Bell Diner
“I usually order stuff from the breakfast menu and it hits the spot every time.”
“I've been coming here for years, since the Pete's Café days, and I'm glad the new management hasn't bucked from tradition.”
“Keep up the good work Bell Diner!”
Bell Diner
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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One of my favorite diners! This place is so yummy. I get brunch every time I'm here. The last time I ordered the two eggs (sunny side) with sausage. It comes with potatoes and toast. The sausage was very tasty and the potatoes are interesting and full of flavor. Presentation wise, incredibly Instagram-worthy. The waiters are also very attentive and are right there whenever you need a coffee refill.
Being that there is no other option in the neighborhood, i frequently have breakfast here with my family. Although today our experience was just slightly above average as my wife was served a cup of burnt coffee, i had my usual eggs, potatoes and corn beef hash, i also ordered Belgian waffle and eggs beni. The potatoes had no taste, very mushy. I would have been better off ordering french fries with my breakfast. After all was said and done breakfast was $40. Eggs beni were over cooked to the point yolks were not runny, instead dry.
I wish they did make better food and that all their servers were attentive. However, servers are good some days, great on other days and today they were just ok. No consistency at all. It seems like manager or owner is attentive but this place is the only game on bell blvd & 73rd ave.
Like they say, its all good until you find a hair in your food.
So as the story is told, we come in to just have a late breakfast sandwich. This is where G orders his breakfast sandwiches all of the time and he really loves them. They are very prompt in delivery to the house and the food for G seems to be good. Keep in mind he pretty much orders only the breakfast sandwich for delivery and usually when he is being lazy or not feeling well and I am not home to fix him food.
Back to our breakfast sandwich today. It was busy here at Bell Diner today, so we opted to sit at the bar area. For G it was a scrambled egg breakfast sandwich, whole wheat bread toasted, with crispy bacon and cheese. For me I choose the 2 eggs over medium breakfast sandwich on toasted white bread, crispy bacon and cheese. The sandwiches were served up promptly and both looked very tasty. Mine was served open faced which was a new experience. I guess because my eggs were more sunny side up and the yolk was very runny they opted for this type of presentation. It looked amazingly good and I decided to just eat it with a knife and fork, rather than to put it together and make a sandwich. It was at about the 3 forkfull/bite mark that I noticed the very long light colored hair. OH NO! Its not mine. And how do I know this…well. #1 it was not on top of the sandwich and I was not brushing my hair while eating, #2 this hair was hooked to the cheese and between the cheese and the egg. OH GOOD GOSH! Its downhill from appetizing at that point.
G called the manager over to show him the rogue long hair and as he took my food away he turned around and said something to the affect do you want another or can I fix you another sandwich, my response had no filter……"OH HELL NO". Maybe I should not have been so emphatic about my desire to not have this hair laden sandwich replaced but that was all that my mind thought about at the time. All I wanted was to get out of Bell Diner as fast as I could. I guess I should be thankful that it was not a bug in the sandwich, but for me it might as well have been a bug. G continued to eat his sandwich. I said, well you just enjoy your sandwich and hopefully yours is hair free. G said, I'm eating this till I find a hair. Guys are strange sometimes. I mean he saw that long freakin hair that came out of my sandwich. This was no short hair, it was extremely long. I must have pulled that thing out 6 inches and it was still stuck to the sandwich cheese.
To top off the experience, the bill came with the hairy sandwich charged. Oh no they didn't. Lets just see how much I can tolerate, which by now is not much more. G went all GI JOE on me and grabbed the bill and said he would take care of it, but I was having no such thing till I actually took a picture of the bill. He quickly went to the register and had the offending sandwich removed from the bill. At the register I heard the manager saying to G that no one in the back has long blonde hair. Well someone somewhere in that back got a long hair on my sandwich. As I told G walking out, I might eat my own hair, and I might eat his hair, but I for sure am not eating some strangers hair. I thought G was going to die laughing.
As in the beginning, the moral here is its all good until someone gets an eye poked out or a hair in their food. Then its all bad.
This is my go to diner in Queens….when it's open. The staff is very friendly and I never have trouble with seating. The pricing and food is much better than other diners around queens. I usually order stuff from the breakfast menu and it hits the spot every time. This place is also very very clean compared to other diners.
My only two complaints are the hours, wish it was open a little bit longer like till midnight. My other complaint would be how sometimes the seating can be a little cramped when it's a full house.
I do recommend this diner if you're looking for something around the Bayside area!
Noticed on Thursday mornings the busboy does not come in until after 9am so it was hard to get a refill for my coffee.
This review is strictly just for their breakfast menu because that is the only reason I come here. This is a super convenient spot for me and the breakfast is pretty good for your average diner. I usually order the Hungry Man All Day Breakfast that comes with pancakes, bacon, ham, sausage, and 2 eggs. The pancakes are nice and fluffy, the bacon is cooked perfectly, and so is everything else. I really have no complaints! I definitely recommend it here for breakfast.
The food at this diner is superb! I love all their breakfast options as well as their wraps. The diner is cute to sit down and eat at as well. The price is on the high end. Breakfast for two will cost a total of about $35.
3.5 star review. When will yelp give decimals
Decided it would be a good night to catch up with an old friend so i parked my car at her house and we took a walk to the diner.
I decided to order the chicken prosciutto panini. With side salad instead of fries
The panini was grilled but the negative is the salad dressing mustve ran all on the bottom so the panini was soggy on one layer of bread. The salad shouldve been either in a separate dish or had the dressing on the side….
Overall i would return again but would opt for dressing on the side to avoid another soggy panini