Hambo Coney Island

I work down the street and have only ever gotten carry-​out, but the food is great, and the prices are really reasonable for what you get, AND they get the order right every time.
Someday I honestly will go there, sit down and eat a meal, I promise!
My office has gotten breakfast orders from there, and their «loose meat» coney «sandwich is da bomb, served just as it should be with diced onions and mustard. (They DO ask if you want it that way, BTW.) Fries are great, too, and take-​out fries are difficult to do well, but theirs are great.

Food is typical Coney Island/​breakfast diner. Staff really cares about customers and owners work every day to enhance «family owned» feel.

I eat here every Saturday morning. The food is great. The staff are really nice. Just a great atmosphere to eat in. The customer service is always beyond expectation. Just a great place to get breakfast or a coney dog. I have never had a problem and I will continue to eat here with my wife and I.

They have the best coney dogs I love the fact that they don’t use that thick alpos chili and their bread is extremely soft. I just sad they close early

Not at all pleased with this place. The staff here is extremely unfriendly. Ended up walking out before food even came.

Hambos has a friendly and inviting atmosphere and provides quick service with great food to go along with it. The prices are competitive for the ferndale area, and yet Hambos supplies and performs to the utmost degree. Hambos just has me coming back for more! Highly recommend.

I love this place! I always get the Hambo skillet on Saturday morning and it’s always perfect everything is always great the staff is awesome and friendly and very personable. Great atmosphere great food great people! Hambo you rock!

I had a cheese omelette with very little cheese and cold toast. And the server was distracted.

Enjoyed a wonderful family meal there! Fresh ingredients, terrific service and a great time was had by all :-)

Went there for dinner with my fiancé, we had the Greek salad and a farmer’s omelet. The food was delicious and the service was excellent; we felt like we were part of the family!

It’s been a long time since I had a Coney Island that was this good! The service was outstanding.

Friends had a rehearsal dinner here for their wedding and it was great. Great service, place to ourselves. A great time.

I was here when I first moved to Ferndale and I wasn’t a fan but I think it’s improved quite a bit. The staff was super friendly, almost chirpy and cheerful, on a Sunday morning.
We ordered some pancakes, corned beef hash and a couple dogs to go. Everything was pretty solid. The corned beef hash was really tasty although likely out of a can which is fine with me… that stuff is pretty good. The hot dogs were griddled nicely and they may have even been Koegel dogs. The Coney dog I took home was pretty good. While the food is your standard diner fare the service was great… exceptional really. Their hours are a little wonky but if you need some quick sustenance and they’re open you should give them a try. 3.5 stars

I can’t stand Hambo. I have friends that love coming here, but I stopped making the trek and I refuse to go anymore. The place is dirty, it smells like a filthy greasy spoon, the service is subpar, and the food is horrible. I always feel like crap after eating here, and it’s not cheap for BS, diner, garbage food.

I went here today with my boyfriend for the first time (our original plan was to go to The Fly Trap but the wait was too long). When we walked in the place was almost empty, which should have been our first clue. I got the southern omelette with hashbrowns and he got one of the breakfast specials that came with 3 meats, eggs, and hashbrowns. The amount of time we waited for it seemed long, especially being that we were one of the few customers in there. None of it was appetizing, just very bland, low quality tasting food. I could barely eat a quarter of my meal. We both agreed that it was just «edible». He ate most of his for the sake of not wasting money.
The service was fine, the waitresses were nice. They were giving out free strawberry crepes (or some sort of breakfasty dessert) for Father’s Day. It was actually pretty good.
Overall though, I was unimpressed and would never eat there again.

OK. The first review wasn’t great nor was my experience. Shortly after writing the review I was contacted by the owners to buy my next meal for a second chance. I took them up on the offer.
The second experience was much better. Although they went out of the way or me as they knew who I was, I saw similar treatment of the other guests leading me to believe that it was not unique to me. We ordered 2 breakfasts (Scrambled eggs and meat… all good) and I a Reuben. The Reuben was not my best ever but it was pretty good.
I met the owner and their family, all of whom were genuine and nice people.
I would definitely return.

not bad for fourth choice. ended up here after driving around and being met with long long wait times for the places we actually wanted to go (mae’s, flytrap, betty’s) and settled on this place because we were starving.
the food was pretty decent — had the hambo omelette, coney, eggs, french toast, and probably some other sides. prices were really cheap, especially for this area, and service was super good, and very friendly.
my biggest complaint would be the hot sauce, if you can even call it that. it came in a squeeze bottle and was just tasted like slightly tangy water. it was awful and not spicy. that made me sad. i’d come here again though if all those other places had a long wait again and i forgot about the hot sauce here.

I don’t know how long this joint has been here, but it looks and feels like its been a part of Ferndale for decades. Getting to the quick, we love Hambo. It’s cheap, greasy breakfast food from folks who feel like family.
For years I drove or walked by this place and never gave it more of a thought than «Oh God, those 1982 greenhouse windows are awful, that place must be gross.» And to be honest, the greenhouse windows are awful, but my thoughts were really short sighted. Don’t judge a book by its cover I guess.
Several of my friends started posting about Hambo, then I saw some photos with friends there and then one morning when every other brunch joint was full and we were ravenous, we stopped in.
We were hooked. The food is standard diner, the prices are cheap for Ferndale brunch spots, and I’ve really come to love the staff. They must all be from the same family or have worked together so long that they get along like family. The counter ladies even know me and always make me feel like they are so happy to see me again — and we don’t get carry out THAT often.
Don’t judge Hambo based on their old windows and greasy spoon décor. Give them a chance. You’ll be glad you did.

They are super friendly here. I love it.
The food is good diner food and they are super fast. The pancakes and bacon are delish! I just wish they were open later.

I wish Hambos were open more — I honestly think they would do great as a 24 hour coney. But when they are open I quite enjoy their amazing service — without their level of service it would just be a pretty typical Coney Island but the staff is really amazing– and seems very family oriented. I love the wide array of people in here on any weekend morning — and sitting by the window watching people and traffic on Woodward go by. Their breakfast is good — eggs, chocolate chip pancakes, or omelets. their chicken finger pita is exceptional, and greek salad also very good. I like going here for the friendly staff, good prices, and consistantly good coney food.