came. I asked for water with no ice and lemon on the side and there it was, just as I had ordered. Not once did the server treat me like I was crazy.
The food takes too long no matter what time of day you go.
My burger was perfect. My veggie were fine. My salad was okay. I had a slice of apple pie. It is funny because they have ads in the restaurant disparaging fast food joints and how fast food ads are full of styled foods that look so appetizing but when you get your fast food order, it mostly looks like a hockey puck. Well, the dessert menu had a picture of a lovely slice of apple pie full of goodness and tastiness. When my slice came, it looked like someone deflated it. It tasted okay.
They have a lot so parking is never a problem.
I have been to this Denny's a few times. Once, I was seated next to a table with a man who was shouting obscenities at no on in particular. Ahhh, local color. There is always a table of people who are too loud and have never learned grammar or etiquette. There is the table with the group dressed for church. It is all part of the ambiance.
In general, I would not recommend Denny's since it does not suit those who seek out eateries for the privilege of being snobbish about their food choices, but that works out better for me as it ensures I will get a table whenever I want.
super bird, fries with ranch dressing always open right around the corner.
it ain't five star but there's one by your house, it's cheap, it's open right now and they have pie.
'nuff said.
This is the 2nd time we've had dinner at a Denny's location and we've always been disappointed. This time, we ate at the Denny's in El Cerrito., My husband and I ordered 2-$3.89 soups and 1 large full order, $8.99 salad with an additional plate and dinner bread, thinking we would split the salad between the two us. What the waiter, hispanic David, brought us instead was 2-$1.99 soups and 2-side salads filled with approximately 1cup of salad each. The salad ordered was their new Pecan Chicken Salad with cranberries, which had only 3 chunks of chicken and no cranberries. Plus, the bread was heals, not slices. The waiter said he was only being nice. I didn't ASK for nice. I ask for a correct order! The bill came to $19.26 (with 2 teas). What a rip-offer! We're still hungry. Came home and had to fix dinner again for the husb and. This time, not only am I going to write a letter to the manager, I'm also going to cc the letter to corporate.
Hordes of Berkeley students study here late night and the waitstaff don't seem to mind. Yay for that.
Just another Denny's restaurant. Not really a very good one either.
One of my fav places to go past midnight and half drunk. Love it for that.
Denny's food is alright. Sometimes they take a really long time to prepare your food (even when its not at a busy hour) and their service is a bit slow
