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Benny's Café

3.1 (70 reviews)
Closed • 7:00 am - 8:00 pm

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Moderate noise
Casual
Good for kids
Good for groups

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Breakfast burrito
Lori Ellen S.

Started our girl day with delicious breakfast at Benny's Cafe! Our waitress was kind, and thorough. Food was scrumptious! It hit the spot! Reasonable pricing! We will be back!

House salad- okay
Ben W.

Let's be honest here, ya walk right in and I thought I was at a nursing or group home luncheon because I hadn't seen more concentration of elderly individuals so if thats your vibe and you like that distinguished bathroom soap smell, this is the place for you! 16$ for salmon platter, house salad and dessert wasn't a bad deal and didn't give me a stomach ache but nothing special and missing some flavor. The onion rings were horrific and should be taken off the menu! I wouldn't be coming back but I'm glad I didn't break the bank on this one.

Fried chicken, frozen beans/peas/carrots, and what they call mashed potatoes with gravy. Potatoes look half mangled over and disgusting.

Called to place a pick up order, and the woman who answered spent the least amount of time on the phone with me, that she possibly could. Was told "pick up order at window", spent some time deciding if I go to the drive thru lane, that was showing closed.. so I went inside and didn't see a "pick up" counter either. Long story short... beyond the service, or lack of... I ordered a half chicken with mashed potatoes/gravy, and I picked the soup for a starter, and then I got what they called 'mixed seasonal veggies'. Unfortunately I cannot scream "how sad, gross, and disappointing" this meal was, loud enough.

Chicken Alfreado
Javier T.

Before arriving to Benny's Cafe I was excited, I had never been here but I know some family members that always come here. I read some of the reviews and was very much looking forward to enjoying the friendly staff everyone seems to love. My party was a group of 8 people and we had called ahead of time to make a reservation for noon. We were all there at noon and quickly enough we were asked what we'd like to drink. In my party there were a few special drinks and a few sodas. After a few minutes all the specialty drinks arrived but there was no trace of our sodas. You'd think a Mountain Dew would be fairly easy to get. I did not get my drink until about 12:30. The waitress however didnt' ask us what we'd like to order to eat yet. We figured she wasn't ready yet and would come right back. We did not see our Waitress until about 1PM. At which point I was already fairly upset. If they didn't want to take care of us, they should have just told us, we could have found some other place to go to. It simply shouldn't take 1 hour for someone to take our order. The place wasn't even busy, most tables were empty. At around 1:10 I did get the soup that would go with my food. I was happy to see that the food was at least coming out faster. The bread for the soup however was not a good experience. Felt like bread that had been made a few days ago. The soup itself, lots of flavor but too much salt. I love salt, a lot, so I did drink the cup but even I thought it was a bit too much. Some of the people in my table had salads, some got the wrong dressing, not going to complain about that because it's a simple error, easy to fix. One member did feel like the salad was too wet, adding the dressing looked like dressing soup. By 1:30 I was starting to get upset again because we had not seen our waitress. We could see her working the front of the house but she would never come over to check on us and we had not seen our food yet. However, soon enough the food did finally arrive. Personally I went with the Chicken Alfredo. If I was to rate their Chicken Alfredo alone, I would say they get a 2.5 out of 5. It was nothing special, certainly not the worst I've had, but not a whole lot of flavor to it. I asked for Parm cheese to see if that would help but the parm didn't really add any flavor to it. By 2PM we had all been waiting for a while again without having our waitress come over to check on us. Some of us had been ready for dessert. The place at this point had been the emptiest I had seen it during our visit. I decided it was time to ask the manager what was going on. I went to speak with the manager and explained how we had been there since 12PM and it was now 2PM, we had been waiting a lot without anyone checking on us. He apologized and simply said that they were short staffed. You'd think if they are short staffed they'd try to focus more on the table with the most paying customers. He did promise to send our waitress over. By 2:15 we were finally done with our desserts and ready to go. I'm not sure if the is the type of place where you have to go up front to get your check but we decided we would just go up front because we were not about to wait for it. The waitress herself, she was very nice WHEN we would talk to her, but she was just missing, a LOT. The manager, I was not too impressed with his response, he seemed to think that just saying "we're short staffed" should fix the problem. I wasn't trying to get anything for free here, but just seemed like he didn't really think that the fact that we had been here for 2 hours was that big a deal. The food was pretty bleh, not bad, not good, just ok.

Steven T.

I ended up here after my first choice fell through because they didn't have a cook on the premises. I was seated right away and given a menu. The interior was your typical greek diner with lots of wood and fake scenes painted on the walls. Chairs with wheels in front of the tables, booths along the walls. The menu was not one of the huge ones and had all the standard breakfast items. I opted for the Benny's special which was eggs, protein, hash browns and toast with Coffey. I never order Coffey from diner style places because it's never great. Coffey came with my meal and it was nothing to talk about. The food came quick and hot. My 3 eggs were perfect sunny side up. The hash browns plentiful. The toast was the generic three. The sausage links were tasty and a little above average. I will post pictures. Over all the service was good and the breakfast was your average diner/cafe fare. It's your solid you know what to expect style breakfast place.

Blueberry Fruit French Toast
Elizabeth A.

Very family friendly. Lots of seats which keeps the wait times down! Service was pretty good. Hot chocolate was good, came in a cool cup. The food was decent, just a little cold. Clean bathrooms. Has a drive through!

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My favor place to go for breakfast. Everything you order you will like! My week isn't complete until I've had breakfast or lunch at Bennys

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Really fast, friendly service, good food, HUGE portions and reasonable prices. This was really a nice discovery for us!

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Good food at reasonable prices. Staff are always nice and attentive. Not bad for a casual Sunday breakfast or brunch with the family.

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The last time I was in there, we were seated in the bar area. It smells like mold and mildew.

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Delicious cheesy, meat lovers omelet. Attentive waitstaff, trying to refill my coffee every so often. Nice!!!

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Café At the Plaza - High top seating looking into the lobby area

High top seating looking into the lobby area

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I love these hash browns

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Benny's Café - newamerican - Updated November 2026

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