The Hawthorne Diner

Hot food needs to be hotter. How is it possible that steam comes off the plate and yet food is room temperature? Perfect example, the chicken margherita has steam coming off of the plate but the mozzarella, chicken, linguini, pesto and roasted pepper are room temperature. This has also been the case with omelets, home fries and corn beef hash. Most of the wait staff are great. However, when I asked to bring my dinner back to the kitchen because it wasn't hot enough, I was told the food was hot and it wasn't brought to the kitchen to make it hotter. We now only go either Thursday or Friday nights because Michelle is the best and makes sure our food is piping hot and steamy.

I wanted to love this place, it's cute and close to my home. I've always been disappointed though. The menu is great but food is always bland. I've tried it 3x in person, service is hit or miss but polite. Today was through GrubHub and the last time. I ordered fried tilapia with mashed potatoes and corn and it came with a soup, I specified French onion. I got bland chicken noodle soup with 2 plain thin fried strips of fish and soggy fries for $21. Never again.

They did not disappoint me. I ordered breakfast this morning. grilled chicken omelette with mushrooms, avocado and spinach. I asked to not include cheese and they did not add cheese which was great. I asked for ketchup with my home fries and they put it on the home fries instead of giving me packs of ketchup which is great because some restaurants just throw catch up packs in your bag which i dislike instead of putting it on your home fries. I ordered a side of grits they were not too stiff and not too soupy and the platter came with wheat toast. food was good. it was delivered with grubhub and i have no complaints!. this will be my go to diner when I want to order breakfast from home : oh the toast was not toasted too hard or too soft it was perfect!. excuse the quality of my camera lol.

First thing I ate this morning. I ordered the Lox for breakfast and since then my stomach has been upset bloating, nauseous and diarrhea all day. This is why I prefer to make food at home. If you’re going to charge so much it better be fresh. Never again!

This was such a nice place for a late dinner! It was pretty quiet when we went, service was quick and the food was delicious! Could hear the staff talking about what decorations to put up and get for the holidays which was really nice seeing them so happy and involved with the look of everythingThe parking lot is a little difficult to get into if you're coming from the wrong direction, but the GPS usually seems good about bringing you from the right way