Maple Leaf Restaurant

The food was something I could make at home and in my opinion slightly better. Both of us had Biscuits and Gravy, while mine was «decent» my wife had an undercooked biscuit to where the dough was still, well, dough in the middle. They use a heavy oil for EVERYTHING so your plate has a nice film after you are done.
Hash Browns we both slightly crispy and mushy at the same time. My two sons liked there waffles (not even the worst cook should make a bad one) even though one of my sons were mistaken for a girl :)
Overall, the lady was very nice who served us and that is the only reason I am giving 3 stars. We will not go back and we are foodys so we are dissapointed with our experience.

the breakfast was very good. this was my second time there. but I will be going back more offend. there menu has a lot if different food. there prices are very good. please go to there and check it out

Super friendly wait staff and good service to boot. Stopped in for breakfast on a whim and love it. Great cheap breakfast. Give this place a chance as you will not be disappointed…

There used to be this weird girl that worked here that would ALWAYS compliment every female customer. Every time. She quit so she could go to Burning Man. LOL

Been here three times, twice for breakfast, once for chinese. The clientele is mostly single old men over 60. The prices are cheap and the coffee is black.
Breakfast is passable, but mainly because its so cheap, and really how can you screw up eggs and bacon?
The chinese food on the other hand was the most revolting excuse for food. I was honestly in shock for hours afterwards. I could hardly stomach it, ate about a third and politely paid and left. I was actually expecting to get food poisoning, but got lucky and didn’t. I immediately had a beer afterwards hoping that the alcohol would help kill any bacteria I’d just ingested.
Do yourself a favor, please don’t make the same mistake as I. Please don’t go here!

Maybe it’s all the new big, expensive houses going up in the neighborhood, but this weekend we were feeling nostalgic for a real diner experience.
The reviews here are all over the place, but the Maple Leaf totally delivered. It’s got old school charm, friendly ladies manning the joint, and even an old horseshoe diner bar. They also nailed the diner breakfast – huge, tasty, and affordable.
I got the bacon, eggs, and hashbrowns, and they were just right. Lots of bacon, the hashbrowns had the perfect fluffy-​crispy balance, and the eggs were exactly how I ordered them. The man enjoyed his New York steak & eggs, along with his biscuit and my english muffin. The coffee was nothing special, just diner coffee, but I did drink like four cups of it.
Another big bonus? They have AC. Noting for the hot summer months. Definitely glad we took the chance.

Good food but… it took them 20 minutes to get to our table (only 2 other families were there) and it took them 50 minutes to get our food out. They even had to redo one after the 50 minute mark. The 2 families there finished and left while we were still waiting, and 2 more families were able to eat and leave before we got our food.

I was excited to try this place. It looks cute and like it could be a hidden gem… a hole in the wall with delicious food. It’s not. It’s a hole in the wall with bad food and scented like a bathroom. An unclean bathroom. I wish I was exaggerating. Maybe it was an off-​day smell-​wise, but the food was disappointing to say the least. The glasses were a bit dirty, but I looked past that. I had a strawberry waffle and it was a floppy, disappointing waffle topped with really cold jam. It was unpleasant. My boyfriend’s food was equally disappointing. I was so excited to try a cute diner without a wait, but I’d rather wait an hour and a half for a breakfast that’s delicious and not smelling like a dirty bathroom than ever eat here again. When my boyfriend and I rate restaurants, we talk about «Maple Leaf bad» as the epitome of bad restaurants.

Ok, so I’m driving down Foster and I happen to glance to my left while heading toward I-​205. There’s a small diner, the Maple Leaf restaurant, that looks like it would be right at home in Portland, Peoria IL, or Providence.
Two things about it caught my attention. The first was the maple leaf emblem. I love Canada, so that was a plus. The second thing was the meat loaf special. I love meat loaf, so that worked, too. I eventually went in while running an errand around SE 82 and Foster to have some of that meat loaf.
Food — 3 stars — A-​Ok — the meat loaf came with gravy or sweet and sour sauce, which is fine on Cantonese dishes (they have some Chinese menu items) but, in my opinion, not for down-​home meat loaf. There were also mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, a small cup of beef barley soup, a roll with butter, and refillable coffee (though you could also get tea). It was all fairly decent
Service — 5 stars — informal, friendly, reasonably fast, and accurate
Ambiance — 4 stars — it’s a greasy spoon with a quirky personality, and the furthest thing from the Ritz, but this place harkens to Main Street USA and a few parts of Foster, though too wide, could very well be. Some other parts of Foster would definitely not qualify! It also looks like there are quite a few regulars who stop by here.
Value — 5 stars — the whole Wednesday lunch special cost $ 6.50. I also saw a substantial looking stacked BLT (with turkey) with fries coming it at slightly over $ 7.00.
I see the reviews are all over the place. What exactly are people expecting? A mere Big Mac with something to drink other than a basic fountain beverage or coffee/​tea would cost more than that. Like Maple Leaf’s sign says, this place is about «comfort food» at a decent price.

This place was absolutely disgusting. Took some friends from out of town here for breakfast before they were going to catch their flight back to the east coast. How embarrassing! The food was gross, cold, it took forever to get our food out, and it all came out at different times. Half of us were done eating by the time one of my friends got his food. AND THERE WAS A RUBBER BAND IN IT.

When I saw Chinese BBQ Pork Omelet on the menu I knew I was taking a gamble. It paid off. The flavors were simple and clean. The vegetables were crisp and the egg was cooked perfectly. Service was charming and the décor feels like grandma’s dining room covered with Asian souvenirs. I will go back to try more of the American comfort food items on the menu. My hesitation stems from the condiment bottles offered with my food were obviously married. The Sriracha was a color I have never seen before.

What a weird little diner. Our usual joints were packed because it was Christmas Eve and nobody wants to cook breakfast during the holidays, that’s right, nobody. SO, we ended up here and there were only two other people in the whole place. The waitress was the sweetest older lady with plenty of Christmas bling, and the only reason this place gets two stars is because of her.
Although the food was inexpensive, it was not worth the money that we paid at all. There is WAYYY too much stuff on the menu, ranging from strange chinese options to standard diner fare to… other weird stuff. I went with the safest options– a breakfast of pancakes, eggs, and sausage links. I knew it would be a disaster when the waitress brought me orange juice in a bottle. The pancakes had decent flavor, but they were kind of hard to actually cut into! Weird, again. The sausages were disgusting and mostly fat and gross stuff with no flavor whatsoever. The eggs weren’t even cooked all the way and I just asked for them scrambled! Nothing crazy. Here’s the kicker, though… why on earth was there gross white cabbage and a dried out orange slice on my plate? As an accessory? It was very unappealing.
The chili dog my husband got apparently ‘sucked’ but the fries were delicious (the only strong point of our meal). The corned beef sandwich was bland in his opinion as well.
This place needs to cut out the weird stuff from the menu and just get good at one thing. Or just serve fries and nothing else. It’s a cute and weird diner but I don’t think we will be back.

I tried to give this place a chance because it’s been there for so long… Don’t even waste your time coming here. I would rather eat cereal to be honest. Every time I went I got food poisoning. I once ordered fried shrimp, and they came out more like dough shrimp. I have never eaten inside of this place, only got to go orders, so I can’t say anything about service. All I know, is that the food is terrible and not even food I would feed to my dog.

Okay the food is okay. But for what this place lacks in outstanding food it makes up for in cool old-​school diner ambiance. This is the kind of place that you walk into and it’s like cheers everyone talked everyone they welcome you the customers are friendly and chatty. To me what makes this place good are the customers more than the restaurant itself.
So if you’re looking for decent food in a great place that’s very hometown. This is the place

Alexis was a great waitress. With Wheel of Fortune playing in the back ground I ordered a BLT, and my friend ordered Meat Loaf. They have homemade potato salad, which was awesome!!! A 5 page menu and another 2 page menu with a wide variety Chinese food. All in all I was a happy panda

Great little diner where the locals hang out and get a square meal. Good vibe from all the friendly people here. Best fried rice I have had since moving to Portland.

I walked in, there are no customers, but all the tables were dirty. I patiently waited for them to bus a table for me, which the waitress finally gets around to, but she puts the last customer’s cream carafe BACK on the table when I order coffee. I ask for fresh cream, because the carafe was warm and had been sitting there for who knows how long and I don’t want someone else’s old cream (do I really have to explain that?) I order 2 eggs with bacon. It took an hour to get my food. The coffee is watered down. The ‘cream’ is milk. After she dropped off my food it got cold while I waited 15 minutes for Tabasco sauce for my eggs (can I reiterate that I was the only customer, during peak Saturday-​breakfast hours).
I will not be coming back here, ever.

been by here a million times, and have never stopped, and did today. I really love the diner feel, as the counter bends through the front room. in the back? are tables, and of course … «some décor».
I had no idea there would be chinese food. I didn’t try any, as I wanted a diner experience so I went for the typical cheese burger. it was exactly what I was expecting, and I was very satisfied, as so was my mom.
I take off a star as the mens room? reeked so bad. there’s a simple remedy for that, and I would imagine? that it will work for you. its called ice. when your mens room has that odor? thats from years and years… and this place has been here for years and years. if you put a bucket of ice in the mens trough? the water will melt, and the odor will go down the drain with the water. same with toilet.
or just get new. thats a stench that nearly killed my appetite.
take off another star, cause the waitress? wasn’t very patient with my elderly mother. you gotta give old folks a break baby.

Most uncomfortable breakfast I have ever had.
This was my 3^rd and final time trying the Maple Leaf. I have had bad service and bad food every time, but living less than a block away and being somebody who believes in buying local, I just really wanted it to work. Third time’s a charm, right?
This episode was far worse than bad food and bad service. It was a hostile environment.
I went in to have breakfast on a weekday morning. There were about 6 older folks there at the bar. I like diners, conversation, and meeting new people so I sat at the bar. But apparently the 6 regulars weren’t just normal older people. They were more like Seth Macfarlane-​style stereotypes of older folks.
They all just stared at me the entire breakfast, talking to each other with poorly veiled references to me, and clearly not wanting me there. At one point, the guy sitting next to me addresses the others with this question: «Who’s the new guy?» and points his thumb in my direction. I just sat there in stunned silence, trying to avert my eyes, as in my world, that is not considered a «friendly hello.»
— – Oh, this may be a good time to tell you that they have already trashed Muslims, Democrats, Czechoslovakians (because the Boston Bombers were Chechen and apparently they don’t know the difference), young people, Arabs (pronounced with a long «a» at the beginning, like A-​rabs), Russians and probably other races, religions, and nationalities… I wasn’t taking notes. — -
The waitress tried to be friendly by asking about my phone, but that just turned into her telling me her sister has an even better phone than mine and the group making some comments about how young people just look at their phones instead of experiencing the world. Well, I’m Czechoslovakian, a Democrat, and young (–ish…they apparently thought I was younger than my 34 years) so I just wanted to eat and leave without punching any old people.
Speaking of eating, my steak and eggs was not the worst food I’ve ever had, but it was close. My first two bites of the steak had bone in them which I crunched down on with my teeth (yes, two bites of bone). I ordered it Medium Rare and it came out Well Done. Nothing was salted or seasoned; the eggs were cooked in butter-​flavored something which gave them a strange flavor; the hash-​browns were mushy, and the coffee definitely IS the worst that I’ve had in Portland. And as I’m writing this review my stomach is gurgling, and I’m starting to feel awful. When you can’t rule out intentional poisoning, that’s a bad meal.
I’ve never felt so uncomfortable just trying to have a meal, nor have I ever been in a place where a bunch of people just talk brazenly about who they think I am but never say «hello.» I was appalled that the staff would let people chase away clientele with bigotry and malice. I can’t imagine what it would have been like if I were Muslim, Arab, African-​American, Jewish… etc.
I wanted this place to be good as we could use less empty storefronts on Foster. Now I’m just rooting for it to fail fast so something decent can take over that valuable commercial space.

This place doesn’t look like much, but it turned out to be a fantastic little breakfast nook in the southeast. I can’t speak for anything but the breakfast food, but what I had was superb! The coffee was good, and they were generous with refills. I ordered ham, eggs and hash browns, and they were all perfect — buttery potatoes, fluffy eggs, nothing over– or underdone. Prices were excellent too, and many of their breakfast meals came with free coffee!
The only thing that kept this place from getting five stars was that our server was on the slow side and not very personable, but she was not rude and we weren’t in a hurry anyway. I’ll definitely be going back, at least for breakfast if not to try the rest of their fare.