Micro Diner

Came here for breakfast/​brunch on a Sunday for the first time. There is a parking lot right across the street which is convenient. Very small space, but fantastic food! My Italian omelette was huge and super tasty. Service was quick and staff is friendly. I can’t wait to come back and try some other things off of the menu.

Great food, great service, great place!!! Highly recommended! The servers maintained their composure so well during the busiest time of the day– always had smiles on their face.

This is a great diner. I had the classic burger, cooked medium rare and topped with cheddar cheese. It was delicious. The service was good, helping our whole party of 9.

Micro Diner is a small, humble diner in Mt. Washington right by the overlooks on Grandview Ave. Boyfriend and I seated ourselves at a cozy yet roomy corner table right behind the bar. I got the macro breakfast: pancakes, two eggs, your choice of meat (I got sausage), and your choice of either hash browns or home fries (I got hash browns). Boyfriend got steak & eggs, which also came with your choice of potatoes and toast. We ordered the cinnamon French toast as well. We enjoyed the pancakes, which were the perfect texture and thickness (although I do like the thin hotcakes at Pamela’s too), and the cinnamon French toast was pretty good too (just wish their portion was bigger). However, my eggs tasted strange, as if they made it way before I even ordered it. The hash browns were tasteless; maybe they expected you to season to taste, so I sprinkled a generous amount of black pepper on it. Not the best brunch place around, and a bit out of the way if you’re a college student in Pittsburgh, but they have good pancakes and decent French toast.
Taste | 3.5
Atmosphere | 3
Presentation | 2
Service | 3.5
OVERALL | 3

Great cozy little diner. Has the classic diner feel overlaying a quality selection of breakfast fare. The Gluten Free selections were nice (my companion has a gluten-​free diet requirement), pancakes were great! Street parking though, so bring change for the meters!

While looking for somewhere unpretentious for brunch one morning, we stumbled into Micro Diner and a table immediately opened up.
This place is bumping on a Sunday and a great breakfast, or anytime, spot. Especially after almost joining a pretentious brunch a few doors down, I’m glad we made the diner choice. Since it was between breakfast and lunch, we ordered one breakfast item and one lunch to share. We ordered the chicken salad, after asking the waitress for a recommendation between my two choices, and a breakfast sandwich.
The salad was much larger than I expected and full of chicken. Sometimes you go to places and you get this sad little piece of grilled chicken that barely gives you a bite or two, but the amount they served was perfect. The breakfast sandwich was super tasty.
Since our first visit we’ve also ordered dinner for delivery and they arrived much quicker than expected, another pleasant surprise.
And in case you haven’t seen my tip… this location also serves as a UPS access point (or drop off/​pick up location), which is great for the neighborhood and ensuring your boxes get to or from where they’re going!
This place is a great quick bite or a simple dinner that you don’t have to think too much about.

Love the pitas. Especially the Chicken ceaser. Ordering online is convenient and they deliver fast.

Pretty good. The staff were friendly and the food decent. The hash browns seem excessively oily though; I feel as though every time I eat the hash browns here, my life expectancy shortens by a year. All in all, this is probably the best place to get breakfast on top of Mount Washington.

Excellent food, coffee and service. The prices are very reasonable and there was no wait at 9:30 in a Sat morning.

Very few places have made me more proud to call Mt. Washington home — and this is one of those places.
The food is extraordinary! If you like the original diner experience and taste, then this is the place for you. On multiple occasions I have ordered the Italian omelette here with a side of hashbrowns, and it was cooked to perfection.
The staff is extremely pleasant and helpful as well. They are always friendly and cheerful when I walk in and are quick to spark up a conversation when they are able.
If you want to truly experience a gem and cornerstone of the Mt. Washington area, then look no further.

Finally made it to Micro Diner on Mount Wash! My friend and I meet up there at 9 a. m to catch up and discuss life. We sat at the bar that overlooks the tiny kitchen. Initially it was just us and another guy finishing up his eggs.
We were promptly greeted and I inquired into their gluten free pancakes! The woman checked for me and said they still have them and wanted to confirm that $ 6.99 was okay. I thanked her for asking and said absolutely! They came out lightly brown on both sides and perfectly cooked. The kielbasa side I ordered while small was very good too. My friend got the micro breakfast of eggs and home fries and said it was good. By the time we got up the whole place was filled!
Would absolutely come back the next time I’m around for breakfast!

I was just browsing through the restaurants when I saw Micro Diner and had to write a review. I used to live on Mt. Washington and lived there when I started dating my future husband and we went there almost every weekend for breakfast when I lived there. So maybe I’m biased but if the food wasn’t great I doubt we would’ve kept going back. I always got the cinnamon French toast and bacon and he always got an omelet. Everything was really good. Very crispy bacon!!! One time I felt like getting something different and got a breakfast sandwich and that was also really good. You won’t be disappointed.

I have eaten here before and it was fine. Today I grabbed a salad to go, more than half of my spinach was wilted and my cucumbers were literally rotting.

After a night of drinking on Shiloh Street, it was 2:30 am and I was starving. I didn’t think anything would be open that late and to my surprise, I discovered that the Micro Diner was open until 4 am! I was pretty excited.
My boyfriend and I grabbed a seat at the bar style seating and were greeted right away with waters and menus. We both ordered the same thing– their turkey club with home fries. This dinner is pretty small and it was slightly busy when we arrived. The kitchen is open and we were able to watch the cook as he prepared the orders. He was pretty amazing– he handled all of the orders on his own and in a timely manner. My boyfriend was so amazed at how many orders he handled at once and how delicious our sandwiches were that he shook his hand after our meal. I believe his name was Mark– so shout out to Mark for being an awesome chef!
Our sandwiches were very good– the turkey wasn’t lunch meat, it was real turkey and the bacon was super flavorful! The coleslaw was awesome and the sauce on the club gave a nice, spicy kick to the sandwich. It really hit the spot. The home fries were just potatoes and weren’t very impressive. I ended up taking them home and doctoring them up a bit by adding peppers and onions and making them a little more crispy. After fixing them up a bit at home, I really liked them.
Overall, I am really glad we checked out this little place. It has an awesome location– right off of Grandview. I would like to return in the future!

There are very few restaurants to eat at that do not cost and arm and a leg on the mountain. It’s a great place to live when you’re 50 and like spending $ 200 in a restaurant where the menu and the pomp haven’t changed in 30 years. While it may seem intimidating to some, if you look hard enough, you can find good, inexpensive fair away from Grandview.
Micro diner is a great little spot. While tiny inside, the menu is pretty big and the food is good and cheap. I seldom order hash outside of Pamela’s because I know that often diners recruit theirs from a can. I was really happy when I asked the waitress and she said it was home made. 3 eggs, toast and a healthy portion of hash was only $ 7.99 and extremely tasty. I would like to go back and get their french toast. While not a big sweets person, it looked amazing and was stuffed with strawberries and crème. The only reason why I didn’t give this place 5 stars was because the waitress didn’t write our order down, had to come back and retake the order and I ended up with my eggs sunny side up instead of over easy. How I managed to carry on with my life, I will never know.

Nice cozy little dinner great food and service gets packed really quick first time here for lunch we enjoyed it!

Delicious chili Tomato based not too much beans or meat, big tomato chunks
A side of grilled veggies is beautiful, delicious, and inexpensive! Yummm
So happy this place is here, you can find breakfast or later fare, really cute place, great business hours. Hard to believe The Village Dairy was ever on this same block!

I visited the Micro diner this past Sunday around lunchtime after foregoing another restaurant down the road. Micro look quaint and inviting, a typical Pittsburgh restaurant that promises good food and fast service. I am delighted to say that we got more than we hoped.
The space is small but incredibly clean and modern, the décor look new and the walls have great oversized colorful art work that just makes you feel right at home. There is an assortment of mostly 2 seaters, a few 4 seaters and seating around kitchen bar.
We were advised to find seating anywhere and were quickly given menus and follow up coffee. delicious. The menu features most breakfast items, a few lunch burger [perfectly straight forward classics] and sandwich options. I chose the Eggs and Potato Cakes and my fellow diner had the Macro Breakfast [3 eggs and pancakes].
The pancakes were delicious and not overly sweat, the potato cakes were fluffy and the eggs were just right. I was delighted to find that none of the items were heavily salted, allowing each guest to adjust on their own. The food was brought out quickly but with just enough spacing in order to enjoy each ‘course’ on their own [the dishes are separated because of smaller tables].
During the meal we also had an opportunity to discover other features of the restaurant. First of all, they are have take out breakfast for meals over $ 10 dollars. Neat, especially when you are stuck on Mt Washington and it’s subzero weather like it’s been this February. No standing in the cold for me! Second, this place is open from 7am — 4am [yes] on Friday’s and Saturdays!!! So feel free to make your way up the incline for some late night breakfast because you will not be disappointed. Last, they have special items. Due to popularity I was unable to try the loaded potato pancakes, however they did sound scrumptious. I look forward to those in the future.
An absolute must try and a guaranteed returned to this wonderful little diner is in the imminent future. I can’t wait to go back.

Cute and quaint little diner with pretty limited seating.
I had the Macro breakfast with two pancakes, sausage, hash browns, and eggs cooked however. It was very tasty. The hash browns were crispy and delicious but the sausage was a tad overcooked.
The staff was friendly when we arrived but not very nice when we called to see how busy they were. Whoever picked up said «we’re busy» and hung up without another word.

Very nice little place nestled on the hilltops of Pittsburgh, a street down from the Monongahela Incline. It’s a small ‘old school’ feel diner with a updated and fresh atmosphere. Diners were friendly, staff was friendly, free wi-​fi (a bit slow), and the prices were friendly to my wallet and the food was good. Met a very nice couple sitting beside us and were telling us about some of the other sites that we may want to check out. This is a very nice little treasure! If you get a chance to go, you really should.
Oh, yeah, the music they were playing was great!