Tick Tock Diner
“It's connected to the New Yorker Hotel making easy in and easy out if you're staying there.”
“I'm so glad that if I'm ever around Penn Station on my way to or from LI & just want some plain American food, I can always come here!”
“This place may be in the middle of tourist-lane, but the food is unbelievably good!!!”
Tick Tock Diner
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Sister diner to the original Tick Tock in NJ and expanding out to midtown Manhattan. Located on one of the busiest corners on the planet, 34th St and 8th Ave, just a stone's throw away from Madison Square Garden and Penn Station, TT is one of the anchor restaurants of the New Yorker Hotel. Somehow the 50's diner kitsch complements the Art Deco of the New Yorker as you glide in from the hotel lobby. I have a sneaking suspicion that this used to be a bank unless someone snuck a giant bank vault into the basement and turned it into a party room! (might have been Citibank, if memory serves).
Just how do they make their pancakes so uniform?! Cloning? It's gotta be a giant robot in the kitchen cranking out each flapjack because every one is identical to the others in diameter, thickness and doneness. Consistency is one thing, but this is downright Brave New World or 1984. On the plus side, they offer grits as an option for breakfast sides as well as the standard home fries. A little on the pricey side for diner food, but remember where you are and having the convenience in the hotel lobby or across the street from the theater for a quick bite after a late movie. Or maybe after riding in on Amtrak and you crawled out of the depths of Penn Station, you're feeling a little peckish, then the Tick Tock is made to order.
Craving dessert and there wasn't really anything open in the area aside from this. Felt like I stepped out of the city into a small town where you'd usually find diners when I first walked in. Got the ice cream sundae with no regrets. One could finish it by yourself, but it's great for sharing.
Came here with a friend and his friend after an event. I only had water but the staff was attentive, portions were huge and no complaints were had. I think going with someone who was known to the staff was a plus here; decor is also all right.
Inside the New Yorker. They handle a huge volume of business in an efficient manner. When I was there, all the employees were South American, very nice and attentive. I got a hamburger. It was like what I make in an iron skillet. I took the Canadian bacon, cheese and bun off, they weren't worth the calories. Steak fries were perfectly fried. The breakfast food I saw others get looked very, recommend the breakfast menu.
Ok, I understand how busy the area is but on a Saturday morning, it wasn't the case. As I'm waiting to be seated, solo, a couple who were waiting before me were seated then a couple who arrived a few minutes after me were seated, that right there annoyed me as there were plenty of empty small booths to seat me & continue to the next.
Then I'm seated but it took the waitress more than five minutes to arrive to take my order. I had to flag the bus boy to get the attention on that one. She never asked how my meal was or offered to refill the coffee. The place is nicely renovated & the food is on point but now I remember why I haven't been here in over 6 years! The wait staff can be a little laxed for a calm slow Saturday morning.
Sometimes it is a hit or miss as they say with diners.
On a weekend and it is quiet. Not that many people. Hostess takes us and sits us in the back hidden from anything and anyone.
Asked for a booth elsewhere and she did not seem so happy.
The waitress we had was good. She came by asked what we wanted. Coffee and something to get us going. Came back with 2 cups of coffee. Other waitress was complaining about something in another aisle. We ordered breakfast- Bagel with lox, and an omelette.
Food is okay. Been here before and things have changed and food too.
Prices are what you get for being in NYC and the high rate of rent.
Tick Tock Diner has been here forever. Really, like the one in NJ. It's the ambiance and the people that makes dining experience pleasant.
Good place to meet people for cup of coffee. Morning business meeting.
nope. limp chicken fingers and fries, sugar overload cake. diners in nyc are trash. they delivered really fast, but then again it is basically down the street. never again.
This diner is super popular and seats a LOT of people.
The staff tries to organize the masses of tourists and locals that come in, and although you might feel the waiters/waitresses are tired and disorganized, they will only get mad at each other, not at the costumers. It truly gives you the American diner experience.
The service is friendly, the food doesn't take too long for how many people are seated.
Price: good for NY, a couple dollars more expensive than the average American diner but, still cheaper for NY
Tip: try a milkshake!