American staples, including all-day breakfast, served in Gustav Klimt-inspired art nouveau digs.
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Address: 48 US-9, Manalapan Township, NJ 07726
Phone: (732) 462-7165
Website: http://manalapandiner.com/
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We especially like breakfast which is served all day.
The team is friendly and the service is fast.
Don’t miss their waffles with strawberries or their Challah French Toast.
It pains me to write this review but I’ve been going to the Manalapan diner for many years even before the change of ownership.
My father and I would go in several times per week sometimes even four times per week and spend about $50 each time …so we gave the diner very good business.
There are many good people that work here. The wait staff are nice, the guy in the front who has a pony tail is very nice…great guy, nothing bad to say about anyone except for one person…the old gentleman Greg(the manager on duty).
Like I said, my dad and I come into this diner several times per week and spend around $200 per week and people know us when we come in and always give us a friendly greeting….
So today we sat down and we had Sony as our waitress who is always pleasant.
My dad ordered his turkey dinner and I ordered the cut the mozzarella chicken sandwich. This is something I get quite often I have probably had it a good 30 40 times by now.
Anyway, to make a long story short, My sandwich comes out, and I took the toothpick out, and I decided to remove the lettuce and tomato because I wanted to eat them on the side, and as I’m looking at the sandwich I see there’s two very tiny slivers of chicken instead of a big chicken cutlet like it’s supposed to have!!!
I informed Sony about this and she said she had to get the manager and so Greg came back to the table… However I should mention that before Greg came over I saw him make a comment to Sony and kind of roll his eyes like “these guys??”
So here is where things get interesting, Greg starts accusing me of messing with the sandwich and he told me he wanted me to open the other half that still had the toothpick in it so that I can prove to him that I didn’t take chicken off from one half and hide it under the other half.
This was one of the most disrespectful things I’ve ever had happened to me in my entire life. The fact he could say that with a straight face when we’re there so often is absolutely mind-blowing
On top of that as I was trying to explain to him that I don’t want to go and disassemble my whole entire meal he takes his finger and puts it in my plate about a millimeter from touching my food and he starts pointing at my chicken sandwich.
At that point I had enough I told him to throw the sandwich out and how dare he accuse me of doing that and then we both lost our appetites and left.
On top of this I will mention that another time we had been here probably two three months ago I had ordered the onion rings and two out of four of the onion rings which by the way cost an upcharge, two out of four of them had very hard onions that felt like plastic. I even showed this to my waitress and she agreed that they did not look normal. When Greg came over he was giving us trouble about that and making excuses.
It’s a shame this had to happen as everyone else there is very good but there’s other places to spend our money so I hope it was worth it Greg.
I will also mention that after Greg had disassembled the sandwich right in front of me to see if I had done anything wrong and he saw that I did nothing wrong he didn’t even apologize.
The diner probably won’t miss our $200 per week but maybe some of the good people we’ve interacted with will miss seeing us in there…you never know anymore.
The owner got right on the phone when I called it, helped me figure out what would be appropriate and then brought it there himself.
Everything was perfect and was so well received by the family.
If you’re looking for a place that feels like family – make this your hometown spot.
As always, we were not disappointed. Wished we had room for some dessert!