Malibu Diner Restaurant
“Malibu Diner is open 24/7 and I have been here both late night and breakfast time.”
“Another great feature is on the weekends, they have brunch drink specials: $2 for bellinis, mimosas and bloody marys!”
“Juicy breaded chicken cutlet baked in homemade marinara sauce and covered in melted mozzarella cheese, on a roll with a side of French fries.”
Malibu Diner Restaurant
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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I don't get the hate for this place, I've gotten takeout breakfast from here a few times and it's been good, so I decided to take a chance and come for sit-down breakfast. Service was great, food was your standard diner fare – just what I wanted. Good location and a great place to burn off your hangover, haha.
Solid diner on the diner scale…
Pros:
1. Big, so always easy to get a table
2. Good menu, lots of choices like any diner
3. Cheap relatively, not like NYC
4. Usually parking available
5. Good breakfast, which is key!
6. Fast
Cons:
1. French toast needs cinnamon and an egg batter, it is pretty much just bread
2. Servers have zero personality, I miss Jersey diner waitresses like other places
3. Water glasses are tiny and bad plastic, give me a real glass that I don't drain in 3 sips
4. Toast is super generic barely soaks up my eggs
5. Cookies and brownies are awful, expensive, inedible
Typical diner food…large menu with many options, and fair prices. Restaurant itself is huge, and has parking (so rare in Hoboken!). I ordered a grilled chicken Caesar salad which came with a choice of soup. My boyfriend ordered the Italian wrap with fries. We were both full and satisfied!
Came here for breakfast with my two friends on a Saturday around 11:30 am. Service was decent the food was good. I got the Monte Cristo and my friends got the banana&pb pancakes and a spinach&mushroom skillet. The prices are very fair and portions were good. This is a nice spot to come to eat after a night of drinking.
My boyfriend & I stopped by at Malibu Diner on a Friday evening about a few weeks ago and it seems like things have certainly changed here.
I have reasons to believe that they hired a new staff because the waitress we had was definitely not bringing her A game to us. Food was mediocre, used to be better quality.
We didn't want wine even though it was part of the Friday night special, so we got soft drinks instead and everything was swell when it was our entree, soup, and salad. My boyfriend ordered the French Onion soup since he's been on a French Onion soup kick, but sadly the French Onion soup was not on par. It seems no effort was put into trying broil the cheese. The cheese wasn't broiled at all. I ordered the Shrimp & Chicken Francese over rice, but the shrimp lacked flavor and taste, definitely too much breading.
After eating our entrees, we had to ask the waitress about dessert and she also failed to mention there was coffee and tea offered. I think as customers we shouldn't have to ask if something is offered and she or the staff should know this.
It feels as though the staff has changed and so has the service. The service used to be a lot better, but for some reason this time wasn't up to our standards and for that, we feel as though we won't be returning back to Malibu for a while.
What kind of New Jersey town would Hoboken be without a diner? Malibu Diner is open 24/7 and I have been here both late night and breakfast time. It's pretty standard as far as a diner goes, nothing spectacular to report with the exception of the $2 Bloody Mary/mimosa/Bellini special on Sunday's. That is the cheapest you will find it in Hoboken!
A below average diner just a hop skip away from me. I love me some diner food but I can't bring myself to eat subpar food.
There is nothing to hate or love about this place. The foods just ok. I ate here ages ago so I no longer remember the exact dishes.
Interesting note, this is the diner where the previous Hoboken mayor was busted by the FBI. That would explain the blacked out windows now.
It is also one of the rare joints in Hoboken to boast its own parking. That is a big time plus in Hoboken.
We'd actually planned to eat at the Brownstone Diner (in Jersey City) today (mid-afternoon main meal) – but we took a different route than usual when going to donate tons of books at Symposia Bookstore in Hoboken, and the Malibu beckoned. It was a good choice, as every aspect was very positive. I ordered the cheese agnolotti pasta dish ($14.95), which had ravioli with four different types of cheese and it was *delicious*. It came with either a house salad or a cup of soup and I had the soup (cream of turkey, which was very good). We were also given a generous amount of warm garlic bread and that was delicious. My husband ordered the tilapia shrimp special, which came with a house salad or a cup of soup (he also had the soup), a choice of potato & vegetable, coffee or tea, a glass of wine and a dessert – all for only $15.50! He said his entrée and the (baked) potato & vegetable were good but not great, although the dessert (which we shared, since the portion size was quite generous) was very good (chocolate mud pie).
Our server was a *very* sweet young woman, the cashier was another very nice young woman, and the restrooms were very clean. There's also a parking lot, and there's a large back room which isn't evident from the exterior. Lastly, the Malibu is open 24 hours/day.