Al's Diner

834 Clyde Ave N, Ottawa
(613) 761-7488

Recent Reviews

Elisa Frost

Very affordable breakfast. Tasty food and excellent service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pancake or French Toast with Bacon Ham or Sausage, Home Fries, Bacon and Eggs

Amar Abdulaziz

Very good service ?

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 5

priorguy

I visit here occasionally on weekends. The service is always great! Gord at the "bar" seating is always cheerful and talkative. Makes for a great dining experience. Would recommend this place to anyone!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Home Fries, Bacon and Eggs, Sausage

Derand Motorsport

Amazing little diner! Been going here for years always amazing food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

MishyTaka

Love love love Al's diner. Simple food, fast service with a smile and a great price.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pancake or French Toast with Bacon Ham or Sausage, Bacon and Eggs, Sausage

Jeremy Silburt

Classic diner!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bacon and Eggs

J Quest

Perfect breakfast/brunch. Not the best parking situation but there's the dead retail store's lot across the street.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jeannette Seguin

Nice diner. Great food. Great portions.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Doug Woods

Always good breakfast and service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Bacon and Eggs

Patrick Ferguson

2024 March; I have been coming here for years, same great service and same great food. If you are looking for a quality meal and a bottomless cup of coffee with free parking you found the right place.Update; the restaurant is still a great place for a meal, still free parking, and still bottomless cup of coffee!Previous: Good family style breakfast, quick with a bottomless cuBoca de Camarioca, Cubap of coffee.... And they have Wifi now!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Home Fries, Bacon and Eggs, Al's Deluxe Burger, Western, Sausage

George M

If your looking for an excellent, quick and delicious diner breakfast, this place is it.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Home Fries, Bacon and Eggs, Toast, Sausage

Steve Grant

No surprises. Friendly service, with just the right amount of attitude.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Paul R. Walkington

A genuine diner with the no frills, very personal experience. Food is awesome, just like home. The wait staff are always friendly and efficient. Have breakfast almost any time of day. This is an economical place to get a satisfying meal. It is popular and parking can be hit and miss but worth the time to find a spot. My wife and I love to have breakfast here. Lately, I have had a couple of business lunches. Have a beer with your lunch. It is very progressive. Take out food available.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Fish and Chips, Bacon and Eggs, Sausage

Jo Dufay

This place ticks the boxes as a diner, but the food was not excellent and our order was messed up so many times that it was way past being funny. Immediately after being seated, we ordered a grilled cheese sandwich from the kids' menu, to feed our hungry toddler, and later ordered for the adults. We got (most of) the food for the adults in a while, though some items were omitted and others were incorrect. But the toddler sandwich didn't arrive. We asked, and got massive apologies, and told that the sandwich had been taken to another table, so they were making a new one. After a while they brought a sandwich --- the WRONG sandwich -- bacon -- which the toddler won't eat. By now, we were working hard to avoid a toddler melt-down, so hardly enjoying our meals, and the breakfast with toast still has no toast (or beans). Finally the correct sandwich came (though the toddler is now too distraught to eat) along with the missing items from the adult meals, but the missing toast was wholeweat not white. After another delay, the correct toast appeared, even though the breakfast is cold by then. I went to pay the bill. The server proudly told me that she'd not charged me for the bacon sandwich .... that we hadn't ordered!!! In fact, she had deducted the price of the correct sandwich - a measly $4 on the kids' menu - which hardly offset all the messing about we'd had. However, the bill included a charge for the toast... which was included with the breakfast. It even took two more attempts to get the bill straight. I can see that the restaurant was very busy, and the staff working hard and were very pleasant, but still, this is an unacceptable level of chaos. Apart from all those mix-ups, I'd say that the food was not excellent (frozen french fries, the home fries tasted stale, the sauce on the poached eggs was from definitely made from powder in a packet). On the positive side, they did get the poached eggs right, the portions were large and the price was reasonable -- but I won't be going again. If you go, don't go at lunch time when it's busy, and don't expect great food.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 1

C. J.

Kind servers, busy spot, all day breakfast, and tasty food (with good portions). I enjoyed the quick service and food options. Coffee was regularly refilled, and so was water. Food portions and taste is what you'd expect from a dinner and it was great. If you're looking for a classic diner experience, I reccomend Al's.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

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