Took a fellow parishioner there for breakfast. AS ALWAYS, service, food quality and quantity were excellent. A few weeks earlier a church of 12 went there for food and fellowship. Great place, plenty of menu choices! read more

Centerville Diner, Lancaster PA Location: 100 S Centerville Rd, Lancaster, PA 17603 Open hours: everyday 6AM - 9PM Restrooms inside the store, and accessible for both strollers and wheelchairs. Accessible for strollers and wheelchairs Parking: free around the building Online order: centervillediners.com Food that we ordered: 1. Soup of the day, the Manhattan style chowder. Served on a big bowl and very delicious, filled with big chunks of crabs and mixed vegetables, for $4.99 we should get one bowl for each person. 2. Kid's menu: double chocolate chips pancakes that served in huge portions, very filling with just one pancake. 3. Centerville Omelette served with homefries and bread toast. The omelette was very delicious, filled with ham, bacon, sausage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers, and American cheese. The bread toast was amazingly good, with just butter spread inside. 4. The entree: country fried steak served with 2 your chosen style egg, homefries and bread toast. The country fried steak was amazingly marinated, juicy soft and crunchy at the same time and the gravy was just perfect. The sunny side up eggs are perfectly cooked, and don't forget the bread toast. The Centerville diner is a family-friendly establishment serving high quality food from a huge selection of a variety of American classics alongside Greek and Italian dishes also Amish country staples. The interior decorations setting is bright and modern also warming homey feeling and cozy atmosphere. The owners are wonderful and the servers are warm and attentive. #centervillediner #centervillediner1 #lancasterpa #preservefootprints read more

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Nice management and great food. The delicious cakes are made by a Greek lady from Baltimore. read more

I always have a great meal here. When my mother was in recovery and could only have easily digested food, the baked fish was such a great treat for us. Usually, we have the fried fish and it is delicious. We also enjoy the breakfast menu. Alex the manager is very kind. He goes out of his way to greet us! read more

I will not be returning to this dinner. The tomato soup was thick like mashed potatoes, the gyro had a tiny bit of meat in it, and the Baklava cheesecake was cardboard consistency. Zero stars for the food. Our waitress was lovely, but we came for the food, not to judge the staff. read more

Great food.... especially for breakfast, and the wait staff are very friendly and accommodating!

I miss my PA diners. Service was fast and fresh. Typical diner breakfast food. The pancakes were nice and fluffy and bacon extra crispy the way we like it read more

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Best diner restaurant around Lancaster County service is the best very friendly. My wife and I have been coming to Centerville diner for the past year. We do not go to any other diner. The owners are exceptional. read more

This is a very good restaurant. The pancakes are a little gritty but over all the meal was very good.

We have always liked it here. Today met a friend for lunch and I noticed the new menus. So, we each had a tuna melt with just water to drink. Nothing else no upgrades or desert. 32 bucks? I understand the cost of everything is high but that seems a lot to me. It was uncomfortably warm in there as well. read more

This was our first time visiting this restaurant. They say you should always make a good first impression. That did NOT happen! The only reason we are giving this 2 stars is our waitress Sara. She was friendly and efficient. I had breakfast for dinner. My meat lover's omelette was huge but a little dried out. Brought 1/2 of it home in the hopes of salvaging it in the morning. My husband's dinner was a disaster. He had the meatloaf platter with stuffing and mashed potatoes. The potatoes were not even warm enough to melt butter. The gravy wasn't hot enough to help warm the potatoes. The bread stuffing was at least warm. But the meatloaf...absolutely awful. It was SPICY! The manager checked and told us the kitchen may have added too much pepper. Said he'd have to make sure they didn't do the same thing tomorrow. Tomorrow! Did offer us $3.00 off our $30.00 meal. Insulting to say the least. We will not come back a 2nd time! read more

This is truly our favorite diner to visit. We have been here quite a bit over the year, and we would rate it a 9.2 out of 10. We have only had one bad meal here over the course of the year...and one issue leaving a tip on our card, when we were charged more for the tip, but that was a simple mistake, and it was resolved immediately. If you want to come to a diner with exceptional food, service and the atmosphere is sweet....visit the Centerville Diner. read more

Food is well prepared reasonably priced with generous portions. Highly recommended. Try the turkey platter. The turkey clubs are enormous. Great service too. read more

Service is horrible. All the servers i've had are so rude and just a "what do you want" type of conversation, they have no personality at all. The food is good but not good enough to be treated badly as a customer giving them money. The ambiance is comfortable but again the service of the servers makes it uncomfortable. read more

Your average diner. However this one charges extra to use a credit card. Because of the additional charge I wouldn't recommend it.

we came as a bus trip and we very happy! the whole restaurant gang met us at the door welcomed us at the door, had a separate room setup for us gave us a wonderful buffet dinner and desserts to choose from, the owner served us and spoke with us and thanked us, very very nice and lots of good food! read more

This Diner is a disgrace to diner community. It would be disrespectful to call this 'Food'. Let this pic speak for itself. The fries were the only okay thing. But you can't really mess up fries though. The waiter was nice, don't get me wrong but the food was Awful. If I could leave 0 stars I would. Where is the cheese in the quesadilla? Why is the cheese squared wrapper cheese ? Why the cheese fries look like this ? Where is the cheese? read more

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Stopped in with my girlfriend for some breakfast, it was our first time there. The food was great, no complaints at all. 2 stars for our "waitress". She was rude & didn't make us feel welcome at all. She checked on us ONCE. We had to get up to fill our own drinks, no joke. Idk what was up with her, she was twitchy and couldn't stop moving but wasn't moving towards us at all. We had to flag her down for everything, even to order our food. If it was busy I would understand 100% but it wasn't. Idk her name but she had tattoos on her neck. read more

Good food and service. Have been eating breakfast or dinner here for past month. Not as extensive menu as other local diners but the food is good. read more

It smelled like someone was smoking inside the building. Made me nauseous. We went when it wasn't busy and waited a decent time for our food. While there were multiple workers just standing around doing nothing. Then our food came out wrong, but we didn't want to wait longer so we just ate it. Overall I think we will not go back here anytime soon. read more

Had lunch here today, Sunday after church. Got seated with no wait, served drinks right away, great menu and our waitress was very attentive. I had a Trio Salad, loved it and it was more than enough! Across from me at our table had eggs & ham, huge slice & he took some home. Reasonable prices, easy parking, kind of place to come back! read more

The food is always super fast, but the rare times it'll take longer they let you know. The host is super sweet and gives a genuine welcome. Definitely a good stop for a quick lunch read more

Centerville Diner - Mushroom Swiss Burger Cheese Steak Sandwich - American Near Me - Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Just had lunch. Everything was good. Huge portion of Shepards pie and was very flavorful. Leaving was not as pleasant as the person running the register couldn't get away from a personal phone call on her cell phone. Extremely rude and unprofessional. Continued her conversation while running my payment. Shame on you for allowing such activity! read more

Very good diner food, clean, good service, huge menu with lots of traditional Lancaster Co Favorites. Specials listed on board when you enter the restaurant, home cooking and great desert read more

I pondered should I even leave a comment but my hope is that this would be an educational experience for the owner and management. This was the first time my husband and I ever entered this facility and right off the bat my gut was to turn right back around and leave. But like with everything I always try to see if "this is really happening" actually happening and it did. We walked in the door and were immediately taken back by the "stares" and tension that was surrounding us. My husband just came off of work and we had errands to do so he didn't notice at first but I sure did. After the initial shock from everyone, the owner proceeded to take us to our table, being that all the front booths were COMPLETELY empty he continues to the back part of the restaurant. I thought that was odd, and just followed him and he sat us at our table in the back. So we sat because we just thought, ok due to covid he was only allowing half of his booths to be filled. As we ordered, we notice other people coming in and they were seated in those same booths that we were not offered. Now I knew what was "happening" and sadly with it being 2021 and my husband being a black man and I being a white woman we were basically "in the back of the bus" of this facility. Now you can argue that maybe he left it for the elderly, I would completely understand that until an elderly couple that was African American also sat in the back with us! What or should I say who sat in the front? White people sat there, nothing but rows and rows of white people were given those seats. I am quite disturbed that this owner behaved this way and being he is also of another ethnic population he should know better than to treat ALL people like this. In his ignorance, he should truly educate himself on understanding that ALL people deserve to be respected! We no longer sit in the back of the bus sir! read more

SO this is how the nightmare went...we stopped at this establishment on 8/6/16 to get some dinner. Wife ordered the broiled crab cake sandwich and I ordered the seafood platter special which included stuffed shrimp, a crab cake, & flounder. My kid played it safe and got the kids grilled cheese sandwich meal. Smart kid. All was going well and the waitress delivered our food. We started eating our dinner. A few minutes into the meal, my wife's face turned stark white as she pointed to her crab cake sandwich. I looked over and saw....A DEAD ANT SMASHED INTO THE CRAB CAKE. So, yeah it happens, I guess. I'm not naive to think that all food is made in a sterile laboratory environment, but we ain't paying for an ANT SANDWICH, my wife wanted a crab cake sandwich. Our waitress must have vaporized after she delivered our food because she did not return to check on us. After waiting for about 10 minutes, I had no recourse but to take the ant sandwich over to the hostess who was positioned all the way across the diner by the entrance. I told her that I wanted to see the manager immediately. I showed her my wife's ant sandwich. She looked at it in shock and raced to the kitchen with the sandwich in hand. So by this point I was getting angry. The hostess disappears with my wife's ant sandwich without any explanation and our waitress is still no where to be seen. The place wasn't busy, there were about 4 couples there. I wander back to my seat in bewilderment. My family sat there, in our booth, speechless, for another solid 10 minutes gawking at each other in disbelief. The hostess FINALLY comes back and now she has the ant in the palm of her hand. She states: "We were dissecting this in the back and the cook says this is just seasoning he put on the crab cake." My wife and I exchanged wide-eyed gazes of amazement with each other for a brief moment and then my blood started to boil. "That ain't no seasoning." I yelped in shock that she was now boldface bs'ing us. "That thing has a thorax, it has a head and legs...it...moved" I told the hostess "WHERE IS THE MANAGER??." The hostess then replied after a brief pause: "I am the manager." "Well woop de doo! I'm glad you told me that NOW when I asked you for a manager 10 minutes ago". I belted out. "So you were dissecting in the kitchen huh? That explains why we've been sitting here wondering what the hell was going on." I then asked her: "When were you going to tell me this?" The "manager" said: "I was going to tell you when you checked out." My jaw just dropped. By this point, It wasn't about the ant sandwich anymore. I was now in a state of dumbstruck wonderment. "So I have to PAY, and *THEN* I get an explanation?" Like I have to pay for the results of the autopsy they performed? "If it was just "seasoning", I find her choice of the word "dissecting" very interesting. There was a awkward pause, and then the "manager" asked my wife if she could bring her something else in its place. My wife just shook her head laughing madly. I told the "manager" that I got a crabcake too and now I'm not to keen on eating it now. The "manager" pauses and then just walked off. So now, alone again, my wife and I are left to holding a staring contest with each other because we were both in total and utter shock, like a nightmare was happening and we wanted to escape but we're paralyzed by the sheer stupidity of what was transpiring. The waitress FINALLY comes back after 20+ minutes of hiding under a rock and throws down the check. She states that: "They decided to not charge you for the crabcake...have a good night." I was shaking now, pure hellfire rage was coursing through my veins. I snatched the check and I called for the waitress as she went to tend to the older couple seated behind us. The waitress snapped back "Lower your voice and wait, I need to tend to these customers now." I was floored by her response. I asked my wife she ought to take my daughter and go to the car because this is going to get ugly. My wife said she was staying. My daughter was half-crying because she was getting scared. I shot up out of my seat and now I was in the middle of the floor glaring at the waitress. I dangled the check in front of her face and told her she'd better get the manager again and do something about this "check" now! She took it and reluctantly went to the back again. We waited again waited for about five minutes. The place was in utter silence due to my spectacular display of dissatisfaction, but dammit I had E-NOUGH with the bs. It took all I could to not walk out. The "manager" came back out and right away she states "we're going to go ahead and comp(ensate) your meal. Your free to go." She said with a half-baked smile. Needless to say we tore out of there double time. A dead ant in our food, was made to sit collectively for a half hour with no clear explanation, no apologies, and then LIED to about what the ant was. STAY AWAY FROM HERE read more

Centerville Diner - Seasoning my a$$! - American Near Me - Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Food was good....years ago, but not anymore. It seems like nobody cares. Utensils seem dirty with a film on them. We ordered ice tea and were told "we're not brewing any more today ". Really????? We hadn't been there for a few months and decided to give it another try, on that day I ordered coffee and was told " we are out of coffee and aren't making more ".it's A DINER .....A DINER and I can't get coffee????? There are plenty of diners and restaurants out here that care about their customers, pick any one of them and chances are that you will have a better experience. As for this place, RUN and don't look back. read more

I ordered a Greek salad For take out. Walking to the car, hmmm, I thought to myself , this feels pretty light. As I was driving and stopped at a red light I open to look at the salad and there was nothing in it at all but black olives and feta cheese and lettuce. So I called and asked the lady what all goes on the Greek salad, she said onions tomato and cucumber. What... DID I , do wrong to get treated like that!! I am not going back. read more

I have been here for breakfast twice, and recently tried dinner. Breakfasts are good. You can get onions in homefries if you ask... just wish they were cooked in instead of dumped on top. Good service, friendly owners, and tasty bteakfast fare overall. Dinner not so hot. We went on a weeknight when we didnt feel like cooking. For starters, our appetizer of coconut shrimp was undercooked, the inner shrimp cool. Ew. Could not locate server after she delivered thus "delight" for a long while (I have a sneaking suspicion she may have been hiding--?), so did not send back--just made a mental note NOT to order again without saying "cooked, please." For dinner, I got the gyro sandwich, which was ok--nothing special, too much tsakiki sauce and lots of bread. Onion rings (an easy substitution for french fries) were crispy and tasty. My dinner companion ordered the bleu cheese burger, which sounded delicious, per the menu. It was not... He said it tasted "funny," and he thought the cook went overboard with A1 sauce or something similar. He ate about half. Not the burger experience he'd anticipated. Our server was a little odd.... she asked us if we "saved room for dessert" shortly after we got our entrees, and brought us our check when we said we couldn't say, as we were still eating. Other weirdness, in the nearly empty restaurant was two owners or managers (I had not seen them on previous breakfast visits) talking business within earshot, griping about shift shortages in the register, etc. Inappropriate. We will stick to breakfast at the Centerville for now. Hopefully they'll get their act together beyond breakfast soon. read more

Centerville Diner - Yum! Cheese omelet, eggs, sausage, bacon, onion homefries... with a side of chipped beef :-) - American Near Me - Lancaster, Pennsylvania

We came here for breakfast this morning and the service was amazing! From the host seating us, our waitress and just having people walking around to top off coffee and clear plates. The food came out quickly for quite a busy morning and all was delicious! The menu was quite extensive for breakfast as well! We don't go out often for breakfast but we might just make this our go to breakfast stop! Well done! read more

Always great and good food bin going for 5 years and always trying different plates one go to place to enjoy breakfast lunch or dinner read more

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I am giving a one star because I cannot give a lower rating. Ordered hot meatloaf sandwich and got a hot ham loaf sandwich. They took it back and brought out a new sandwich with the original fries, which had been sitting under a warmer. Had to ask for new fries. Meatloaf was mushy. Sharp knife that they bought out at the beginning was real dirty. I made the mistake of not checking Yelp first. Lots of one and two star reviews. read more

I very rarely find food that I cannot eat and this place had it! No flavor on anything. there was not enough salt on the table to assist with the taste of the home fries. The desserts were dry and old and the cream cheese had a sour taste. not to mention the dessert menu itself was sticky and grimy to the touch, Would definitely not recommend this diner. read more

The host couldn't be bothered to pause his phone conversation long enough to greet me or ask what I needed. He grabbed a placemat and motioned me to follow him to a table. He was annoyed when I didn't follow. Turns out I was there to pick up takeout, which he would have known had he greeted me. He continued nonstop on the phone, balancing my meal on the narrow ledge of the cash register stand, causing the gravy to leak from the container into the bag. Continued talking while he rung up the order and inserted my card. Oh wait - he did pause once - just long enough to look up and say (ask, demand) "TIP??" Um, that would be a hard no. Rude. Rude. Rude. I'm one of the most easy going restaurant customers there is. So many things that happen are accidents or miscommunication or whatever. But outright rudeness? I will call that out every time. Food was OK. read more

I should know by now that if my elderly father likes it I won't. Case in point: Centerville Diner (see also review for Bridgeport Family Restaurant) Another local diner that caters to the senior crowd. Nothing wrong with that if.... You have all day to wait for service - breakfast for 3 of us took us 2 hours! Like bland, flavorless food - salt and seasoning could go a long way here! Like coupons/discounts - hey, who doesn't! Find them in the Clipper. Overall the place was clean. Our waitress did get my order right, even with the changes but there were flaws: We were a party of three and provided silverware for two - had to get a busboy to get us more Had to ask for napkins - twice LONG wait for food, and check - in fact we had to flag someone down to get it WORTH MENTIONING: the home fries are disgusting! I sent them back. Browned on top and mushy and flavorless all the way thru. No seasoning or salt whatsoever. The scrapple was like eating cardboard, took it home for my swine loving feline and she wouldn't even touch it. The pancakes are large but very dry, they absorb the syrup so a lot is needed and the texture is strange. The eggs benedict with spinach is literally an egg on a dry English muffin and a slimy pile of spinach with cheese wiz type sauce. Nothing we ordered would we order again but than again we won't be back so we won't have to! read more

Delicious food and great service just amazing all the way around cant wait to go back ... jeanie is amazing server read more

Centerville Diner - Delicious food great service clean restaurant and just amazing all the way around - American Near Me - Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Food is poor quality. Very poor. Service standard. The place looks dingy, cashiers area looks a mess. Walls need cleaning or a fresh paint job. Seats torn. Only thing that looks good are the cakes. Bakery bought I'm assuming. The bathrooms smell of death and it's by the rear kitchen door. Health inspectors must be on the take for allowing this place to operate. The owner needs to invest or close its doors. read more

Worst breakfast I ever had. Pancakes and two coffees 9.00 bucks. French toast sent back. Soggy in the middle. Terrible. Won't be back.

This place is decent. The food is great and the staff is pleasant. I'd recommend trying their omelets and anything on their lunch menu. There are two advocates that prevents me from giving Centerville Diner 5 stars. One is their coffee; it's not the finest and it taste rather cheap. The other was a rather odd occurrence with a female staff member while paying the check. When I explained that a receipt was not needed she mumbled something under her breathe, rolled her eyes, and crumpled it. It was just unpleasant. I'd also recommend that the waitresses discontinue jumping the gun with delivering the check. Once that check comes, almost always while in the middle of eating your food, they no longer stop by the table to refill coffee or ask if anything else is needed. Let the people eat in peace and stop attempting to rush them out the door. When that happens to me I make sure their tip reflects my dismay! 3/5 read more

Great pancakes and biscuits and gravy. Loved the scrapple. Service was ok. Not packed either.