Jim Denny's American Diner

816 12th St, Sacramento
(916) 410-5471

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Mike Pisarsky

This is becoming a favorite lunch spot for me. Love the atmosphere of the old joint. Even the surly customers are awesome. Food is great, the Ranch is off the charts.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Onion Rings, Sandwich, Hamburger

Natnael Ganoro

Haven’t enjoyed a burger like that in A WHILE!!!

Visiting sac for few days and saw the old retro dinner look and went to take pictures. I ended up trying The American burger with fries and it was delicious!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Jr Jimmy D's Meal Burger, Fries

Alison M C

Incredible, incredible, incredible! Owner was super welcoming. Chicken sandwich was perfect. Burger was great. Don't skip the onion rings and housemade ranch. What a cool place. Can't wait to go back.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Donita Jones

Chicken Sandwich is huge and delicious. The fried cauliflower is also great. Atmosphere nostalgic for old time diners.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Sandwich

Jim Berg

This isn’t the old Jim Deny’s I was looking forward too. Only scrambled eggs,cold bacon, and a big thick potato chip that was chewy.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 3

Melvin Neal

Quaint brussel sprouts good

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Jr Jimmy D's Meal Burger, Fries

M J (MJ)

Inconsistent hours, always sold out of chicken. Can’t keep up with demand I guess. Bird is the word used to be my go to but the chicken was undercooked a couple of times and that’s not a gamble i enjoy. They do have the best ranch and onion rings tho.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Onion Rings

M L

Amazing staff who went above and beyond to help my kids and me feel better after a horrible day. Next time in town, I will definitely be returning!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Gilbert Scott

To me they are proportion sizes in their meals is fairly decent but for me the main downside is the prices I can understand having a raise the prices with the cost of living going up but still it's just how I personally feel one of the really good upsides is they don't take cash so that they don't have any criminal issues

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 3

Kayla Kuhl

Jim Denny’s is one of few places downtown you can get a proper lunch for under $20 even after tax and tip. The menu is small and not fancy, but good. I’ve had their grilled cheese and fried fish sandwich and both were 10/10. Most of the seating is outdoors though, so keep that in mind if the weather isn’t the best.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

brenda johnson

2nd time here. Service great. The food is fresh and delicious. Burgers a so good. Fries are yumny. I love that the owner is there and spends time engaging with the customers. We will be back.

Parking: Where this restaurant sits on Side Street, they shouldn't even charge for parking it's ridiculous because that's the City for you.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fries, Hamburger

WutangchickeN

Oh man, you've gotta come here for a burger.

Tried the BBQ burger, best in the city. My son got the Mac and cheese and that was killer too, clearly made from scratch with love.

Love the old counter space! Owner served us and she was a dear, super friendly.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Andy Wen

Closed, not in operation

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

John Adair

I've been to this location three times over the past six months. Staff is always friendly and helpful, and the food is always good (I had the burger and the chicken sandwich). I certainly recommend supporting this local business.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Dev Sodagar

Pretty disappointed. This place is really hyped by many news articles. Our visit here was very disappointing. Many of the menu items were completely unavailable, including all the dessert offerings... Apparently because of an event earlier in the week?!? On top of this the chilli, something Jim Denny's is know for was really disappointing... Someone has clearly burnt the bottom of the pot but then simply scraped that into the rest of the chilli and continued mixing resulting in the whole batch of chilli just tasting unpleasant and burnt.
I'd come here specifically for an authentic dinner experience ... I will not be coming back.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 2

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