Silver Star
“Silver Star is a pretty overpriced diner, but typical of the Upper East Side….so no complaints here.”
“It's a hard hit on the wallet when you come here for lunch but their challah french toast with either fresh strawberries or blueberries, is simply a delight!”
“From Greek to Italian to breakfast to classic American to seafood…you could eat here three times a day everyday for a year and never eat the same thing twice.”
Silver Star
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
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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It looked promising from the outside, but from the looks of it, the focus is more on quantity (huge seating area, tons of tables, huge capacity) than quality.
The Greek salad is mostly iceberg lettuce, with mushy domatis. A very generous portion of bland feta cheese attempts to offset the dish, but it's just salty.
The matzo ball soup is nicely salted. They don't have Greek orzo chicken soup everyday, which was disappointing. But I don't think we'll return to try it.
The mushroom omelet was so so, but the breakfast potatoes (homefries) are mushy and flavorless. I should have listened to the Foursquare tip to skip them – and I'd advise you do the same. The pancakes good.
Thumbs up: Nice service. Brunch specials on the weekend. Good place for groups, families, kid-friendly, and old-people friendly.
Thumbs down: Overpriced. The cleaning staff mopped the floor with a very cleaning-product-smelling mop solution that made us not want to finish our food. And the most disgusting men's room on the UES.
It's a hard hit on the wallet when you come here for lunch but their challah french toast with either fresh strawberries or blueberries, is simply a delight! What can be better than sweet, fluffy, and warm toast? Portion-wise, it's a little bigger than you would expect. You also get to pour your own syrup and spread your own butter.
Service was quick and efficient too. The place is huge and the booth seats are comfortable EXCEPT when the person on the other end is fidgeting or moving too much. At first I thought the person was kicking the back but they were just getting in and out of the booth.
Silver Star is a pretty overpriced diner, but typical of the Upper East Side….so no complaints here. It's a great diner that is open ALL of the time.
FYI The portions are LARGE! You WILL BE full when you're done.
Funny story; like most diners the menu is extensive, pages and pages long. One thinks, do they ever really make half of this stuff (especially because everytime I order it's a toss up between their French Toast or Omelette's). One evening after much drinking we sat down in Silver Star for a meal; my friend ordered a wrap with mashed potatoes and other random stuff … it sounded gnarly and honestly like a hodgepodge of stuff thrown into a wrap.
Sure enough they brought out EXACTLY what she ordered, as written on the menu…..and she LOVED it. This is my favorite Silver Star experience and I had to share.
Best place in the world if you need a self esteem boost. Even after just rolling out of bed, my friend and I were stared at by the waitors and called all sorts of pet names throughout our meal. Very interested customer service.
The meal was pretty good, I enjoyed that the salads had lots of options. They had lots of different fruits and vegetables in them. I got a delicious salad with beats, nuts, rasins. It was very delicious. They are a bit stingy with their coffee though, I got two cups and then they acted really strange when I wanted a third cup. Like they weren't sure if that was in the rule book. I did get it though.
Perfectly decent meal though, nothing too exciting. Lots of menu choices, decent coffee. Standard Diner fare.
Your average NYC diner here. They have everything, I usually order the breakfast food (nothing like a good omelette at any time of the day). Coffee is fine. Service is good. That's all folks!
Came here with a friend who was visiting; he'd eaten lunch while I was starving to death & hadn't eaten a thing. The portion sizes were huge; he got a salad & it was far more massive than I (and I think he) expected. It was okay; I remember it not being an uncomfortable temperature in here. Convenient enough if I were in the area & the prices weren't obscene.
Nothing special. I have had much better diner food in the city.
Expensive, but delicious. Great California omelet. Fresh orange juice. Friendly and flirty service. I would definitely return.