Letterman’s Diner

American diner in a nutshell. Breakfast was awesome, you can eat until you pop for less than $ 10. And the place is so authentic and cute family small town diner. Loved it. Outsiders welcome:)

Ahhhhmazing! Huge portion, delicious and imaginative specials. The place is small and interesting. I try to go early during the week and it’s usually fine, and not crowded.

Outstanding! I had a patty melt and fries. They made the fries fresh from actual whole potatoes! I would eat everything on the menu. It all sounded great.
I’m trying to plan some reason to go back there even though its an hour away.
I will eat there every time I come close to this place.

As a fan of old diners this one is a treat! The exterior gives no clue to the well preserved step back in time to the very early diner interiors! The food is great too — everything you expect from a diner served hot and fast! Don’t miss it when you’re in kutztown!!!

Been a customer for over 10 years. Cheesesteak omelette is my go to, I’ve actually only ordered something different once. So I’ve eaten probably over 100 cheesesteak omelettes by now and they’re still my favorite food on the planet. The hashbrowns are the best I’ve had, homefries are good but don’t compare in my opinion. Doug is a culinary genius and the food is incredible, largest portions in town by far. I’m a night owl and usually sleep until noon so I wish the hours were different but honestly I would probably have eaten myself to death by now if I could get Lettermans whenever I crave it, so I’m thankful.

This place has the best diner food we’ve ever had. We were on our way home from Baltimore and others rated this place highly on Unilocal so we stopped for a late breakfast. I also rate it highly. I had a special called Hey Arnold. Two eggs on English muffins with mozzarella, ham and hollandaise sauce. It was served with sweet potato fries which were the best I’ve ever had. Hubby had the Miners special which was two eggs, bacon and French toast with blueberry topping. All of this for about $ 20. I would make a special trip to eat here again. Since we live two hours away that’s saying a lot.

Absolutely love this place! It’s a staple in Kutztown. Doug the owner is fantastic and he is so good at what he does. I highly recommend it to anyone! It’s worth the drive if you aren’t from the kutztown area!

Best breakfast in at least a 3 county radius!
The portions are huge and the diner is small. Luckily I work close by so it’s easy to pickup breakfast and take it to work so I don’t have to worry about waiting for a seat.
Omelettes, breakfast bagel sandwiches, French toast and stuffed French toast is all out of this world.
Never had a bad experience and don’t anticipate having one either. Definitely a gem hidden in little kutztown.

Absolutely amazing place to eat. Breakfast menu is incredible. Small home town feel to this establishment. Food portions are large. Perfect to fill you up. Staff is courageous. Remember CASH ONLY !!

Great eats and lots of them. Can’t remember the last tim I couldn’t finish my plates
Here is what I had
All bagel gam egg cheese A. PIPING HIT AND GOID. NIT S BIG DEAL BUT TIAST THE BAGEL A LITTLE MIRE NEXT TIME
Hash browns and onion A+. Nuf said
Pancake. Best ever and huge A+++
Jeff had the he man platter. Looked good but he didn’t share so can’t review it.
Friendly crowd college kids and their folks. Must stop

I want to go back to Kutztown just to eat here. Recognize that you either sit at the counter or tables for 2, so this is not the place for a family reunion. I had the sausage gravy on home fries and my husband had some sort of omelet on the specials board with everything but the kitchen sink in it. He didn’t eat again that day — and he ate the entire thing, so it had to have been good. My sausage gravy was as good as, or better, than what I would make. While I might have preferred it on nice fluffy biscuits, the home fries were a great alternative. Sit at the counter — watching the griddle chef is worth the price of admission.

What Better way to describe this Diner would be,
Yummy, Yum, Yum…
Even though I stood in a line outside this diner for well over twenty minutes, Just waiting
in a line gave me the idea that the food has to be great here. Once I was seated by a
Very friendly young lady with a pleasant personality to boot I was given coffee that is brewed
somewhere in town by the locals which was oohs so smooth tasting. I ordered an egg
Omelet and this was I got, 2 huge slices of white toast, my egg omelet stuffed with,
Green peppers, onions, french fries, crushed Italian sausage, five slices of crispy beacon,
Coleslaw, and with what I thought was a splash of mayonnaise but was later informed a special ingredient and then the omelet was sprinkled with a small portion of «HOT!» sauce. Which when afterwards I asked the young lady if this diner offered «Wheelbarrow» service to roll me out to my car she in return stated that they do one better, «She told me that she just throw’s me over her shoulder and I’m to point out my car».
I came back the very next date thinking that I would have a jump on the lunch crowd some where around Eleven thirty but was again surprised to see the crowd was down the street hoping to sample one of the finest lunch’s on the east coast.
I highly recommend this place to everyone. Even you.

We went here for a nostalgic diner experience, found an old diner resting on its laurels.
The facility is poorly ventilated, with limited outdoor air and plenty of smoke from poor quality cooking oils. There are requirements in dining facilities regarding exhaust airflow rates and per person outdoor air flows that are surely failing here. Expect to be thermally uncomfortable and to smell like biodiesel when you leave.
While the diner has some history, it hasn’t been preserved. What should be nostalgic and retro is actually decrepit. If you want to keep your appetite, don’t go to the rest rooms. The exhaust fan in there is caked in dirt and there is some kind of stain in the sink. If you do go to the washroom, be sure to bring some quarters for the condom dispenser!
There was a short wait for a seat, as expected, but then we waited inside for approx. 12 minutes for a table to be cleared or to even be acknowledged by the waitstaff. Pro tip, a little «I’ll be right with you, let me just clear this table» goes a long way. Communication, folks.
Once we sat, put in an order and waited another 50 minutes for the one cook to prepare it. Also, a party of 4, 2, and 2, who had arrived after our party of 2 were served before us.
We ordered omelettes. Food quality is exactly what you would expect for a diner. Conventional grade meats, cheese, potatoes. The pricing is maybe 10−15% more than what one might expect to pay for an omlette but the portions are large.
If you are interested in large portions of mediocre diner food in an uncomfortable, outdated diner with poor service and questionable sanitary practices, stop on by!

Excellent food and you will not leave hungry. Doug does a great job and his staff take care of your needs immediately.
This is one of our favorite places to go eat and we look forward to it the night before. If only they were open ²⁴⁄₇.

If you don’t stop in here your missing out! The staff is nice the food is awesome and their home made salsa is holy cow! Small but quaint and you better be Hungry!

This place is the real deal. I was in town for three mornings and had to go back every morning. The Scarecrow each morning was what I needed to start my day. Of course I can’t eat for a week to balance out the calories but it was worth it!

Wonderful experience at this old school dining car diner. Great people, excellent service. I had the creamed beef on toast. Delicious hash browns. Great talking to the cook and staff. Real slice of Pennsylvania.

DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ESTABLISHMENT! The owner is verbally abusive to his waitstaff.
If I were solely rating the food, Letterman’s would have 3 stars. However, customer experience is an important part of dining out and my experiences at Letterman’s were horrifying. The first time I ate at this diner, I felt like the entire place was giving me funny looks, as I was the only person of color in the place. The second and final time I visited Lettermans, I still felt very uncomfortable as the only person of color and the only female in the place. As I sat down to order, I could hear and see the owner/​chef verbally abusing a waitress because she forgot an order of fries. I understand the owner needs to reprimand mistakes; screaming bloody murder at your waitstaff in front of all of your customers is not the way to do it. and, really, is a missed side of fries that big of a catastrophe?
I know the food is good, but it is not good enough for me to support someone who treats his waitstaff so poorly.

While in town for the Kutztown Folk Festival, I knew I needed to reconnect with my childhood by eating as much scrapple as possible in a four day period. My mother had heard about a tiny diner in the center of town, open only for breakfast (which starts at 1am when the University is in session!) and known for generous portions and an «eclectic» menu.
23 seats, all filled at all times. One, maybe two servers, and a kitchen helper, depending on the day. One cook, managing one grill. More menu possibilities than one normally sees at a full service restaurant with a massive staff.
We were lucky enough to make it there twice in four days. (And I look forward to a return trip!) For our first meal we played safe. Sausage and eggs for my boy, scrapple and eggs for me and my mother. I also ordered a short stack of waffles, but they were ignored completely when I saw my slice of scrapple. A four inch square of pork infused corn meal, perfectly fried and placed next to two scrambled eggs. All I could think when I took the first bite was «I can’t wait to come back tomorrow!» The boy said the same thing when he bit into his sausage. Whew, because he had little choice! My mother was busy discussing politics with the stranger to her left, and did not want to leave in the first place, so coming back the next day made perfect sense.
Breakfast the second day was all about discovery for my mother and myself. My boy ordered the sausage again, because that’s just what he does. Turns out that if you don’t grow up eating scrapple it seems a bit odd somehow. * My mother and I decided to split an omelet, because we’d seen their size and knew that we would never move again if we each tried to order our own. Then we took our time deciding what we wanted.
The winner in every way, was crab, peppers, onions, tomatoes, and pepper jack cheese. Served with a mountain of hash browns. (And yes, a side of scrapple!) $ 13 for a breakfast that we split in half and had enough left over for a third person. The portions of each component were generous and well balanced, so each forkful had the perfect amount of everything.
The cook was able to get our three plates out in a timely manner while also dealing with the 20 other people ordering from his astonishing menu. Everything was cooked perfectly, and though he certainly did not have time to stop and chat, he was able to spare a smile as he slid my plate in front of me. I thanked him kindly for the meal and the show, as watching him work on the single small grill was a sight to behold.
If I had my way, I would live much closer to Letterman’s Diner. I’d be able to make this tiny place a regular stop. I would sit, ask for some coffee, and then work my way through the menu, hoping to make it to the end of three pages of omelet choices before the menu changed. I’d be distracted by the daily specials, and I might even order from the lunch menu once or twice. Scrapple would be the only constant.
*My boy would like me to mention that if Letterman’s Diner would grill some Spam for him, they would be at the top of his list of favorite restaurants on the Mainland, so he understands my joy when I am near my preferred breakfast meat.

Big breakfast but tasty, go hang with the locals.
Pancakes are HUGE — I couldn’t finish it. Its small & tight in there, so if your with a big group, I’d go elsewhere.
Bonus cute K-​Town U students wait on ya