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3.4 (10 reviews)

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Babagnoush and a garlic sauce.
Asma B.

The food was great and service was quick based on how packed and under staff they were. Ambiance is like a normal American diner. The Mediterranean mix grill was great, it was just missing the chicken and lamb shawarma 2 pcs each. Platter can feed 6 people for sure. It came with rice, fatoush salad (loved it) and babagnoush. Kids loved the mac and cheese and mozzarella sticks. Pastrami was good too. Had the dual sandwich- forgot to take picture. Will definitely visit and recommend. They are hiring for waitress 1-2 needed.

Their Mediterranean Menu (6/2026); available AFTER 2pm
Andie E.

Update: Starting 7/24/26, 20% off your entire bill on Fridays Only, from 2-8pm, Dine-In Only! Lava Diner used to be the New Hyde Park Diner but the new owners decided to combine a good old-fashioned American diner and a Mediterranean restaurant! Great concept! You can have your pancakes and Baba Ganoush at the same meal! Let's Goooo!! Hahaha Be warned: the Mediterranean menu is only available AFTER 2pm daily!! Let's be real. I came here to check out their Mediterranean options. There was a rather large variety of Mediterranean items! I don't know what I was expecting but I was pleasantly surprised. Now, can you find better Mediterranean places in Queens? Most definitely!! But for Nassau County, this place is great! Note that your entire party much be present BEFORE you can be seated! While we were waiting for our entire party to arrive, the lovely hostess gave us all small cups of complimentary spiced tea. It was fantastic!! But be carefully because it was steaming HOT! A great way to start our evening. We decided to dine family-style, so that we could sample a variety of dishes. This was our MENU (shared by 5ppl): -- Watermelon Salad ($17): organic watermelon, feta cheese. Who knew watermelon and feta could taste so good together?! This was supposed to be served with fresh mint but there wasn't any. This was really tasty and refreshing! I thought the price was a little high for watermelon and feta but I would totally make this at home in the future. The portion size was pretty large and can be shared by 4-5ppl. -- Mixed Mezz ($14): comes w.One Pita Bread (cut into 4 pcs), Hummus, Baba Ghanouj, Labneh, & 2 Falafel Balls. These spreads were terrific but we wished it came with more Falafels and Pita Bread. Great nonetheless! -- Lamb Chops (5pcs/$38): served w.rice, salad, tahini sauce. These chops were fantastic! Nice sear to the chops; pretty tasty and satisfying! -- Salmon Kebab ($38): served w.rice, salad, tahini sauce. Although the salmon was slightly more well-done than I personally prefer, everyone in my group loved it. -- Lava Mixed Platter ($18): Lamb/Beef Shawarma & Chicken Shawarma w.rice, salad, tahini sauce. This was unanimously the worst dish of the night. The Shawarma had no sear to it at all, and was very bland & boring. Not Recommended! ***One major critique I would give is to NOT serve the salad, appetizers and entrees ALL at the same time! It was a bit overwhelming to have everything we ordered, served at the same time. The entrees got cold as we were eating our salad and appetizers. Should I have told them not to serve everything all at once? I would think most restaurants know not to do that?! Next time, I will specify just to be sure. All in all, a pretty good meal! I would definitely go back to try other menu items! Good luck to the new owners and welcome to the neighborhood!! Thanks for bringing more culture to Long Island!!

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Simply put, it can't compete with any of the other diners around but nice staff and there was a discount.

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AWFUL. Walked in about an hour prior to lunchtime, and the older man at the front door pointed to a…read moretable in the back. (NOT being seated should have been the first RED FLAG!) So I walked and sat down at the table where he had pointed. Turned out to be a sticky table that had been hastily "cleaned." Three separate wait staff walked by me repeatedly. No waiter seemed to be assigned to my table, as no one looked at me, much less greeted me. The only person who noticed that I was an actual live human being was the support staff (busboy? bus-man?) who brought me a glass of water. Other than that, I sat. And I sat. And I sat. And I SAT. NO MENU was ever brought to me, and no person acknowledged that I existed. Ten, twelve minutes went by and I said to myself, if this goes on any longer, I am just going to have to leave. I mean, what the hell? So I did. I left - and trust me, I will NEVER, EVER go back. The place is obviously run by people who do not understand CUSTOMER SERVICE. Disgusting. (And to the person who wrote a review saying that she thought they treated her badly because she was not Caucasian, I can tell her that I am Caucasian and I was treated the same way she was.)

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I enjoyed my recent visit to GND. I love the old-style diner design, and the food was both…read moredelicious and reasonably priced. Additionally, the staff were incredibly attentive, friendly, and helpful. It is truly a place that serves wonderful comfort food, and I look forward to returning soon to try more items from your menu.

Monday 11,2026. Hello folks,let me start by saying that my…read morefamilly has been visiting this establishment for many many years and unfortunately i have to voice my dissapointed.let me just start by saying that as mant times that we have eaten here ,I never views the bill amount.we orders western omelet ,a waffle with two strawberries and a swirl of Nutella. My wife ordered a mushroom room omelet with extra cheese and an order of hash . Folks, iam not cheap or watch how much I spend when we go out to eat but I refuse to be taken advantage off of what I get charged. THe mushroom omelet was charged for every thing that they put in .I was charged individually for the peppers ,mushrooms and what ever else they put in .the western omelet was not and had the amount of ingredients as the mushroom.ftom $12.95 the amount increased $5 more.why? The hash browns were also very expensive and the two strawberries on the waffle were $7.the Nutella swirling was also a $7 charge. Like I previously mentioned iam not cheap at all.but when I have seen the bill of $109.00 itpissedme off and I felt that I was raped.yes i know everything has increased and I know what the manager is going to say when they see this review. Shame shame shame on them they are truly ripping customers off.we will not ever go back to this establishment again and I will make sure I will inform my family and freinds.they are many dinners in the area to go to. Shame on you again.

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