It was my first time coming here the other day and may I just say it honestly smelled horrible. The employees were pretty nice for the most part but the bathroom smelt absolutely atrocious I seriously could not stop gagging. Getting into the food I ordered Cinnamon french toast with hash browns and sausage, the top french toast was honestly really really good I was a a little excited to try more then i decided to try the sausage and it was hard as a rock and cold and the gas browns legit tasted like clay AND the other french toast slice was slightly cold as well and for some reason tasted NASTY. Personally I won't be going back. read more

The hubby and I like to go here for breakfast on the weekend. He loves the French Toast and I go for the something different every time - waffles, omelette, pancakes, crepes... They serve breakfast all day which is a plus. To be a good breakfast place in my book, a restaurant has to have tasty hash browns. Cozy passes with flying colors. Their hash browns are crispy on the outside and soft and well cooked on the inside. Not extra greasy like so many places (Waffle House!). Scrambled eggs tend to be overcooked, so I choose over easy instead. When I ordered the New York steak breakfast "medium" was definitely "well done", which was a bummer. They offered to make me a new one though, so that was a plus. The service is excellent here. They constantly refill your coffee or drink without having to ask - love that! All the times I have gone here (including for dinner sometimes), I have gotten excellent service. That's important to me. The prices are competitive and they have some incredible specials. I still have not tried the Broasted chicken, but I hear that it's good. They make their pies from scratch and they are very good. The ambiance is pretty much like a Coco's / Carrow's / Denny's - mostly booths. They have several big screen TVs with sports playing for the most part. Overall, Cozy Diner is a good diner experience if that is what you are looking for. read more

Cozy Diner - New York steak and eggs - Diners Near Me - Chico, California

Good food but will NEVER return because of their stupid 3% charge for using my VISA credit card!!!!

Let me preface this by saying that we have liked going to Cozy Diner for a while and have typically had good food and service. We have gone for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Never a problem. Usually. We met up with bout of town guest for brunch today in hope of a good meal. Something is going on because today was a disaster. The strawberry crepes were horrid! It was smothered in a cheap imitation canned strawberry gooey mess that tasted really bad. I mean Denny's actually tasted better. It was mentioned to the Mgr who shrugged it off and said "don't order so much of the sauce" What? We didn't know but came swimming in goo! The server was NOT friendly. She forgot the hash browns and when asked got an attitude then came back and literally tossed it on the table and kept on rolling. That was just my nieces order. I ordered a burger and fries. Easy peasy. Nope. The bun was glued on by melted cheese and I had to tear the bread just to squeeze in some condiments that were in the side. What a mess, not to mention that the fries were old. Literally half of them were over cooked and a different color than the others on my plate. How do you ruin french fries?! Speaking of plate, did I mention that instead of placing the hot plate on the table so we could scoot it down she actually leaned across the table, across 2 other people and handed me a HOT dish to burn my hand on. The whole experience today was unpleasant from start to finish and insult to injury was that the Mgr didn't care. Not as much as an apology but instead just walked away. Guess who else is walking away, your customers if this continues. From a long time customer this should speak volumes and I hope they see this. read more

We went in Sunday afternoon around 2, waited a LONG time for someone to take our order, she was obviously annoyed that we asked questions about the menu. We finally receive 2 dinner salads so soaked in watered down dressing that they were not edible. Then the real wait begins. Eventually our food arrives and the waitress in annoyed that we asked for condiments for a burger that came with nothing. Food looks and tastes like it's been sitting for hours. When the waitress sees us leaving she suddenly becomes concerned that we have a nice day. Now it's time for the cashier, this is an ordeal as well. So $46 for the WORST MEAL AND SERVICE WE'VE EVER EXPERIENCE ANYWHERE. read more

Good Food , excellent service staff and great people! Tony has a great crew who are not only good at their jobs, but are very compassionate toward their older customers. Great job Tony and his crew read more

If you are craving some to go comfort food the Cozy Diner is the place to go! They are fast, taking great precautionary measures, and they are giving 20% off to go food! We ordered from there a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it. My only complaint was that the fried chicken was a little salty. But besides that the food was yummy and the experience was great. read more

If you want good old home town Chico service and cooking....Come here. When we are in town...we always go for the Monday 2 or 1 Chicken dinner with soup and salad.....What a deal. The bonus here is...you get great service and good food for a fair price,,,,,, really.... do i need to say more? read more

"The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself" - Louis CK. If you think you can finish one of their breakfast entrees by yourself, you're gonna have a bad time. The portions are enormous as my breakfast order of eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns and french toast could have fed 2 people. Eggs were fluffy, but a bit bland. There's little pieces of ham inside but those get lost pretty easily. It's nothing pepper and hot sauce couldn't fix. The hashbrowns were crispy and not greasy which was a nice surprise. Bacon was super crispy and thick which I loved. The disappointment in the meal was the sausage. i don't think they cooked it long enough as the skin was too soft, and had almost a weird, slimy texture. Took about 2-3 bites then decided it wasn't worth it. Their normal coffee is a bit weak so i wish they brewed it stronger. Best thing easily was the french toast. These were delicious, fluffy and would highly recommend. read more

Cozy Diner - Generous servings! - Diners Near Me - Chico, California

Unfortunately, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. We usually go to Beatnik's every Sunday but thought it would be fun to change it up this weekend. WRONG! There was a short wait which is always totally fine- but once we got seated, we waited for TWENTY minutes and were never even acknowledged. Just got up and left. Back to Beatnik's where we're treated like family. read more

We went to Cozy Diner tonight for the 2 for 1 broasted chicken dinner- DELISH!!! Better yet, was the service we received from our waitress Rebecca, very attentive and personable!! Thanks, Rebecca!! read more

we go here for late night eats...good diner food, which never disappoints, if Donna is there, the service is exceptional. Highly recommend if you like diner food. read more

Casey is an excellent server and so pleasant. Actually everyone working at Cozy is polite and so embracing! Great job guys! Turkey dinner was good and it was worth our trip there! Merry Christmas! read more

Went for indoor dining. Breakfast was really good. Service was good. Much better than I'd expected. I will be going back again. Hopefully all the people leaving one star reviews because they are afraid of indoor dining will stay home and find something new to cry about. read more

Cozy Diner? I went there with my girlfriend on 59°night, apon entering I should have known to turn around, frigidly cold inside. Iceberg lettus sald and canned soup. Worse yet cold food. read more

First time here, glad we came. We all met in town for a memorial service, the back room was reserved for 10 or so people. We arrived an hour before the reserved time, there was 5 of us at the time. The manager took really good care of us while waited for the rest of our group to get there. BEST PIES AROUND!!! We had a slice before dinner(just fot you Leen)OMG...I had the coconut cream, best I've had In awhile. We finally sat with the rest of our party, ordered our meals...our waitress was fabulous, not one thing was forgotten. I had chicken fried steak and eggs, VERY good!!! Not one person complained about anything, everyone was VERY satisfied!!! When I'm in the chico area around lunch or dinner...definitely making a stop there!! Thank you to the manager and staff. We were spent from the service, some people from our party drove hours to get to chico...we were all treated very well...no worries whatsoever!!! read more

Cheap frozen food deep fried to cover up how cheap it is. Manager asked me how my meal was and I answered by telling him I didn't know their "chicken Breast" was just grinded up meat re-shaped to look like a chicken breast. He looked at me confused and I told him I am answering his question...and he didn't respond at all..no I'm sorry here's a discount for your enjoyment..nothing...I was so uncomfortable with his silence I apologized for not being able to eat it. I had no other choice to eat here with my son as a single mom as my car was getting serviced at pep boys. If I didn't have my son I would have chosen to starve. read more

We went to the cozy diner Thursday late afternoon. The food was terrible, the service was awful as well. I was surprised as to how slow the service was considering the place was almost empty. The turkey dinner was on the colder side, turkey was dry, and the vegetables were undercooked. I'm surprised because we were frequent patrons at the dinner for years. We were in Chico for an appointment and decided to go in. Was not happy with the service and food read more

Much much better service tonight food was excellent as always! The service was 110% improved over our last visit! read more

Cozy Diner - Good food an great atmosphere - Diners Near Me - Chico, California

Came for lunch during a business trip as we drive by it frequently and have been wanting to check it out. Food was good and atmosphere is nice. Definitely a hole in the wall type of retro feel. Wanted to try some of the pies as they looked delicious but will need to do that next trip! read more

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Had dinner tonight (9/10/19) between 5 & 6 pm food was fair, service was very slow ( had faster service at the DMV). I felt the waitress didn't have her heart into it. There was also a gentleman (?) with Bib Overhalls on and no shirt. thought the law said "no shirt- no shoes- no service" it was not very pretty. I hope that they clean up their act! read more

Most delicious Broasted Chicken ever! I try to order something new, but I'm afraid I won't love it as much!

Service was pretty terrible. Coffee was old, pie was not great. It took 15 minutes for our waitress to take our order and this was only after the manager came over and asked if anyone had taken our order yet. read more

My go-to place for breakfast or anytime I'm looking for a home-cooked meal when traveling. Great service!

I give this place a -10 Stars for charging an extra 3% of your bill if you use your credit card. This is illegal and I will not be eating there again. read more

Comfort Food ! We've been coming here for years, mostly for breakfast & lunch. It's a large place with ample seating, we've never had to wait for seating. The staff is super friendly. No problem with changing/adding something different on your order. Food arrives at your table quick. Do not expect low-calories here. No way. It's all very large portions of homemade comfort food at good prices. Gigantic portions. We either share a dish or take for leftover. Great diner food. Perfect breakfast always. Never fails. We usually get Eggs Benedict or the standard Eggs w/ ham, bacon or sausage. Coffee is good too. Fresh & golden hash browns. Their Broasted Chicken is amazing. Always crispy and juicy. On Mondays, they have 2 for 1 Broasted Chicken all day. You can't beat that. Today: Taco Salad with grilled chicken instead of hamburger. Deed Fried Tortilla Bowl freshly made, perfectly crispy. Taco Salad is beans, meat, salad cheese w/ salsa on the side. It was HUGE. Salsa was a bit bland (I like it hot -- so there are 2 different Mexican hot sauces on the table and I just added a lot of that). There was almost too much meat. Very generous slices of Grilled Chicken. Overall, it was good & too much to eat. Today's special Black Angus Burgers w/ fries $5.95. Today: We had Western burger comes with bacon, cheese and onion rings (on the side). BBQ Sauce. French Fries. This is a usual western burger, but big & juicy hamburger. Both the onion rings & fries were hot out of the fryer. Today: Cup of chili topped with onions & cheese. Good, but typical chili -- nothing original-- just hearty and yummy. Today : Cobb Salad loaded with turkey, ham, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers -- blue cheese crumbles on the side; Ranch Dressing on the side. HUGE. DESSERTS- homemade pies -- usually apple or berry. Cheesecake, fruit cheesecake, delicious chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse inside & top. Coconut Cream, Banana Cream, Chocolate Cream. Hot Fudge Sundaes. Banana Splits. Today we had cherry pie. It had the usual cherry filling but the pie crusts here are always good & flaky. Like I said -- cozy comfort food if you're not a calorie counter. I love coming here. It never fails to be good. read more

Love everything I've ever had from cozy diner and their pies are amazing! Great service, always fresh! Try their Chicken friend steak it's amazing and the lumber jack breakfast is also a favorite! Can't go wrong heRe!! read more

Blah... Look guys, salt isn't the only "spice" in the world. Very unhealthy, greasy spoon, as it seems their main customers base are elderly (over 55), diabetes ridden, overweight, taster choice challenged; that have little or no concept of what a great meal is suppose to tastes like. Even the water tasted terrible. I will never go back. The coffee - 2 stars - ummm no! The Soup - Mexican Tortilla Soup - That IS NOT Tortilla soup. 1 star. The Salad - 2 stars, those "green leafy things with croutons are simply terrible) The corn bread - 2 stars, too light The main course - Fish n chips - 3 stars, super salty, greasy. - Broasted Chicken - 2 stars (very greasy and salty) The dessert - 2 stars (way over sweet) Service/Staff - 3 stars, super friendly (based stars on Service/Staff) I am rating this restaurant as a cozy home cooking type diner, not as a 5 star restaurant. read more

My second time eating here and I will not go back. The first time I ate here was with my daughter and the experience was strange. So I decided to give it a second try and oh my gosh, what a sh*t show. We went on a Saturday morning and got sat right away and drink orders taken, cool. Our waitress approached us and we weren't ready yet so we kindly let her know, she just walked away rudely so that was weird. Then she comes back, takes our order and made us feel so rushed, kept saying "anything else" so then she brings the food, my daughters plate was all wrong, my daughter told her she wanted her eggs scrambled and they weren't, she also said she wanted all bacon no sausage and she gave her all sausage, so the waitress literally rolls her eyes, grabs the plate aggressively and walks away. She takes forever to come back so my food was getting cold, finally she comes and just drops the plate off and walks away and also left the bill there to. She never once came back to give us refills, boxes, even just to check in on us. But yet she walked by to check on all of the people at tables next to us. Totally rude. We just got up and paid up front and told the cashier about our experience. On our bill it said her name is Casey, she had blonde hair. If a manager or owner reads this, you need to tell that waitress to be nicer to customers if she wants to waitress. That's what most of her job is about, is being nice to people. She made us feel like her mistakes were our fault when we just wanted to enjoy breakfast, she is the reason we will NOT be back. read more

Damn good greasy spoon. You get a crapton of food for just a few bucks. The burgers are decent; the steaks could be better, but for a Sizzler-esque place you still get a decent piece of meat. And Sierra Nevada pints or pitchers. Good place for all-day breakfast; they have huge tables for groups or you can sit at the grill, which I always appreciate for that truck-stop diner kinda feel. They have a good breakfast (she complains about the poached eggs not being on point, but I would not know about that) and a good take out offer for chicken its like $6 for four pieces of the goodness and sides and pie. That's your answer to the recession right there, I tell you what. Yep. Nothing wrong with Cozy Diner... read more

When I moved to Chico I heard so many great reviews of this place. The first time I ate there I wondered if these people that gave me the rave reviews had ever experienced truly good food. The fried food is greasier than fast food, the salad is worse than any bagged salad I have ever bought from a grocery store, the breads are dry, the pie is mediocre. The coffee is good but don't get the French roast, apparently they brew it in the morning and it sits and gets stale all day because no one orders it. Since the dining experiences I have met people that formerly worked there and heard the worst stories. Stories about raw chicken breasts ending up in the bin with salad greens, rotting turkey carcasses collecting flies in the kitchen, and tons and tons of health code violations, red tickets from the health department. I am surprised they are still open considering all of the various violations I have heard about... I will never eat there again and feel bad for the car loads of people that I see lining up every time I drive by. read more

Cozy Diner? If you mean cozy as in a warm environment and cute nicknacks, this is not the place. I might as well been covered in the fur the used to serve on the menu. If you are meat lover and a senior citizen this is your spot. Not only was i shocked they did not offer a single dish without meat, but there wasn't an ambulance for all the elderly that dominated the restaurant. Don't let me bring this cozy place down. A good friend of mine said he got the "best fried chicken of my life!" there. read more

This place is straight out of 1950, it's like walking in to a time capsule. The waffles are good (get them with strawberries) and the portions are more than generous. While this is not a place for the cholesterol conscious it's great for down home comfort food. read more

I don't usually order French toast because I am usually disappointed. But it looks good. It was seriously the best French toast I have had in YEARS. Very friendly service. They eggs were fluffy and tasty. Hash browns were crispy and delicious. Great place. Wish I had one where I lived!!! read more

Pros: - Open later than the other local diners. - Great atmosphere inside with dark woods and a half-dozen huge flat-screen TV's. - Friendly staff, and lots of them. - Clean. Cons: - Small portion sizes relative to price. - They skimp on the food wherever possible. - Not a great selection on the menu. I've been to Cozy only a few times, but I don't think I'll be back before trying someplace else. On my last visit I ordered a chicken strip dinner. The 4 chicken strips were some of the smallest I've ever seen and should have been more accurately called nuggets. The vegetable soup I was served amounted to about 1 cup's worth and the salad was nothing but lettuce and croutons. Seriously, how is lettuce and croutons a salad? I would have to be 110 lbs. to have gotten full on my "dinner." The food is mostly good, don't get me wrong, it just lacks quantity and recipe. They have a largish looking menu, but once you take away the breakfast selections and senior menu it is mostly just burgers. Cozy needs a menu makeover with more selections. I've been to plenty of diners that have a better selection and more unique food. In my opinion this diner is probably run by a cheapskate and it shows in the food, the most important part of a diner's experience. read more

We stumbled upon this wonderful establishment while visiting the Chico area. GREAT food, reasonable prices, but it was the staff that made us feel genuinely welcome. Service was prompt, and portions slightly larger than expected. The only "grumble" was that there were so many choices for pie that I just told our server to surprise me. The slice of berry pie was so delicious, it bordered on illegal. Trust me on this. You want to eat here. read more

There food: greasy, bland, so-so, big portions for the price. theres so many better places that are equally as cheap...I'm usually more of a local person rather than a chain person but I'd rather go to dennys....thats saying a lot! the service: although they are nice it really irks me that cozy dinner requires 3 years experience, honestly I'm new to being a server (not at cozy diner) but I'm bubblier, happy, and just as good at the girls there. I think the owners are very stuck up and personally wont go there because of that! read more

My dad and I always went here on Saturdays and he knew the owner kinda well. We always were given amazing service and food. Sadly, my father isn't with me anymore but I still love to go. :) read more

Along with friends we have tried very hard to support Cozy Diner thru this Covid-19 shutdown - we have bought gift certificates, eaten at your outside dining and enjoyed taking home your food - your efforts to serve our community have not gone unnoticed. Let me say with 10 deaths here in Butte County on 9/24 your choosing to reopen while we are being asked to help get the Virus under control is easy to understand - BUT - totally wrong - if you no longer support the community we no longer will support you during this crisis - I've lost 2 family members to this disease - this is personal to me read more

Good Saturday morning spot. Busy but we are always seated right away. Some times the service is a little slow but never felt like I was being ignored. Food is pretty good also. It's diner food so if that's something you are looking for this place is a great option. read more