Dines Family Restaurant

I brought my daughter here for breakfast over Christmas, as I've been doing for the past 15 years. Dines has been making great home-cooked meals in Oshawa for over 40 years. I had the peameal bacon, eggs and home fries. I've never left hungry, as the portions are huge here! Thanks for another great breakfast Dines! Dave Knight - Oshawa ON

December 27, 2024 on Google

It's a small diner with an old feel. The food was ok. We went for breakfast and the portion sizes were large. I ordered blueberry pancakes with my meal and they were kind of wet in the center. My husband's plain pancakes were cooked just fine. Our waitress was very nice and attentive. I would return but definitely wouldn't get the blueberry pancakes again.

November 26, 2024 on Google

This is our go-to place for great food. The egg and peameal bacon breakfast is outstanding. This chef knows how to make the peameal delicious by not overcooking it. They brew their decaf coffee and homefries are great! This is such a positive, friendly, clean place to eat. You should try it!!

October 16, 2024 on Google

Love this restaurant in all its aspects. I enjoy arriving just after they've opened early in the morning and starting my day with a hearty breakfast and the newspaper. It's addictive in a way. I enjoy lunches too, and my photo shows one of my favourites. Thanks to staff for all that you do....

September 20, 2024 on Google

I grew up going to this place and am an avid defender of it despite everyone I know saying it’s awful. I never have Dines solely because I cannot convince anyone else to go there. Ordered in for just me today and it was awful and I feel silly for defending it all this time. Potatoes were HARD, undercooked Bacon was HARD, overcooked Eggs were over done to the point where 45% of the egg white was incinerated into plastic consistency. There were also egg shells in there still, yummy crunchy surprise. “Toast” was soft literally just bread with butter. Sausages were seared on the outside but barely cooked. The ham and beans were the only edible parts which non surprisingly are the only portions where COOKING isn’t compulsory. Don’t order from here unless your compost bin is super hungry that day. Brutal laziness.

August 9, 2024 on Google

More and more restaurants like Dines, which serves great food, with attentive service at a reasonable prices, are becoming a rarity. Do yourself a favor and drop in and experience for yourself a well run restaurant.

July 1, 2024 on Google

All good with our meals that we gotten from Dines today. First time here. I had looked around to find a good "home made burger" diner and I've found it. Ordered by phone but can be ordered by popular food apps too. We go the "Hockey Stick" fory grand daughter which is chicken fingers and fries. We also ordered a Ruben (smoked meat) sandwich and Canadian Burger (comes with cheddar cheese and pemeal bacon, fries and coleslaw. Onion rings on the side. Everything tasted delicious. Burger was juicy and with pemeal bacon it was so good. Smoked meat sandwich was soft and had sauerkraut and mustard. My grand daughter love the chicken fingers, normally does like any type of sauce on her food but today, she try the plum sauce and smiled (good sign she liked it). Lots of seating inside the restaurant and staff are friendly. I hope to come back again soon, so much more to try on the menu!

September 16, 2023 on Google

The coffee was alright, the toast was alright. Service wasn't bad and food came out quickly. Unfortunately the food was really greasy and stale. The home fries were soaked in oil and had a weird, hard consistency (as if they were microwaved, don't know if they were or weren't but they weren't good either way). The eggs tasted like veggie oil. The ham was really gross, like fried, oil soaked bologna. The salt shaker was sticky, as was the sugar and menu. Just wasn't worth the money. Skip.

June 8, 2018 on Google