Leo’s Coney Island

Horrible dining experience. Worst service I have ever had. The waitresses are very rude, and very slow. I will never set foot in this place ever again.

Love it! Always great fast service, classic Coney’s diner food — can’t go wrong. Simple and to the point. Large menu, something for everyone :)

It’s a diner. If you live in SE Michigan — it’s just like all the coney’s.
The reason I give it 5 stars is because it’s open 24 hours. Really the only place still open around here when the bars close — or I’m hungry at midnight.
Also — Rudy is the best waitress ever!

So I love Leo’s but I will probably not go to this location again. I have been here a few times because I work nearby and every time I had been there it was filled with rowdy teenagers. I realize I sound like an old lady complaining about noise but when 90% of the customers are teenagers that are jumping around to various tables and yelling to their friends at other tables then it kind of ruins a dining experience. I also felt terrible for the servers because they were waiting on these annoying children and probably not making any money off of them… no wonder they weren’t in a good mood as some other reviewers stated! The food is always good, that’s the only reason I’d go back.

Birmingham Leo’s was my favorite coney to go to. Always on point but after this visit I don’t think I’m going back. The waitress was more interested in paying attention to other tables while I was giving my order. Right after I said 4 eggs and well done hashbrowns and dry wheat toast she asks if I wanted hash browns… Yes. Being someone who doesn’t eat meat getting scrambled eggs with small pieces of bacon in it and bacon fat tasting hashbrowns is not what I ordered. Disgusting. After my boyfriend and I finished eating she comes by and says you must be stuffed!!! I think we can eat however much we want without needing to have side comments on the amount we eat. Pay attention to who you hire and how you cook your food. If possible I wouldn’t give a single star. Not coming back.

Horrible breakfast experience on Christmas. Place was dead and we waited 30 min for cold
Omelettes and poached eggs that ended Up being hard boiled. Incompetent cook staff for sure.

I’ve been to my fair share of Coney Islands, and they basically are what you make of them. You know you are only going here because you are looking for a place to eat/​chill while spending a negligible amount of money. You know that chili-​cheese fries will satisfy at least one of your tastebuds. But you also know that it will be a piece of shit experience and you will be hating yourself for having ended up here with probably the worst crowd anywhere in Metro Detroit. Also, people will be really mean to you and serve you food that gets weaker as it rises in complexity. They can do fries, but so can most places, so there is no reason you should go to Leo’s. Also, there are better Coney Islands than this one. Sorry to be a bummer, but Leo’s is pretty bad.

This is my least favorite Leo’s location. The staff is more concerned with hanging out with each other and loudly discussing their personal lives, than their tables and guests.
This morning, one of the waitresses, as it would appear, brought her young infant to work. The waitresses spent more time passing the baby back and forth, than focusing on their tables.
Also, I’m fairly certain there was never any hand washing between serving my food and the man handling of the infant. Nor did they wash down the tables after putting the infant on the table tops that they were hanging out on.
I believe work should be fun, but it is still work.

The official 2:30AM spot! This and the royal oak one. But prefer this one because bham one has at least classier people

Leo’s is kind of a sad place. It seems like every time someone sets foot in this fluorescently-​lit, greasy, and generally hostile establishment, every BHHS (or Seaholm, Groves, etc.) baseball capped head swivels around to give him/​her/​them a full body checkout before resuming to their bland food and conversations. The crowd here is horrible but sometimes ya just gotta eat… I guess the food is alright. And also there have been way too many times Leo’s has saved me with it’s 24-​hourness, so giving one extra star can be justified.
Additionally, the servers here aren’t always the friendliest. To illustrate, one time I came in at around 5am and our waitress was giving me the most putrid, acidic stink eye in the history of customer service. Obviously, I would hate to be working at that time too, but it’s all about pretending, right? I verified with her at least three times to make sure my order didn’t have dairy in it, but received it slathered with butter. WAS IT AN ACCIDENT? I DON’T THINK SO !!! Also after we ordered she went to the next booth and started sobbing vehemently into her phone for at least half an hour… Strange
Oh also I really like the packaged oyster crackers that they hand out but I like all oyster crackers so just ignore this comment.

Over priced… ordered two boiled eggs and gyro meat the other day… $ 9.50??? Went somewhere else today. $ 6

Bleck. We ended up here after an amazing visit to the Cranbrook Art Museum. I wish we had just kept driving. The server was nice and the salad was okay. That’s the only props I can give this place. My chicken kebobs were dry and flavourless. The tzatziki was instant gut raunch. My bro ordered a taco salad that arrived without a key component –the beef. Either way, this meal had him racing for the toilet a mere twenty minutes later. Clearly this food was a little suspect.

I have no idea why anybody goes here. The food is bland, over cooked and generally just not good. Salad dressing is tasty though.
The lemon rice soup one day is water with a squirt of lemon. The next day it’s thick as concrete. Save time, energy .Go to Greek Islands instead.

Since I work in Birmingham and this place is walking distance…, I have experienced this place a bit too much, it seems it is where everyone around my office wants to get carry out for lunch. A safe menu item would be the gyro… the regular one, not the chicken.
The chicken they serve has been long cooked on their grill waiting for an order to the point that the outside layer is more satisfying to the tastes of a chicken jerky affectionado. You may be at a higher risk of chocking on your chicken if you choose to order it from Leo’s!
The second warning I have is in regards to the perpetual short hair in my omelette… this is just nasty, it is not ON the omelette to be confused with any possibility it is from my own person. No, the hair is always partially cooked into the omelette.
I have simply had enough.

What a pleasant surprise and even at 230AM. Waking into the Leos there was a huge board of specials that I have not seen featured at any of the other locations.
Waffle Fries — which you have the option of loading up with chili and cheese
Chocolate Lava Cake
Fried Pickle Spears — which is what i went with and really enjoy! I even think i liked them better when they were a bit cold.
Clam Fingers
My friend got a grilled cheese pita — which she ate quickly and exclaimed it was so good she’d have 5 more
The lemonade is my favorite at Leos
Noting on my previous post — the place was spotless and under control.

Where does one begin with a coney island in the heart of Birmingham? The waitress seemed disinterested at best. Serving size was paltry for a Coney Island. Please avoid this business.

Great late night eats… fast prompt service with a smile… plus the entertaining shenanigans of the high school crowd.

Service is hit or miss but always fast. Food is pretty typical of a coney island. Bonus star for being open 24/​7, this is where I have come every night I sneak out of the house at 2 a.m. with my friends. And it’s never crowded to the point where there are no tables let, so we can sit in our booth for literally four hours and never get kicked out.
Just don’t come here at 2 a.m. the night before Thanksgiving. Biggest bar night of the year, we couldn’t even get in the place and all of the waitresses were freaking out

Ordered a carry out here, and was pleasantly surprised given some of the negative reviews.
As a native Detroiter, and just recently moving back to MI, I had to order a coney-​was delish! I should have ordered another.
The restaurant was very clean and the service was very friendly.
On my way out, I saw something be served flaming, table side – I had to ask what it was. An employee informed me that is was «Saganaki» (flaming goat cheese). Goat cheese + flaming = I must come back for this!
So happy this place is ²⁴⁄₇ too! Win all around :-)

Came here to quell some post-​movie hunger. Leo’s seems like a pretty normal American diner with Greek food influences, but they do have something awesome — flaming cheese in saganaki. When it comes to your table, the waiter will dump a small cup of alcohol onto the cheese and proceed to light it on fire in front of you, accompanied by an «Opa!»
Ours was done very unenthusiastically by a waitress with a very bored facial expression and a flat opa. We forgive her though, since by then it was 11pm and we were probably the hundredth saganaki that she had to deliver that day. The cheese came with some cold pita chips, and was pretty greasy.
Also ordered the stacked fries, which were a big disappointment. Definitely something I would have enjoyed immensely if I had imbibed some more, but unfortunately I was too sober to see them as anything more than cold cheese and lukewarm chilli on top of clammy fries.
Definitely a good late night stop!