Madison Restaurant

Love this place. I’ve had the French toast (delicious) and various omelettes. The omelettes are really good have the hash browns are so tasty. Madison is really good diner.

As far as diners go, this one has the works — loads of egg choices, pastas, burgers, meats. Beware, portions will leave you with the food sweats and eating coma for a while.

If you are looking for the good customer service you won’t find it here
Excellent food
From breakfast pancakes and omelets to salads and burger
Five starts for food zero for the service
First I waited fifteen minutes to get someone attention after they said sit anywhere you won’t
After that the lady comes to me saying that I cannot seat at the booth if I don’t order dinner
No one came to ask me if I needed anything
With the great food they should have better trained staff

Quick service and clean. We had the bacon and eggs with hash and the waffle with strawberries. Both were a good size. Coffee refills could have been better.

Incredibly friendly service makes this my go to my place for a quick breakfast. I usually go for the pastrami Benedict. Very efficient and clean. Several regulars come in for their breakfast and the waitress knows them all by name and their usual selection. Coffee is above average.

Weird place … its a Diner; however the food is really good.
When you go to a Diner the food is always the same. Flavor is kinda muddy, serves an adequate breakfast all day long, pies in a case that never seem to get eaten.
This place the food tastes like it is supposed to … it is not over salted nor do they add other ingredients to make whatever they are serving stretch. It is surprisingly delicious. The potatoes served with brunch /​breakfast are grated and crispy on the outside tender on the inside. Oh and their pies get eaten.
This is definately a go to place if you are hungry and want big portions.

This is my favorite diner in all of Manhattan because of one thing — the food. The food is above average when it comes to diner food. The prices are definitely higher than most places and you’ll easily spend $ 30 per person.
The staff is OK but not great.
Whenever i want diner food, this is my go to place.

Rude. Walked in by myself to read the paper and relax, I asked for a booth and was told that because it was around dinner that they reserve the booths for parties of 2 or more. I said ok and sat at a small table. I get my water and deciding what to order. Another person walks in by themselves and they get seated at a booth.
I actually like the diner but the place was empty and the staff was clueless and rude. Very odd for a service establishment and how they treated a repeat customer.
There are many places around here and I would recommend you frequent places that actually appreciate their customers. This place is off my list. Rudeness does not deserve patronage.

Worst customer service I’ve ever received in a restaurant. I was a waitress for 4 years, so I understand the stress it all. I will never come here again because of it.

Great food and the place has a very comfortable homestyle feel. Cheesecake is amazing.

The key here is «keep it simple»! Eggs (scrambled) & bacon, silver dollar pancakes, an uncomplicated burger, grilled cheese. That’s about it. If you make the mistake of wandering into the entrées, you do so at your peril! Literally! In a moment of weakness, I made the very serious mistake of ordering the Southern Fried Chicken. It smelled terrible and looked like gooey chicken dropped into brown sawdust. I may never eat again! Anything! Anywhere! That’s how bad it was. But if you resist the overly ambitious menu, you likely will be ok and will enjoy the kind and prompt service.

I weirdly love this diner. It’s my local, so hooray for convenience… but more than that, it is consistently good and I’m especially impressed with the unfailingly pleasant service. The servers are especially tolerant of loud children, which is actually really nice to see. I am always happy to visit for my usual omelette and coffee.

Extremely surprised [in a good way] at the quality of the food here. I had an omelet, which it’s hard to screw up, but I’m particular about my food… they got it right! Someone had a burger that I tried, and I was impressed that it wasn’t just another burger.
Try this place out!

Its a basic diner.
Slow service, rude waiter, decent middle-​of-​the-​line food.
The roast beef sandwich was dry, fatty and disgusting. Never again.
The waiter neglected to bring fruit to our table, brought extra eggs that no one ordered, forgot our tea, forgot syrup, rolled his eyes at us when we asked to refill our water (Who does that?!) and rolled his eyes at us when we asked to pay separately.
The redeeming qualities of this diner was the Lox Deluxe and the servers.
Lox with bagel was generous with Nova Scotia Lox. Love the capers and olives that accompany this meal. I would recommend if you are ever stuck in Midtown East and need a palatable meal.
The boys that brought our food and filled our water were sweet and helpful.

An east side go to, always packed for brunch, great filling breakfast for $ 12/​person. Don’t expect anything fancy. This is strictly the usual diner fare, but with excellent value on size and proportion. Grease is the special sauce, so don’t go overboard.
The drinks and coffee are hardly special, please pick some up elsewhere on your way out into the city. The wait staff is friendly, fast, and relatively accommodating. It’s busy and loud for brunch.
If you’re already on the east side visiting or find yourself there taking the awkward walk back to the 6 train, feel free to stop in and get a nice meal with your new found friend.
Otherwise the trek over to first might be too long not to end up bitter or unsatisfied.

Yummy!
Came here for Saturday brunch. Glad I did. It was quite crowded already by 10am, but there happened to be open seats at the counter so we took them.
Service is quick. Menu is huge. We decided to get corned beef hash combo, which came with toast, 2 poached eggs, and hash browns. Delicious. Great portions. In addition, we tried the French toast plain. This was a seriously amazing French toast. Flavorful and soft. Huge. This is a must-​get.
Coffee was decent and came with free refills. Looks like they had a lot of dessert too.

I Went to Madison twice for brunch, and I really like the menu and service. Saturday has a special brunch menu for $ 21.99, we ordered it to share with a side dish. The portion is very generous so it was just enough for us to start the day.
The restaurant is spacious, not too loud. We got the big booth seats every time. Unlimited coffee refill. Their cinnamon raisin challah French toast is amazing. The avocado chicken omelette was very dry. French fries/​home fries and toast come with the omelette, I personally liked French fries, and very tasty.
The price is considerably good at its location, $ 11.95 for the French toast, and $ 12.95 for the omelette with side dishes. $ 2.95 for coffee, and $ 1.95 for unsweetened tea. Double check your bill at the end though because they made a mistake with ours which they corrected nicely when we asked.

Madison is your standard neighborhood diner… yet better. The staff is friendly, the pancakes are fluffy, the omelettes are huge and the potatoes are tasty.
They also have huge, quality salads if you are in a healthier mood. The lines are never too long, even at peak times, and when there is a line it goes briskly.
If you are around midtown east at brunch time, you really cannot do much better if you want standard diner fare. A couple of my favorites are the chocolate chip pancakes and broccoli and cheddar omelette.

I read somewhere this restaurant served great breakfast what a big disappointment. Burnt toast they tried to scrape the burn off, yuk. Over cooked my bacon it was like eating a thin salty board, coffee was so light tasting, 32 $ i will never see again

I came here on a Saturday morning for brunch and while the place was packed, my friend and I managed to get a seat immediately. The tables are really squeezed in together and I lost all desire to get up and go to the bathroom for fear of having to push my way through all the chairs and people.
I ordered pancakes with ham and two scrambled eggs. They arrived on two different plates and took up so much space on the tiny table we were at. For some inexplicable reason, they had hidden the ham underneath my pancakes and placed the scrambled eggs on a separate huge plate where they looked really small and lonely. It was an unnecessary waste of space and really confusing because they had stuffed all of my friend’s meal onto one large plate.
The pancakes were dry and difficult to eat. I don’t think I even finished one, and the part that I did eat, I had to drown in syrup in order to get it moist enough to chew. The eggs and ham were the only palatable parts of the dish and I had to settle with eating just that.
Our waitress took her time getting to us to finish up our meal and settle our checks. She also spent a large amount of time just standing by our table and watching us eat midway through the meal.
Maybe it was because the restaurant was so busy, but I didn’t enjoy this experience.