Gibby’s Diner

I love the home cooked food and friendly atmosphere. Going there this evening for their fabulous corned beef and cabbage, St. Patrick’s Day dinner. I have no doubt that it will be just as tasty and generous in portion, as it has been in previous years — will let you know later. If you have the good fortunate of eating here, bring cash; no cards are accepted. So worth the trip to the ATM!

Great food, great service, prices are fair. Dinner specials come with everything. Great place for breakfast.

We stopped here as the Apple Barrel was so busy and I’m glad we did. The food tasted made from scratch and waitress’s were awesome. Get the hot turkey sandwich!

Such a cute small town diner. The service is great, the waitresses go out of their way to make you feel right at home. And the Colleen’s Favorite with some fries is perfection.

Two words sum up my love of Gibby’s… «Colleen’s Favorite» This is a turkey sandwich that brought me right back to my childhood as it’s exactly the way my dad made them for us. Fresh baked bread, cut thickly, REAL turkey, not that gelatinous goo you get at the deli case. A slice of fresh, homemade dressing and cranberries. The taste is amazing! The waitstaff are as sweet as can be, so friendly and they make you feel at home. Breakfast at Gibby’s is always a treat! I recommend the ham steak highly! I’ve never tasted better! Take a scenic ride up Rte. 7 to this gem. You won’t be disappointed!

One of my favorite places. Worth a drive, great food and reasonably priced. Homemade roasted turkey! The best pies anywhere. Always makes me think of the good old days of food with fresh ingredients, made with love.

This place is awesome, as long as you’re not vegan or looking for super top notch cuisine.
Staff is really friendly, and they serve a quality 4 course meal for 12 bux. And the coffee is hot.

Stopped here today with my Wife & Friend. Food was good. Staff was very nice & attentive!!! Would go back again. Cream of Mushroom soup was good too!!!

Waited 40 minutes for what seemed like canned hash and eggs. Had to keep asking for refills, and the service was just unpleasant. For 3 people getting diner food, totaling over 40 dollars. with not one of the meals being great, don’t waste your time.

Great place to eat. great service… great hometown spot.
If you are impressed with décor, you won’t like this place, but people who go out to eat and let the stuff hanging on the walls take away from the actual taste of the food are dumb anyway.
The food is great, breakfast is the bomb here!

Great dinner specials. My wife had the roast beef and I had the baked haddock. Both dinner specials included bread, soup or salad, vegetable, choice of potato, coffee or tea and dessert. Everything came out fast and good!

This place is excellent. Food is home cooked and great every time. The wait staff is great and the food is just so good. I go here every time I’m back in NY. I love the diner feel and the fact the owners are the best people in the world. They care and you can tell.

Fair place for country diner;
Nothing special at all…
The place was simple, nice, and clean. Old fashion diner up front with add on… We stopped by this place based on Unilocal but we were sorely disappointed;
The waitress was nice, attentive and helpful.
However, there was much to be desired about the food; bland and pedantic. If you are a fan of Wonder bread, then their home made bread is your slice; for me it was disguising and not a helpful feature. If your a fan a dry turkey breast, then that dinner will be next to your sand castle. For me, cooking and «roasting» their own meats was not a feature. If your a fan of a few fried breaded bits of clams, then that’s your oyster. For us, it was no cup if soup. For a country diner, it was less than average. Only reason for two stars rather than ½ star is that portions were generous and meal was very reasonably priced; however I’m not even sure what I ate and paid for because it was not memorable.

A Duanesburg classic. Stopped by here for the first time since I went to high school over here. The place still pumps out great food. Classic diner building with counter or table seating. Coffee is always fresh. The turkeys and other meats are roasted on site in the kitchen and the desserts and breads are all baked in there too. First class all the way.

Some nits to pick first with this being called a «diner»: while it has the styling and history of a wayside diner, it is only open 7:30 to 7:30 (7:00 PM on Sundays) Wednesday through Saturday, closed completely two days a week, and they stop serving breakfast at 10:30 in the morning. So the «always open, breakfast served all day» qualification of a «diner», it falls short.
The other thing is it styles itself as a «Mountain View Diner», and indeed the view of the mountain range on the other side of the valley is very nice. Only problem: you can only see the view from the parking lot, the diner booths all face the parking lot. And the vintage interior booths in the main part run on the small side, while the rest of the restaurant is in traditional four-​person tables.
That said, as a local gathering spot and family-​style restaurant, it has a certain charm. The notable culinary items are that they bake their own breads and pies, which was evident, and they had a number of locally-​created specialties on the menu. Their «Glen’s Favorite» roast beef sandwich was piled high with tasty roast beast and had their own horseradishy-​style dressing on the side that looked like Russian dressing but tasted nothing at all like it. The house BLT was very traditional and tasty, and they had tasty pickled beets but sort of so-​so homemade cole slaw. Service was perky but occasionally forgetful — they failed my diner coffee refill test, but did make me a fresh pot for the refill, although as redemption it fell a bit short since the first cup was burned and tepid and the quality of neither pot was that high. And finally I got a little grossed out from what I could see of the kitchen and the cook, never so appetizing. That kind of experience normally bottoms out our diner reviews into the two-​star territory, but the other items balanced their karma so we give it a relatively warm three stars, and it’s worth a stop if driving through.
For anybody who remembers this place of yore, Gibby himself is apparently still alive at the age of 94, no longer active in the business, but he visits every Sunday, so that’s the time to go if you want to come and chew the Duanesburg/​Quaker Street fat.

Everything is delicious. Huge servings at great price.

I went to Gibby’s once or twice as a little kid, but honestly haven’t been here in over 20 years. Gibby’s came up in conversation the other day at a friend’s house and I thought to myself — what a nice morning that would make going out there for breakfast.
Let me say it was totally worth the drive from Schenectady and the small hassle of «no credit /​debit cards.» (Upon pulling into the parking lot I spotted a sign in the window stating such. I don’t drove back to Duanesburg to find an ATM.)
I ordered an omelet, home fries, and homemade toast. The meal was huge! We arrived mid-​morning and I was very hungry when we arrived, but I didn’t even come close to cleaning my plate. It was the first time in my 32 years that I’ve had to get a doggie bag at breakfast.
The omelet was large and full of veggies. The homemade toast was small but soft and thick. The home fries were tasty with the optional onions and peppers. And they serve a decent cup of coffee.
My favorite part of our trip to Gibby’s was the homemade cinnamon bun. It was big enough to share so I split it with my mom. It came warm and gooey — right off the grill. Definitely a must have to a visit here.