Wellsboro Diner

Terrible food.cold.smells bad. BLT had almost no bacon no mayo. Service Ok.Waitress sleeping in the booth when we came in. Don’t Go There!!!

Read that this place was great. Wife and I stopped in for grilled cheese and tomato. It came out in about 2 minutes! Unfortunately it was not cooked. It was like cold cheese and tomato on toast, which i didn’t really mind, but my wife wasn’t psyched. Also had to send back her uncooked fries. However, BEST diner coffee I’ve ever had.

Service is out of this world for the size of this old fashion diner. Servers work very hard for the massive output of food. The cook puts out well prepared meals like nothing I ever saw. The quality of food and outstanding service is comendable. Great place to eat. Wish I had a place like this in my town.

Open at 6 AM! Good coffee and lots of it. No newspapers, but good quick service and tasty breakfast. Take note of the variety of homemade cookies available if you eat here. Also the old fashioned toaster… put the bread in slots and it turns in a slow circle until it’s toast!
Nice start to the morning… try it if you are in Wellsboro.

Great for a hearty breakfast in a nostalgic traincar… but the food has never been noteworthy. Desserts are decent… nothing crazy or creative, but simple/​decent.
They are not open late.

In Wellsboro for back-​to-​back Half Marathons in the PA Grand Canyon & looking for decent food for a few days. Not really a «diner» kinda couple, but it came highly recommended by friends who rode bike in the area. We were highly impressed by our omlettes & hashbrowns at 7pm! Cute little trailor dive w/​excellent food. We even returned the next night for eggs & pancakes. You won’t find much in this town, but the diner whips up some fine food for great prices!

Imagine a world where the great recession of 2007 – 2009 never happened. An idyllic community of gas lit lanterns where no one is even aware of the backdoor dealings at Lehman Bros and JP Morgan Chase.
Where people don’t walk around, scratching their heads and looking up at the heavens, saying «Where’s my bailout, Obama?»
or «My flip flop just snapped in front of this store that might sells magic broomsticks, thanks Obama. Oh wait, what’s that across the street? An old timey diner with all the bells and whistles that push your 1970’s love for the 1950’s nostalgia through the roof.»
Maybe in there, there isn’t a dark future where a hot roast beef sandwich cost upwards of eighteen dollars and their is drought in California killing off all the cows and innocent vegetables.
[How about Tom Selleck stealing all that water? When I saw his mug on the nightly news I figured he had, to have died in a horrible accident. I mourned for Tom Selleck until I realized he wasn’t dead, and indeed, a water thief. (Look it up, it’ll taint your Magnum P.I. re-​runs for life)]
I arrived at the Wellsboro Diner well aware of the last decade, but after a hike at the PA’s grand canyon, taking in it’s scenic vistas I could almost forgive congress for their half hearted attempts at partisanship.
I was with my roommate Kirstin, whose best friend was visiting her friends at a swimming pool. Jer, not as cranky as usual with his girlfriend. Robbie, whose life I learned more about in the two hour drive too the Grand Canyon, and Bob (or Rob as he’s known in Penn State and the Western Parts of the country) who had, had enough of me lamenting the loss of the Elby’s Big Boy in Wilkes-​Barre.
We were a haggard and broken group, soaked from heavy rain fall and muddy from immense stair-​climbing. (I don’t know what that’s all about: At the PA grand canyon you don’t really hike as much as you climb stairs. Like actual stairs, built by the CCC. #ThanksFDR)
Since the rain fall had made the stairs slippery, I had declared aloud that I preferred a dry stair, and dry stairs the Wellsboro Diner supplied.
As I looked over the menu, I nearly missed the holy grail of diner food — The Hot Roast Beef sandwich. Luckily Bob spotted the old girl with ease, and pointed it out cheerfully as I began to ponder why a red onion is called a red onion when it’s purple.
When our food arrived, I liked what they had done with the hot roast beef. Instead of serving it open face, they constructed an actual sandwich and then poured a gallon of gravy on it. Which of course made my day because that meant two pieces of soggy gravy soaked bread. The gravy, sadly, could have used some work.
Kirstin was not a fan of the coleslaw, she said it was very sweet — and Jer’s girlfriend said that it might actually be vanilla yogurt. I didn’t want to eat vanilla yogurt style coleslaw so I actively ignored it.
Wellsboro is a place with an old movie theater, a pop culture store, a store for witches, a Steak house that is closed on Sundays — a courthouse with honest architecture invoking a time when peoples civil liberties were being stepped all over.
I don’t think I’d fit in, in Wellsboro — although we did see a sort of meth-​head, chain smoking cigarettes and yelling in the streets, and a baby in a jeep with the top off. I’m not saying that the meth head and the people neglecting the baby are my kind of people — but their closer.
The Wellsboro Diner felt separate from the world of what may be an elitist society, who often argue over what’s the best antique shop in town, it felt like a home, as all diners do to me. They speak to a certain down-​to-​earth portion of my soul that feels like you should call a red onion a purple onion.
There were no frills or laces here — just coffee mugs, and honest, decent food.
Although sadly the Burger was compared to a Denny’s Burger… that’s of course why when your at a diner, you go for the hot roast beef sandwich!
Well done, Wellsboro Diner, keep doing you.

Food was great. My mom and I both got the filet cut sirloin. Service was a little slow but not terrible. I would have given more stars but we were seated at a high table near the bar and the seats are not very comfortable. Also, I would not recommend this place for a quiet meal. It was a very rowdy atmosphere. If you go, request to be seated away from the bar area.

Sweet lil 40’s diner in middle of county seat. Home cookin. Friendly and fun. But… only one but… New Yorkers or Californians need not read further. the small iced tea is $ 2.49. Coffee or hot tea only $ 1.69. Breakfast only $ 3.99. Go figure. Iced tea musta been out of season.

If you’re looking for a home style meal, vintage charm and to catch up on the local gossip, then the Wellsboro Café is the place to be! There’s a variety of comfort foods to try from, from a cheese omelette to liver and onions.
This visit I had a cheese omelette with delicious home fries and savory rye toast. Hot tea came with its own little carafe, which was really neat looking.

Great look and feel, but ultimately disappointing.
With its diner car, prime location, and gift shop, Wellsboro Diner gets a lot of visitors and tourists throughout the year. But I don’t know any locals who do. That’s because the food is average and the prices less so.
I had a roast beef sandwich and was underwhelmed. It wasn’t bad, just not amazing. I came back a couple more times for breakfast and it was below average.
I really wanted to like this place, but the food and the prices for that food left me unmotivated to do so.

Amazing service and everything a diner should be. Huge portions, piping hot and terrific coffee!
I had a delicious omelet and crispy potatoes. So nice to have decent eggs for once!

This is a fantastic place to eat. One, it is the cleanest diner we have ever eaten in. Two, the breakfast was perfect. Corned beef hash is my test food at most diners and it was homemade and perfectly cooked. Service was four stars as well. Recommend this place to anyone.

Stopped in here before heading back home after a weekend camping trip. It is pretty much your typical small-​town diner; a bit run-​down (but nothing egregiously so), efficient service, and most patrons and employees knowing each other. Despite this (and a somewhat curt welcome by one of the servers upon entrance), as soon as we sat at the counter the young woman at the grill made us feel more than welcome. Although cooking every food order (often coming in at a furious pace), she quickly grabbed us drinks, made sure our coffee was topped up, and checked in a few times once our food arrived.
For being a diner the breakfast menu felt a bit small, but all the staples were still there. I opted for scrambled eggs with home fries, toast, and sausage, which really hit the spot after a weekend outdoors. My friend got the western omelet (which I stole a piece of) that was also very tasty.
Prices were in line with what I would expect, a breakfast for 3 ran us about $ 20. A great way to end a camping trip in PA’s «Grand Canyon» and I would return for breakfast again the next time I’m in the area.

The Diner is now a historical landmark and feature attraction for out-​of-​towners. Be that as it may, it went from being a local standard featuring good food and good prices to being an overpriced tourist trap and gift shop. The previous owners did us locals right, but since then I don’t find myself there too often. When I did go, the hot roast beef sandwich with fries w/​gravey was my favorite. If you’re a tourist or out-​of-​towner check it out, but we locals aren’t impressed anymore.

I stopped by here a few Saturday afternoons ago with my fiancé for lunch. We arrived shortly after noon to a line coming out of the diner door. Upon entering, I saw that there was nowhere to stand and so stood there waiting with the door open only to get yelled at to shut the door since the air was on. This scene ended up playing out many more times while we were there and I wonder if it would have been more efficient to have such a sign taped to the door. Once inside, the diner looked much how you would expect with a lunch counter on one side and a number of booths throughout the rest. Even though there was a line waiting for tables I noticed that there were two seats at the counter and after asking some of the other waiting guests, proceded to sit at them. These seats ended up being right in front of the flat top grill and I found it fun to watch the cook throughout our stay.
After we were seated my fiancé and I grabbed some menus only to be disappointed by the lack of selections. While there were a decent amount of good looking breakfast items, the lunch menu seemed to be rather small. I ended up deciding on the chicken sandwich which came with peppers, cheese and side of fries while my fiancé went with the chefs salad. Even though there were a number of waitresses in the diner our server ended up being the cook who was remarkably efficient. After not too long of a wait the cook got to our meals and essentially made them right in front of us. My sandwich ended up being fairly decent and I really enjoyed the flavor of the chicken breast. Meanwhile the fries ended up being a mixture of nice and crispy and limp and soggy which could probably be attributed to the fact that we saw a waitress dunk a basket of already cooked fries back into the fryer for a couple of seconds. My fiancé also enjoyed the flavor of her chicken breast although I thought that the salad was a bit sparse for a chefs salad.
The bottom line for me is that I might stop back here again in the future but would rather give another place in town the chance first. I know that it was a diner and while the food tasted ok, I thought that there was quite a limited selection and that it was a bit overpriced.

First time here, pie is fantastic, grilled sweet roll with ice cream is even better!!!

We stopped in for breakfast recently while we were up in the area camping at Cherry Springs State Park and hiking in the PA Grand Canyon. Great little diner in a small town full of character! Pancakes were great and the atmosphere was fun. If your just driving through town on Route 6 or in the area, stop in and you won’t be disappointed!

The atmosphere makes up for the typical diner food. There aren’t many places like this left. The service is pretty good and your food is out quickly. The hot roast beef sandwich with gravy was good. The beef was tender and the gravy was the right consistency. It could have used some more seasoning, but that’s why S & P is on the table.

Typical diner food. Service was friendly and food came out quickly. The price was cheap. I don’t expect gourmet good from a diner, but it was satisfying for lunch :) would definitely drop by again for a quick lunch if I was in the area.