Colonie Diner

Went there for breakfast. I couldn’t believe how quickly our food came out. I had eggs benedict. The eggs were cooked perfectly! The homefries were really good, real potatoes cooked just the right crispy. Fast and friendly service!

Wonderful service! Stayed at the Hilton garden inn near airport and we wanted to get breakfast at a local diner. We drove to colonie and were so happy we did! Excellent food, reasonably priced and everyone was so warm and kind! Immediately made conversations with the local guests. The owners are so sweet and make you feel right at home! Home fries were a hit! Bacon eggs Delishhhh! I also loved their pancakes, my sister said they tasted better than her waffle! Tea and coffee was subpar but we enjoyed our breakfast and juice :)

Good food, reasonable prices, prompt service. Glad I left my tour group to eat here, but 1 star off for the little bit of attitude after I requested a bag.

The breakfast potatoes were perfect, service was excellent, price is right and had a very relaxing time with the family. Recommend highly.

Locally owned Greek diner with all the usual favorites and a few unexpected options. Clean, hospitable and speedy service for tasty fare — exactly what you want in a hometown classic. Katesthio!

Colonie diner is my favorite diner in the capital region. It’s immaculate inside and has a modern design which I like. They also have a huge parking lot which is always a plus.
I’ve had everything from the «Aruba chicken», to breakfast, and everything in between. The French onion soup is my favorite. I also love the spinach, tomato, and feta cheese omelettes. The home fries are my favorite– crispy and fresh. You really can’t go wrong with any of the food here.
The service is fast & friendly, the foods great, and the owners are friendly as well.
Can’t ask for more. Ask for Dana– she’s the best server!

My son-​in-​laws parents were in from South Africa and wanted to go to an American Diner. We stopped here and they ordered a couple of sandwiches for their dinner. My wife ordered the rib-​eye steak, medium. It came cooked beyond well done, it looked and tasted like flank steak. It came with shrimp that was so over-​cooked that it was like eating a super-​ball, the difference being that a super-​ball at least has a flavor to it. The sides came 10 minutes after the steak and she had to ask for some sour cream. I ordered lasagna, now I’ve had lasagna in Italian restaurants as well as other diners. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever had IN MY LIFE, and I am almost 60 years old. It was pasta with b-​grade ricotta cheese and ground beef, covered in what looked and tasted like tomato soup. Maybe they make good breakfasts but I can tell you that what we ordered, all 8 of us, was collectively the worst food that anyone has ever served and had the nerve to charge for. When we asked the poor waitress to bring our complaints to the man who was, from my best guess, the manager and she stood in the back of the place with another waitress and they looked as if they were scared to tell him. I wouldn’t recommend this place to a starving man. I will never go there again and will tell all my fellow employees and friends to avoid this place like the plague.

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Good simple eats. All I have to say. Got a burger, it was good. Nothing fancy, nothing frilly, nothing out of the ordinary.

This diner has great breakfast. Staff is very nice and quick. I’m from out of town and I’d definitely come back. 2 thumbs up…

I usually have a good meal here. I was in tonight and had the broiled captain’s platter. It came with a flounder filet, stuffed clam, three shrimp and a few bay scallops. I had a side of rice and Italian style zucchini.
The filet and clam were very tasty, the shrimp were good but a little over cooked. The bay scallops were not edible whatsoever. They had an off taste and were like chewing an eraser. I would suggest they increase the price and get better quality sea scallops instead of the cheaper bay scallops. The rice was tasty but room temperature and the zucchini were delicious.

This is the diner I go to each time I visit Albany from DC. The service is very fast and a standard for other diner owners to follow and the food is delicious. The owners are wonderful and greet you like family. I love their shakes. Their food is delicious too.

The eggs were made to order but everything else was already made and served room temp or colder. Bacon, sausage and French toast! Very disappointing.

Service was prompt and had things for us before we could even ask. Loved it. The waitress provided a whole coloring book for my child and brought their meal out a few minutes before mine so I could cut it up then day in piece.
The food was well seasoned and the veggies and potato salad were definitely fresh not frozen or bagged. I was pleasantly surprised and impressed. I expected plain old diner but a I got better than that.

We went here for dinner. It’s ok for a diner but I was expecting a bit better since the décor seemed nice and clean. The food however was a bit bland from start to finish. I havent tried the sandwiches or soup so maybe that would be better but the one tasty thing about this place is the fries.

Always clean, always good food and always friendly and fast service. Parking lot is large and easy to get in and out of.

OK, so it’s a diner after all so maybe I should cut them some slack. However, having gone to this diner for many years for all different meals and seeing their recent renovation, I somewhat expected the food to be still as good as it used to be. Not true. The meal was bland– soup (Navy bean) was flavorless, the mashed potatoes were cold, the hot meatloaf sandwich was uninspiring. Everything needed seasoning. Thankfully, the Diet Pepsi wasn’t a problem.
Service was slow and inattentive. Seems as if staff like chatting among themselves.
What used to be a friendly place where you were greeted like family has evolved into an impersonal «oh, I guess we have to serve you» experience.
Oh, and the prices are inflated by about 20% above the rest of the market. I guess they have to recoup their renovation costs.

We had a lovely visit on a recent evening, where we were treated to decent diner food but utterly outstanding service from our server, Michelle. The kids’ portions were huge — a full-​sized hot dog for one, a grown-​up sized burger for the other, while we feasted on a reuben (excellent) and moussaka (pretty good, although not as eggplanty as I like). The soup of the day, a bean soup, was very good, possibly even home made. Our salads had noticeably green elements indicating they had ingredients other than iceberg lettuce. The staff were patient with our kids and the food was hot from the kitchen, and we were given a needed to-​go container without asking for one and got the check immediately after asking for it. All in all, a well-​above average diner visit in this Land O’ Diners that is the Capital Region. Warmly recommended.

You know you’ve found a great restaurant when the place becomes the baseline for all other comparisons.
I have been looking for a diner place to replace my Jim’s Restaurant in Rochester. I found Uncle John Diner in Cohoes, but it’s in Cohoes, which is a little too far for me. Then I serendipitously found Colonie Diner. This is a regular place of mine for breakfast and all other diners I’ve tried since Colonie have not come close.
Saturday is the best day to come because of the all-​star line up. Both Kathy and Ronda are amazing in their attentive and gregarious service. It’s like a LBJ and Wayde combo. You can’t go wrong with having either one. The bottom of my coffee cup never sees daylight because of the amazing service you get here. And that’s not an easy feat with my coffee drinking.
Now the food. I guess the price isn’t cheap but it isn’t expensive. I usually leave $ 10 for everything but that’s with a very reasonable tip. Compared to the amount of food you get, it’s really not an issue at all. I’m full until dinner most of the time. I usually get the two eggs which comes with home fries and a choice of bacon, ham, corned beef hash, and sausage. First and foremost, the home fries are delicious! The well-​cooked potatoes with a slight layer of crunchiness makes it one of the best I’ve had in Albany. It’s up there with Uncle John’s and that’s saying a lot! I’ve had bacon and corned beef hash on separate occasions. The bacon comes out the way I like it: crunchy and chewy at the same time. They also don’t skimp you out on the amount either. On days when I’m hungrier, I get the corned beef hash. I guess it’s from a can (not a connoisseur of corned beef), but it’s a great combination to the eggs and home fries.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that there are diners and then there are inspirations. This place inspires me to be a morning person. I look forward to going to this place every week, and there aren’t many places that can do that for me.

I’ve been to this diner several times and never had a problem with anything except their slightly inflated prices, but after today’s visit I will never go back. We were a party of 4 ordering breakfast. The food was fine, the waitress was nice and attentive, our experience was like any other time we’ve eaten there. The check came and we took it to the register and requested to split it. Three different waitresses freaked out about splitting it, then called the elderly Greek lady who is usually the hostess and cashier. She gave us a hard time about splitting it, was struggling to do the math by hand instead of punching the numbers into the register, then when someone in our party pointed out she was being over charged for her portion the lady said «you’re mean, I make no money»
…since when is it acceptable, let alone professional to insult a patron of your business. Never again, Colonie Diner. Never again.