Mike’s Diner

Had lunch /​breakfast yesterday it was good and can’t beat their coupon for 50% off entrees when you buy a drink!

Great service, great location, but all the food is frozen and the restaurant is dirty. The kids love it though, especially because the kids meals come in little cars they love to play with.

I had high hopes for this place. My family drove by weeks before I decide to venture forth. Checking into Unilocal and reading the reviews I thought it would be awesome. I was extremely wrong. Service was slow to non existing. I ended up having to have my daughter get a waitress at the end of our meal to get our check. Yes, the waitresses were busy talking to each other and about another employee. Other times my husband just about have to wave non stop to get their attention. A few times that didn’t work.
We came at dinner time and there wasn’t even a crowd. There were their normal Senior citizens customers which I noticed put a damper on things. In the way that you were afraid to make noise so you wouldn’t startle them. The tables wobbled non stop it seems. I watch one of the patron fold his napkin up and stuff it under one of the table’s support.
Now the food was mediocre. No matter how much ketchup I pour on my plate it didn’t improve the taste. It’s bad when the best part of my meal was the vegetables I pulled off my hamburger to make a mini salad.

Against my better judgement I took my wife to this place last month. My last review said that I was not going here due to bad reviews. Dummy me, I didn’t even listen to myself. We get there and we sat ourselves. Picked a somewhat clean table. Dirty silverware, sticky menus. My wife got an omelet and country potato’s. I got the steak and eggs with country potato’s. Her omelet was ok at best. Nothing great. My steak was horrible. I have never tasted a steak as bad as that. It tasted like it was frozen, thawed, frozen, thawed, frozen and thawed again, then cooked. It came to me way overcooked. Both our «Country Potato’s» were not cooked like country potatoes should be. They were deep fried and crispy like french fries. No onions, bell peppers or anything that would resemble country potato’s. I sent mine back and ate nothing. The service was extremely slow. The place was not busy at all. Two Sac County Police officers came in long after we did and their order got to them before ours and they had gotten more attention by the servers than we did or any other customers. My mistake by going there.

Went this morning after deciding we’d rather support a local business over a chain… instantly wish we had gone to the Ihop across the street. The lady at the counter was rude and the guest service was in all lacking. Our server was the only exception to this (hence the second star), she was pretty nice and checked on us regularly. We both ordered the breakfast sliders, gravy on the side, him with hashbrowns and country potatoes for me. It seemed like we waited quite a while for our food but we were starving, could’ve been us being impatient. When the food did arrive, it looked decent, but taste was off. You could tell the gravy was from a package, the potatoes had absolutely no flavor and we’re undercooked, the sausage patties tasted fresh from the freezer… you get the point. This was the first and last time, which is a bummer… some other local joint will be getting our business.

Hot wings and Breakfast all day. Can’t go wrong with coming here. I usually get an omelet or pancakes. Now my favorite is the California Eggs Benedict. The hollandaise sauce is perfectly made. The avocado and tomato just a light freshness to the dish.
Service is always great. Everyone is friendly and helpful. This place always makes me feel welcomed and safe.
Only thing I wished is that in the summer time they would change their operating hours to stay open later. Sometimes I would love to come in for a milk shake with a burger. Instead I head over to Five Guys because they are open till 10pm.

One of my favorite breakfast places in Elk Grove. The country fried steak and eggs are awesome. Staff always friendly and always topping off the coffee cups.

I don’t understand why this place only has 3 stars! This is easily my favorite breakfast spot (or anytime of day for that matter) in Elk Grove. Friendly, prompt service, delicious food and a great atmosphere. My husband always orders the «Blue Suede Shoes» burger. I love the steak and eggs, the Country VIP and the Acapulco skillet. This may sound weird, but I swear they have the absolute best house salad too! Definitely give this place a try.

I was invited here for breakfast by my dear mum. I’m not an egg person & there’s lots of egg options. I had a club sandwich with fries & coffee. Mom had eggs, sausage & biscuit. The sandwich was bland, the fries were frozen, bland & not the hot salty home cut treat that I was expecting. I can’t say the food is awful, but I can’t say that it was good either. Mom is 79 & she really likes Mikes. There were quite a few seniors there who all seemed to be enjoying the food, the company of their peers and further the senior menu had loads of options. Mikes isn’t for me at all, I thought it was yucky. It reminded me of hospital food, but the servers were very nice & the ample senior menu seems to be a good fit for the older crowd.

OMG is there a legit legit restaurant that can get my ORDER right for once i went in with my girl and my little baby it was my girls bday so we wanted to have a delicious breakfast i am from salinas and i moved here with my family a week ago in Salinas everywhere i would eat they would always fuck up my order no matter what even if i would ask like «no cheese please «and they would put a bunch of cheese, so anyway back to MIKES DINER oh and WE ARE vegetarians btw so me and my girl ordered, My girl got a veggie omelette and i ordered the eggs Benedict with NO bacon and the potatoes i specifically asked do they have onions cause i saw the picture and they had onions and she said yes green onions so i told her NO ONIONS and NO bacon… easy right? Well she brought my girl and my food out and first off my girls plate was full off bacon like there was more bacon than anything wft??? So of course she asked to have a new one made and got her veggie omelet now i got my eggs Benedict which looked delicious until i saw the stupid freaking green onions that i had asked not to have, YOU guys don’t understand i HATE HATE onions and here she comes with my potatoes full of em i didn’t wanna be a dick and have her make a new one so i decided to take em out myself, so my gf and i were enjoying the food don’t get me wrong it was pretty good and i was half way done with my dish and out of fucking no where hidden in the potatoes there’s bacon. and i told the waiter and she just went «oh» honest to god my girl and i love to tip great waiters we sometimes even tip if they are ok but this was just ridiculous so never again will i come here i rather go to black bear hopefully they don’t fail me here in elk grove but in salinas they never once failed me so thank you black bear and no thank you MIKES DINER. GOOD BYE.

First and last time dining here with my family. Prices were decent, food below average, wobbly tables, dozens of toothpicks stuck on the ceiling, majority of the customers were senior citizens, jukebox out of order, and bad service. Our waiter seemed annoyed whenever we asked for soda refills. Food tasted ok but overcooked. Needless to say, it was a mistake coming here.

So I’m new to the area, I wanted to go to a good breakfast joint for my birthday so I had my boyfriend just look up a place that looks like they have good food. This place stood out to us so we went.
We walked in and we’re right away greeted and waited about 10 minutes and right away got our coffee, but no creamer or sugar. So we politey asked a busser for some and only recieved sugar. No problem i guess so we asked someone else and got it right away. I ordered the Acapulco skillet without bacon and he ordered the Eggs Benedict without bacon and onion, we were serious about the meat since we are vegetarian.
When the food arrived it was almost perfect, until I noticed my plate was covered in meat, Disgusting! I sent it back to get it remade, NOT SCRAPED OFF! My boyfriends breakfast had onion which he was fine just picking out on his own cause he was just as hungry as I was. About more than half way done with our meal he noticed a huge piece of bacon at the bottom of his plate. I’m not sure if these workers even care what is ordered or if the chefs mix every think together and just throw it on the grill to cook. I’m beyond disgusted with this place not only with my experience but the past reviews. I wish we would have looked more into this place before coming here. Lesson learned.

The service was great… the burgers, not so much. The cook doesn’t know how to cook them. Tough and dry. He must flatten the patty on the grill to push all the juice out.
Going back to try the breakfasts… menu is intriguing.
(update) Original visit in December… went back on April 2 for breakfast. Service was still great and this time, so was the food. My wife had steak and eggs and I had the chicken fried steak. Both were tasty and tender.

I have always had a good experience at Mike’s. The staff has always been friendly and the food is good. Today I had the Bleu Munten? cheeseburger. It wasn’t my favorite, but just my opinion; nothing wrong with the quality of food.
Today my server was awesome – she was friendly, helpful, and made sure our drinks were always full. It took a little while to get our food, but they were very busy today and they were great about keeping us updated. I also got 10% off for checking in on Unilocal!
This restaurant is very similar to Mel’s diner if you’re looking to compare the style of food. I have no complaints whatsoever. I usually get the rib eye dinner special because you really can’t beat the price and I love that it comes with salad and some delicious corn bread.
I will continue to come here as long as it continues to be a great place to have dinner in Elk Grove!

This place is horrible! My husband and I waited 20 minutes before anyone even greeted us. Then another 30 minutes for our food. This is a diner, it should not take a freaking hour to get your food. And on top of that, my food was undercooked. My onions and bell peppers were completely raw. We will never come here again.

Love the staff, very friendly and nice. I was here today and witnessed 2 people trying to do the Colton challenge … 1 failed… The 1 that didn’t got his picture on the wall for bragging rights. It was pretty neat I have never seen someone do a food challenge except for on television.

First Mike’s Diner experience. Decent country fried steak. Loved the sourdough bread. The jukebox was the best part, loved the Frank Sinatra selection (50 cents for 2 songs).

Original Mike’s reminds me a lot of some other restaurant… Original M… something.
Anyways, the breakfast is pretty good, my eggs benedict had a really good Hollandaise sauce and the eggs were poached perfectly. The country potatoes had good flavor but maybe needed a little salt (but I never add salt to anything to cut down on sodium). Service was good and our waitress was cordial and pleasant. The coffee service was non-​stop and my cup was always full.
Prices are comparable to other breakfast places and there’s a senior menu. I also saw some specials on the window that are good at certain times.
There’s also a lot of motorcycle and car dudes meeting up there for breakfast, so you can catch glimpses of a cool antique Model T or euro sports cars.
Great place for breakfast!

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Nice friendly service and we were seated extremely fast. Coffee and drink requests were made and served quickly as well. I really like the omelettes here because they actually mixed the ingredients in with the eggs! I had a Denver omelet this morning it was good fresh and wholesome. The hash browns were nice and crisp as well.. The downside is one of my pet peeves… they serve food on a cold plats! You better eat quickly or your food will be cold!
Very attentive service by our server this morning. All in all a good experience.