Driving from Philadelphia to Tennesee and this was the perfect stop to recharge! We had great service, the coffee was hot and full at all times! Our breakfast was Great and exactly as ordered! Bonus was the proximity to 81 and great parking for our oversized sprinter van! read more

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Came here for the first time and ordered takeaway. I ordered their chicken and broccoli over rice pilaf, which also came with 2 sides, so I ordered a side of French fries and corn. Total came to approximately $16 (not including tip). What's hot - Menu. Very good variety. There's sandwiches, pastas, salads, gyros, omelets, even scrapple. I really like they serve breakfast all day. There appears to be something for everyone, including vegetarians and vegans. - Quality. I appreciate that the food was not salty. You can tell they use frozen corn and heated it up, but the broccoli appeared and tasted fresh. - Service. I ordered takeaway and was told it would be ready for pick up when I arrived. When I asked how long that would take, the staffer responded about 15 minutes. That was the amount of time it took for me to get there. Sure enough, my order was already packaged and ready for pick up. They appear to cater to the traveling community and those who need their orders in a short amount of time. - Portions. Good value for money. Really good size portions. Definitely enough to get me full and to share with my husband. - Location. Easy to find and there's a decent size parking lot, which is helpful for larger vehicles, which I saw plenty of when I arrived. There's a decent size seating area, as well, with tables big enough to sit for parties larger than 4. What's not - Quality. It's not the most flavorful and delicious, but it's decent and reliable. - Location. Somewhat out of the way, because it's on the outskirts of Carlisle, but it's convenient for passersby. Final answer Willing to come back, but maybe not a first choice. read more

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Typical diner fare in addition to Pennsylvania Dutch fare. Lots of seating. Prompt staff. Great homemade soups. I got fried fish and French fries which were well both prepared. Casual setting with a noise level about what you would expect for a diner. read more

Excellent!!! My toast was perfectly toasted. The servers are the best in the business!! Attentive but not too much. The chefs execute perfectly and fast!! Thanks for a great breakfast! read more

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Service is always great! Their lettuce with hot bacon dressing is the bomb! All their food is great and reasonable prices.

A diner. As we were in Pennsylvania, had to have the scrapple and eggs over easy. Along w home fries, and coffee, it was a nice place for breakfast! Server was pleasant and efficient, kept my coffee hot. Plenty of room, booths and tables, and clean. read more

This is always a stop when traveling 81, easy off, easy on, and a short way down the road. After having 2 of the specials, #11, SOB-sausage gravy over buttered and grilled biscuits per our request, 2 plates were served hot, ample gravy, nicely fried potatoes, and a must for breakfast, coffee in a mug. It was Sunday around 830, and our server was hustling but kept up with topping off our coffees. Another must, is to visit the dessert case and drool over the many selections. We picked 4 cheesecakes to go. Baklava is always good. New this trip was a cinnamon bun cheesecake, bun split for the top and the bottom, cheesecake filling in the middle, good but different. 2 pieces of turtle? cheesecake were excellent, nuts on the sides, choclate ganache on top, a creamy layer underneath that, the cheesecake filling, and a chocolate cake layer underneath. All 4 were well worth the price paid. Stop in and enjoy some good food when traveling 81. read more

We were seated within seconds of enter and the server took our drink order. Most impressive... Ordered eggs (scrambled soft) and wheat toast dry... Wife ordered French Toast and bacon... Everything was cooked to perfection... Additionally, everything tasted great... This is a fairly large diner... It was clean and well maintained... Also it was quite and peaceful... Most enjoyable... We would recommend a visit to start your day off right... read more

Middlesex Diner - Eggs, Wheat Toast , and Home Fries - Diners Near Me - Carlisle, Pennsylvania

One of the best sausage gravy and biscuits I've ever had. The staff were extremely friendly and attentive. It's your classic American diner and that makes it absolutely perfect! read more

Pretty decent spot. Huge menu. Typical diner layout. Waitress was nice. Christmas tree year around is great. read more

Middlesex Diner - Diners Near Me - Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Middlesex Diner had been one of our "go to" places for breakfast and the occasional dinner. Many restaurants were recently forced to either adopt a surcharge policy if you ordered eggs due to skyrocketing costs or simply raised prices. Thankfully, the price of eggs has come down to a more reasonable level and I haven't seen an egg surcharge anywhere in months...except at the Middlesex Diner. To their credit, they clearly make that policy clear before you go inside. And their food prices are more than reasonable. But it just looks like price gouging. So maybe add a few cents to the prices. Note that they also charge a 3% credit card fee. Personally, I'm okay with that since using a credit card is a convenience to me that I have no problem paying for. read more

A coworker and I stopped in for lunch mid week. The diner is large and spacious with good lighting and clean too. Looking for something I could cobble up as gluten-free, I opted for the Greek salad with grilled chicken. My coworker ordered a Monte Cristo sandwich with fries. The salad was huge! Another customer nearby asked what I had ordered. It was a bowl of romaine and iceberg salad with tons of mild feta, olives, cucumber and probably a whole pepper sliced up. The chicken was tender and almost shredded. Flavorful, fresh crunch and not over salted. The Greek dressing was mild and delicious. My coworker's Monte Cristo platter was also what he considered excellent. The service was fast and friendly. I would certainly recommend this diner to anyone based on my 1st experience. read more

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Country style Decour, consisting of booths & tables, Excellent waitress and very fast delicious food! read more

Middlesex Diner - Breakfast wrap with sliced tomatoes instead of home fries - Diners Near Me - Carlisle, Pennsylvania

We enjoy having breakfast here. We have also ate here other times. The food is always delicious. Very friendly and fast service. Great for large gatherings. read more

New owners New review This Was one of my favorite r estaurants at one time. Now either the new owners the quality of food has gone down and bottomed out The service has also dropped way down. I did not recognize one server from prior ownership. My service was extremely slow and ignored. I had to stop other servers to get ketchup and additional ice tea. I ordered and when my dinner arrived I was missing rolls and butter. Again I had to stop a different server for help only to find they ran outof read more

Never been here before. It looked busy and like a nice place to eat, so we went there. It took a bit to get my coffee, but I survived. My chicken was a bit over done, but not bad, and they gave me a partial credit. Overall, the girls were nice, friendly, and we would return, if we were in the area. read more

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Home style comfort food. This place is very nice. They have a large menu and homemade desserts. The turkey dinner with stuffing was quite Hardy. It comes with soup or salad and two sides of your choice. It's a lot of food and was under 15 dollars. read more

Middlesex Diner - Wonderful place to go - Diners Near Me - Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Was seated quickly, but the food took a little long to come out and was bland, I will try to give them a second chance as some say it is not consistent read more

Good service and always a place to sit. Great staff. They make an excellent Stir-fry. Several different kinds. Great menu and great senior menu. We Return many times ! read more

Placed pick up order got there the hostess goes to check comes back they are still working on it. No problem, I sat down and see a pick up order already done, I wait....hostess comes over and asked what I ordered, goes and gets the bag I have been looking at. I did tell her this is why you get bad reviews also nothing is consistent 1 time you get 4 nice pieces of chicken a 8 oz side of gravy 8 oz side of slaw,sometimes you get 1 nice piece and 3 that looks like a pigeon. read more

Yep in For brunch fri end of March 2019 after work at dealership. I had the baked Haddock sandwich, side salad with ranch and chips. Now the fish was yummy but I took it off my bun. It was a HUGE hamburger bun. Just too much. Cocktail sauce and my fish was great. Ate my pickle and small coleslaw. I took the lettuce from my fish and made more of my salad plate! Hee hee. I love their homemade ranch ... so buttermilky. Bf had the dinner Greek salad. We did ask for the dinner rolls too. Then the sliced carrots they put on the salads here... asked for a small bowl of those with my left over ranch. Delish as usual. Thanx! Yes can u tell .. one of our haunts!! It's aug '19. Luckily today ( after sleeping in the lot) we just missed the bus load! They were just boarding yeah!! Came in for a nice leisurely breakfast with great coffee. It's the Carlisle Truck show this wknd. So it's a bit busier but I'll tell ya the food still comes out perfect!! The cooks back there are seasoned veterans boy!! Today I wanted their fantastic eggs Bene cause I love it so much. This and one other place ( in FL) are my favs. It's always perfect and NEVER have I had a wrong poached egg!! I'm a stickler about the perfect poached egg ( see pix). Bf actually HAD a breakfast today. Chopped steak n eggs. Yum. Our server is Morgan today. She is very pleasant and u fazed with how busy it was read more

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My Husband and I absolutely love the Middlesex diner! we have never once had a bad experience. The food is always great and the service is excellent! We always feel welcome. read more

We decided this would be a good place to stop since we were out and haven't been here for a long time! Still one of the better diners in the area for a hot comfort meal! We both had Thursday night specials my Wife had the Ital. Meatloaf with a side of Mashed and I had the Beef Stroganoff with a California Blend of Vegetables! Like I said it's mostly wholesome Hot and tasty diner food which makes for a good quick dinner when you're hungry and don't want to make it yourself! We both had a cup of Beef Vegetable Soup as starters it was very hot and tasty! We always seem to return to the Middlesex Diner and will continue to do so as long as they stay consistent as they have been over the years! read more

Great variety on menu! 5 stars for service, drink refills, corn fritters & vegetable soup!! 3 stars- taste of food, we had cream chipped beef on toast, marinated grilled chicken breast (dry), Cheeseburger sub, monte Cristo sandwich! 1 star on temperature of food, most of it lukewarm or cold:(. Dried beef would have been really good if it was hot! Only one persons French fries were hot and fresh, others were room temperature:( read more

Cute diner with a great buffalo chicken salad since it's grilled and not fried. Very filling too. Waitress was very good- replaced sodas before we even asked. read more

If I could leave a 0 I would. Ate there yesterday. (Saturday) Had a bug at our booth. I took a picture of it and got our waitress's attention. She tried wracking it and it fell in the booth behind us. She had nothing to say and walked away. We asked for to go boxes. Next thing I saw the bug on our table. I jumped up and called for waitress. This had to be a different roach Our bill was $30 which we only ate part of our food. We left our food on table and paid 30 for our meal and left. Young person at register asked how our meal was. Told her about the bug. NO reaction. Will never go back there. It was definitely a riach read more

Middlesex Diner - Diners Near Me - Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Honestly I gave this restaurant a 3 because the server was very pleasant. My iced tea was out of a machine, I.e. had an instant taste. My senior turkey dinner was piled high. But the dressing was tasteless as was the turkey and even more so, the gravy which was heaped onto everything. I usually love turkey and dressing but in this case, size doesn't matter enough to make up for the flavor. Lastly, I opted for the mushroom soup over the salad. Bad decision. It was thick which would have been okay. Again it was goopy and had little flavor. No more visits to this place. read more

A very nice diner we ate dinner at on our trip up north. Comfortable atmosphere, reasonable prices, extensive menu, friendly service , good portions and homestyle cooking. My dining mate abund I both ordered the light/ senior dinner of broiled haddock. Our meals came with soup or salad and 1 side. I had the cream of mushroom soup and baked sweet potato as my side. My dining mate had salad and mashed potato as a side. Everything tasty and presented nicely. Desserts displayed nicely in a case. What a nice diner so close to our hotel. The diner serves specials and pumpkin pancakes and pumpkin pie featured. read more

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Looking for a solid breakfast spot right off of 76E? Look no further. Kind and quick service, great pancakes, eggs cooked just right, and orange juice was fresh. read more

Total meh. Very disappointed. I try to frequent local diners and small businesses but this one earned a big "no return". Just had dinner there Friday 06/24/22. I ordered the special.... Veal parmigiana with spaghetti. Veal was tough like a piece of shoe leather. No real flavor. Sauce was minimal and flavorless. Hardly any cheese. Took my leftovers home hoping I could spruce them up. Only took a little garlic, parm, oregano, basil, and cheese. Still a piece of shoe leather though. My guest had their French onion water. Yeah, not soup... flavorless. Her fish dish had no flavor either. Only positive... generous servings of shoe leather and flavorless fish. Not going back. Ever. read more

I should start by saying I'm extremely close to 5 stars here and it's because of the total package that makes up this place. I'll likely get to 5 on the next visit. My wife and I wanted to try this place out and it was busy but they had room to seat us right away. Our waitress was fantastic. Fast, friendly and kept our coffee hot! The decor was awesome too! I'd never seen a St Patrick's Day tree before. I love quirky diner decor! The food is a bit above average across diners I've been to. The omelette that I had was cooked perfectly and extremely tasty. The scrapple was also excellent. Perfectly crispy on the outside and hot. I'm so glad this place is nearby! It's currently in my top 3 diners I've been to since moving back to PA after 20 years living away. We will be back and we will bring the kids next time too! read more

Great breakfast!!! Potatoes were so good, the menu said sausage gravy and chipped beef gravy are homemade and one taste let's ya know it's true! read more

On my way home driving from Ohio back to NJ we ordered a to-go order from this diner. Really nice over the phone and when we got there they had the food ready to go. The food was decent. We all got chicken quesadillas so nothing special. Although it did taste like bacon and had bacon in it which we did not order. read more

First time eating at this dinner this morning. Staff is welcoming and super friendly. The facilities were very clean. This is the best breakfast I've had since moving to the east coast! Will definitely be coming back!! You would miss this place if just driving by and wouldn't know of the amazing food served. read more

Middlesex Diner - Bar seating area - Diners Near Me - Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Love this place try stop here when ever I take a trip down to Philadelphia to visit family I have actually taking my father in law here why visiting the BLT the cream chip beef is great, now I had a coworker pick food up here one day and he came back with a crispy chicken salad for me it was loaded with chicken but there were also French fries mixed into the salad this was first time I had this I was caught off guard but it was so good read more

What a nice place. We felt right at home. The wait staff were prompt and efficient. The food was excellent. The prices were more than reasonable. read more

Good food. Great service. Good prices. Can ask for nothing more. Would definitely go back if ever in Carlisle again.

After 3/4 way through our meal a cockroach crawled up the wall inches away from our table. The food was good. The staff was friendly. But I won't be going back again. I almost got sick from the thought of roaches crawling all over the food & plates etc. I certainly hope they can quickly remedy the problem. I did let the staff know & I wasn't rude or made a scene. read more

This place is so good. I like their crab cakes and shoefly pie best. They are always busy and the reasons are good food and good service. Go!!! read more

Good food and fast service nice quiet dinner to get a hot meal or breakfast with be coming back to try other food read more

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