Arnold’s

I miss you Arnold’s!
I used to love getting an egg sandwich from you at least once a week on the way to work. =(
Also, your hash browns were amazing …

Arnold’s is now CLOSED!
The sign on the door said that today, Sunday September 26^th was the final day and that they are closing due to the economy. They also mentioned to visit them at the Diner Grill… buh? That’s quite a hike from Arnold’s, and has like eight seats.
Arnold’s was always hoppin’ on the weekends and was great for cheap breakfast and slightly above decent coffee.
I’ll miss it.

This is the closest diner to my place and is just a few blocks away. I have lived in my place for 4 years and have never checked it out. After hearing so much rave about it I thought I would journey over. I heard about their «Haystack» which was Eggs over Gravy over Biscuits over Hashbrowns! It sounded like HEART ATTACK HEAVEN to me! So naturally I made my way over on a Saturday morning to try it out.
The décor of the restaurant is what you can picture a city diner to be… old but in a good old diner way. The service was prompt and attentive and the food came out in a good time. My Haystack was a little over 8 bucks but given the amount of food it was worth it. They have other specials where you can get breakfast for $ 3.99. The taste of my meal was ok, but it didn’t really stick out as something I HAVE to go back for. Yet, it was something that if I wanted breakfast maybe I would do it, but would likely travel to another place I know has something I love.
Moral of the story: If live nearby you can get your standard breakfast fix, but don’t expect anything lavish. I gave it 3 stars AKA «meh».

I’ve been to Arnold’s more times than I care to count. I love little diners like Arnold’s for breakfast. Like most breakfast places you need to get there early on the weekends if you don’t want to wait in line for a table. It’s generally worth it though.
Arnold’s is not a fancy joint. If you want creative french toast with seasonal anything than you’re in the wrong place. If you want biscuits and gravy or a lox plate than Arnold’s is the place for you.
Lots of big booths (2 person and a few dollar minimum), plus seats at the bar a few tables nicely fill out the place without being crowded. The service is pretty good, they definitely know what they are doing without falling all over themselves when it’s busy.
I am a fan of their eggs and corned beef hash. Again, we’re not talking gourmet eats here, but it certainly is yummy. Their coffee is among the best I’ve had and they are good at making sure I don’t need to ask for more. Omelets are good size and always tasty.
Arnold’s is a good diner for consistently good breakfast classics.

I don’t want to keep making comparisons to NYC, but this is the kind of diner that’s on every street corner there. Sure, it’s a little overpriced and the coffee is nothing write home about. Still, if you’re looking for a nice combination of meat, eggs, pancakes/​french toast, and potatoes, look no further. I also hear the biscuits and gravy are good and I see lox on the menu, which I just might try next time around.
Arnold’s is that little divey place you hit up on a Sunday when you’re not interested in a side of salad with your omelette or a 45 minute wait for what ultimately adds up to $ 20 a person for freakin’ breakfast.

This place was a staple breakfast stop when I lived within walking distance. It is cheap, and has great biscuits and gravy.
The only problem is that they will NEVER get your eggs right. You want them hard they make them soft, you want them soft, they are harder than a rock. So what you do is order the opposite of what you want… if you want runny than tell them hard. and so on. I also like this place because it smell like my Grandma’s house, I know, wierd-​but true.
There will be a line, go early or go late… do not eat here on a Saturday at 10:00 or u will wait.

This morning I needed an office with coffee and egg creations for about an hour… since my house possesses none of these elements, I made a stop elsewhere.
Arnold’s fits the bill!
–Coffee (no splenda, sadness)
–Large vinyl booths
–Worker guys talking about the balloon debacle
–Omelette and toast: mushroom and diner cheese + wheat.
An hour of work done, coffee in my system, eggs in my belly, and the weekend begins…
Divey diner at its most finest. Not the best food, not the worst. Not the cheapest food, not the most expensive. But, room to work, coffee to guzzle and eggs to eat. I’m happy :)

**update** after a couple just plain bad experiences, arnold’s is off my list. (i wont go in to detail… but note that these two visits made me stop going)
just around the corner from my apartment– good breakfast food, esp after a late night.
great coffee too!
and if you sit at the counter, you get extra chocolate shake :)

Yay! I’m a fan.
Reading some of the reviews, I agree with another poster. I don’t really know what you were expecting. The service is shockingly fast — kinda like that scene in «Defending Your Life» with Albert Brooks (GREAT movie!) where the food comes out immediately.
The coffee is pretty darned decent and the omelets are usually spot on. And the toast (oooooooooh, I love me a good toast!) is great. Which I know…
Anyway, so Arnold’s has a funky atmosphere. So what, what were you expecting? Trust me I’ve been to a few one and two star diners, and honey, this ain’t it. If you want a greasy spoon diner, then this is it.

Bland diner food. Low quality ingredients.
High fructose corn syrup in everything type of place…
It has a cute mom and pop feel, but the food just isn’t that good…
I had the biscuits and gravy. The biscuits were a weird texture, the gravy just not good.
And I don’t care if your eggs are $ 2.99 if they’re not good and you’re using crappy ingredients.
Call me when you can find the courage to put real butter on the table.

Right across the street from me… your standard mom and pop diner. Prices are really good and the food is at your table in no time.
It’s not the highest quality food but it’s what you expect from this type of place. It loses a star because this morning there were egg shells in my hash browns and one of my eggs wasn’t thoroughly cooked.

This place is okay. You get your normal breakfast food and it’s cheap, but it’s not THAT good. The inside could use a little sprucing up, even for a dinertype breakfast place, it’s just a bit dingy.
I give them an extra star for the «Singles Wall.» It’s basically a board that you can tack a personal ad too. I do love breakfast, but I’ve never thought of trying to find romance over fried eggs and a vinyl tablecloth…

Lox-​O-​Meter points to G for Good Bye.
This review is like saying good-​bye to a friend.
Arnold, last week I observed that your prices at the Diner Grill, which you also own, no longer reflect the lowbrow, white trash ambience. Basically, by raising the prices there so substantially, you turned that place into a caricature of itself.
Now, with the huge price increase I noted this morning at your namesake, you’ve turned Arnold’s into a caricature of yourself. So, to say farewell, I’ll say that «ganef» is too extreme but «girik khazer» is just about right.
How do you justify raising the double lox platter from $ 9.75 to $ 12.00? a 23% increase? Had I noticed before I got the bill, I’d have left. There are numerous taquerias within a short distance whose prices are so low that they blur the comparison between apples and oranges.
So, Arnold, khokhem: Wall Street will come back but the same doesn’t go for all of your customers. Demand for a beloved lox sandwich even from a diehard NJB like me just ain’t inelastic!

I had high hopes for Arnold’s. I love breakfast, I am rarely awake early enough to enjoy it, however. So, when I actually make it to a joint like this before lunchtime, I want some good eats.
I had some running around to do this morning and decided to stop by here on my way home, as I’ve been meaning to check it out. When I walked in the hostess (owner??) barely took her eyes off the T.V. and mumbled that I could sit anywhere. I chose a booth which was sorta dirty, but they all were. There were signs on all of them that said there was a two person minimum at each booth and each person must spend at least $ 3.50! Weird. I guess you have to keep out the all day coffee drinkers or something.
The food? Ugh. I ordered the french toast. It was thin and soggy. I like a good hefty slice. a challah or something. This was Wonder bread style, no flavor. I also ordered sausage. It was cold and undercooked. For what I received, I think it was a bit expensive.
I’m really disappointed. I wanted to like this place because it is so close to me. Not going back.
Im giving them an extra star for their old-​timey cash register with the huge typewriter style buttons. Cool.

With a slight hangover and a mother-​in-​law who does not like to walk farther than a block limiting our breakfast options, we decided to give Arnold’s a try. It’s close, and based on the signs proclaiming things like 3 fried eggs for $ 3.39 or fried eggs with sausage for $ 2 (this place LOVES its fried eggs), we figured it would be pretty cheap.
Cheap it was. It was also a bit past it’s prime with dingy walls, vinyl tableclothes, and laminated menu/​placemats left on the tables. Service was what you’d expect, businesslike and not too quick.
Food was all okay, but nothing more. My husband’s burger was overcooked but tasty, my 4 egg (yeah, huge) feta omelette hit the spot and the chorizo omelette I tried was also good.
Breakfast/​lunch for 4 with 2 drinks was under $ 30 and we were in and out in about 40 minutes.
They also have a singles’ wall where you can post your pic, description and contact info, so if you’re looking for eggs with a side of romance.. ..

I really wanted to like Arnold’s. I am a huge fan of a solid diner (i.e.
), their prices are crazy low and I used to live a block away. But alas, things just didn’t work out between Arnold and I.
Admittedly, the décor is hilarious and definitely a highlight (amazing:
): green, random and tiny. But it’s all down a hill of lousy hash browns and runny eggs from there.
That said if you stick to pancakes and coffee you probably won’t be disappointed. But, you probably won’t be in a hurry to go back, either.

This place really doesn’t uphold my standards for a «restaurant» or a «greasy spoon diner». Arnold’s is an anomalous eatery. It seems like a diner, given the bad lighting, slightly dingy atmosphere, poorly planned out seating and apathetic waitress, but it’s got a sort of bland cheerfulness, too. Maybe it just looked cheerful because the booths are a vibrant green.
The food is okay. I’ll admit that my eggs have NEVER come out the way I ordered them, but they’re fine. I like the potatoes, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they come from Aldi’s.
This place lacks character. It doesn’t help that I’ve been coming here at least twice a month for the last three years, yet I never feel like they recognize me. And I tip well, damnit.
As a restaurant, I think the place is hopeless. As a diner, I think it needs to really commit to BEING a diner, with surly help and greasier spoons.

I was in here once. I didnt stick around to eat. Dingy, beat up, ancient, sketchy, unclean, scary… and the worst part was that someone had told me this was «an upscale seafood restaurant».
Yeah, and bunnies fly out of my ears.
Look, I am all for little, independent diners — but when the term «greasy spoon» is actually an accurate description for the silverware, its time to move on.

It takes an awful lot to get me to say ew.
ewwwwww.
There are far too many great diners/​breakfast places within 3 to 4 blocks of here to settle on this dirty nasty place. I said «over easy» which never means uncooked. I get over easy eggs that are a little too runny sometimes but this place takes it to a new level. How do you screw up eggs that badly?
I watched the waitress refilling the ketsup bottles. She used the same rag to wipe the mouth of the bottles clean that she’d just used to clean off tables AND the seats (and god knows what else… it seemed to be an all purpose rag). Far too many winged bugs flying around for my taste and if you can’t find one semi-​clean glass at a table of 4, safe to assume they don’t wash shit.
Here’s one plus: it’s sorta cheap. It’s also fast.

I would have given it a 3plus, as I go there fairly often and it used to be a very good deal. However, when I stopped by there today, they just raised their prices considerably. I guess it goes with the neighborhood going more upscale. but it is no longer a bargain, with the quality of food and portions nothing to write home about.
Now, for a similar price, for much better quality and portions, along with their own parking lot, I suggest going to The Bagel on Broadway. (i reviewed that as well and gave it a rare 5-​star from me)