Midtown II Restaurant

I’m really surprised to see how many negative reviews there are of Midtown. Honestly this is my favorite diner in the city. The service is consistently excellent and so friendly that it makes you want to come back for that alone. I’ve been here multiple times, but most recently I came in with my mom and had the buffalo wings, side salad and onion soup. All were terrific (especially the wings, which thankfully weren’t drowned in breading like a lot of places) and on top of that between both of our meals, everything was only 26 bucks! You can’t lose.

I had the worst experience ever at this place tonight. After a long day at work, I decided to stop by and grab a bite to eat. I was not aware that there is a shift change 15 minutes before I arrive. The waitress took my order and I told her I wanted to order something to go. She told me that she would take it later. Well anyway 9:00 pm arrives I get my food and the waitress told me that someone would finish up my order. I sat there for over 15 minutes for someone to come over to take my to go order and it never happen. I actually had to get up to find out who had my check and the nasty waitress on shift told me she didn’t take my order but was quick to give me my check. Two waitress sat at the counter the entire time and never came over to see if I needed anything. I use to frequent this place but never again.

This restaurant offers everything you could want from a diner breakfast– cheap, filling, and deliciously sloppy food. Their portions are just right, which is awesome, because diners tend to overdo it. The décor is cute, in a classic 50s style with jukeboxes on each table. Will definitely come back, but probably won’t get the eggs benedict because the hollandaise sauce was a little watery.

Diner food is usually medicore at best, but after a night of drinking it usually hits the spot. This place sucks.

Worst service ever. For a «diner» to take over 45 min to even think about service is insane. Combine that with the rude staff was almost too much. If I wasn’t with some friends I would have walked out. Don’t waste your time here.

Well hot damn, leave it to me to have business in philly and find this little gem of a diner. It’s open 24 hours and you can have beer to go or delivered. And… FULL BAR! Yep, that should be standard for every diner but sadly it is not.
Here’s the rundown on this funky diner…
Their menu is vast. I mean seriously I know Greek diners are notorious for their huge menus but the Midtown takes it to the extreme!
Where else can you get all of this from one place?
A hungry mans special
Scrapple
A breakfast fajita
Deviled egg sammie
Broiled Captain’s Treasure
About 20 dessert choices
Tons of entrees from baby animals like baby veal and baby liver (ick!)
Meat loaf three ways including a mile high version (yea baby!)
10 versions of a steak sandwich including a pizza steak sandwich
Wing dings
and
much, much more!
Let me not forget to add the snazzy booths and retro CD player mini juke boxes.
If you are a food snob, you will not like this place. I’m not a food snob and loved this place!

Unfortunately our flight got in late and this was my only choice. I will make it short and sweet. The person on the phone was rude, the hot food was over cooked and cold. I ordered a chicken spinach salad (also) and it came with no chicken and pretty much was a container of spinach with a piece of bacon, two cucumber slices and two things I couldn’t identify. And to top the entire dining experience, there website says all major credit cards accepted and the delivery guy said only cash, so I paid an extra 5.00 to get ATM cash from 7 – 11.

The place is really slow.
We had come there just before 2 am. The place was about half way full. We asked the man at the counter if they did to go orders. The man ignored our question and told the waitress to sit us at back near the kitchen.
When we take our order 5 min later, we informed her we wanted our order to go. The waitress seems annoyed by our request. She takes our order and then we wait.
The place seemed to be in a state of chaos. A man on left received an incorrect order. The couple in front of us waited 20 minutes for a BLT. After 10 minutes after placing our order the waitress said it would be right out. 20 minutes go by and then she says it will be out ASAP. After another 10 min. We are falling asleep at the table. We ask the waitress for status and she says it will be ASAP. We ask her for an ETA. She says she doesn’t know. She can’t state that anything is prepared.
We decided to cancel our order. It seems our order was not close to ready. We walk out hungry and tired.

This place was recommended by the Bell hop at the Marriott as a good place to go for breakfast that locals visit. He was right! My family and I walked down and as we were approaching the diner we seen 2 police officers enter. You know if the police are eating in there it must be good.
The service was great. All the wait staff were older ladies who knew the true meaning of customer service. They were all very pleasant ladies and one of the even let my 3 year old daughter play on her tablet while we waited for our food.
The food was good and very resonablly price. If ever in Philly again I would stop by agaun

This is a wonderful DINER. This is everything you’d expect and want from a dinner plus they have a full bar! Food and staff are wonderful. Went for brunch on a saturday morning and they had plenty of space.

What had been a consistent place for diner fare in center city recently has slipped the last 2 deliveries… the nova lox platter arrived with off-​smelling lox in lesser quantity (which considering the odor may not be a bad thing — pun intended) and the latest delivery arrived without the toasted bagel. It may be that after-​hour breakfasts remain a strength but given the recent disappointments, I’d have to eat it to believe it.

Decided to go on a whim with my fiancé as other plans were a little iffy for dinner+drinks. Unexpectedly closed, not sure, too crowded for a weeknight, etc.
This place is a Center City gem and reminded me of the Oregon Diner 20 years ago with the décor and the booth jukeboxes. They actually had relatively modern choices, though, including ‘The Fame’ in the music library.
Food was great, as was the service. And ooh! FULL BAR. A bacon cheeseburger deluxe (code word: «with fries»), a huge fried flounder sandwich, french onion soup, a canolli-​to-​go, and 3 or 4 beers came to about $ 40 after tip. Not too shabby at all.
My only complaint is that maybe the menu could of been a little more expansive, but, that’s just me. I eat a variety of foods and am not your typical meat & potatoes, greasy diner food friend.
Will return.

The food and staff are very good.
However… after our meal we walked around the corner to go home… looked down the alley way behind the restaurant. GARBAGE everywhere. All over the street. The dumpsters were overflowing. Not to mention the door to the kitchen was hanging open just inches away from all the garbage. Why would the door be open? Disgusting.

I went to have breakfast last Monday and decided to sit at the bar rather than take up a table, the bartender whose name is Jackie was very nice and brought me my food very quickly, I’d like to thank her for being so nice to me and I will be back in the future and I hope she will be my server!

I’ve grown up in this place! Over 30 yrs have NEVER had a bad meal nor a bad customer experience. breakfast, lunch, dinner, you can’t go wrong. it is a diner with great prices. the bar is fully stocked, prices are average. The menu is a novella! Be nice to the waitresses, they have the best personalities. Did I mention they are open 24 hrs? you can’t go wrong

I was pretty disappointed with this place. I had heard good things and decided to get the roast beef sandwich. The menu said it was «fresh off the block», but it tasted overlooked and dry. Definitely not fresh off the block. I also got the German chocolate cake, but it was dry and had chocolate pudding as a middle filling instead of icing. What I got a was pretty bad, but I do have to say the people I ate with were very happy with their burgers and fries. Maybe I got the wrong thing, but I think it’s pretty hard to mess up roast beef. It just has to be good beef and fresh! They did have very friendly servers though. Also, even though they do have beer you should know before you go that what they have is very limited.

Another great restaurant to add to my fav places in Philly!!! Man, philly has some of the best food!!!
This place delivered in less then 30min, very straight to the point, simple yet delicious food!!! I am very happy and will order again
Not to mention the affordable prices!!!

Best diner in center city. My husband and I come here once a week, breakfast served anytime. and they offer turkey bacon. The desserts are amazing also, I think made in house. The waitresses are sweet, and not fake. Once we saw Gilbert Gottfried eating here… enough said!

I was traveling with a friend from Korea and he had never gone to a diner, so we stopped in. We walked in and thought it looked as retro as expected. However, it is connected to a odd, noisy bar. We ordered from a extremely unhappy waitress, who seemed to want to sit on a corner stool and eat the entire time we were there. We ordered and I asked for a side of tarter sauce and she responded with a smug question and acted like I was crazy. Then, she never even brought the tarter, nor checked in on us. However, she was still sitting there eating when we left.
Regarding the food, it was very good and exactly what one would expect from a diner. I would probably stop in again if ever in Philadelphia… as long as there wasn’t a starving, sanctimonious, sad waitress waiting to ignore me.

Ok so as far as philly diners go, this one always does me just right! As a runner I have been here pre-​race and post-​race and their delicious sampling of breakfast foods (including delicious grits), the ever-​necessary greasy goodness, as well as some Greek fare has always left me leaving here full and satisfied… and a deal of a price.
Service is great, they have a huge pastry case in front so if your hankering for something you can get it, however I have not tried anything from the case.
They are open early and late, well maybe they don’t close… and there is a bar pretty much attached so you can eat cheap then drink cheap — how is this wrong. I will say it’s a little «divey» but hey that is my thing… it’s a great joint and I know ill be going back