Michael’s Ridge Diner

Well, for starters, I didn’t even get past my coffee before I walked out. This place screams «try some place else!» even on the outside (looks like an old Pizza Hut that was never remodeled) However, the menu is extensive and it’s right on my way in and out of town, so I convinced my boyfriend to take me. A kid in gym shorts showed us to our table and gave us one menu. We got coffee and water to start. The first thing they set on your table, and it’s COVERED in lipstick. One cup had lipstick all over it (was never washed) the other cup had fresh coffee stains running down the side. Needless to say, we walked out. Wow. Talk about unsanitary.

The Worst, We have given this place many chance to prove us wrong, but they can’t seem to get it right. I thought the same thing… How can you mess up eggs??? They have found a way… Kinda Scummy, Brutal Service, Could at least stomach it if they put the t.v.s on but for whatever reason, probably cost, they are NEVER on… the Scrapple is the one half decent thing they do, That’s it, other than that It’s a total sh*t box, Oh & the prices are way too high, for what they serve

OMG HORRIBLE!!! doesnt deserve the 1 star i had to give it. if u go on the weekend, take a loan out! place is an insult to diners. its a rundown dump. my fiancé ordered eggs over medium. had to send a runny pile of snot back to the kitchen. when she got new ones, they were still slimy! and the home fries, haha, more like sliced potatoes that were undercooked and had NO flavor at all. my ham n cheese omelet was completely dried out and lacked any hint of flavor. we tried to split a side of ssg. yuck. we ate our heavily buttered toast and left there naesous. it must be the new management b/​c this was an ok diner the last time we were here. (probably a year ago)

i have been in and out of this diner a handful of times over the years, some ok and some not so ok… I WILL NEVER GO BACK! Take it from me you should not even think about eating there. I needed a second job, so I thought I would pick up a shift or two there. I went for one day, and was so disgusted I could not bring myself to serve people food at this establishment.
The service and menu are truly diner style, no frills. The staff seems to be nice enough. However, the critters you have to share your meal with are greedy! This place is infested with creepy crawlers. We all know restaurants can have a bug or two now and then, it’s just the nature of the business. This place is seriously infested.
The new management has a huge problem to take care of. They’d honestly be better off bulldozing and starting from scratch.
Bottom line… The Department of Health should shut this place down. They have a bug problem, they do not store food properly, they smoke in the kitchen, the cooking equipment only partially works and looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in years.

New Ridge Diner’s menu features a mighty number of choices, as befits a typical family diner-​style restaurant.
Passing through Roxborough, we stopped here for a bite. It was late evening and the place was empty. Effectively, this ex-​Pizza Hut is a BYOB, so we not-​so-​sneakily brought in Twisted Teas (conveniently in the car for another party) to enjoy with our meal.
I ordered two eggs cooked sunny side up with home fries, «buttered» toast[1], hash browns, and jelly, with a choice of meat (I had Canadian bacon, eh?), all of which set me back only $ 6.75. My accomplice had their turkey bacon which was better than my hearty breakfast meal, beating the stuffing out of it flavor-​wise.
For dessert, we shared a scoop of ice cream[2], which was nice and sweet (1.95).
Service was good. I might have been a tool to our server (his name sounded like Emeril), but he put up with my behavior. We tipped him well.
Got kids? There’s a children’s menu for wee folk under 12. All entrees come with a milk or soda, plus ice cream, are $ 5.45, and are inexplicably named after Disney and Warner Bros. characters. The Donald Duck is chicken fingers with french fries — not sure why management thinks that is a fun idea.
[1] The menu says buttered toast, but butter’s on the side, not cooked on. That made me sad.
[2] Richman’s brand, for the curious.

If this were Repo Man, there’d be a sign on this place that just said DINER. Nothing about the Ridge stands out much.
The milkshakes are good, the fries are ok, and the main dishes are mildly appalling. If you’re in the area late at night and in need of inexpensive sustenance, you’ll probably end up here anyway. If not, I can’t see any reason to seek it out.

Absolutely awful. The food is terrible. The service stinks and prices are not in line with what you get. I got a pasta dish here that was so bad I couldn’t even eat any of it. I wouldn’t eat here if I was allowed to eat for free.

I eat here every once in a while after a heavy night of imbibing with the crew.
Nothing fancy, nothing special, just your regular diner fare. They do have a huge menu which is kinda scary that they are «making» all those foods but its seems like diners always do that. The omelets are hit or miss. I’ve been there and had a decent one and another time I was served one swimming in grease and undercooked! If there is one thing I cannot stand it is eggs that are even a bit runny (I don’t do «dippy eggs»). I think I’ll stick to the burgers and clubs here.
I definitely second the comments about the non-​diner feel too. It was in fact a pizza hut originally and that totally kills the atmosphere. When I roll outta bed on a saturday morning I wanna eat my meal without feeling like I’m on display (because I probably look like a mack truck ran me over) and because this place is one big open room that isn’t a possibility here.
All in all it gets the job done: greasy food to help with my hangover.

First off, this is an old Pizza Hut that’s why it doesn’t have a «diner» feel to it… so my local friends told me.
We had to wait 20 minutes to be sat, then our waitress didn’t take our order another 15 minutes, then our food took at least 20 minutes…20 minutes for 2 omlettes and a turkey club? Our waitress was pretty bad, slow, didn’t understand a request for dijon mustard. I don’t know maybe it’s just not an east coast condiment…
Just a diner, with diner food, and unattractive people all over, mixed with hungover college students on a Sunday morning…

My food was nothing to write home about — you can’t really mess up eggs. The fries are different here and the bacon that came with my eggs was burnt, so I didn’t eat it.
The food is cheap, maybe I just came here on an off day (Sunday brunch).

This ²⁴⁄₇ establishment feels a bit odd because it’s basically a huge room with a smaller outdoor patio. Doesn’t feel like a diner at all, there’s something about diners that has a booth intimacy you can’t find at other places, that’s why they are diners.
Anywho, that’s a minor thing. the staff here is pretty friendly and happy, I guess our host in Philly always gets this one waiter who may still be in the closet, so she jokes with him all the time. He’s incredibly humble and polite waiter, although he mixed up a couple of our orders. No matter.
They have weird fries here, I can’t really describe it, they kind of taste like Papaya Dog’s fries in NYC but not nearly as good, they are kind of crispy (good) flaky (okay) but kind of dry. The homefries were much better, and the omelettes were dry as well but not horrid. The burgers looked really small.
what I did enjoy was the French onion soup, I’m not really picky about it even though it wasn’t really french onion soup, the broth was different.
A cheap brunch had by all in the suburbs of Philly, about 72 dollar bill (not including tip) for 7 people. And Nick had two cheeseburgers and a shake.