The Pantry Modern Diner

The food is ALWAYS great! We love coming when Angie, Shannon, and Karli are working Liz they are always on point and very attentive. Couldn’t ask for a better set of servers!

I have lived in Lakeland for over a year and tried a bunch of breakfast spots. this has been my favorite to visit. The staff is very courteous, food is delicious, and they have unique flavored butters. I frequent the diner often and have tried most of the menu. Definitely recommend and will continue going regularly.

While visiting my home town I made a stop to the Pantry to see if they were as good as they used to be. The food was decent but thats about all thats decent at this place. There's pedophiles, meth heads, coke heads, alcoholics, you name it they work there. The head waitress Angie tends to steal customers from other waitresses and then blames it on the owner. Talks crap about all her co-workers and then wants to be friends with them to their face. She's bragged about the owner of the restaurant buying her cars, shoes etc. Intellectually Angie is absolutely ignorant and thinks people can't put 2 and 2 together when shes bragging about the cars and shoes while serving customers. What can we expect from a methhead from Kathleen area whos been to prison. All Angie knows how to do is use people to her advantage and when they are no longer useful she moves on to the next victim. The only server here thats worth anything is Michelle. The good servers they have had have left because of Angie, the pedophiles and the drug users. Let's also talk about how they are passing health inspections constantly. The owners wife coincidently happens to be the health inspector. Their kitchen manager when the owner is away on vacation is an alcoholic who goes into work intoxicated constantly. The female cook and Dan are the only 2 worth a while as far as the cooks go. Night shift Kim stays on drugs and leaves while having customers at her table. She will leave for an hour at a time to go to Walmart. One of the cooks seems to be a young kid with greasy hair and dandruff which reminds me of the movie "Waiting" where they put dandruff in your food. Hope your experience is better then mine.

Highly recommend, great food, service and pricing

Had a delicious meal tonight! Staff are wonderful!

The service is great theyre always very nice and fast. Biscuits are really good, but you'd think a breakfast place could cook eggs right. I've ordered eggs 3 times and each time I ask them to cook them a little bit more and they always come out over easy with whites not cooked all the way. So this time I asked for scrambled...still runny! I've sent it back before, still uncooked. Cooking eggs really isn't that hard. Don't order them here unless you like them raw.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 5

Screaming children make a usually good place, somewhere you want to leave as soon as possible, David should intervene when it is a real problem

Kid-friendliness: Kids should not be in restaurants Parents have no respect for other diners.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 4

Breakfast is good, dinner items are hit or miss. Servers are wonderful. Biscuits are amazing

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Snickerdoodle Cookie, Snickerdoodle, Free Biscuits

I usually love this place and the servers. But our server got a few things wrong this last visit. She seemed rushed and got some of our order wrong. We didn't complain, but service was just not the usual personal service we have come to expect.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Vince was great, the food was excellent

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good evening. I rated my experience as an overall one star. Both my wife and I I have food poisoning from this establishment as it's the only thing and place we've eaten today.

I ordered the porterhouse steak and she got a grilled cheese sandwich with fries. She had a Pepsi and I had a coffee. I did not eat my vegetables or my loaded baked potato.

While the overall General atmosphere was wonderful. And the staff was great. A little busy albeit the staff was in weeds if you will. However unfortunately because this was the first experience and we've never eaten there we probably won't come back.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 4

Great breakfast!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Free Biscuits

The blueberry butter and complimentary biscuit were good. I had an omelette which was good. Personally I prefer the toppings on the inside but it was still good. The hash browns were overdone. When I ordered coffee, they pushed flavorings, and for a good reason. It was probably the worst tasting coffee I've ever had. Food came out fast. There was nothing special about the service... good but not super great. There's definitely better restaurants, but I'll probably go back again if I'm around.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 3

My husband ordered the Reuben sandwich and it had like two slices of meat on it definitely could’ve filled that up better. I did enjoy my chicken teriyaki bowl place was very chaotic. Must’ve been a shift change when we showed up. We were on vacation so we didn’t mind waiting.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 3

The service and food was awful 😖 it's so noisey you can't have a normal conversation. The waitress would put our food down and walk away and never asked if we needed more coffee or anything. It was my first and last time.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2