Golden Griddle Family Restaurants

Always see this place when we’re walking around. Went here for the brunch buffet — 15.99 for all you can eat of most of their breakfast menu. Egg benedict, waffles, pancakes, scrambled eggs, pie, and much more — all of which tasted average, at best.
The service was average — our server sat us at a big 6 person table for just the two of us, and forgot to bring cream with the coffee. The atmosphere reminded me of a diner back in New Brunswick — dated look, very generic, nothing special.
I can’t complain, but likely won’t be back. I can see how some people love it, the place is so average that it’s really based on the memories made, especially with it being opened 24 hours.

Kinda went in with my BF for some nostalgic late breakfast… but it was more like overpriced, cheaply made, lower-​than-​diner foods… they tasted ok because you know when you are hungry everything taste equally good lol but when i think back i kinda went like «blahhhhhh» especially for the apple crêpe: it was filled with apple jam and super sugary canned apple ooze, more like those fillings for apple pie …

I went to this location last weekend for the buffet, and got an omelette at the omelette bar first it was watery inside and then I found a hair baked right into it. Then my daughter got some pancakes and there was a hair baked right into that also. Told the waitress I want to speak to the manager this brown idiot comes over and has the BALLS to tell me it wasn’t a hair. He tells me don’t worry I’ll take care of the bill so he gives me 50% off I am soooooo disgusted with this reastaurant, my meal should have been free of charge. And NO I didn’t put the hair in there myself it was baked right into both those items. I will NEVER go again. I give this location no star but unfortunately I have to

I ordered the hot chicken sandwich, and the baby carrots on the side tasted like they’d been boiled in soapy dishwater. The rest of the food was mediocre, but I didn’t come expecting quality food, I picked this place because it’s generally not busy, and I wanted to do some reading.
The large restaurant was empty, save for one other solo diner, but the server rushed me out. While I was still eating, the server brought over the bill and asked «do you want anything else?» I asked her if I could see the menu for dessert options. Seeing nothing I was interested in, I let her know I wouldn’t be ordering anything else. She dropped the bill in front of me, took my plate (still with food on it), and told me to «have a good day.»
As I finished my burnt coffee, the cook was snoring at a table behind me.
Yikes.

The absolute worst. The waitress convinced us to get the buffet. Food was cold and disgusting. for three people the bill came to almost $ 80 and it was the worst food we have ever had. We honestly should not have even paid. AVOID.

Horible place we went with friends once and the whole experience was bad.
Food is terrible and when we told this to the guy im charge he said: its fine if you not coming back we are busy enough.
The place is old uggly. Go up one block and eat at Cora.

I came here with my boyfriend for breakfast on a Saturday morning. We always walk by this place and saw a sign saying breakfast buffet. So we decided to give it a try. I have to say, I am not a fan of this place. The seating was okay, kind of like a dinner style. Our server was friendly. However, the restaurant overall is very dated and I have to say, I do question the cleanliness. By the way the washrooms were not good at all.
The breakfast buffet is $ 15.99 per person before taxes and tips. The selection was okay. The food quality was okay. Overall, there are definitely better places.

This is one of the most disgusting places I’ve ever eaten at and let me tell you… I’ve seen some sh-​t.
First of all the place is filthy and falling apart. it smells, the seats are dirty, the carpet was peeling off the floor and the walls were dirty and splattered with old food from 1998.
we ordered the spinach swiss omelette with three pancakes — the pancakes were inexplicably chewy and tough (frozen). the omelette looked like someone threw up in some eggs and had no distinguishable listed ingredients.
The french toast was something like 8 f-​cking dollars for three chewy, MOLDY slices of toast and packaged butter from Chernobyl and some packaged sugar liquid called «breakfast syrup» in little containers.
We also got a side of «perogies» because why the hell not.
I’m sure you can guess how great they were. again chewy flavorless frozen little nuggets of history microwaved to perfection !
our «food» took a very long time to be microwaved and our server came by once to take our orders, again to give us our drinks, once more to give our food and then we had to release a search party to get the bill from her.
When I brought up the french toast was moldy she asked the assistant manager to comp it but he couldn’t as he was not in charge. Yes, thats right. the manager was not in charge and nobody could figure out how to take the french toast off our bill.
Which is a dilly of a pickle if god forbid a server punched in the wrong items for a table… they would have no chance but to pay for hundreds of dollars of mistakes since Golden Griddle is not responsible!
We got the bill, it was not our bill. so after more waiting we finally got our bill and paid in full for one of the most disgraceful, disgusting meals of all time.
and lastly, I had the unfortunate experience of using the bathrooms.
They were filthy, one stall was out of order and there was no toilet paper despite there being a signature in the slot saying the bathroom had been restocked and cleaned just one god damn hour before we got there.
also the graffiti inexplicably advertising a dildo shop was a nice touch to read while I reached at the empty toilet paper dispenser.
I’m going to go ahead and assume all these great comments are complete fabrications and were paid for…
I wasnt expecting some great experience going to this place.,. but to be called GOLDEN GRIDDLE and not even make fresh pancakes or have real maple syrup at the table or have fresh fu-​cking bread for the french toast… ihop has more authentic «breakfast» food than this pile of crap. No wonder why Golden Griddles are slowly all closing.

i liked this little joint. I didnt get anything fancy but what i got was just fine. I had homefries, bacon and toast i couldnt complain. I would recommend this place for breakfast, a quick bite to get they also have a buffet on the wkend.

Good food, fair prices, friendly staff, and PERFECT hours!

Had the $ 4.99 all you can eat buttermilk pancakes for the Tuesday special. Beautifully light and fluffy, loved the powdered sugar on top. A little butter and syrup on top, and it was a very satisfactory breakfast for dinner type of meal. Good on my wallet too. There’s a sufficient seating space for a lot of people. Hooray for student budget places to eat! Also, the wait staff were extremely attentive and nice. Not sure what the negative reviews are all about, because my friends and I sure enjoyed our time here. Give it a try, with your own discernment of reviews, since after all, they are simply opinions — make your own!

I have been here with my boyfriend about 6 times in the past two weeks. The breakfast food is beyond amazing! Great eggs, pancakes, and crepes. I do strongly advice you do not order anything not breakfast. I ordered the side Peirogies. How can someone mess up Peirogies so bad is beyond me!!! It was so rock hard, I feel like I ate two boxes of captain crunch the roof of my mouth is so sore it’s just destroyed! So never getting anything but breakfast from there from now on!

This place is shit tier. My expectations were pretty low going in; the atmosphere sets you up for grungy, greasy, late-​night breakfast food. Sometimes quick and dirty bacon and eggs is exactly what you need. Sadly, this restaurant misses even the lowest of low bars by a mile. It’s not comforting, or nostalgic — it’s just vile. The water tasted like scum. The crepes with «strawberries» were actually just filled with strawberry ooze; like the filling out of a cheap pie. Everything was disgusting. I would rather eat the peach cobbler out of a frozen dinner slathered across a piece of stale bread than taste those crepes again.
The only redeeming factor was that the cashier at the front wasn’t paying attention and misread the price on my bill. His incompetence saved me a dollar. Hooray.

The staff seemed pleasant, knowledgable about the menu and were very fast at delivering us our food and drinks.
Unfortunately, I knew something was wrong when I saw no cap on the syrup, and a patch of fruit flies hanging on the wall beside it in our booth. It looks like an IHOP, only much crappier and scarier.
I ordered the crepes, because I love crepes! Three crepes for 8 bucks? OMG what a deal! The crepes were a great size, the batter was fantastic– until I got to the filling…
Have you ever been to the fair, and ordered a funnel cake? Or DQ and ordered a strawberry sundae? That strawberry syrup that the poor over saturated strawberries are submerged in… that’s what these crepes were filled with. Gooey, messy, plastic tasting cheap syrup. Don’t get me wrong, I like it in small doses (eg. Funnel cake) but my crepes were oozing this sad excuse of pie filling. I felt sick and somehow powered through two of the three just to be nice.
I noticed they had two awards hung up from 2006 and 2007. I can say those times have well passed. Next time I’m grabbing something from the Loblaws across the street and just eating it on my way home.
I also want to mention that my lemonade tasted like orange juice. I don’t know… how that could have happened.

I went here with friends for a celebratory birthday breakfast-​for-​dinner.
They didn’t have milkshakes even though it was on the menu. I ordered chocolate milk but it was taking a lifetime so I changed my order to beer instead (driven to alcohol). My friends and I were given dirty glasses but just accepted the fact and drank from it anyway. The food was pretty ok, breakfast is easy. I had ham and eggs benedict and my friends had the mega breakfast platter. Everyone enjoyed the food.
The person handling cash turned out to be the cook… I assume he is the manager/​owner of the establishment. The waitress kept asking him to change stuff in the back (something to do with the drinks), and to hurry up.
I wouldn’t recommend eating here unless you have a lot of patience and tolerance for divey establishments. What is great about this place is that they are open 24 hours so it’s a good place to eat after a late night of partying.

Went here recently on a trip to Toronto and had a pretty good experience. The service was excellent. The first morning we went, I ordered the Belgian Waffle with Apple and Vanilla Ice Cream and loved it. I didn’t even need to put syrup on it, when I’m usually one of those people who likes to drown their pancakes and waffles in syrup. The square coffee cups were neat.
The second morning I wasn’t quite as impressed, I got the Swiss, Broccoli and Chicken omelette which didn’t have nearly enough fillings. My fiancé ordered the western omelette but wanted cheese instead of the green peppers. They added green peppers anyway along with the cheese, but didn’t charge for the cheese.
Overall, it was a decent breakfast and I’d eat there again if I was in the area.

This place is just plain gross. The eggs smelled like dirty dogs. The prices were high for the quality of food. The service was the only good thing. The pancakes were not fluffy and I barely ate any of my food. It is worse than an IHOP or Waffle House. I wish I would have never stepped a toe nail in this place.

This is the most awful buffet that I have ever seen in my life. Scrambled eggs cooked until they are breaking apart. Bacon cooked until it looks like bacon bits. Sausages that have been cooked until hard. Fresh fruit that is brown and disgusting. It is clear they need a real kitchen staff fur to make simple breakfast foods. All for the low price of $ 15.99. What great value. A must!

Seriously I think I need to throw up and get this low grade slop they served to me out of my stomach.
I feel bad for writing a bad review, at the same time this restaurant serves crap and I want to warn people and tell them their better off starving and eating breakfast when there are other hunger satisfying options.

I remember many years ago, staying in the Days Inn across the street after a good night of partying and then waking up and going to the buffet at Golden Griddle to recoup before heading back out of the city homeward.
I haven’t been since the condos to the west were just a parking lot. I remembered good times, mostly because of the nights before, but the Golden Griddle breakfast buffet also held a warm spot amongst those memories.
My, how things have gone downhill.
Everything was lukewarm or offensively cold (see: french toast), and where I remember to be a guy who would make fresh omelets based on your choice, is now just a heat try with veggie or western omelets that while not terrible, was not the experience I was looking forward to.
Long story short I ate 3 plates of sausage and bacon (remember to dig from the bottom for the hottest pieces) to make up for the mediocrity of everything else and feel satisfied in my $ 14.95 expenditure, which is why I’ll still give the place 2 stars.