Donnie’s Diner

The staff was very friendly and efficient. We did not have to wait long for our food. We ordered our eggs over easy and our bacon crispy– both came out perfect. The prices were great too. Two of my favorite things, delicious food that’s cheap! We will go back here for sure

Love the sausage, Biscuits and gravy open face sandwich. Want great home cooked food Donnie will fix you up.

Very good breakfast with fantastic service. We will definitely be coming back here. They serve lunch and dinner as well. What a great find!

There is just something about greasy diner food. I visited Donnie’s twice when I was on a recent vacation. First, the fact that I was the youngest customer in there by about 30 years made me think it was going to be good. Donnie’s really did deliver on the breakfast food. Huge portions, excellent gravy (a diner must), and very cheap. This place is definitely more for locals than tourists, but that is probably just how they like it.

The food was good, between the 4 of us we had B&G, waffle, eggs, omelets. Our drinks stayed full & food was hot & fresh in spite of the long wait after ordering.
Place was clean & all the servers were hustling to take care of their tables. A couple things struck us as opportunities for improvement:
–put up a sign asking patrons to wait to be seated. With no sign people were trying to seat themselves, and wait staff were rushing to tell people to wait & then quickly bus tables.
–unprofessional behavior by one of the staff members, a pregnant server was really running her mouth, yelling, barking orders, generally having tantrum after tantrum. At times it was difficult to carry a conversation at our table due to her yelling, and the lack of respect shown to her coworkers really was astonishing. We even discussed leaving and going somewhere else.
This last thing was a pretty big deal, as we were stopping for brunch before heading home from vacation. Way to help us end our vacation on a positive note.

Best breakfast spot in town! We visited from Dallas and the experience was awesome! We came in ten minutes before closing and they catered to our every need and desire. We cleaned out our plates. It was so good we are coming back ASAP!

I got the Monster Mess for breakfast. Hash browns and mixed veggies and meat. It was absolutely incredible. Service was great. Highly recommended.

always the best… breakfast is a hot specialty and the 2 girls who are waitress’ are excellent during the week. I can recomend averything but by all means try the pancakes.,.yum yum always clean always busy but always great service and so reasonable. check it out

I give this review 2 stars because none of the other diner’s in my party did not get sick or die.
I went to Donnie’s 2 weeks ago (March 26, 2011) because the line at Billy Gayle’s was too long.
Our party of 7 was hungry for breakfast/​brunch/​lunch and arrived around 11 a.m.
The layout of the place was interesting. It was something else before it was a diner.
We found a large enough table and after a bit our server, possibly a daughter of the owners, took our drink orders and gave us menus. She was doing her best to hustle through the rush. She gets credit for that, at least.
The menu had little pictures. Everyone was going omelet or pancake but stupid me, I locked onto this picture in the «wraps» section called a «Ribeye Wrap» which was supposed to be steak, green pepper and onion in a wrap. I got a little concerned when the waitress asked me how I wanted my steak cooked. Gee… rare would be interesting and anything more than medium would be too dry so I opted for «Medium» thinking it must be a misunderstanding anyway because as this would be eaten with my hands there can’t be tough or chewy meat inside… right?
Anyway, after a lengthy wait (they were pretty busy) our food arrives. Everybody’s looks pretty good. The omelots promised «4-​egg» which is pretty good-​size, although they didn’t look that large. They were apparently made in some kind of countertop omelot molding device because they all had the exact same shape. Everybody enjoyed there meal… except me.
Naturally, my «steak» was a $ 9 breakfast. When I picked up the wrap I immediately got a handful of hot grease draining out the south end. Not just a little, but a LOT of juice/​grease. No matter. Fresh flavor, right? Well, I took my first bite. Gristle city. Yuck. Tough, spit out on your plate kind of yuck. Meat was gray in color. No sign of pink. Okay, I ordered medium so there shouldn’t be much pink, but I was expecting «carne asada» kind of steak wrap but this was horse-​hide tough army mule steak and every single bit was a gristle-​laden mouth of muck. I had to chew, sift and spit after every bite.
Now I ask you, if you’re eating a «wrap» shouldn’t you expect to be able to chew and swallow everything that’s inside without having to inspect it? Rhetorical.
Anyway, the item needs to come off the menu. I told our cashier when I was paying that I was less than satisfied with my meal that recommended that it be removed from the menu, but I think she thought I was joking. Damnit! I should have gone with my first thought which was Patty Melt.
I tipped well because the waitress did hustle but she ultimately wasn’t the one to handle the register drawer. I would have liked to tell her that her wrap recommendation was way off and maybe she would have fed that back to the owners/​chief cook/​menu planner. It really needs to go.
The rest of the day day I was ribbed by my fishing buddies about my bad wrap. I’ll never learn!!!

This Diner is right in the middle of the Claybough Shopping Center. This is totally a locals place, big belly grandpas in the corner chatting with each other over coffee while Grandmas in the beauty salon that’s adjacent to this diner getting her hair done. It was a «Branson» moment.
I had to drag my friend to eat with me lol… small diner, warm service, good food. I ordered the BLT Sandwich and Onion Rings. yum. It was a nice local feel to experience, I’m sure most people would want to visit more fancy, I enjoyed the rooted local homemade flavor.