Worst service ever. The server Mark was very rude and impolite. It started when he asked our group to hurry up to give our orders. I asked him if he was in a hurry. He said the restaurant was busy when only a few tables were occupied. He started getting and listing our orders. We are 14 in the group. He placed the utensils in one table and expected us to distribute it by ourselves. Same with the pitcher of water and glasses. We have to pour it our selves. Then our orders came. In the middle of our meal, he came with extra fish and burgers when all our orders were received. He returned the extra orders which he overbooked. During check out, we paid by group and by what each group ordered. When the last group was paying, he said who is going to pay for the extra fish that was ordered. We told him we ordered exactly what we want and will only pay what we ordered. He started raising his voice. I asked him to show the list he made when we were ordering only then we can determine who made a mistake. He cannot produce the list, so we told him we will only pay what we ordered. This guy is ruining the image of Dennis Restaurant. Maybe he thinks that we look asian and he can bully us around. Get rid of this guy! read more

We had a late lunch at Denny's NewLynn for my birthday, unfortunately the service was sub par - the tables sticky, soup clearly microwaved, first time in 15 years the chicken skillet was not hot at all, maybe left waiting for other meals to be ready? Not all the waitresses were friendly, like they didn't want to be there. NewLynn used to be much better than this, my family and friends have enjoyed Dennys for decades. the staff are usually very welcoming. what has changed? First time I asked my wife not to leave a tip. Upside is the dessert recommended by the first waitress was very nice. read more

The dessert taste like flower and the pumpkin soup was really watery and the sat was really weak

I don't know about the other reviewers, but I didn't find the place too bad. Of course I am not hard to please anyway. I have been in NZ for about two months and was craving a full breakfast as to what I am used to in the states. I knew of Denny's and decided to give it a go. It is different than the restaraunt in the states but in a good way. They served alcoholic beverages. This is more of a hangout spot as well. I will certainly return. It may be a bit more expensive than the prices I am accustomed to in the states but this is NZ. I would expect for things to cost more. The service wasn't too bad either however I did have to ask for a takeway box twice, but there were only two staff working the entire floor. I would expect as much. read more

Denny's always has good food but the few times I've gone to the CBD Denny's there's always been something wrong with the food. Either my fries were super soggy or they messed up my order. It's just inconsistent sometimes. read more

Denny's is what you imagine an American diner would be like, but jam packed with families (and running/loud kids if you come before midnight) and large portions of meals, which are relatively affordable. Sometimes they serve your food with dishwasher warm cups/plates too. Denny's opens for 24/7 so it's a good place for people that are on all-nighters that are hungry and don't have anything decent in their fridge/pantry to eat to go to, especially if you live in the CBD and can't be bothered to go to McDonalds/KFC. Their waiters look tired but are really patient - they seem like they need a raise or some sort of praise because they're doing a great job considering the products and conditions they have to serve under. read more

Thanks to Romeo for the awesome service he provided on Friday night. My partner and I had a very pleasurable experience made better by Romeo. So big thanks to you bro. Food was also good too read more

Denny's is a joke, right? It's a late night farce to confuse inebriated city folk. It's an RSA run by McDonald's via a homeless shelter. Basically, it's Cobb & Co before it closed down across the country. If you come from one of the small towns where Cobb & Co still exists, I apologize for my acrimonious introduction. Finish your DB Bitters, ignore that big word, go enjoy some pies and fries with a side of peas and gravy at Denny's. When ever get wake up. Don't bother changing. No one should be expected to change out of their pyjamas at 11 pm. The OPEN 24 HRS thing could work if we were in America (read: if we hired pretty waitresses who relied on good service to get tips). ONLY if you have been to an all-night rave and need a place to sit down before you start work in the CBD at 7 am could you be excused for coming here. Otherwise go to McDonald's. Or get a kebab. Hell, eat your neighbours mint plant with jam when you get home and sober up a little. read more

This is an example of the worst possible outcome of a non tipping culture. Food was fine but you could die of old age between waitress sightings. They spent more time making posters to shame former "dine and dash" visitors than training staff to engage those of us who intend to pay our cheques. read more

Not bad, definitely not the same as the USA chain but pretty close the prices are no where near the same as America almost 3 time more expensive but i enjoyed my breakfast! The hash is so yummy I'd come back for the hash but not for much else! read more

I don't understand why this Denny's has such low ratings. Honestly, the food & service were both totally fine! We ate here for breakfast & lunch, and each time was good! Prices were decent too. I think people may have too much expectation from a Denny's.... :P read more

I don't know any other place in Auckland that is open 24/7 like Denny's is. And with 24/7, you get some pretty dodgy shit. I don't think I'd dine at Denny's if I wasn't drunk and it was 3:00am and I had nowhere else to go. That being said, I did go there at 2:30am after the Azealia Banks concert and I ordered a sort of Eggs Benedict type dish and it was better than I thought it would be. What I can recommend for sure, is the curly fries. They've got that seasoning on them that you get on wedges, if you know the kind? Tom got a burger and said it was pretty gross. He didn't even finish it. Demi stuck with just curly fries and was winning. The interior is pretty sad and the staff do a good job of being perky even though they're dealing with wasted hungry people in the middle of the night, so that counts for something. read more

It was exactly what I expected. It's a Denny's. Everything was totally fine. Plus, they're one of the few places in Auckland with filter coffee which I was dying for as an American who's spent a bunch of time out of the states. read more

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine and we eventually started talking about Denny's for some reason. I told him that I thought it wasn't too bad. He asked me if I had ever been there when I wasn't drunk. I had to think about that for a second......... Good point on his behalf. My ability to properly critique food may very well be inhabited at 4am when I am off my face, but I don't necessarily think that it should demean my opinion. Denny's is out there providing a service to drunk people at all hours of the night. A service which, in my opinion, is vastly superior to kebabs or McDonalds. I like the cheese they use, it very tasty, very processed, very American, perfect for a once in a while late night meal. read more

Cheap beer, shit food and Alana. Denny's is a weird place to go a)before midnight b)sober, but after seeing a film in the city and discovering anywhere we knew was now shut (getting old) we made our way there. The ambiance of Denny's is best summed when you first walk in the door, there's a couple of notices with CCTV pictures of valued customers and a trespass notice for Tracey Hughes of New Windsor. There's the usual crowd at 10pm, a couple of familes with kids hyped up on orange food colouring, a couple of people on dates, and, as you'd expect a group of drunks. These weren't the troublesome kind, so drunk at their nieces 1st birthday that their eyes are watering and red as the slur something about coming to this land and fish hooks. Between the four of us we ordered the following: Premium burger, this seemed to go down a treat, for the most part is was described as "what you would expect" from Denny's Millienium burger - that's right Millenium, maybe this was better in 1999 when we were all worried about y2k but this was as dry as fuck, I poured a glass of water on it and it was still dry. Chilli cheese fries - these were just just chips with some kind of beaner - muck concoction smeared over them and then microwaved to fuck. When we asked how much to make the fries in this curly we were told maybe $3.80, we sad we'd maybe pay that much Buffalo wings - now these run you $20 and honestly are just fucking chicken nibbles from paknsave with a bit of sauce on them. The highlight was Alana. Alana had us transfixed, a true white rose among a mass of brown, muddied, dying flowers. Alana was half pixie, half temptress, half school girl, while not our main server she really looked after us, she even took the time to educate us on the difference between Katy Perry and Iggy Azelia, Katy Perry, of course was her favourtie. LOL! They way in which Alana's petite, well manicured hands glided across the table to collect our plates was delightful. She skill fully balanced the large plates in her small hands while simultaneously shaking pepper onto our meals, she was certainly a girl not a stranger to multitasking. During our visit we were lucky enough to watch Alexander with Colin Farell, This was a historical epic in search of a tone it never quite conquers, Oliver Stone's three-hour labor of love is simply laborious, a ponderous behemoth of a film that favors breathy exposition over the more battle-savvy aspects of the young king who by the age of 32 ruled virtually all of the known world. There's been much talk of the film's accurate portrayal of the Macedonian Alexander (Farrell) as a bisexual naïf hurled into conflict by the forces that surrounded him, but the film focuses so much on the quasi-Shakespearean machinations of Alexander's serpent-loving mother Olympias (Jolie, sporting a Russian-esque accent that makes you wonder if the greatest threat to her son's rule might just be Moose and Squirrel), that Alexander himself comes off as the king of indecision. His lifelong love affair with childhood friend Hephaestion (Leto); his marriage to his first wife, Roxane (Dawson), a Persian; his ascension to the Greek throne; and his many strategic triumphs all take a back seat to Stone's penchant for longwinded melodramatics. It's never a good sign when a film starts off with a scene set on a painfully obvious interior soundstage, but that's just what happens here, as Hopkins' Ptolemy recounts his days with the boy king to his long-lashed scribes. The set, with its chintzy-looking art direction, might have been acceptable had this been a Steve Reeves swords 'n' sandals skirmisher, but Stone is clearly aiming higher, and falling farther. The film's two major scenes of military conflict - the battle of Gaugamela, where Alexander's force of 40,000 bested the Persian King Dariussd III's 250,000-strong army, and a third-act forest routing in India - are given short shrift and photographed in that jittery "you are there" un-StediCam-style that renders the action impenetrable. There is one fine moment in which Stone's camera soars aloft with a bird of prey as it swoops over the battleground, providing one of the film's only moments of actual clarity. But that's over in a moment and it's back to the film's single greatest miscalculation: read more

Thanks for the diarrhea! Menus were disgusting. Service was unnecessarily slow when there we so few guests there. Food was disgusting. Restaurant was not clean. Overpriced. This place should be shut down! read more