I love this diner for it's friendliness, food and service. My friend and I come here regularly and enjoy the same table almost every time. We particularly like our waitress, Gizelle, who greets us with a smile. We ask for her every time. She is so efficient and knows everything we like. She just makes our visit a pleasure. Thank you Gizelle. We just left there this evening and will be back soon. Jerry H. read more

Service, whether sit-down or takeout is good, and the breakfast is always tasty. When I think about the diner experience, Sunrise Diner is what I imagine. read more

Excellent cinnamon roll pancakes, great coffee. Chicken and waffles didn't have gravy, but the eggs and biscuits were very good!

We go almost every Sunday for breakfast. Great brunch, nice waitresses, & hostess. Pleasant atmosphere. Reasonable prices. read more

Sunrise Diner - Bacon & cheese omelette with home fries. - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

First let me say they have the absolute BEST cooks and homemade soups anywhere, the special Chef Brian learned from the best old school cooks from the early days of allentown.But now is the time to pay them a visit" IRIS" the manager and her family decorated the diner in a Christmas theme even Santa himself would give a five star rating,IRIS has quite a special talent so well she could be compared to the famous Christmas lites of the famous HOTEL BETHLEHEM.While the season is early, i urge you to take your family to the sunrise diner to see her spectacular work! You won't be disappointed read more

We love this diner for many reasons, but really LOVE when we get there and see Gizelle working! She's the absolute best waitress they've got!!! read more

I asked the cashier clerk for a copy of my meal receipt. She handed me the cr/card receipt. I asked her 3 times for the meals receipt and she walked away. She made a copy for herself so I reached over and took the copy for my receipts. She came back to my table and took it from me and I stated again for a 4 and 5th time I needed a copy of the meals receipt so I could process it under my business trip expenses. Apparently she doesn't know the difference. I believe she is also the owner. I finally made her give me a receipt. She should have just made herself another copy but she had to come back and take the one I took. She is a rude, disrespectful person and definitely not people friendly. I would not recommend stopping here at all. The food was okay and nothing to write home about. Greasy spoon food if you like it. I still left the waitress a $6 tip as it wasn't her fault her boss was as rude as they come!!! read more

Really a truly sad day for me to have to write this. I've been going to Sunrise since I was 3 with my great grand parents, 34 years now, with the old owners. I don't write this review after 1 bad experience, but a progressively worse and worse experience over the past 2 years since Covid was over. When the new owners took over, we were skeptical at best. We were, however pleasantly surprised. A new and exciting menu that filled some gaps, while keeping the old favorites was introduced. Service remained the same, if not slightly improved, and the food was the same quality as always. Then COVID happened. Now, we all know COVID sucked for everyone in the food industry, so I would have never written this right after or during, or even in the aftermath while these places were recovering. However, the sad fact is that service, quality, and price/portion/stingy moves have continued to become and more and more prevalent. We've also not seen the owners here for a while, so I'm not sure if they've lost interest maybe or have other things going on. A few examples, and these are just 3 of a dozen or more I could write; - A few months back, me and a lady friend of mine came in for a relaxed dinner. After 10 minutes to get drinks, we then waited 25 minutes for appetizers, and then an astonishing 45 minutes after for the meal. Waitresses were as nice as they could be about it, you could tell they were embarrassed. - On several occasions, we've waited at least 20 minutes for 3 omelettes and home fries. More times than I can count. Often times with these, a simple side order may be missing, and that can take yet another 20 minutes to come out. - On a more recent occasion, on a pick up order, the entire order was essentially wrong (did not see until I got home. These things happen, but I'm always crystal clear on the phone and ensure that they say it back to me. They did, so this was a cook issue. I also found out you no longer can make your own mini salad to go, they just do a standard lettuce tomato onion and small cup of dressing, very disappointing. The straw that broke the camels back here, the soup is the reason I kept coming back despite all of these experiences. In this case, the soup was so off, I couldn't even eat it. And that was the last hit for me with Sunrise, sadly. Bottom line, service is always super friendly, the waitresses are not at fault. There is a management/owner/kitchen issue here. The kitchen workflow / staffing likely needs an overhaul. Ownership/management probably needs to be rethought, and if they really want to do this thing, maybe consider a smaller menu for a while to get back to the Sunrise of old. Will check back in a year or so, best of luck to you, the last thing I want is the diners of America to go by the way side. read more

Me and my family got salads and and soup. I was making my salad and I got the bacon bits on it. I go to start eating it and something tastes really really gross like dog food. So I try everything and I realize it's the bacon then I also realize it's fake bacon. The servers were amazing but they need to make real bacon. read more

Seated at a dirty table. Under cooked bacon. Eggs with raw onion thrown on top. Toast that wasn't toasted. A waitress who we saw one time. Horrible I don't recommend at all. When we paid the check hostess asked how was your food, my husband said not good and the hostess ignored him while asking how much he wanted to leave for tip. Seriously. read more

Sunrise Diner - Non toasted toast? - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

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Always great food and amazing service whether eating in or calling for take out! Glad to see Chicken Croquettes as a special today and just as good as always! Daily soups are always delicious. Truly something for every age group in a family from breakfast to chicken fingers and burgers and full dinners. As always we appreciate the care in packing up to go orders and they never miss a thing! All condiments are sides are always packed accordingly. Still the best diner around. read more

We ordered basic breakfast food... Blueberry Pancakes, eggs, turkey bacon, home fries, French fries, etc . The place was packed and I was worried the wait would be long (I was wrong). We were greeted as soon as we sat, drinks came through equally fast, and shortly after the waiter came and took our orders. Food was good, service was great, no complaints. I would definitely come back for more. read more

Sunrise Diner - half eaten pizza and half empty plates - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

Amazing breakfast food for low prices and quick service. Delicious desserts as well. The lunches/dinners arent anything to rave about but the french onion soup is superb! read more

Quiet, spacious, kind hearted. I really enjoyed my meal and customer service. The deserts are stellar too. read more

Grilled Ruben sandwich served open faced was too messy, tasted pretty good. Didn't care for fries. Didn't like salad at salad bar, which is odd because I like salads. Strawberry cheesecake with extra strawberry, still one of best cheesecakes ever. Service pretty good. read more

10/22/24 Excellent server, Yamaris, efficient, helpful and kind. Food was tasty and breakfast was nice and hot . Thank you for a great diner experience ! read more

Good place to eat. Quiet environment. Close to home. Waitress are attentive and considerate.

Went here late at night. Extremely friendly staff and food was decent. This diner was awesome, stop here 24/7 for a good bite! read more

Sunrise Diner - Reuben - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

Food isn't good at all the place needs a good cleaning, the staff was nice, had to send food back because there was something in my food

We were denied service today at lunch for no mask - waitress acting as hostess said it's a company policy so exemptions do not matter. Sad we had to take our buisness elsewhere after 20+ years of dining here. I guess you should deny all disabled patrons not just maskless ones. read more

This is my SECOND review of this place. I submitted a review about 5/6 years ago. The quality of this place has diminished vastly. I believe it has been sold approximately twice within the past couple of years. The server staff is atrocious. The food has gone bland. One would think that since the pandemic the owners would work extra hard at pleasing customers..... NOPE. All you'll get here is low level hostility. I was thinking about going there this morning for breakfast since it's been a while for me. I immediately recalled the last time I was there within the past month.....I calmly walked out due to incompetent servers. I'm not going back here again. The magic has been lost. GOOD RIDDANCE! read more

Very good selection of food and awesome that it's open 24/7. One of the few left in the valley that have those hours - much appreciated!

A nice small place, I was very comfortable there. My food was presented nicely and it was tasty. I would go back to eat again.

Excellent food, great service, great diner experience. Belgian waffle was huge and delicious, eggs, hash browns and corned beef were all excellent. Will definitely come back! read more

Best diner in the valley. Everything about this place, except for the location is great (too much crime!). The food is excellent-everything is cooked perfectly and it is brought to you quickly. The menu is extremely varied, and the prices are good. The servers here are very friendly, and there are many characters among them. Weekends this placed is packed, so get there early for breakfast. The diner was recently torn down and rebuilt and its really nice inside. Its a very clean diner, and even the restrooms are kept clean unlike some of the other dumps in town. read more

Sunrise Diner - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

I was way too drunk to know if my food was good or not but the waitress was good and nice. read more

Sunrise Diner - a crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

I've lived in Mechanicsburg for years, and I have driven by this place so many times and never given it a second glance. Finding a good breakfast can sometimes be challenging because of the things we prefer - so we keep trying new places out. Last weekend we tried Sunrise and we were really pleased! This review is for breakfast - and I cant comment on their other offerings. When we arrived on Sunday morning - it was crowded - didn't think we would get a table, but they were able to seat us right away which was great, the hostess and the waitress were super friendly and attentive and had our drinks there in a flash. We both ordered breakfast, eggs, bacon, sausage and scrapple, - and everything was great. The bacon was crispy and delicious, the sausage were the larger plump fat links which I love and the scrapple was the best! - we try the scrapple everywhere we go looking for something flavorful, and it is hard to find, Sunrise has it right, they have the best scrapple we have had yet! Everything came very quickly - the eggs were cooked properly, the place is clean and the service was friendly, the breakfast was one of the best we have had in town so far. We will be coming back for the sausage and definitely the scrapple for sure! Giving 4 stars because we want to come back and try some of their other food - it looks like they have good fresh made dishes, 5 stars for breakfast I feel is a bit too generous, but what we had was excellent. read more

Loved this diner. Classic diner feel to it, right down to the jukeboxes. Adorable. I was so excited to be back in Eastern Pennsylvania so I could have the food I grew up on. I ordered the basic, 2 eggs over, homefries, rye toast, and SCRAPPLE! (See Picture!!) Yum! The food was good, super cheap ($9 for food, coffee & tip). The waitress was salty, but super sweet and efficient. Great diner experience! :) read more

Sunrise Diner - Yum! - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

Ordered lunch with girls from office. Ordered reuben wrap. ICE cold, not heated at all. reubens are grilled, wrap or not. Supposed to have a pickle with it, no pickle. Friend got BLT, toast burnt, black around toast except for middle. Potato skins had nothing on them. Just potato skin - no cheese, nothing. Taco appetizers, over fried, burnt. Extremely disappointed. May try one more time, but doubtful. Too many places around our work to go to deal with bad food. read more

I haven't had anything else here but the breakfast. They always make my eggs right which is a plus. I do enjoy multiple places for breakfast/lunch in the area but occasionally come here. Not the best experience with a certain waitress here but the waitress we had today was very nice. Prices are cheap. Place is clean. Quick breakfast spot read more

Sunrise Diner - Post work out meal! - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

After being told that the wait for 2 people would be over 45 minutes at 2 different Waffle Houses, 1 IHOP, and 1 Denny's, we came to the Sunrise Diner. We should have come here first. I've driven past it a couple times and joked about the chandelier in the entrance of a diner but today I finally went inside. We were seated immediately and our order was taken and brought out to us in less than 15 minutes. Everything was delicious. The home fries were crispy and the eggs were cooked all the way through. I hate when they're runny. My blueberry pancakes were delicious and my guest's Belgian waffle was too. The service was speedy and the price was amazingly low. Only critiques I have were the big ass flies and what looked like a bullet hole in the window of the booth we were seated in Other than that everything was great. Side note: do the little jukeboxes at the tables actually work? I didn't want to put coins in it then find out they're just decorative and not get my money back. read more

It might be good food if they let you in. They are the only restaurant anywhere con the area. They claim to be a 24 hour diner. Understandably they, like every other restaurant in America, are probably short-staffed, so they changed their hours to be open only until 10:00pm. Their lights were still on. Their flashing sign said they were open until 10. People were eating in the restaurant. The sign on the door said they were open until 10. We arrived and went to the door at 9:30. THE DOORS WERE LOCKED! We were starving with a 4 hour drive ahead of us. I don't care if the food is good or not. I will never know because I will never go back. I don't like liars. I don't like restaurants that year customers, and potential customers, like crap. read more

This place doesn't take pick up orders after 10pm, weird but true. I'm no expert in "diners" but having been in the industry, that's pretty much how you loss business. Won't be looking to go here anytime soon or in the future. read more

very weird service - the guy tried. but it was definitely weird. i don't think any of our stuff was messed up when it came to the orders. french onion soup at 1am was good. good spot to hang when nothing else is open after a show @ PPL center. read more

Not great food. Always have bathroom problems here, even with something as simple as a grilled cheese. The waitresses are rude and dissapear for long times. It's not even "good for diner food". Blande, rushed and gross food. read more

How I passed by this place before I don't know. This place is an institution - been here forever. It's your classic neighborhood diner, open 24 hours. They have individual jukeboxes at the tables, and the food is reasonable and tasty. Was in there for breakfast and there were a lot of older people, and a ton of regulars - the waitress knew them all. Everything great about diners can be found here. I wouldn't drive across town for it, but if you're in the neighborhood go for it. read more

awesome diner Yeah great selection of yummy cheese cakes and nice soup and salad bar nice people great service price not too cheap but ok Im not giving it a 5 because the old staff come on get some younger and more aggressive waiters/waitresses read more

I've been to this diner, and the others in its area a few times. This is the closest diner to my house and it looks nice, is always clean, and has those fun jukeboxes in the windows, so I keep making the mistake of going back. Every single time I "dine" at Sunrise I tell whoever I'm with to remind me never to go back there. The food is never cooked correctly, and the servers never come around to check to see if it were. Today we ate there, and there was no cheese on my breakfast wrap and my friends sausage was under-cooked. Our server never bothered to see if everything was ok or to ask us for drink refills (we had to seek her out for those), so we didn't bother tipping her for a job that even the crowded Mcdonald's across the street could have executed with much more finesse. The last thing I'll complain about is their coffee- I'm no entrepreneur, but if my diner had terrible service and food, the last thing I would let go bad would be the coffee service- their coffee is served at a sweltering temperature just below that which would melt the ceramic mugs that carry it. Without a kinged-sized portion of ice to add to it, even the most seasoned of coffee drinkers will need a trip to the burn-ward after the attempt. I have no idea how the coffee actually tastes, because I'm sure the temperature has already killed any flavoring the coffee started out with. I really like diners and hope the owners see this review so they can fix things and I can return. If you're searching for someplace worthwhile in the area, drive the extra few blocks to Queen-City Diner, IHOP, or really anywhere else. read more

I personally have never been here before but my friends have and recommended it after a night out. It wasn't busy at all surprisingly as it was right after bar closing time. We were seated and our waitress took drink orders. I noticed that 2 of us only had 1 fork each for some reason. I asked the waitress about it and she said she would look for some as they ran out. Ran out of utensils? Anyways, she found some for us and that's when things went down hill. I saw what looked like a piece of lettuce or something on my fork. Great. I ordered some french toast and bacon. The french toast was terrible, like how do you mess that up? Overall, not too great for my first time there. The dirty fork kinda did it in for me. Not cool. Likely will not be returning. read more

Sunrise Diner - Diners Near Me - Allentown, Pennsylvania

I'm giving a 2 because the waitress was nice and her kid was on the other side of the wall. She was sweet along with staff. I ordered a French dip I'm glad I pick the side that was edible . I got a to go container to bring home the other half to put in trash! Chewy fatty . Yes the worst French dip I have ever had in my life! Hubby''s Prosecutor burger dry and lack luster! French onion salty as hell! Only reason I had the French dip because before COVID I always got the chopped sirloin the last time tasted old! This is a staple of the south side! I'm never going back! read more