It's a little more expensive than Apple bees but the food taste pretty good! It just kinda takes a while for the food to come to the table read more

Palace Diner - Diners Near Me - Poughkeepsie, New York

The best advice I can give is to not get the roast beef. It was very poorly presented and wasn't even appetizing to say the least. Order the roast beef if you want slabs of meat on bread. It was very dull and boring. read more

Cesar salad is supposed to be made with romaine lettuce not cheap iceberg lettuce.....especially at their prices..on top of that when you order from their website..and pick a dressing its required that you chose an optional dressing fo .85 cents more or you cant order a salad...I love the food but dont cop out and use cheap stuff for a good salad..if I could upload a picture I would read more

Was there last night. French Onion Soup was COLD and got sick. Coffee was awful. Will not go back. The reason for the star waitress was AWESOME read more

This diner used to have good food, but it's gone downhill. If nothing else, I expect good Greek food at a diner. Instead I got spanakopita triangles, the kind sold in the frozen food section of the supermarket. Moussaka meat had gristle in it. Gristle in hamburger! I've stopped ordering anything that comes with spaghetti since it's always overcooked. When my favorites go downhill, it's time to find another diner. read more

This place used to be one of my favorite spots to go for a bite. The food itself is still pretty good. But I can't order salad from there anymore. It's like the lettuce is put in a food processor, I need to eat it with a spoon! Also recently I ordered a drink from their drink menu. I've had it before - essentially Kahlúa and hot coffee with some other stuff thrown in - shortly after I ordered it I hear the "bar tender" throw a fit and demanding to know who ordered it. He apparently didn't know how to make it. He eventually made it (after grabbing a drink menu), and was not even close to what I've had in the past. read more

I ordered takeout from the Palace tonight. 2 orders of Palace Bites and 2 gyros both with extra cucumber sauce. Didn't get the extra sauce and one of the gyros had brown, wilted, nasty looking lettuce on it while the other one has bright green, fresh lettuce on it. I'm usually a fan of this diner but tonight was a letdown. Not sure why one gyro looked like crap and the other one didn't. Disappointed. read more

Palace Diner - The brown, wilted and nasty lettuce I removed from my takeout gyro. - Diners Near Me - Poughkeepsie, New York

My colleagues and I always order here especially late at night. However, every time I order something.. It's always wrong or the food is really saggy. We're only down the road from the place too :/ it's disappointing! But I've only tried ordered twice with them! Their fries were very saggy! If you're gonna order chicken wings, make sure they're not boneless... Otherwise, it'll be super super oily. I ordered garlic wings (boneless) and the chicken were saturated with butter. I tried it with bone in chicken.. And it was A lot better. I also ordered their quesadilla the mushroom, avocado, etc. It's good but it's so saggy. The fries were saggy too. We always pick up our food quickly yet it's still saggy! read more

Came here for Easter dinner. Arrived at 5:00, and it wasn't extremely busy. The service was minimal at best. The waitress who took our order never asked if we wanted something to drink or checked to see how things were. However, she did have time to stop at other tables to talk to the customers there. This is the first time I have been here since the new owners took over, and it will be the last. Never again! read more

This was delicious! I'm not really sure why it shows as 3.5 stars. My expanded rating would be 4.5 but I'll put 5 since I'm forced to a whole star and I think 3.5 really calls them short. Our party of three was admittedly hungry with a long trip ahead of us, but they served us perfectly. Extremely fast service, terrifically attentive waitstaff, perhaps the best monte cristo I've had with real, not sandwich meats. The pastrami Reuben was quite wonderful. The portobello salad was filled with mushrooms and really excellent goat cheese but unfortunately also with too much dressing - I recommend asking for it on the side (I forgot). Both regular and sweet potato fries were very good, though I'm not sure the sweet pot fries were worth a whole $2 extra- YMMV. I thought the regular were actually a little better-tasting but I'm not complaining. All in all we were very happy with this "diner". It was an excellent meal. I'll Be curious to know what others found lacking; maybe not dinner? I would happily return. Not fine dining, but very fine diner-ing. read more

The absolute worst. Terrible food. Slow service. Saying it sucked would be too flattering. Avoid!

I will never eat at this place again for several reasons. First of all, the service was horrible. It is understandable that Friday nights are busy, but why does it take 10 minutes to bring your drink order? And during that wait, I want to use the rest room only to find our waitress talking with her friend at the bar. When the drinks finally arrived, she messed up the order and had to go and get the correct order, thus another 5 minute wait. Second, the food was not hot, my mother had to send back her soup which was less than luke warm. I was taken back at the fact that the hamburgers did not come with fries, that was an extra $2.00. Third, it took forever for the food to arrive. A party of two came in well after us and they got their food before us. When we asked the manager, who had a major attitude, where was our food, he had the nerve to ask, well how did you want your hamburgers. What does that have to do with the food coming out. When I mentioned that to him, he walked off in a huff as if I was bothering him. Thirds, I am a faculty member at Marist college which is right across the street and many students and staff frequent the establishment. They give a discount to Marist people, but you only get the discount if you pay in cash. What?? What does cash have to do with the discount. I never carry cash. When I asked them the reason for this absurd rule, the young lady just shrugged her shoulders. Ironically, the manager was working the cash register and never looked my way, nor did he offer up an a apology. If you are looking for a good place to eat, this is not the place. I get better service at McDonalds. Too bad this site does not allow me to not give any stars because my rating would be nothing. Also beware, parking stinks, so if its busy, good luck finding a parking spot. read more

A few days ago on Christmas Eve, we stopped in here. We had been here before, but never got past the door, the line was so long. We expected there to be a holiday crowd on Christmas Eve, so we reserved a seat for us party of five. It was scheduled for 5:30pm and we had arrived at about 5:40pm. Although I wasn't there at my original time because I had to stop at a location nearby of another business (Dollar Tree around the corner), when I arrived my party was already seated and had received the few initial glasses of water. Things went rather splendidly, though I wasn't super thrilled when they later came back to us (when it was time for sodas to be refilled) and says they'll have to collect the cups because they didn't have any more cups in the back to fill for the refill. I didn't mind. That's not where one of the issues lays, just yet. My issues were faced in the server's response to changes to the item we ordered from the menu to suit dietary restrictions. Although I ordered their Grilled Chicken Asparagus (Sandwich) and changed the item to remove the Asparagus (and the server was trying to process the changes) and Chipotle Mayonnaise as well as put to the side another piece from the item, I was hoping I'd receive a slice of lettuce instead - I must have forgotten to mention. She did as requested, but it took several rounds to get her to understand my needs. The food came out correctly, but I wasn't super thrilled. It just wasn't me. Even after eating half of it, the food we ordered was too much. I was expecting the dish to be a little less than what I found it to be: it seemed to be this "Texas-size portions" which I wasn't fully expecting. We had some trouble locating ketchup (for my fries) and ended up asking for a bottle of it to be brought. It took a few minutes, and the bottle came out. It was brand new. After attempting to finish, I ended up having to use the men's room. When I got to the men's room, it was like a sauna in there. I had to go but the temperature was unbearably hot. When I got back to the table, my mother had called over our server. Earlier that evening, we had noticed she was hobbling around with a sore ankle/foot and was talking to the server. I mentioned the temperature of the restrooms, but all the server did was say "I side with you. I've been in the restrooms lately myself." I'm not one to know what people are doing when they are there, but I would rather have said "We'll look into it and turn it down accordingly." I don't know if this problem was ever fixed - hoping it was. I couldn't finish the whole meal and brought it home later. However, it was Christmas Eve and decided to add a piece of one of their cakes in. I knew I'd be stuffed and would have a problem later. Again, first it was the two chocolate cakes (one had a cheesecake layer in it) were switched when she brought them that we only discovered after my brother said "mine was supposed to have a cheesecake filling and I had taken a forkful of it in already. I'm not one to want to know just how much was spent. We did end up paying for the bill, but I was expecting the bill to be lower than it really was. We don't generally go to a restaurant and eat over $120+ worth of food, desert and drink alone, I knew it was a holiday, but these prices are expensive there. I had to wait considerably longer, and even at one point, we watched as a table came in, sat down, ate their meal and walked out, even before we had received our meals - priorities should be first-come first-serve and they didn't uphold that rule. read more

This is one of the best diners in Dutchess County by far! I highly recommend their mexican salad. It is not greesy or unhealthy at all! Lots of fresh produce and they use regular black beans instead of the fried stuff!! They also made pretty good omlettes and amazing sundaes. read more

I went to palace diner once and once was enough to convince me to never go again. I ordered a bacon, egg and cheese on a plain bagel to pick up. When I showed up I was welcomed by a waitress whom had a very nasty attitude. She referred to me as "the pick-up" so I immediately felt like another number and less like a customer. I was obviously overcharged for my meal paying 6.50. I will never recommend nor return. read more

This diner is easily the best in the Hudson Valley. The food is always consistently good, or should I say, surprisingly good. Their Bang Bang Chicken and Shrimp is one of my favorite dishes. And did you ever try to get Italian food at a diner? It never tastes right, but at the Palace, the Eggplant Rollatini is awesome. My wife always gets the Matzoh Ball soup (so it must be good) and I always get the Lentil Soup - it's that good. Each meal always comes with soup and a salad. You can order a greek salad instead of the regular greens salad, which we always do since their greek dressing is the best, and the feta cheese is a nice touch. We have trouble experimenting with the other items on the menu, since we just love our favorites so much. I almost gave this diner five stars, but I can't imagine a diner being a five-star restaurant - but if any diner deserved five stars, this is it. read more

Tonight my friend and I went to the Palace Diner. I ordered the Turkey Artichoke Panini and my friend ordered a Hot Roast Beef sandwich with Cheese. When we received our food the Turkey on my Panini was dry. My friends "Hot" Roast Beef sandwich was cold, the Roast Beef was torn up, looking like pulled pork, and the cheese looked like plastic. When we left she threw up... 15 minutes after leaving while still in their parking lot. We called to complain and asked for her money back due to this terrible inconvenience. The manager said, "15 minutes isn't enough for that to happen.". He also said, "She will not be getting a refund.". When I told him to come outside and look at the vomit for himself, he passed the phone to the poor waitress in the cross fire and made her tell us, "My boss said no.". I will never come there again. I would recommend you think twice before stepping inside there as well. read more

classic diner doing it right! other reviews were accurate; great staff, clean restroom, happy to make custom sandwich, prices great, yummy fries, great strong coffee not too old, can't wait to try milkshakes next time! read more

I have eaten here twice in the past month. The service is ok but the food is horrible. I had a Reuben the first time. The pastrami wasn't fresh it was precut slices it was rubbery I couldn't bite through it. I had a cheeseburger the second time. It was dry and over cooked. How can you screw up cooking a burger? Needless to say we won't be going back there read more

Great place to eat - large menu - if you can't find something you like then you're not looking hard enough!

We originally planned to visit the Eveready Diner based on reviews and Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, but our cab driver recommended (quite emphatically) that we go here instead. We were glad we did. Spacious, clean, good service, generous portions, decent prices, extensive menu. If I ever go back to Poughkeepsie, I'll probably ask to sit at one of the booths with the jukeboxes. It was also just a short walk back to the train station, saving another cab fare. read more

Clean, good food, better then most diners. I have only ever had breakfast and milkshakes there which are stand bys at all diners but I have never herd a complaint form anyone I was with. Everything looks good. They are fairly speedy. read more

Excellent diner! Eggs Benedict were awesome and hash browns were great. Cheese fries are very tasty with a great cheese ratio. Very good traditional diner atmosphere. Probably my favorite diner in Poughkeepsie. read more

Food is great, service is fine. Management is an issue. Example: I wanted a specific soup (Chili) as my dinner's soup, and instead of charging me more for it, I had to pay for the entire soup, get no soup or side with my meal (because I didn't want it) and still paid full price for both. That is not the best example of proper service with the public in mind. Especially considering that service is more than half of what makes a restaurant. However, the food was still good. read more

A fun diner I was introduced to during a spontaneous trip up north. Good coffee and great service. And the eggs were incredibly delicious.

The best diner I've ever been to. Love their biscuits with gravy and sweet potato fries!

My go to diner... classic American diner, food is the best quality in the area, pricing is standard, staff are friendly- everything I could ask for in a diner! Very good! read more

My family had dinner here lastnight. It is not our first time at this place but will never come back again! First, The manager or the owner (the one that sits customer on their table) was unpleasant, my husband ordered chili burger but was given a regular burger, my son ordered kids orange juice but was given apple juice, we were even charge regular price for kids size drinks! I ordered the meatloaf, it was like hospital food bland and tasteless! I should have learned my lesson the first time and never went back! read more

Every time someone suggests going to palace, I cringe. Every time I go, get something very easy to not mess up, and every time the food is terrible. Mac and cheese, terrible. Hamburger, terrible. Okay, let me get a pie. How can you mess up lie? Terrible. Go to another diner rather than this place. read more

Palace Diner is a great local joint, with a vast menu and delicious food. Although it doesn't have the same old-school diner charm that Eveready does, the meals are certainly comparable. I highly recommend the Rio Grande Rolls and the Tex Mex Chicken Wrap. read more

Worst dining experience of my life!!! If it was possible to give zero stars I would. We are local people who go to the Palace diner quite often. Tonight, I ordered the Chicken dinner special, that came with mashed potatoes. When the waitress brought just the chicken to the table she let me know that they were out of the mashed potatoes. She could get me something else. The waitress was polite, I said, "no thanks, I ordered it because of the mashed potatoes." And I didn't want anything else because we waited 20 minutes for our food. And we didn't wanna wait any longer. The blonde woman who works the front counter then came over to the table minutes later and told me they ran out of mashed potatoes, because "we have been so busy, we just ran out". By this time the chicken is cold, and I reiterated, "we aren't going to eat." To which the blonde responded - "OK I'll just charge you for the salad.". This was the salad that came with the chicken dinner special. No apology and no dinner, but she's going to charge me for the side salad that came with the dinner that I didn't receive. I got up from the table and went to the gentleman who is the manager. And asked him if I was expected to pay for the side salad of the meal I didn't receive. To which she followed after me saying that she didn't like my attitude. He said "no"and we left with her still complaining behind me. I have never seen such a lack of professionalism. I have lived in the area for 5 years and eaten here many times. I am shocked at how badly I was treated this evening! Just shocked! read more

I went to the palace diner with three friends on a Tuesday night. We waited over an hour for our food. We arrived just after 9pm and didn't receive our order (which consisted of pancakes and eggs) until 10:15. The waitress totally ignored our table, except to come over once or twice and say, "there was a mix-up in the kitchen" in a very frustrated and exasperated way. No apology or off to bring something else over. read more

This used to be our go to place to eat. Previous owners were awesome as well as the staff. With the new owners, service sucked, prices went up and the food is......eh. read more

Dirty bathrooms. Fountain soda tastes like mold. Slow service. Mediocre food. My egg sandwich came out deconstructed: literally on 4 separate plates. This is not worth the money. read more

Food is always good when I go in. They have this crispy eggplant sandwich that is really, really good. I don't know how they get the eggplant so crispy but it always is like the five times I've ordered it. The water always tastes kind of funky, that's why I don't give it five stars. I'm assuming it's because it's city water. But other than that no bad experiences. read more

A Marist College staple, I've been to this diner way too many times to count. Any time I go up for an alumni event or just to visit, it's a given that we'll end up at the Palace to cap off the night or feed our hangovers the next day. The food overall is good -- the fries are better than most diners -- but the Red Fox Wrap is amazing, and I haven't found a wrap that compares to it yet: I don't even need to look at the menu anymore! read more

A humongous menu. Their stuffed french toast is what dreams are made of. They have some wonderful quesadillas and burgers. A popular spot for Marist students and they offer a 10% discount for students. read more

My friends and I go here from time to time. The food it usually very good. Sometimes the meal comes out with a mistake, but they fix it when I ask. Service is quick. Some waiters/waitresses are nicer/more pleasant than others. Overall it is one of the better diners in the area. I will probably go back soon. I do like that they are open 24 hours. read more

Went earlier this month, just as good as I remember. Only odd thing was there was no ice in my water when there was ice in other people's glasses. Mysterious. read more

The Palace Diner was quite good. We stayed overnight in Poughkeepsie on a trip visiting friends and relatives and needed a late dinner. I had a late breakfast - omelet, etc, and my companion, a salad aficionado, ordered a salad. Both of the meals were very good. If I was going to carp, I might say that the bacon was a little thin. The flavor was enjoyable, though. Since it was late, we didn't try the coffee. The server was friendly and attentive. This is not haute cuisine but very well prepared diner food. If we get back here again, we'll eat at the Palace Diner again. read more