I just read the most recent review from Ed and Police activity and just curious if anyone actually believes this happened. I thinks it's all made up and just surprised that management does not reply to this post. I've been coming to Ponzio's for years and just hooked on the bread basket. The cheese rolls and sweet cinnamon bread are the best. Unfortunately, that's as good as it gets. The meals are bland. I've tried most of the seafood dishes and disappointed. Italian dishes with any red sauce a big mistake. Probably the worse red sauce in a jar at your supermarket would still taste better than Ponzios'. Turkey is tasteless unless smothered in gravy. Try eating the hot turkey dry and you'll see what I mean. Most of the soups are very good, but served lukewarm. I always tell the waitress to nuke for a couple minutes and that seems to work for me. I'll keep coming back when I feel like eating a couple baskets of sweet rolls. Still the best rolls in the area. read more

I've been going to Ponzio's for years and the food and service are outstanding!! We just had our sons First Holy Communion Party and everyone raved about how delicious their meal was and how friendly and courteous the staff was (especially to the kids)!! Love this place and it's a must stop landmark in NJ!! The owners are extremely friendly and courteous and ensure every meal is exemplary read more

Ponzios is the Diner I have dreams about. The cheese rolls are enough to warrant a trip from Philly into the Suburbs of New Jersey. Order any sandwich, breakfast item or burger and you will be happy. All of the baked goods are amazing. I've honestly never tried the fancier entrees like the pasta or steak, so I can't comment on them. But honestly why would you order that stuff at a diner. Go to ponzios. Get the cheese rolls. You will be happy. read more

A South Jersey institution that never disappoints. Always, always, always, delivers. The food, service and portions are always spot on. There will never be a world without Ponzios it just will never exist. read more

When our party asked for chocolate chip pancakes, they replied that we could have them on the side, but they couldn't make the pancakes with chocolate chips. After that our party asked for broccoli with their omelette which they then replied with that they did not serve broccoli until noon. Waiters also did not refill coffee. read more

We have been coming here for over 10 yrs on Thursdays and always get the same thing. Chicken Pot pie. When I first got it the cost was about $13 and after 10 yrs the price only went up to $18. Imo I don't think the price was outrageous for what you get. Basket full of mix bread, soup or salad. read more

My wife loves strawberry shortcake. For her birthday I ordered a 10 inch shortcake from Ponzios. I picked up the cake yesterday and I couldn't be happier. This was a beautiful cake that tasted as good as it looked. The cake was frosted with a thick layer of delishous whipped cream. There were whole strawberries on top and sliced strawberries on the side and in between the layers of shortcake. This cake was fantastic. read more

My family meet at Ponzios for brunch a couple times a year. The food and portions are consistently good. The bakery calls your name as soon as you see the beautifully displayed pastry in the glass case when you enter the diner. Service is okay, not attentive. Needs improvement. During busy times there is no place to wait to be seated, everyone stands in the same area and is uncomfortable at times with no place to stand. Having a place to sit/wait would up my star rating and improve the experience substantially. read more

Best crab cakes I ever had. They are all jumbo lump crabmeat. Backers items are fantastic . Never had a bad meal there in my 30 yrs of dining. read more

Came here for breakfast. Ordered the loaded potatoe casserole and ordered an extra side of ranch dressing. AmaZinggg! It was probably the best omelette I've ever ate and the service was really spot on. Very clean for a diner. read more

Ponzio's - Enjoying a nice cup of joe! Lots of coffee options here! - Bakeries Near Me - Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Great place for networking and business meals. Opens early so you can have that meeting before starting your day. It is arranged like a diner but the menu has far beyond diner food. Check out the lunch special as they have substantial salads like the Chicken Souvlaki Salad that I had last Friday (posted pic) definitely not your ordinary diner food. They need to get free wifi that works and it will be a complete Bizman spot. read more

Ponzio's - Chicken Souvlaki Salad - Bakeries Near Me - Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Early morning breakfast with my uncle. Quiet upon arrival. Greeted with a smile from our waitress Tara. Food was cooked to our liking. Stuffed French toast with crispy Philadelphia scrapple. Enjoyed the peace and quiet would recommend an early visit to anyone that can't handle the busy rush after 9am. Our server was very on point with coffee refills and service with a smile. read more

Ponzio's - Stuffed French toast - Bakeries Near Me - Cherry Hill, New Jersey

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My cousins swear by Ponzio's and have been going there a long time. I visited recently. We got bay fries, which were really good. I got the pork roll sandwich which was good too. My friend got the calamari marinara and really liked it. For dessert, I got the peach pie, which looked great, but didn't taste very good. The whipped cream was piled high, but it didn't taste like real whipped cream. They have a huge pastry case of baked goods. I'd have to try more of them to judge better. read more

We were excited to go for an early dinner. It's our favorite diner. What a disappointment. The cream of chicken soup had so much salt in it that we couldn't eat it. The crackers they served with it were stale. I ordered my favorite, stuffed flounder. It was a strange color when they brought it out to me, but when I tasted it it was BAD. They took it back of course but the awful taste in my mouth ruined it for me. Not running to go back. read more

Upon entering the restaurant my wife and I were ignored by the hostess. I guess because my wife is a blue eyed blond American and i ...a Filipino. The hostess name is Jackie barely looked at us and when walked to our table put us in a uncleaned wet table, with crumbs of food. Our server immefiately came to the tablevand told us the table is not clean and seated us beside the table that was clean and alreadt set up for a customer. The table was the same size. After some thought to what happened we realized that the hostess- Jackie was either in a sour mood or displaying a racist behavior. I tried to asked Jackie why she put us in that table as she walked by and she ignored me again . She looked straight ahead as i said ma'am 3x. I hope that management and customers read this and at least confront her for her actions. On a good note the carrot cake is excellent. read more

Came here on a recommendation, should have read the Yelp reviews first! 7:30am, virtually empty restaurant, a dozen waitstaff jabbering and couldn't get a coffee refill. Waitress disappeared, breakfast served with lukewarm potatoes and toast that wasn't toasted. Never again. read more

No breakfast at this Diner ? Wow ! SLOW service and prices 20% to 25% higher than most places closer to me ! If you like it here ? Keep it ! Not for me ! read more

I have been wanting to try this diner for sometime now, finally had a chance last week. I was expecting much better food. Service and staff very friendly. I had the Hot Open Turkey Dinner. The cup of soup, Yankee bean lacked of seasoning. The Turkey, gravy, and stuffing were good. The mashed potatoes very disappointing, I think they were instant. The green beans came in a stew of tomatoes and way too many onions. I tried the Key lime pie which was very good. Would I go back, maybe to try breakfast. read more

Let me start by saying that our waitress Fran, was as nice as she could be. Other than that I don't have ANYTHING good to say about this place. They don't serve eggs Benedict at all during the week, so if that's ur meal forget about mon-fri. Because of that I was forced to figure something else out. So I went with the flounder franchise (or however that's spelled) annnnnyway, we FINALLY got our food and we were sooooo disappointed. My husbands Spanish omelette was so bad he wouldn't eat it, (he eats everything and ANYTHING) said the veggies were soft, and mealy and tasted like they all came straight out of a can. My fish was deep fried and set on top of some spaghetti. But the fish was soooooo soggy and the meal altogether was so bland my 16 year old son that doesn't cook could've done a better job. Wen we were ready to leave we got our bill, and even tho they took our 2 meals off it was still 50$!!!! 2 bloody Mary's, 2 Corona's, 2 large ojs, and my sons french toast. Needless to say, we will NOT be returning to this VERY over priced diner. Oh, and wen we were leaving I stopped in to used the restroom, and 2 out of the 4 toilets were full of poop and the bathroom smelled like raw sewage!! 2 for this place!!!! read more

Will never go back. My family and friends have been customers for more than 40 years, having breakfasts, lunches, dinners, late night meals, meetings, parties, since this restaurant was founded and ran by Mr. Fifis, a kind, warm, generous man. It is now run by his grand nephew, an incompetent, rude, stupid man who is in over his head and the reason this former Cherry Hill institution had gone so far downhill. There are several better diners within a few miles of Ponzios. That's where we'll be. I noticed that Patrick K's review agrees. read more

Ponzio's must be totally confident in their reputation. The cashier and the hostess sit at the register and openly trash their customers. Cursing and nastiness is apparently acceptable here followed by sugary sweet fakeness to the next customer's face. I heard a lot in my 15 minutes of waiting. If this was my business, I wouldn't find this acceptable at all. It was extremely unprofessional. read more

Horrible, completely and utterly horrible. It took the waitress over 20 minutes to put our food orders in even though she said she only had 3 tables and she wasn't busy. completely ignored our table till the food arrived 45 MINUTES LATER. my pork roll was dry and burnt when I asked for it to be well done and the food was cold in general (obviously it was sitting in the kitchen for a while). at this point I asked for a manger to complain about the poor service and quality of my food. the manager named Alex came and cut me off as I was trying to explain to him my issues. He put in another order of pork roll and home fries which came out immediately. however, the pork roll was soggy and under cooked and the home fries were just as burnt as the first batch. At this point Alex was accomplishing nothing so I asked to speak to someone above him. The owner John Giambanis then came over and did absolutely nothing but waste more of my time. He hovered over me while I was explaining my situation, called me a girl (I am 23 years old and should not be addressed in such a manner), and said that we ate all of our food so there was nothing to compensate. I did not touch the pork roll so he said he would adjust the bill to remove that and bring it back .HOWEVER, when he brought the bill back, he added on an order of eggs and did not remove anything, so he was charging me an extra $6 at this point. I had to find him to fix the bill for him to remove the eggs and the pork roll, leaving me with a $3 "compensation" after an additional 15 minute wait. If I wasnt hungover and didnt have to wait over an hour to try to get someone to fix all of this, I wouldnt have touched that food. Poor waitressing service, poor management, and extremely poor ownership. Does not create a good repor with the customers and does no care to see them happy or satisfied. Working in the restaurant business for over 8 years now i have never seen such unprofessionalism and lack of attention or care. the whole hour and a half we were there not one person said sorry or try to compensate us in any means. Do not waste your time or money into this business. I am not returning and will only promote people to stay away from this establishment. A complete shame. read more

Ponzio's - my pork roll that I asked for well done. dry and burnt. sends me over another order that is soggy and undercooked. Horrible! - Bakeries Near Me - Cherry Hill, New Jersey

My wife and I had breakfast at this diner on 11/04/19 and were shocked at the price for a simple order of 2 eggs,scrapple,toast,gome fries and coffee, all for 29.92. The most I ever paid for breakfast at any diner that we have visited. The food was ok- not worth the cost. Never again for breakfast. read more

Excellent excellent food, I had heard about this place for a while and was wanting to heck it out, so if oh are like me you should. I had the burger (what a surprise). Great burger loved it. The appetizer though is really what I want to talk about because they had Philly cheesesteak spring rolls and oh man if you have never had them you have got to try them they were excellent. Better yet I had blueberry cobbler for desert ( I know out of all the pies and cakes and cookies that's what I had). Regardless excellent highly recommend this place great food all around. read more

Ponzio's is a massive diner with great homemade baked goods. I think it's sheer size & customer volume makes it feel more like a chain restaurant than a small town family diner. My family goes frequently for brunch, but I never feel like a regular even if I go every weekend. The waits can be long on & the food is good most of the time. Overall it's good, but pricey. And if you ever complain they will treat you like they don't need your business anyways. Still I keep going back for brunch and their homemade baked goods. read more

This is one of my favorite diners! The food is DELICIOUS and the staff is friendly. It can get very busy, but even with a lobby full of people, the wait time is not long. Everything is always very clean. This visit we were a party of 4 and the lobby was full. We put our name on the list and were seated in about 10-15 minutes. We ordered the Stuffed French Toast and Loaded Potato Omelet both were delicious. I definitely recommend stopping in! read more

We had not gone out to dinner for a couple of weeks and my wife asked that we go to Ponzio's in Cherry Hill, NJ, last night for dinner. She said that she had had their Chicken Pot Pie for lunch, only available on Thursdays, and she wanted that again. So we went. We arrived around 7 p.m. The parking lot wasn't totally full but was close to it. The restaurant had about 70% of the tables filled. The hostess was pleasant and seated us at a table and not a booth as we had requested. We seldom order appetizers and didn't last night either. My wife ordered soup, Snapper, and the Chicken Pot Pie. I ordered a Garden Salad and the Porterhouse Pork Chops. The soup and salad were delivered almost immediately. Our dinners were delivered fairly quickly after that. My wife raved about the Chicken Pot Pie. I tasted the gravy and it was a bit better than average. But it was nice and hot. My dinner, on the other hand, was stone cold. The pork chops and the mashed potatoes were stone cold. I will note that everything in the bread basket was stone cold too. The waitress did take my dinner and the bread to the kitchen and they came back warm but not hot. I had put a pat of butter in the mashed potatoes and it was a melted pool when it came back. Half of the mashed potatoes had dripped out of the bowl onto the plate under it. That was not the worst part though. Restaurants are in the habit or partially cooking a variety of meats so they can cut the delivery time to the customer's table. I understand the goal and I also have found that some chefs can do that better than others. However, these pork chops were tough with a leathery outer layer. The outside of the chops were a light copper color as if they had had some sort of liquid brushed on them while cooking. They were so dry that I could hardly chew the pieces that I managed to saw off. I ate about 1/3 of one of the two chops and just could not eat any more. My wife ate about 2/3 of here Pot Pie and we both took the remains home. We barely made it home when I then spent several hours in the bathroom and still have the same feeling 15 hours later. After that, I was hungry since I had not had much dinner so I reheated my wife's Pot Pie remains and ate that. But I did not rave about the dish as my wife had done. The chicken was dried out and over cooked. There was one small piece of boiled potato and a dozen or so green peas. There were a few pieces of stewed onions. The crust was OK but not as light as some commercially packaged pot pies. To top off our visit to Ponzio's, the cashier was a young lady, slinging gum, who did not inquire about our meals simply demanded to know if I wanted to leave a tip on the credit card, I told her the amount, she ran the credit card machine and tossed the paper strip and a pen to me. That young lady's mother was a failure. Her daughter has no manners and did not to add to the hospitality of anyone's visit to Ponzio's. I suppose she was a relative of the owners. In any case, it will be a long time before we go back there. read more

For a diner, a surprisingly weak selection of meals. I've seen better selection at taverns. I ordered the fish and chips, and it was more like fish sticks and a couple of french fries, I've seldom seen so little food on a plate. The cole slaw portion was one of those little paper cups like you would pump ketchup into at Burger King, which is also how the ketchup came. Very disappointed. The lobby is poorly laid-out with a clutter of people trying to figure out how to leave. It's not disgusting, but there are a lot of far better diners in the area. read more

I love coming to this diner! I've lived in cherry hill my whole life and would never pass up a time to ponzios. My personal fave is the grilled cheese! Staff and cooks are great. read more

Ponzios is in my opinion, the best diner is South Jersey and I have tried many. The rolls are home made and fresh, the iced tea is freshly brewed and the service is quick and efficient. Standouts on the menu are the French onion soup, panzarottini pizza rolls and the pesto chicken dish. The portions are large, the price is good and to top it off, Ponzios has an amazing bakery with some of the best cookies and cakes in the area that I have ever had. The cookie trays are sure to be party crowd pleasers. The atmosphere could be improved, and the inside seemingly could use a face lift, but nothing beats the quality of food and service here. They have anything you are in the mood for. My go to spot! read more

Had never been there before. Went last night and will never go again. Watched as employee after employee watched as my guest & I waited to be seated. Two minutes became five minutes then seven and so on... these same employees were NOT tending to customers; they were standing either talking to other employees or doing nothing. Literally. "Someone will be right with you" a few said to us. Of course no one ever came. It was the CLASSIC example of "not my job." It was incredible. Needless to say we did not stay and I for one WILL NEVER go back. As one who knows a thing or two about customer experience this was shocking even to me. read more

This is so overhyped and expensive it is ridiculous!! Very popular in the area and I don't get it. Very overpriced and the food is mediocre at best. I live a few blocks away and never go here anymore . I have eaten both breakfast and lunch here and was totally disappointed. My advice is look for someplace else when you are in the mood for diner food. There are much better options in the area. read more

Addendum / Update 1/2/17: Well, we went back, for b'fast. Twice in Sept and Oct '16 and most recently Jan '17. Unfortunately each time we were disappointed. How can you mess up something as easy as eggs, potatoes and sausage? As before the platter came out with barely lukewarm food. Eggs were not cooked well done as requested. Sausages had a strange 'days old' aftertaste to them. Hash browns lukewarm and had the consistency of like we were chewing roofing shingles. Only thing they got right was the tea. Sorry, I will never go back to this place, either with clients or family or myself, ever again. Consider the Cherry Hill Diner about 1/2 mile away on 38 or the now re-opened Crystal Lake Diner in Haddon Twp near the County Library Extension instead. Sorry but I gave you guys 3 times, and you struck out. This one-time four star diner desperately needs a visit from Chef Gordon Ramsay. read more

Ponzio's used to be one of the best restaurants in Cherry Hill. But apparently the parents got old and the kids took over. I remember years ago if you asked for something to be made to order, IT WAS MADE TO ORDER. Now, you're lucky if it's even hot :-). Everything is getting more expensive, but their prices are rediculous. Even 2 eggs cost like $6-- no meat, either. And they're usually cost and the potatoes look like yesterdays! Say it isn't so! I miss the old Ponzio's. :-( read more

Love the Chicken Maryann. A little heavy but that just means I get 2 meals out of it. Go before 4 or maybe 5 and the lunch price is about $14. But even if you pay a bit more you get the basket of bread (next day breakfast) soup or salad. I don't care for their sauce but the eggplant in the eggplant parm is perfect always crispy like they just made it. I'm a big fan... read more

Just back from one of the worst meals I have had in a long time. Went there to celebrate my mother's birthday. Had made a reservation for 8, but when we got there, were told it was never made. Asked for Alex and was told there wasn't an Alex...even though I had the card with his name on it that I had made the day before. I ordered a simple meal of a chicken club sandwich...easy for a diner, right? NO. The chicken was dried out and the toast was burnt. Even after I complained about it, there wasn't an apology or offer to redo it. Our waiter was young, but still he should have known better. Will think long and hard before going again. read more

Wow 1st time there and the food was great Service fabulous and prices were reasonable Would highly recommend read more

My husband and I decided to go to Ponzio's for breakfast today. Unfortunately we did not have good service at this location. While waiting to be seated my husband was asking the restaurant manager a simple question and it was the restaurant managers attitude that was absolutely rude, condescending, not professional and totally uncalled for. We ended up leaving and going to a different diner instead. Needless to say, we will never return to Ponzio's again. read more

Food was great! Our server Gwen was absolutely amazing. She has wonderful personality! I haven't been here in months due to my last waitress being pretty rude. I figured, I'll give it one more shot. I am ecstatic that I did because Gwen made it wonderful again. I'm happy to see Ponzio's has made an amazing hire with Gwen. I'll be coming back and asking for Gwen personally every time. read more

What happened to the Ponzios of old? Sadly, in my humble opinion as well as Lip's, our experience was a let down. I'll make it simple. The waiter was terrible. (Michael) Lips ordered the Pork Chops Medium rare. Yes folks Medium rare. No one in this country has died of trichinosis in about 5 decades. So, STOP over cooking till pork is dried out.!!! The waiter made a big deal and kept questioning Lips about Medium Rare. Also, Michael the waiter has a bad habit of talking under his breath. (Very rude Michael to do that) Chops come...OVER COOKED, DRIED OUT. I had the Onion Soup. Looked great tasted like bland dish water. I ordered the Chicken Wings. The wings were the size of my little finger and were so tasteless. Finally, the waiter comes over to check on our dinner. He grabs the plate in front of Lips never says a word. (The new plate of chops were done perfectly and were better) Waiter never says anything about why I left 5 wings on the plate. Upon paying and mentioning the lousy service her answer was; yea well he (The Waiter) gets that way and other customers have been dissatisfied. Oh gee thanks! Oh well...another, (Never again) read more