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Gunther Toody's Diner
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Neighborhood: Southeast
4500 E Alameda Ave
Glendale, CO 80246
(303) 399-1959
4500 E Alameda Ave
Glendale, CO 80246
(303) 399-1959
- Hours:
Mon-Sun. 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
-
$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Breakfast
- Alcohol:
- None
19 reviews for Gunther Toody's Diner
LOVED this place.
Stayed across the street and ended up coming a few times during the visit.
Great diner food, great pices, and a fun atmosphere. Wonderful for kids and lots of choices on the menu so there was something for everyone.
Can't wait to come back on my next trip~!!
The atmosphere is your typical 50's diner. The service is good.
If nothing else I continue to go back for the pork green chili. The best way to have it here is on fries with plenty of cheese. I may not be the connoisseur when it comes to the green chili but I really like theirs. Just has good flavor.
The rest of the food is ok. They like to butter the buns plenty before toasting them. The butter is almost over powering. But the quality of the rest of the food is typical to that of any other diner.
So if your craving is for some pork green chili, give it a shot. Don't forget to get some fried pickles.
I have never had anything but excellent food and service at Gunther Toody's. When my family came to visit me in Colorado, this was the 2nd place I took them to eat! (First was Old Chicago :-] )
My roommate works in Glendale, and when we meet for lunch, Gunther Toody's is alway our default place to go! The servers are always warm and inviting, service is quick, and the food is awesome. It's not the healthiest, (not even close!) but I love cheese fries and chicken fingers!
There are a few deals they have that aren't on the menu. For example, on Tuesdays they do all you can eat chicken tenders, and on Sundays, they give everyone free ice cream sundaes!
I've only been here for breakfast once, but I had the 2nd best huevos rancheros I've ever had!
I will start by saying my youngest daughter feels VERY strongly I should be giving this place 4 stars. I will voice their opinions more in moment....
Okay from a regular Joe kinda perspective...not the greatest diner food around, although I do really dig the Atomic chicken stuff. I am also quite fearful of how bad they are for me. From a mommy perspective... pretty darn great. We live really close to this location and I have to tell you we go for a lot of different reasons.
Having a slow morning? Don't really even want to get outta your jammies? Get in the car and head over to Gunther Toody's. No one will care, some may even appreciate your dress choice and you will have a good and cheap breakfast. I believe some of their best stuff to be on the breakfast menu. Dig the country scramble thingy whatever it's called...gravy and sausage is helpful in the AM.
I make it a point, if one of my daughter's birthdays falls during the week, to pick them up from school and head over to Gunther's for lunch that day. This has become a tradition in our house and is always met with a TON attention for my kids from the staff. We all love and appreciate this cuz if you can't LOVE your birthday when you're young...when can you? I would like to now mention the staff. They are very good at what they do and I have NO complaints in this department. This kinda job is by noooo means easy, so my hat is off.
I think the food is pretty good, not great. I feel the shakes are over priced and some of the other items are too. This is not enough to deter us because there are more positive than negatives. The fried mushrooms are really good and the cheese fries are pretty good too.
Bottom line....good family place no matter what you may need. I have only ever been with my daughters so I promised them I'd give them the final word. Jessie almost 9 says, " Good fashioned old food..( which is too cute to correct), nice servers and a fun game room for kids. Sammie my 11 yr. old said.." Cheeeesee Friiiiiiies" From the mouth of babes, enough said.
This is one of those spots that makes me want to restart my petition to Yelp to allow a 5 turd rating for places that really suck.
I'm on my way home from work on this snowy night, hungry, tired and craving breakfast for dinner. Then, I come upon this place (and can't help thinking that the name is some nickname that I would have given my penis back in my drug hazed college days-- "oooh come over baby and give Gunther Toodie a kiss") thinking that a diner would be a really logical place to expect breakfast to be served all day, like it is at ... an EFFIN' DINER.
But, alas, this is not a real diner. It is TGI Fridays pretending to be a diner resplendent with the same sh*tty food and half retarded wait staff that one would experience at TGIF.
Thus, there is no breakfast here as breakfast is only served during breakfast hours (just like at TGIF in O'Hare airport) and unlike any diner in any place where diners matter like New Jersey.
So I settle on fish and chips (ack!) and settle in to ponder the disappointment that the parents of my server must have having considered him to have such potential as an infant only to have grown into a half witted imbecile who can't even wait tables right in a chain restaurant where they give you a book to tell you how to deliver plates of eggs to customers (from 6am -11am only, mind you).
When the fish and chips arrive they are the equivalent of very large fat Mrs. Paul's fish sticks served over a bunch of ice cold fries and with some mayonaisey abomination that they refer to as cole slaw. The good news, for you among the tastebudless glutton set, is that the portions of shayty food are extremely large.
Dinner came complete with a floor show of squealing nine year olds hoola hooping away right in front of my table. I seriously think about telling their mom to bring the girls back in about nine years after they learn how to and have some practice thrusting those hips. But, being new to town, I decide to hold my tongue and endure the hell-like show.
In summary, there's not enough beer in this town to make me drunk enough to ever want to go back here again. Not that they would be open for drunks to go in after bar hours anyways.
I get the impression that if all aliens knew about Earth they learned from "Happy Days" & "Back To The Future," the result would be something like Gunther Toody's Diner.
Yes, it's over the top kitsch, wrapped in someone's hallucination of a 50's or 60's malt shoppe/diner. No, this is not fine dining. But, if you want to feed the family at a sit-down place for under $30, and is fun for the kids, there could be worse places.
Monday's sports "kids eat free," with an adult entree. Tonight I dispensed with the usual patty melt or sourdough burger, and tried the green chile burger, with turkey. As another reviewer commented below, it's odd getting raw jalapenos with the dish. But, the chile was not half bad.
The kids choices are the usual burger/grilled cheese/pasta/chicken fingers/mac & cheese with drink & sunae. Thankfully, they've pulled that horrid fried mac & cheese from the menu.
The shakes & malteds are decent, and the kids enjoy the place. And yes, it's fun looking at the old nostalgia, including a corvette in the bar area.
Three stars 'cause it's truly middle of the road, with a gimmick.
My son loves the ambiance of this place. It's just like Halloween for him, everyone's wearing a 50's get-up. The decor is just like an old 50's movie, including a classic car, right in the dining room.
Personally I'm not into that kind of thing. The food is awful, just like bar food. Cheap, American, greased, carbed, fatty food isn't really my thing. I'll have a water with lemon, (that's all they have on the menu that's healthy.) For my boy, he'll have one of everything else. He loves it, I indulge him, what-a-ya gonna do?
OK, first off, I'm not writing about THIS Gunther Toody's, I live in Brighton, so my nearest location is in "Thornton", or wherever the hell you are when you're in that beastly new big-box retail megalopolis at the intersection of I-25 and Hwy. 7. But it shouldn't matter, 'cause they're all basically the same, especially the decor and the fake 50's shtick, and the goddamn birthday songs they make the help sing. Ya know, I'd RATHER work at Mickey D's then be forced to sing that cutesy BS. At least they don't make ya sing.
One thing I truly do HATE about this place is that they cease doing breakfast at 11 am. First, that's BS, you should be be able to get breakfast 24 hours a day, OK? Second, that leads me to the reason why I eat here in the first place:
The Red-Hot Momma Scramble.
I don't know who put it into their head to devise a dish of hashbrowns, scrambled eggs, sauteed mushrooms, chopped Polish sausage, then smother it with green chili and cheese, with FRESH jalapeno slices, but they were probably majorly stoned at the time. I dunno, it just works, and I scarf it down EVERY time I go to this place. Tried other stuff, nope, only The Red-Hot Momma Scramble will do. My only criticism with it is they seem to get a little more stingy with the Polish sausage every time I get it, and they better get it straightened out, 'cause let's face it, it's one of the highlights of the dish.
Another thing I don't like about this place, and this applies to many chains: they card you when you order an alcoholic beverage! Look, if you have reason to believe I may be underage, card away, but let's do away with this corporate "We card everyone" BS. I'm OBVIOUSLY way past the age of 21, and if you can't see that, you have no business serving liquor, capiche? So no Bloody Mary for me at Gunther Toody's.
So, while I more or less agree with other Yelpers about this place, as long as The Red-Hot Momma Scramble is on the menu, yours truly will be there, slurping down every bite. Unless it's after 11 am.
When my older brother first moved to Denver, we drove by this place and we stopped by. I'm sorry to say that this place was not a very good welcoming for my brother. We walk in to the diner and the greeter yells at us from the kitchen, "Hey, just sit wherever you want!" So we looked at the car above the bar on the right side of the diner and we sat near it. It should be known that we went here on a weekday during the lunch hour. So we sat down and after a few minutes, the menu's were brought to us and we looked it over. I had a classic burger and my brother had a chicken quesadilla. The food was just okay for me and I can't speak on my brothers behalf, but he only took a few bites before giving up on his meal. The only good things I can say about this place is that the restrooms are funny, and the milkshakes are great. I would suggest that you skip this place if possible.
Had a fantastic lunch with Sean yesterday at the Glendale location. Our first. We had a ball having great food, a great ambience to bring families alike. They have special deals for the each day of the entire week. Sean had their Green Chili Burger, while I had mine Southern Fried Catfish. For appetizers, we had Onion Rings. After the main entree, Sean had his Resee while I have the Chocolate Shake.
I love this place. Cant wait to go again, perhaps on a Wednesday since they have a GOOD deal when you can purchase a burger deal and the next purchase burger deal is less than $1! Looking forward to have Breakfast at this place too.
They have 4 other locations in Arvada, Englewood, Littleton and Northglen. Do check them out and post your reviews...
Updated: August 15 2007. Went for Dinner. Yes my hubby had his Wednesday Deal... a Burger menu and your next burger menu will be a NICKEL!! It worth the value. I had 3 appetizers.
OK first of all know i hate these kind of places! You know for the sake of fun we will make your children do embarrassing things and cry kinda place! As for this location i didn't see that happening! The food was pretty good and it wasn't too crowded. The waiter acted like a waiter and didn't expect more from us then what we offered. On the down side, and i am not kidding for a 50's restaurant it is too funny that we saw a bare footed woman in the kitchen! No joke! It was so ironic that i took a picture on my phone.
Breakfast at Gunther Toody's. Quick, great service, and if not the tastiest fare in Denver, it's decent grub and it's pretty cheap.
I'm not nearly as offended by this place as some of the other reviewers; I mean, I can't say the food is incredible and I probably wouldn't go out of my way to go here, but seriously, not bad.
I feel obligated to defend them. They are definitely one of a kind.
so... as a highschooler with a new license this was a great destination. Its open late, its cheap, and they don't care if you sit there for hours. AND they make you dance on your birthday.
The foods not great. Grilled cheese and cheesy fries were my fav. And of course a milkshake. Yummmm
Its a fun throw back even if its fake at least you had a server named Candy. It will always hold a special place in my heart.
Yes this is a voyage to the trippy 50's or 60's malt shoppe/diner. Nothing surprising about that. However consistently good service, decent diner food (burgers and fries, blue plate specials), great malts, shakes and flavored soda keep me coming back again and again. If the nostalgia doesn't scare you away, you can enjoy a double thick chocolate shake and Elvis Fries. The food may give you a coronary at least you'd die happy.
every few months I go back here, right about the time when I forget why I shouldn't.
Think retro diner, 50's style soda shop/hamburger shack/Shrine to Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. The decor is great, and it is the only good thing about this eatery. I've ordered four different dishes here, and honestly I've eaten better at McDonald's.
Take a moment and think about that. McDonald's is the kind of "food" you eat when you're on a long midnight roadtrip, and you're delusional, and hungry, and it's that time of night where roadkill seems acceptable and McDonald's is open and you go in, eat, and regret it.
Gunther Toody's is worse. Somehow, the beautifully garish decor is outdone by the "gee wizz hi!" service that joint's like chili's and Applebee's wisely dropped years ago. EVERY staff member says a horribly rhyming, forced greeting (and similar farewell, by the by) every time you get NEAR the door.
It's not fair. I know servers have to put up with shitty customers, but the plastic act Momma calling me "Sweetie" "Sugah," amd "Honey," is verrry twilight zone, because they are in essence roleplaying a weirdly interpretated version of the back to the Future diner scene.
But the .... "food."
dear gods the "food." I'm pretty sure it's not food, but instead a food-like substance laced with as many posions as they can safely fit into a ...."hamburger."
No, that's not fair. I'm sure it's not posioned. But food normally shouldn't hurt. Especially basic fare, like hamburgers and fries.
And yet.
By the time I was done with the latest excursion into sadomasochistic cuisine I was happy to pay whatever price was necessary just to be let out the door, and even then I couldn't get away without a "See you later Alligator!" farewell.
Please, dear gods, reader, stay away. Far away.
Two stars because there is one eatery worse than this in Denver. Just one. Casa Bonita, you know who I'm talking about.
So I was really excited about going to a 50's diner, however at Gunther Toody's, it was anything but exciting. The wait staff was dressed up, but no one seemed to thrilled that we were there, and no one talke din 50's lingo either.
The food was greesy, and honestly not worth the money we spent. I really though that the milk shake at the very least would be worth it, but for $4.49 it wasn't even close. It was no different than any fast food shake I've ever had.
the actualy building it self was nice though.
If you're looking for a blast from the past, pull your poodle skirt from the closet, and head to this 1950s themed diner, where retro is all the rage -- think sport bowling-shirted waiters, gum-smacking waitresses and Elvis crooning on the jukebox. The $1.99 breakfast deal is a big hit (remember, though, that cheap doesn't necessarily equal good), and kids (okay, my kid) loves the burgers (he's only seven and still developing a refined palate) and hand-dipped shakes and malts.
Adults (that would be me), on the other stand, can't stand the place (aside from the shakes, which aren't bad), but it's a lot better than the Pepto Bismol Pink Palace, otherwise known as Casa Bonita, and I'll take this place over Chuck-e-Cheese any day.
Gunther Toody's: wanna be diner; rockin' good time. Fries are good; Food is not. Fries are so sexy but food is just...
This is where your waitress will dress up 50's style and all hell will sing you happy birthday, incidentally standing on your table !
Classic checkered linoleum party space with 50's cars and 50's hair. 50's uniforms and 50's hips. Juke box is poppin' '. Come here for a pseudo 50's good time disguised as a 50's good time.
Not bad diner fare, but you would've thought I was the Elephant Man the way my server gave me the cold shoulder. I know what to expect when patronizing a diner, but waiting 5 minutes before being greeted by an unfriendly old hag wasn't particularly pleasant.
I hate to judge a place based solely on the bad experience from one server, but it isn't the kind of place I'd care to try again.
