Centerville Diner

Staff was nice and our waitress was good, but that was the only good part. My bacon was dripping and sitting in a puddle of grease. My eggs tasted like fake eggbeaters and quite honestly it was one of the worst omelettes I have ever had. My girlfriend and I left and went to get food from another restaurant because our food was so bad. There are way better diners around here don’t waste your money at this one.

This place is decent. The food is great and the staff is pleasant. I’d recommend trying their omelets and anything on their lunch menu.
There are two advocates that prevents me from giving Centerville Diner 5 stars. One is their coffee; it’s not the finest and it taste rather cheap. The other was a rather odd occurrence with a female staff member while paying the check. When I explained that a receipt was not needed she mumbled something under her breathe, rolled her eyes, and crumpled it. It was just unpleasant.
I’d also recommend that the waitresses discontinue jumping the gun with delivering the check. Once that check comes, almost always while in the middle of eating your food, they no longer stop by the table to refill coffee or ask if anything else is needed. Let the people eat in peace and stop attempting to rush them out the door. When that happens to me I make sure their tip reflects my dismay!
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Visited for breakfast. Beautiful, bright, clean and cheerful place. Breakfast was perfect. Wait staff was great. Fresh rose on each table. Fantastic breakfast special: 2-​eggs + homefries — the eggs were done perfectly, the homefries excellent– I get tired of the amp’d up homefries you get with the seasoning and grease that a lot of the popular places serve these days; the potatoes were perfectly done, nice golden brown crust on outside and tender but not mushy on the inside. No «excess» of butter or fat glistening on it. There was no aftertaste of «fake butter» that I’ve stumbled on at other breakfast places. Coffee was good. Cups and saucers square, bright white and kinda cool. We passed up the chain breakfast place closer to Hwy 30 and, instead, went searching for a local diner and found this. Wonderful find.
Do go here for breakfast!

My first impression as I walked in was that I was coming into a sterile, geriatric dining room at an assisted living place. I guess the breakfast rush attracts a lot seniors… Service was pleasant, my food was ok, priced right.

I have been here for breakfast twice, and recently tried dinner. Breakfasts are good. You can get onions in homefries if you ask… just wish they were cooked in instead of dumped on top. Good service, friendly owners, and tasty bteakfast fare overall.
Dinner not so hot. We went on a weeknight when we didnt feel like cooking. For starters, our appetizer of coconut shrimp was undercooked, the inner shrimp cool. Ew. Could not locate server after she delivered thus «delight» for a long while (I have a sneaking suspicion she may have been hiding – ?), so did not send back – just made a mental note NOT to order again without saying «cooked, please.»
For dinner, I got the gyro sandwich, which was ok – nothing special, too much tsakiki sauce and lots of bread. Onion rings (an easy substitution for french fries) were crispy and tasty.
My dinner companion ordered the bleu cheese burger, which sounded delicious, per the menu. It was not… He said it tasted «funny,» and he thought the cook went overboard with A1 sauce or something similar. He ate about half. Not the burger experience he’d anticipated.
Our server was a little odd… she asked us if we «saved room for dessert» shortly after we got our entrees, and brought us our check when we said we couldn’t say, as we were still eating.
Other weirdness, in the nearly empty restaurant was two owners or managers (I had not seen them on previous breakfast visits) talking business within earshot, griping about shift shortages in the register, etc. Inappropriate.
We will stick to breakfast at the Centerville for now. Hopefully they’ll get their act together beyond breakfast soon.

What a difference! This restaurant is located in the former Apple Tree which had sunk to the lowest of the low in atmosphere, cleanliness, and food quality. Centerville Diner is clean and bright and the food and staff is excellent. The new owners came from another local diner which is having its own issues. They brought none of that diner’s staff with them, preferring instead to start fresh, and it shows. I had the roast turkey, which was excellent. The owner stopped by our table to chat, and he was very welcoming and excited about his new place. I can’t wait to return for breakfast in the near future. The prices are reasonable too!