First time and only time I've been food poisoned was from this place. Eat elsewhere I say.

The unfortunate thing about each Denny's restaurant having a different franchise owner is that some Denny's restaurants are good and others are, to put it kindly, not so good. This one is definitely not so good, and here's why: First, the service is on the mediocre side - not terrible, but not the greatest, either. This includes the fact that we waited a fairly long time to get our food, even though the restaurant was by no means crowded - maybe only 1/3 of capacity, if that. Plus, our table had some sticky residue left on it after its previous wiping, requiring a request to have it wiped down again. Second, and more important, the food was a huge disappointment. Denny's menu looks fantastic; sadly, our food bore little resemblance to the items pictured on the menu. I ordered the South by Southwest Skillet, which the menu describes as "crumbled chorizo sausage, sautéed mushrooms and fire-roasted bell peppers and onions blended together with seasoned red-skinned potatoes on a sizzlin' hot skillet. Topped with grilled seasoned chicken breast, shredded Cheddar cheese and Pepper Jack queso." When my skillet arrived, it was not sizzling, and the portion size was quite noticeably less than what was pictured on the menu. The potatoes and vegetables were overdone, there were few mushrooms and onions, and the peppers were missing entirely - pretty underwhelming stuff. The whole thing had been liberally doused with queso sauce, so that the end result had a homogeneous, though spicy, flavor with little to no nuance. My wife had the avocado chicken Caesar salad. It contained only a few slices of avocado, some of which were crunchy. This dismal fare ended up costing us $22 - steep, in my opinion, for such lackluster offerings. read more

Just plain gross, food, service,cleanliness. One of the worst dennys, and i travel alot read more

By far the worst service I could have ever experienced. Came here on 4/10/15 at midnight and the server was rude, obnoxious, and when I questioned him he threatened to box my food up and tell us to leave. I would not recommend anyone to come here to spend their money. If I could give no stars I would. Just a waste of my time to come here and he gave Denny's s bad name. The cook was amazing and was the only nice employee read more

Poor service. Food edible, but small portions. Got a discount because of hotel stay.

Stayed away from the Oakhurst Denny's for over a year due to poor service. Tried it this morning and the service was decent and the food was okay. I had a seasonal breakfast with pancakes, eggs, hash browns and bacon. I noticed that the serving size on the eggs and hash browns were small, the pancakes and bacon were a decent size. I had ice tea which is the normal everyday chain restaurant ice tea. My mother had a skillet breakfast and she said it was good, I did notice that her toast was only buttered in a small area along the cut. The server was friendly and told us that they were told the two nearby h/motels were fully booked for Christmas week, so they expected to be busy. I noticed three servers rather than just one as it was on previous visits, hopefully they will keep having enough servers and improve their menu since Denny's is such a recognizable brand name. read more

Been standing in line for 10 minutes. The lady behind the cash register seems to be having a little difficulty with running the register. The entire front of the house is open and there is still a 5 minute wait to be seated. Several Denny's employees keep telling the people waiting that "their sorry for the wait", yet we're still standing here and not being seated yet. I totally understand that if employees don't show up for their shift and falling behind, but at least let people sit and bring them a drink. According to the other people standing in line, this is a reoccurring thing that happens every weekend. read more

The worst customer service I've gotten in a long time, and I'm from Atlanta. Steak was dry and overcooked af when I asked for medium rare; I think the waitress did me wrong on purpose. read more

Poor service, had to wait so long ended up leaving. People not receiving their meals together. Many tables waiting. No hostess. Never came to our table to even ask for our drink. Left and went to Country kitchen. read more

My family and I went in for dinner and stood in the lobby for over 10min. We heard several people talking in the back but no one came out to seat us. We left and went to dinner somewhere else. read more

This Denny's absolutely sucks. I'm in the process of calling corporate. Stood at the hostess desk for 20 min before even being sat. Horrible service. read more

Flies, dirty tables, and crowded. We stopped by here on a Sunday morning. The bathroom was also without paper and filthy. The service, however, was good and the waiter was very kind and looked tired. That's the only reason it received a two star. The food was okay but because the place was so filthy, it was suspect that we would get sick. We are local, so we might try again, but I dunno.... read more

Took over 2 hours from arrival to leaving. Completely understaffed, food came out cold and tasteless. I watched 7 tables walk out after being seated and not being checked on. Ridiculous. Owner should be ashamed of themselves to make one server and hostess handle entire place by themselves on the busiest week of the year up there. read more

This place is a recipe for downfall for Denny's. Failed miserably at every basic need. It was hot, took forever to get us the order, Manager didn't have a clue how to split costs. We spent quality 3 hrs of our holiday getting barbecued inside this Denny's at Oakhurst. read more

DO NOT GO HERE! I will say that this visit to Denny's made me never want to go back to any Denny's again, I use Yelp all the time and I felt compelled to write my first review after this horrible experience. We went there after a wedding at 1 AM and we said if we didn't get served by 2 AM we would leave. 2 AM came and went without food so we left. We were the only people in the restaurant and there were two dirty tables that were not cleaned up the entire time we were there. There were people loitering outside asking to tip the waiter well. The server was nice, however, we questioned his hygiene and he kept giving food to go to customers...we have suspicion that it was our food. I ordered an Oreo milkshake, which the server forgot, but he made the comment that it sounded good and he might make extra for himself too. read more

One of my favorite Denny's honestly. I was vacationing with my family at Bass lake and had a late breakfast with my family and had an amazing time. Our sever, Tere, was absolutely amazing. She made the breakfast so much better. She was really funny and nice and was very understanding of any changes we needed. I hope that the next time I come back she is still there because she was An amazing server. read more

Let's be honest, you're not coming here for a nice date. You're here because you did you best to kill your liver the night before. With that being said the service from the waitress was alright but every other person there seemed like the last thing they wanted to do was help you. Food was as expected. If you have any other options, go for it. read more

I've never been a fan of Denny's but this place is awful. I have not a single pleasant experience to share. I went twice just to make sure. I'm sure. Skip it!! For breakfast go to Pete's Place. read more

Food was alittle cold. Asked for a refill 2 times. and never got it but everyone else got theirs. Seemed like our table did not matter. Worst Denny's I have eaten in. We could see our food sitting up there for 5 min. To busy getting to go order ready. She was not a very good waitress. read more

DO NOT eat here.... sorry, I usually don't write review. But this was an exception. I have been to Denny's before while on the road. But this Denny... was just not very good. Utensils were filthy, food looked like a heat up leftovers. And drinks, were bland. From all this experience, I am not sure whether I want to risk to go to another Denny's again. read more

Came here after a long day at Yosemite and had the worst experience. Our waitress and the manager were pretty passive aggressive with not only customers but other employees. We were not told there'd be a double charge for cheese and they didn't take care of us. I'd understand if they were swamped but there were 2 other tables when we were there. The table behind us never got there food the entirety of us being there and they just got up and left. Overall, the food wasn't great and the service was unprofessional and quite rude. When we left the waitress was in the parking lot cussing at another employee. Don't waste your time here and just go somewhere else! read more

This Denny's is terrible. The owners don't care about what you think because Oakhurst is a tourist town. All the tourists will continue to go and spend their money there because they don't know any better. Even with terrible reviews and a very strong local opinion that this Denny's is probably one of the very worst, if not the worst restaurants in Oakhurst. I would choose a sandwich from a gas station over a free meal at Oakhurst Denny's. I'm so sick of these restaurant owners that don't take pride in their restaurants because "Yosemite will always be here, and the people will always come" sadly these types of restaurants dominate Oakhurst. read more

Service was awful. Feta cheese was spoiled, smelled awful and had to get a different meal. Waitress kept telling everyone the kitchen was backed up, but why did the kitchen have anything to do with getting water refills. Als, had to ask waitress at least 4 times for milk for our 4 year old daughter. The waitress finally responded after my daughter told the waitress she forgot her milk again. read more

Waited 15 minutes without a hostess coming to seat us, ended up having to directly ask an employee whether we had to seat ourselves or not after making eye contact with them multiple times. Hostess finally seated us and was really rude when seating us. Walked up, grabbed our menus and said "follow me" then threw them on our table and walked away. Multiple customers after us ended up grabbing menus and seating themselves due to no one coming to seat them after 15-20 minutes, to which the hostess gave them rude replies and made snide comments. Ridiculous, only two people in our party and only three of the tables in the restaraunt were occupied. read more

Wonderful experience 3 times over a 3 day stay nearby. I'm not sure if the bad reviews are really warranted or if they've made some staff changes lately (there are "Now Hiring" signs posted in several places). We dined in 2x for breakfast - had the same server both times, Leticia - and she was wonderful. She remembered exactly what the kids ordered, we had some special requests and she was happy to accommodate. Food was hot and while it took a little longer than average, the excellent service made up for that. We ordered take out one night and my son wanted an Oreo milkshake. The man we spoke with apologized and said they were out of Oreos. I mentioned we could always get Oreos out of our hotel vending machine and add them ourselves. He said if we wanted to bring the Oreos with us to pick up our order, he would wait on the milkshake and add the Oreos for us. He also said he'd upsize to a large and only charge us for the kids' size for our inconvenience. I'm not sure you could ask for much better customer service! read more

Only place up here that is open late, air conditioning not working service was very slow.

My husband and I have eaten here once before. The service and food was decent. Tonight was a different story. We showed up to be told it would be a 30 minute wait for seating. We said ok, 2 couples that were together were waiting before us and they decided to move on. We waited maybe 20 minutes to be sat. Then another 15 minutes at the table waiting to have our order taken when The restaurant had maybe 5 tables seated. The moment I told my husband to ask for the check and well go somewhere else, server Chris came in and apologized for the wait since someone switched the seating plan on him. Which during those 15 minutes, he walked past us at least 6 times and not a single word to us. Then he kept giving us awkward glances and then finally came up to us. We went and had amazing burgers at Jack in the Box instead. read more

I was very impressed, quick friendly service and hot food. Even more impressive, the manager was serving tables!! In my experience, managers,supervisors etc. are not usually helpful. It was nice to see such team work! read more

Let's be honest, the only reason why anyone comes here is because it's on the way back from Yosemite or bass lake. Please just take my advice and keep driving straight. This is by far the worst Denny's franchise I have been too. After waiting 15 minutes alone just for out drinks to be brought out, it took another 45 minutes to get our food. The food was cold, undercooked, and even found a band aid inside of an omelette. .5/10 would never stop by this sketchy looking Denny's ever again. Might as well wait until you get into Fresno. read more

Amazing food :) I had a very friendly waitress.great after a long drive.i will be back :)

The service sucks always have to wait over 30 minutes to see a waiter and then another 30 to get food and over an hour for the bill and not once did our waiter refill our drinks or come back after the food was dropped off. Never going back read more

It's not consistently good nor bad. I've had days where they are on it and others where I'm waiting needlessly. The table next to us has not been bussed, it took 15 minutes to see a waitress by which time my family was ready to order and almost 7 minutes later we got our drinks. I was admittedly snappy with the server, but when I see her chatting with the table across from us who already have food I get frustrated. I used to work here and know that they are trained better than this. read more

So unhappy with my breakfast everything was undercooked and greasy and top of that the service was slow never come back to this place again.

I've driven all across the country and I can honestly say without trying to be mean, but to warn everyone instead, that this is one of the worst Denny's in the entire country! . I gave them the benefit of the doubt the first two times I went there thinking since i work in restaurants I know how it goes when a restaurant is GROSSLY UNDERSTAFFED and how it really negatively effects service. Well guess what I finally realized after the third visit, the owner/management does this on purpose! This is what happened every time I went here; btw, the server is also the host who is also the cashier at the register and there is only one server, maybe two if one is on a lunch break. You get there and get a seat, wait 10-20 minutes before the server comes to get a drink order in like plain orange juice or black coffee. Now you really wait another 20 minutes before you get your drink or coffee-yep it took over a half hour from when I walked in until I got a coffee, and there are only on average 5-15 customers in the entire restaurant, so you can't say they were at all busy. The person behind me was so annoyed with being out of coffee that he kept banging a spoon on the coffee cup annoying everyone around him. Finally we get a food order in, and wait another half hour until we got our food because the owner is obviously too cheep to pay for more then one cook at a fair salary who can cook more then 1 order at a time. At least the food was consistent with the other Denny's so that part was ok. When cashing out it took another 10 minutes to pay and when paying with credit card, it expects you to put a tip on there, which is the one time I've ever eaten in a sit-down restaurant where no staff member made the slightest effort to earn it, which I can confidently say considering I have either cooked, served, or bartended in restaurants for the last 25 years. read more

Our server Candice singlehandedly earned these 5 stars! She went above and beyond our expectations, and we loved how nice and courteous the service was. She was the ONLY server on shift and still managed to rock the lunch shift with a smile on her face! We have had so much bad service here it was really a pleasant and appreciated surprise to have such an amazing waitress! read more

Sorry to say but this is one too many stars for location. Should have read the reviews before. Walked in and waited for about 3 min till someone came out from the kitchen, still didn't greet us. A gentleman was waiting to pay but told them to seat us and other people waiting, guy was surprised and said oh yeah. After being seated we waited for about 10 min. Noticed all the staff standing around and talking. We decided to just walk out and go somewhere else. As we walk out they decide to ask if we are ready ! Guess corporate and the owners dont care about the business. Owners need to be there and micro manage and ensure to run this establishment to standards. read more

Pancakes came in burnt asked for a strawberry lemonade took about 35 minutes the overall food was horrible definitely not coming back.

Worst Denny's I have been to. Reasons: it's DIRTY. When you walk in you will notice the dirty walls immediately. While eating, we observed kitchen employees eating food with their hands in the work areas, picking their ears in the work areas, chit chatting in the work areas, and drinking from cups in the work area- hands were NOT washed after eating, drinking or eat picking. When I have them an appalled look they really didn't Ben care and went about their behaviors. Service is SLOW. We ordered very simplistic things (salad, nachos, a burrito) and it took far too long when we were only one of three total tables being served in the entire restaurant. Pretty sure the other two tables had been served before we got there too so I can't imagine what the hold up was. Servers are RUDE. When I ordered a Caesar salad (which the menu describes as having bacon, cheese, lettuce, maybe tomatoes, and dressing) the waitress asked me if I wanted chicken or prime rib- meats were almost five additional dollars on top of the 9 dollars for my lettuce and bacon. I told her I didn't want and meat and she continued to push it and looked at me like something was wrong with me. She then said "so no additional protein at all.....?" And I then pointed to what I wanted to order and told her I only want what is in the regular salad. She finally accepted this, but when she delivered our meals she made some other odd comment about how I was "eating light". It really isn't her business what I eat and I felt judged by her comments. I wouldn't recommend or return. There are far better choices in oakhurst. read more

Waited 20 minutes to get seated and we were the only ones in the lobby. Another 20 minutes to get our drink order. Minimal interaction with minimal expectations. I would avoid this location if possible. read more

Jeremiah you are a great Server. Really convenient place if you are in the Oakhurst area. We got in late and we were served with a smile. Also we had vouchers from Yosemite Southgate Hotel for breakfast. What a treat! I will be back! Military Discounts at all Denny's. read more