One of the things on the list that I wanted to go to was an East coast diner. I think my expectations were a little too high. I now realize that diners serve a function. Everything is not going to be good and some things should be avoided. I got the Red Hook Dlx burger. I don't know how it happened but the whole was less than the sum of the parts. All of the ingredients really spoke to me. Unfortunately the chili was bland, the burger under seasoned. Seriously with the canned mushrooms, it's an east coast thing I guess. The onions and bacon were the best parts. Cooked perfectly and plentiful. The lettuce just kind of got in the way. Empty vitamins. My wife got the tuna melt and the Greek salad. She was a big fan of the salad. The tuna tasted a little strange though. I loved the accoutrements. Fries were good. Under seasoned but I can operate a salt shaker. I love the inclusion of a couple onion rings. They were really good. I'm glad I got to try. Oh that pickle was so good. I want more of them. read more

Red Hook Diner - Red hook dlx burger - American Near Me - Red Hook, New York

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Breakfast was delicious. Got an omelette and split pancakes. Staff were friendly. Their bathrooms were disgusting which makes me a bit concerned about their kitchen. read more

We had a great lunch here! We all got the small Greek salads and they were the perfect size. I also got an order of fries and they were delicious. The staff was kind and attentive. The restaurant was clean and comfortable. read more

Red Hook Diner - Greek salad - American Near Me - Red Hook, New York

I enjoyed a nice full breakfast here served by quick footed wait staff. The coffee is good and the prices are reasonable. Best of all they have a huge parking lot, no small thing for this area. The baked goods in the display cabinet look awfully tempting. read more

I haven't had eggs Benedict in a very very long time and I had urge for some really good gooey eggs Benedict with home fries first, I had to talk them into the home fries instead of french fries then I get home and my eggs are definitely not deliciously gooey but over cooked hard as a rock ,hard boiled on an English muffin...... Really. Very disappointing read more

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We had a very bad experience at the Red Hook diner. The owner's wife was at the front counter, she refused to talk to my wife because she speaks slightly accented English. She was told she had to speak to a Spanish speaking employee. My wife speaks English perfectly and was very insulted by this. We've been there many times, the eggs are ok. I tried the Hungarian goulash once, it was awful. read more

Went in for takeout coffee and breakfast snack. Walked in and asked for menu. Manager points to stack of menus rather than handing to me. I sit at counter and order two coffees and two breakfast sandwiches with ham and cheese on English muffin which is listed for $3.95 including egg. I say leave the egg off. Nice waiter tells me there's an up charge for English muffin but it can come in wheat or rye toast. I say Ok put on wheat. Waiter brings bill for $22!!! I say no way, cancel my order. He cannot reasonably explain price and looks embarrassed. I go to pay for coffee and manager asks why I cancelled sandwiches. I explain the price is ridiculous. He says, "It costs a lot to run a place like this!" I still haven't figured out how it got priced that way unless pricing for a grilled cheese sandwich. I go next door to Dunkin' where I should have gone in the first place and get more coffee (even their coffee was bad) and avocado toast and ham and cheese muffin. Lesson learned! read more

Save your money and avoid the aggravation. Stopped here because they had a big sign on route 9 for a prime rib special. Avoiding my own credo ( diners are for gyros and burgers), we stopped. The first slice of prime rib I was served was medium at best ( I ordered rare) and white like it had been in a microwave. The server confirmed they don't use a broiler to cook it but said she would find me a rare piece. The second one that came out was literally ice cold. It obviously went straight from the fridge to the plate. This was about the time I told the server to 86 the order as I really didn't want to gamble with anything else out of that kitchen. Here comes the manager.... She wants to know what the problem is. I tell her and she actually says that I should eat the cut that was served ice cold because it's costing her money ( so not my problem). She leaves the table then returns to tell me that it was ice cold because she checked ( I'm not going to lie ....). When we went to pay they can suddenly not take credit cards because the machine is down, but they have an atm (convenient) for a $3 fee. Smh what a racket this place has running. read more

A couple of out-of-staters looking for a salad for lunch. One needed to be vegan, but that has never been an issue. Worst case was asking for the cheese to be swapped out for another veggie. Reviewing the menu found that all the salads had a meat and a cheese. That meant we would be paying for a salad that had the two most expensive ingredients swapped out for something cheaper. But we were hungry and already seated. When the waiter came by we asked to have the meat and cheese swapped out. With an obligatory eye-roll, he said that the salads came as stated in the menu with no substitutions. With that, we asked for the check for the 2 seltzers that were already delivered. To add insult to injury, the 2 sodas came to $8.54!!. Fortunately, we found a much more accommodating, and reasonably priced diner in the center of Rhinebeck and was happy to leave a 20% tip. read more

My parents are regulars at Red Hook Diner. Today, my mother came in to pick up an order and spoke with the owner, Carla. My mother asked for the order, in English, and Carla refused to speak with her and called over a Spanish speaking employee to interpret. When my mother tried telling Carla that she spoke English, Carla refused to speak to her and told her "I'm not going to speak to you." Carla, maybe you need a lesson on microgressions or some anti-racism training, because this is absolutely unacceptable behavior, especially in 2024. Shame on you for embarrassing and hurting a loyal customer because you couldn't be bothered to deal with her. Ignorant and hateful people like you represent everything that's wrong with this country. Like I said, my parents are regulars at Red Hook Diner, but we will never eat here again. Maybe that's a good thing, considering the food is mediocre at best. read more

Stopped in for a post holiday family gathering of about 10 people. It's not a huge place but was able to accommodate us well since we were there mid-afternoon and missed both the lunch and dinner rush. Everyone had something different, but the food was excellent, service was attentive and friendly and a good time was had by all. read more

The food was cooked properly. Large portions so you won't leave hungry. The waitress was extra nice. Coming over a few times to see if we needed anything. read more

Still just as good as ever. Their portions are huge and the food is delicious. It is spotlessly clean, and the staff is very friendly. Try the Italian Panini. read more

I love this placeeee!!!!! Wait staff is kind, professional, accommodating!! The restaurant is well cleaned and the portions are HUGE. Def not a Michelin star restaurant, but if you are there for the diner experience then it's fun! Seems like ok quality ingredients and a really kitschy experience read more

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Won't return. I have enjoyed this diner in the past so stopped Sunday afternoon for coffee, pie & conversation. Could barely think with the custodian BANGING around the dining area with his sweeper... banging the broom against the dustpan & banging the dustpan on the floor. Around & around he went while people were eating and trying to talk. When paying, I mentioned this to the flippant blonde woman at register whose response conveyed that my opinion didn't matter. Of course cleanliness is important but not while eating! Keep the broom & dirt away from food! Although I added that the banging was very disturbing, she might just as well have told me she didn't care. Never have I experienced this in a dining area. Wait until patrons leave to sweep around their area and respect patrons concerns! read more

Extremely unpleasant owner. Why am I paying for their error? $44 for a panini and cheeseburger, and they forgot my salad and charged me $8+ for onion rings. We wanted rings with the burger, not a side of rings. My wife wanted a salad but got fries. They charged me for onion rings and gave me two orders of fries. read more

This place was exactly what I want a diner to be. The usual spread of breakfast all day, burgers and sandwiches, gyros and other Greek-ish food, etc. French fries were nicely crispy and the coleslaw was creamy and tasty. Our order was slightly incorrect (we asked to sub a small Greek salad instead of fries, a $4.50 upcharge listed in the menu) but we decided to let fate lead us instead of having it fixed. The salad charges were not on the final bill, so no harm no foul. It was worth stopping in, and I would do so again if I'm in the area. read more

My better half and I ate lunch here yesterday. They have several options on their menu, everything ranging from various breakfast plates to several dinner options (including steak and seafood). I ordered the chicken gyro while my girlfriend ordered a caesar wrap. Both main dishes were delicious! I wasn't too crazy about my sides (coleslaw and potato salad) as I found them to be a bit bland. My girlfriend's fries were cooked perfectly though. Our server (Joann) did a great job by checking on us, getting our orders correct, etc, etc. I would definitely return here and suggest you give them a shot should you find yourself in Red Hook, NY. read more

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Not from this town- had to stop for something to eat on the way home. 2 hours from my home in a small town, but the food choices and quality was amazing!!! it was very unexpected! Highly recommend this cute Diner. Server was great and attentive as well. read more

An average diner in town if you're looking for a place to go and don't want to venture out too far. They're really good at keeping your coffee cup full if you're looking to drink a lot of coffee to stay awake to start your day. The food is pretty standard diner food. It's a little on the pricy side I have to admit, but you will leave full. I suggest asking for the home fries to be made crispy as they come out mainly on the steamed/soggy side. read more

Never lets me down- homemade coleslaw is sooooo welcome and unexpected. Most place give you the commercial slop. Love the Ruben and the Caesar wrap. Greek salad and home made soups are my go-to here. read more

I ordered food here once and will never go back. The "gravy" for mashed potatoes was tomato based. The chicken was so dry, I've never had chicken that dry in my life!!! I ended up getting my meal for free becauE it was THAT bad.. and im not the type to be a karen.. Save your money and go anywhere else! read more

I have been going to this diner for years. Good not great. Last Friday both our meals were not at all good. Prices are up and portions and quuality down. read more

the portion's are so big so i can fill up my tummy and take it home and eat more. the pankaes are also rilly good thry are soooooooooooooooo big and i like the fishtank and i like trying to find the succerfish they should put in a batta fish and make it more decrative read more

Food was decent. Was generally pleased until checking out when the owner herself charged me extra $ to use a gift card (even though I planned to pay the difference in cash). I gave her several polite chances to make it right, but she stood her ground that I was to be charged the card fee because I was using a gift "card." :-( Buyer beware on purchasing gift cards. Your recipient will be up-charged for using it. read more

We have been coming here for 7 years when we are in the area. We have never had a bad meal or experience here until this afternoon. We were sat quickly waiter came over took our drink orders as we looked over the menu and specials. Our drinks came and we were still looking over the menu. We put our menus down for a just a moment and the hostess came over very rudely and ask what we would be having. She cut my husband off when he began to order his meal, bc she had to look at the specials to see if my meal came with a soup. We ordered mozzarella sticks to start. Our daughter kids chicken tenders, I ordered the chicken chimichangas and my husband our the french dip. Our mozzarella sticks came out fast and no sooner did they arrive so did our meal. Chicken tenders came out fine. My chicken chimichanga and I mean one was an oversized mushy burrito stuffed with dry chicken banana peppers and onions and sprinkled with little to no cheese. Chimichangas are supposed to be deep fried with a nice sauce on top that was not the case with this special. My husband's French dip came on a hard roll and not a hoagie with little to no meat on it and also had onions on it as well. The waiter never came over again to ask how our meal was only time we saw him is when he dropped our check off. Unfortunately after this experience we will not be returning the food and service as gone way down hill. read more

$9 for the most mediocre bacon, egg & cheese sandwich I've ever had. NINE DOLLARS? I've never paid that much for a breakfast sandwich ANYWHERE IN AMERICA and this one was particularly tasteless and made of poor ingredients. When I balked at the price, she said it was $2 for the cheese. This was a pickup order and she had the gall to ask if I wanted to add a tip. I believe in tipping and added a dollar but not because the service was good, lemme tell ya. The vibe of this diner is "take it or leave it " and I recommend never arriving. read more

Red Hook Diner - American Near Me - Red Hook, New York

Eh. It was ok. The temps on the prime ribs and burgers were a tad more toward the well side but they were enjoyed. The sweet potato fries were a little dark but pretty good. I had the fried chicken basket. Holy hell. WORST EVER!! The oil must have been really old. Came out quite dark, greasy and completely dried out. Out of 4 pieces there was only one that I could get a fair amount of meat from. I was ready to walk into the kitchen and show them how it's done. Just awful. Only giving 3 stars because most of the food was average and our waitress was very nice and attentive to a party of 6. If it was just me and my family (3 of us) I would have given it 2 read more

Good service & very clean diner, but as others have written, food was not very good. Had a corn beef hash omelette and it just had no flavor. Felt like a bunch of marginal ingredients thrown in a skillet. Too bad...could be much better. read more

Well the food is not great, or even good for that matter. It's a mediocre diner that doesn't seem to excel at much. I feel like they could cut down their menu some to focus on making fewer things but making them correctly. I would have given this place one star but our server was very nice, quick with refills, and very accommodating. So in closing. I've had worse, but it's still pretty close to the bottom! read more

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Sad. Bland boring food. Save your money and find a better choice. Zero stars really. Even the fries were tired.

Although I don't generally flock here very often, though you are within my town's borders, when I came in after a hurried trip to Danbury the other day and headed back home, I was coming in from the south (on foot) on a cooler night and stopped in. You were open when the Dunkin Donuts wasn't (which was a godsend), yet I knew you were hoping to close within two hours of my entrance. Although I generally know what I want, I knew I was just awaiting a better selection of Uber cars in Dutchess Co having my car not quite two miles away from home and was here. I came in - in reality, to just "warm-up" -but got a piece of dessert cake to help offset the time (to be fair). Although the waitstaff handed me their to-go menu (in hopes of eliminating their normal menu altogether), when I mentioned a few factors of the reason why I was there, the first thing that came to mind was to get a quick-to-eat dessert and being tabled close to the cake stand, the waitress mentioned that I should just check out the stand and mention to her what looked appealing. I thought the one muli-chocolate layered cake on the one level looked appealing and got her to come over to notice which one - something she did. I promptly sat down and as she dished out a few other pieces and maintained the restaurant's appearance a teeny bit, I could hear her open the case to dish out the piece already precut and ready for serving. However, I was shocked when I received it. It tasted very dry - to a point where I don't think anything could have saved it - not even if I had ordered a drink couldn't it have saved it. And what really struck me is the taste of the Reeses cups candies at the end - something it didn't look like it had when I looked at it. Otherwise, it tasted "eh". Despite other factors, the chocolate tasted fine, but you could tell something was lacking in the cake. I don't know how long it had been sitting there - maybe it was starting to be outdated, and without that information and without good knowledge expect eyesight - and without price boards, I really was shocked. I order from this place every so often within the coronavirus pandemic times. I generally get good service, but there's always a problem with the food. I had ordered the Nutter Butter French Toast in September, but had other trouble then, and thought it would be fizzled out by now. This french toast suffered a separate fate, but then again I was transporting it back home in my car, and something happened to it then. I won't make a big deal of this, but a separate manner happened when I walked in for another desert-like item towards the beginning of the pandemic - and each time, it just creates havoc with something not tasting (what's the best way to say it) - fresh! I know it's not just me. Ever since this place opened, I have hated to come here, while I know I've had other troubles. While I can honestly say it's not getting worse, I can honestly also say that's it not getting much (If any) better and the troubles continue. But I keep coming back, hoping for better products or a change that would make me want to experience this place further - each time trying to find some way to find a way to see this place as "fitting" to the standardized style of food-serving with the way things are made here. I was seated rather quickly, and because of the non-abundance of other customers, (only a few were there when I entered, and you could hear their phone ringing for pickup orders only), I didn't see another soul enter the whole entire fifteen minutes I was in there. (I can further say that I caught some better Uber cars after my time in, and was able to warm up, so that I could go out after they got up to a point on their route to pick me up - an Uber driver I've had before. But I won't harp on that!) read more

Went today with 3 other people. IT was midmorning, and all of us were here a few times before. We ordered, and 1,scrambled eggs, were 1/2 cooked.Toast came with, and it was hard and falling apart ,sign of old bread. Egg sandwich with cheese and sausage patty on a hard role, Again role falling apart OLD - DRY.Sausage patty was dry and over cooked on the edges ,cheese the tips of it was hard and dry and never melted. Eggs with bacon and home fries. This meal out of the four was revolting. HOME FRIES ! Soaked in grease ,brown,colored and half brown mush . That plate wasn't finished and p.o. Tea, for him was Luke warm water ,pushed that aside. blt club ,well the bread for that was horrendous. After picking up and removing toothpick, bread cracked all over and dry ,DRY! Now it's revealing old rusty black tipped lettuce,ya know when it's the beginning? Well, that's what these so-called chefs and owners are doing. The coffee well,figured out why it was undeniable like re- boiled oil.The coffee- carafe guy we nicknamed him was constantly pouring old coffee into half filled pots and back on the burners. As our food was being moved off the table, a dark skinned man was watching all plates going back in the kitchen with discarded food. He walked around the dining room a few times looking at peoples plates and food was going back that they didn't finish.The man was dark skinned AND I, myself with the restaurant scene am slowly ditching it and eating home .For what it cost us four to eat there and each one of us did not finish our food. Before asking why we DIDN'T send our food back! We'll nobody DOES that it's the worst thing you can do and that's the truth. It's funny how now today even food is a rip off. The people in the restaurant kitchens now is scary and this pla e is not what it WAS! YEAH THERE WAS VERY GOOD HISTORY ! NOT NOW! WATCH YOUR FOOD ,LOOK AT THE QUALITY read more

Food wasn't bad and staff was pretty attentive. It has a typica diner atmosphere. Have done breakfast there a couple times and the omelets have been good but read the menu or your omelet may be dry and without cheese as it looked like they charged extra for cheese instead of just adding to the cost upfront. read more

Had dinner at this diner on Saturday November 30, 2019 Ordered the Baked Salmon with Seafood Stuffing.... This order came with a salad and soup. The soup was atrocious the salad fair but the entrée was inedible. The salmon had no taste repeat no taste and the seafood stuffing was so disgusting it looked like mush and tasted horrendous. I did not eat this dish but paid and did not bother to comment to the owner. The lesson is READ THE REVIEWS AND BELIEVE THEM !!!!!! I thought I would make a quiet call to the diner the next day but changed my mind.. Honestly , this entrée was so disgusting there should have been a skull and crossbones next to it on the menu read more

I guess it is my fault that I was thinking we were going to be entering a quaint little country diner? I understand that it can be difficult to maintain an attractive atmosphere when you are in between a drive-thru Dunkin Donuts and Route 9. However, the interior atmosphere was also very bare and lacked any personality. Regardless, food was nothing special. My chicken caesar wrap was very dry and fell apart after the third or so bite. I actually had to spit out the pickle that was accompanied by my lunch. The Red Hook Diner is a diner that everyone has been to before. It is an okay place if you just want something quick. That's it though; I feel bad for roasting the place, but I am just being completely honest. The services was good though, and food came quickly. read more

I'd never been but I'll be back. Tristan, our server, was super. Kind and attentive with a great sense of humor. The food was good, too. Have a grilled cheese with fried onions - you won't regret it! read more

Seriously, don't bother. Stopped by on the way to a hike for pancakes to share. When we asked for more than one set of plastic cutlery we were very rudely denied. Only one set of plastic cutlery allowed per entree. I even offered to pay a dollar for an extra set, but it looks like the diner's going rate is $1.70. Maybe I should have traded some syrup. Either way, I was waved out and am still stunned by how rude the manager (and hostess) were. Why does anyone go here? We've always loved the Historic Red Hook Diner. Will only go there in the future. read more

Hubby and I were on our way back home and decided to give this place a shot. Really, REALLY wish we hadn't. I ordered the Roast Turkey Dinner which boasted "fresh turkey breast". Well, it may have been fresh but it was tasteless and looked like it came from the local deli. It was shaved. Who the hell serves shaved turkey for a turkey dinner??? The mashed potatoes were lukewarm and the gravy was tasteless. The veggies were limp and bland. And the price for this "turkey dinner"? $16!! I guess being close to NYC allows you to charge that much. Hubby got the chopped steak which he said was good, but again, the veggies were limp and bland. The tossed salads we each got were very nice, lots of different greens and the dressing was tasty. Will make sure to stay away from this place the next time we are in that area. read more

Came for lunch and ate outside on picnic benches. Food was fine, we had grilled cheese and fries and soda. Please, CUT the lawn. We were afraid of getting ticks. read more