Leo’s Coney Island

Working in the same plaza as this place, Leo’s can be handy! They have a «Saline Special Menu» — I like that. Seems to be a bit more on the healthy side. As always, service is speedy and the foods surprisingly pretty good! On that note, I ordered a one item take out order this morning though– Veggie skillet, add bacon w/​hashbrowns and overeasy eggs. I go in to pay and pick up and the girl didn’t even put the order in when I called. Thinking she would be like «Oh gosh, so sorry I forgot, I’ve been so busy», she throws the ticket to another girl to give to me (that she just rang in), the girl hands it to me and stares at me blankly. So I pay and I come back 10 minutes later and I get a veggie skillet w American fries, no bacon and the eggs were completely fried. lol. luckily I just don’t care and will eat anything. Maybe I shouldn’t expect much out of a Coney Island, but being a former waitress/​bartender it just leaves me with one question… Why hire help if its only going to hurt the business? I’ll come back but with hopes that I won’t get a snotty waitress.

I’m writing this review in hopes of getting someone to notice from this restaurant! We recently moved into the area and were so excited to see a Leo’s in the strip mall in Saline close to our new home. We had been going at least once a week to Leo’s in Canton (BEST YUMMY!) for their lemon rice soup, saganaki, and deliciously fresh char grilled chicken kabobs.
Unfortunately, our experience with our now close to us Leo’s was not the same. We wanted it to be good. We’ve given it at least three different tries in hopes it would be as delicious. It isn’t even close. The saganaki probably is not made with the correct greek cheese (Kasseri) as it has a flavorless, runny, thinness to it. The lemon rice soup is really bland and the rice is overcooked. The worst is the chicken kabob. It is obviously not fresh and been prepared in advance and reheated, very dry. There is a strange reddish orangey color to it, maybe to mask the fact that it isn’t fresh. Customers would be happy to wait if they new the meat they were getting was going to be fresh! The tzatziki sauce was also very watery and didn’t seem fresh. Probably due to the lack of customers.
I wish the owner would take some tips from the Canton and Plymouth locations. We want it to be up to the standards of the other Leo’s in the area. Even the one on Carpenter Rd is better (which is why it is busier and harder to get a seat!). Empty restaurants are empty for a reason. :(

Noisy, service spotty… you may wait a looong time for a refill on tea, or coffee. Some dinners contain mystery meat (pretty sure it’s (texturized veg. protein). I’m allergic to soy, and the hamburger makes me sneeze. The french fries (and all their potatoes) have been frozen, and have that powdery texture.
I do like the baked cod, it is real cod (not cat-​food grade mackerel). The baked potato is gigantic, wrapped in tinfoil which gets punched into the potato, and is difficult to peel off a scalding potato.
I haven’t eaten there in quite awhile.

Have eaten here and ordered take out at least 20 times. Never had a bad meal but sometimes is blah. Decent service. A little boring and average.

You will not get the treatment you deserve. The food there is kind of ew, the waitresses even more ew.

I now live on the west coast and miss Coney Islands so much. In college, I would go sometimes with my best guy friend and we’d play «name that sorority» and then wait until the other diners would stand up and we could read their letters across the booties of their sweatpants. Best types of hangover food.

This location rivals the Pittsfield location on Carpenter Road. Easy parking, near a hair cutting place and good Chinese take-​out place. Seating is plentiful and I’ve never had to wait for a table unlike the Pittsfield Coney Island location. The nice thing is that the service here is also excellent and the kitchen staff has NEVER screwed up my order. IMHO, the value picks on the Leo’s menu are the Chef’s salad and country fried steak. They have a Saline-​specific supplementary menu so be sure to check that out. You cannot go wrong with their burgers either. Will return to spend my hard-​earned money!

Of the many coney places in south Michigan this chain is my favorite. On our way to the thumb area we decided to stop and get a junk food fix at this particular Leo’s. The service was fast and friendly and our order was out in record time. As always with Leo’s food I was far from disappointed. I would give this place 5 stars if the cook or server would have delivered me a different order of jalapeño poppers instead of the ones the did deliver. The ones we did receive were hot and fresh although missing a bunch of breading. This is the only reason I knocked off a star. The place was clean although the bathroom could have used a quick cleanup. But I don’t usually enjoy my food on the toilet so that really doesn’t matter too much to me.

Even if you’ve never been there, you have probably heard of Leo’s Coney Island. They have 50+ locations in SE lower Michigan.
The Saline location has been in the «Walmart» mall for a few years now. You can tell that they put some thought (and $) into making the interior look nice, with elegant sconce lighting, marble table tops and screen printed logos on the glass dividers between booths. They serve all the classic coney island fare from American and Greek cuisine — several pages of choices. Our waiter was ready to help us right after we sat down. I had to ask her to give me another minute to decide what to order. She must have had to keep track of a lot of tables, so there was no time to dilly-​dally. She got us what we needed at the right times, and moved on.
I decided to get a small Caesar salad with a grilled chicken breast on top. The small salad turned out to be rather generous. The bowl was about 8″ in diameter, and you get a lot of salad.
I liked the Romaine lettuce, definitely a step up from regular head lettuce. The dressing was just OK — I thought it was too acidic and «industrial» tasting. They sure gave me plenty. If I had the chance to order this salad again, I’d tell them to leave off the croutons. They were the same size and color as the grilled chicken (which somehow I assumed would be sliced into skinny strips — don’t ask me why) and about the same quantity. I think the croutons overwhelmed the salad, which was served with a white pita bread, which I’d rather have than all the croutons. I didn’t want a carbo overload, so I didn’t eat all of my pita.
Hubby got a cheeseburger. It had lettuce and tomato on it. He said it was fine. Fries are extra. He didn’t want any that day.
The lemonade without ice (I usually prefer not to freeze my esophagus) was too sugary. I couldn’t drink much. I’m spoiled with my not too sweet home made lemonade with Stevia powder. Tough act to follow.
Leo’s is busy. They get a lot of business. I noticed a few small shreds of paper on the floor, here and there. A high traffic area. There are TVs on the walls, but the one closest to us was turned off or not working, not that I was interested in the talk show that was playing on the other wall. With a sports bar next door, I guess you’d go over there if you wanted a sports channel.
Oh, and the front door squeaks so much, you’d think they’d notice, and do something about that.

Food was delicious and the staff was kind. My chicken bacon ranch wrap and fries were yummy. Not being from MI, the hospitality and kindness made me smile. The menu variety was great, and you can see them cook the food in plain view if you’re touchy about that. I’d definitely stop by this place again.

We take the dogs to Manchester every other month for grooming and head to Saline for breakfast. Last time we did this the Saline Downtown Diner was closed on Monday — so we scheduled for Tuesday. Today there was a sign up that said closed Monday — Tuesday. So the wife searched for another breakfast spot — and came up with Leo’s Coney Island.
The young lady that served us was great.
My wife removed her utensils from her rolled up napkin and went YUCK — there was a big glob of stuff on her knife. That happens so she got another.
She ordered pancakes, sausage and coffee. The pancakes and sausage were ok — but as she said — you would think they would make sure they had good coffee — the coffee here was bad. I’m not a coffee drinker so I can’t comment.
I ordered a gyro meat omelet, hash browns, rye toast and a diet — whatever they had — Pepsi or Coke. The diet was good. And that’s it. Lets start with the omelet. It looks like they threw the gyro meat and tomatoes on a grill top and fried them until there was no moisture left. Then dumped three eggs on top and fried it in about a 12 inch circle — and maybe flipped it once the bottom side was brown. Then browned the other side. Once they grilled any moisture out of it, the folded it up so it looked like an omelet — if you are far sighted. I couldn’t detect any salt or pepper in it.
The hash brown were browned on both sides — but again there was no moisture left in the hash brown — or taste.
I was served three small slices of toast made from the end of a loaf of stale rye bread. Small I could handle — dry toast from stale bread isn’t very appealing. The grape jelly from a Smucker’s packet couldn’t save the toast.
So, we agreed this place would not be on our list of come back places — we would have gotten a tastier well cooked meal at a nearby McDonalds or Tim Horton’s.
As a last thing to do at Leo’s was to use the restroom. One stall for the guys — and no way to latch the stall. Someone broke the latch — that happens — you can order them and get new ones in a day or two — I used to repair stuff for a living. In the meantime you can take a bolt with several nuts and make a latch for this design door to at least get by. No one did. On the plus side they actually provided warm water to wash your hands — and a paper product to dry them with.
All in all it was a poor excuse for breakfast. Someone needs to pay attention to the details. Without much effort Leo’s failed on half the details needed to make good food.

I ordered an omlet breakfast there was a lot of food unfortunately my omlet was overcooked. I tried to eat it but it is really hard to eat burnt eggs!

Decently good coney dog, and fast, friendly service. I got a takeout order that was briskly packaged and still warm by the time I dove into the dogs.
The chili here is slightly more watery than at other places, and curiously, so was the mustard. Overall, at $ 2 a dog, it’s decently priced (COUGH Lafayette Coney Island COUGH) and the friendly service is nice to have.

Went here for breakfast yesterday morning, we usually go to the one on Carpenter Rd in Ypsilanti. This place was filthy. Crumbs on the table because no one bothered to wipe the whole table off rather than leave everything one the side and wipe around… The waitresses couldn’t have been slower… The food was not good, eggs were supposed to be over easy, they were well done and brought out to me anyways, and the waitress had me look at them and asked if I still wanted them… Really??? Just bad overall.

Pro-​Tip– if you want something more substantive than a McDonalds Sausage Biscuit, or a Burger King Crossanwich, order a carry-​out Breakfast Special from any Leo’s coney Island between 7AM-​11AM. You can get scrambled eggs, meat, toast, and hash browns for under $ 5 including tip, (i tip a dollar every so often if i know who’s putting my bag together… so less than $ 4 for cheapskates who don’t believe in tipping carry out). And you get a pretty hearty portion.
This Leo’s is pretty much exactly like all the other ones in Michigan… good quality food on the cheap, coney dogs good, breakfasts are cheap and tasty (but not very adventurous), and everything comes out pretty fast.
Don’t race out here just to try it– just go here instead if you’re in the mood for a decent breakfast or cheap, non-​Hot n Ready, lunch.

We were curious to try a Coney Island having never been to one, and Unilocal liked this one. Everything here was okay – okay hotdogs, okay fries, okay ambiance, okay service.
The hotdogs were surprisingly good mostly because I was grossed out by the concept of a coney dog and then turned out to be okay with mine. But my all-​beef dog was good, and the toppings worked nicely. My fiancé got a regular half-​beef, half-​pork and said it was just as good. We also got some curly fries. They were standard, though the portion was a little scant, especially when it came to fries that were actually curly.
The service was the best part – our waitress was sweet and attentive.
I would be okay to go back here, but it’s not a place I’d rave about or bring friends to. Maybe it’s a quick place to eat if you’re going to Walmart?

Good food at really reasonable prices! The restaurant is much larger than it looks from the outside, with lots of comfy booth seating. It’s very casual: you seat yourself and you go to the cashier to pay when you’re finished. A woman came in to order take out while we were there, and they made her fried pickle spears, even though they weren’t on the menu.
My kids were thrilled with the children’s menu selections, which range from pancakes and sausage (links or patties) to fish and chips and lots in between. I had a wrap, and the pita bread was yummy! Honestly, it was a giant wrap, stuffed with chicken and veggies. I didn’t think I would be able to eat it all… but I did. My husband loved his fish and chips (and the 3-​pc was only $ 7.50!).
Our server was really sweet. She interacted nicely with our boys and offered us dessert, which we were too full to try.
All kids meals are $ 2.99 on Wednesdays, which also features all-​you-​can-​eat fish for the adults for $ 8.99. We’ll definitely be back (and probably on a Wednesday!).

I love this place, I’m here at least once a week. It’s the best coney island around, I would recommend it to anyone looking for good food at good prices. I live off of their Greek salads! SO good.

This is one of my favorite places to get a bite in the saline area. Would recommend to anyone traveling through.

The servers here are always friendly and will do whatever they can to make sure you are happy and make things right :) The food is always good and it is a great place for Sunday morning breakfast :)