Courtesy Diner

Excellent as a late night diner. Food is very bit as authentic diner grill as you could expect. Classic counter service, 1950s style booths, Jukebox, classic diner dishes, good parking. Daytime 3-​stars, night 4-​stars. Can get filled with drinking class after 1am, but rather lively. Service is hit or miss, but generally fast.

This place is gross. Went there the yesterday with a couple of my buddies from school. the place was Dirty, the workers were unsanitary. Now I have the runs will not return

My family stopped in on our way through town. It’s easy access off of I64 near the zoo.
My daughter raved about the pancakes and the biscuits. I got the Hoosier. The gravy was… meh, but my son loved it.
All in all it’s the quintessential American Dinner. Certainly worth your stop in.
They only accept cash.

Slinger — Sunny side up, cheese, onions, jalapeños, and wheat toast. CASH ONLY — I’m about that life.

Cheap food, reasonably quick service, and always refilled drinks– check, check, check.
*CASH ONLY* but there is an ATM on site.
I have been to Courtesy Diner more times than I can remember. I always love to get the toast (covered in melted butter) served with a variety of jams. Lately I’ve been getting the hot ham and cheese– also covered in melted butter. It is a thick slice of ham and two pieces of melty American cheese. Not healthy, but tastes so good.
Unfortunately– the fryer is used for everything. I ordered onion rings and they tasted like fried fish. The French fries also taste like fried fish. So, just don’t order fried food unless you want it to taste like the fish that had been fried earlier in the day.

Best Slinger in town.
Over medium, with cheese, no onions and white toast. Best while drunk. Come in, find a seat, order a slinger and enjoy the people watching!

Maybe Missouri doesn’t have Waffle House, but this is Waffle House. Quick and greasy, meets the needs for late nights or but you’re getting what you pay for here. I had bits of potato in my eggs, and didn’t order potatoes, but this isn’t the type of place you can complain about having potato in your eggs. It’s more the kind of place you have to go, «hmm, thanks for extra potato, I think».

Went here for the first time and loved it. Friendly staff. Cute place takes you back in time to a better time. Food was fast to the table and was great. Onion rings are a must. We will go back again.

It is what it is, and if you accept that it’s a late night greasy spoon, you won’t go wrong. If you want linen, polished silverware and a classically trained server, you’re in for a heartache beyond the slinger. But, if you want cheap grub, reasonably good and quick service, served at all hours, you may be in the right place. In summary, if you set your expectations appropriately, you’ll seldom be disappointed. Bön appetite.
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No, it’s not a five star place. But after reading some of the barely literate, likely inebriated, despite what they wrote in virtual crayon, I felt the need to provide ballast. Look, it’s a 24-​hour diner, with all types eating and working here, but for what it is, it isn’t a cesspool, nor gourmet. Re-​read the first sentence.

Congratulations to this Courtesy Diner location because I have added this location to my OH HELL NO! list. Why? You must read more:
This place disgusts me. It isn’t deserving of any stars at all, and truly one of the most disgusting places where I have ever been.
I checked out the Unilocal reviews and looked at their menu online so I went with an idea of what I wanted. I was debating about going to the location on Hampton or the new location in Afton. I decided to go to the Hampton location which was a huge mistake.
When I got there, the place is set up kinda like a Waffle House Restaurant, and I sat at the counter and looked at the menu while being ignored. I sat there for almost ten minutes without being acknowledged by the «server» or the «cook.»
I looked around at other people’s food and it didn’t look good to me at all. I watched the «cook» and what she was doing when she «cooked» the food and it was nasty looking and unappealing. They pulled something out of the fryer that was almost burnt and I couldn’t tell what is was at all. When she finally got around to asking me what I wanted, I asked if she was going to wait on me or ignore me. She was curt and rude, and obviously they know nothing about good service for their customers. After that, I decided that I wasn’t going to stay and walked out without placing an order for their nasty looking food even though she asked me what I wanted.
I will never go to this place again.
And the health inspector needs to make several frequent visit to that place because it looked really dirty to me, too.

This place is a stl classic! It’s open all the time so it’s a perfect late night stop or early morning quick eat. Only thing about this place, is its cash only, they have an atm inside, it just charges you a fee. While the prices are good, the food isn’t the best food I’ve ever had. A lot of things come out pretty greasy, but sometimes greasy is what a person wants. The people who work there are all very friendly it just gets very busy sometimes so drinks go with no refills and asking for anything becomes nearly impossible. It’s not my first choice,
But sometimes at 3am the choices
Are slim.

Congratulations, Courtesy Diner you have been removed from my No-​No list. I was up early on St. Patrick’s Day and after dropping a friend off at his work in Dogtown, I needed breakfast. I didn’t need anything special or fancy, I just needed a simple breakfast. As I turned on to Hampton Avenue to head home, I saw you to my right and thought you needed a second chance.
As I parked my car I got a giggle from all the signs you had posted warning people not to park in your lot for the parade. I don’t blame you, you gotta protect those spaces for your patrons. After the parade I am sure you had your share of drunk partiers in need of a sobering meal.
Okay, now the reason why you got off my No-​No list. I wanted a cheap, simple and filling breakfast and you delivered. What I liked most is that you offered 1 egg instead of 2 egg breakfast entrees. Sometimes two is just too much. I was able to enjoy my egg with crispy hash browns and 3 slices of bacon. I said no to my side of toast, because I wanted to enjoy one biscuit with sausage gravy. The gravy needed more pepper and salt. Overall everything was above average and worth the price.
At 6AM the diner was clean and ready for a new day. The staff was cordial, but once others arrived, you could easily tell who were their regulars. CD, you may be off my No-​No list, but your still not ready to be in my regular breakfast rotation. However, I will be back at another time.

Classic diner, with classic diner food. Breakfast and pancakes are good. Burgers are good. Fries are awesome.

How ironic this place is called ‘Courtesy’ diner…
Went here basically for a slinger after a night out. What we got was a bitch waitress (looks like Pensatucky from ‘Orange is the New Black’ with blonde hair and a nose ring), who wouldn’t let us order cuz there was no seats and we couldn’t get it to go. Well we got one. She was basically talking shit out loud to the cook. About what… I exactly don’t know. After reading other reviews discovered she is a common occurrence. About 25 mins later the slingers came out without the bread. Asked them for bread and foam containers and we were on our way. Slingers were good. Liked the food. Service was rude.

One of my friends wanted an authentic «diner at 2am» experience.
When we walked in, the floor was sticky/​greasy. Later, we saw at least two bugs crawling around. I hope they were just beetles…
I got hashbrowns and a chocolate shake. Hashbrowns were super oily. Shake was a’right. The water cups were huge.
Probably would not go back.

3.5 stars
Came here for dinner during our cross country road trip. From what I read, this place has one of the best slingers. It definitely is interesting (mostly a chili burger?) and would be the best thing to eat after a long night of drinking.

This is a decent place to come out in the middle of the night if your hungry after leaving the bars. But it’s super disappointing that it’s cash only. They really need to get with the times and except debit and credit cards.
This place also get super busy and it can be sometimes hard to find a table.

Love this place. Have been coming here since I was a little girl. The food is very cheap and their burgers are delicious. They have a jukebox if you wish to listen to music.
The only drawback is they take CASH ONLY. They have an ATM but I was charged twice for withdrawing cash.

Classic diner fare. Servers and kitchen staff do all the prep right in front of you, are almost always friendly, and get you your food fast. The prices are also amazingly cheap for how much food you get.
The only reason I’m giving it ⁴⁄₅ instead of ⁵⁄₅ is because the food isn’t that tasty. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not bad, it’s all just kind of bland. Considering the price, however, you’re definitely getting your money’s worth. Basically, great for a hangover meal or a quick and filling, old school blue collar breakfast.

Gather round, Unilocalers. It’s time for another rousing edition of Angela’s NSFW Restaurant Nightmares.
Two friends and I went to Courtesy at around 2 am last night. We’d been out all night, had sobered up, and wanted some food. We have a long history with Courtesy Diner being our favorite place to go after a night out. It’s been our standby for nearly a decade. One friend who went with me even got her engagement pictures taken there, because she and her now-​husband used to love going there after a night out, too.
We walk in last night and all of the tables are full. We’re the only ones waiting. A table gets up, pays, leaves. Naturally, we go have a seat at the open table and wait for someone to clear it.
That’s when shit got real.
As the three of us are sitting there, this female cook comes storming over and immediately starts yelling at us. «You don’t listen do you? I said NOT TO SIT THERE UNTIL SOMEONE CLEARED IT OFF.»
What in the actual FUCK.
We try to tell her that, no, she didn’t say that to us. We didn’t even see her when we walked in, nor did any of us speak with her. We just did what we ALWAYS do – find an open table, sit down, and wait.
When we very politely (and frightfully) tell her she’s mistaken, she starts to yell more and informs us that she will NOT be cooking for us and we can get the hell out.
Yes, folks. The long-​standing question of «what does one have to do to get kicked out of a shithole like Courtesy Diner?» has finally been answered. You have to do nothing. You have to walk in, sit down, and a methed-​out cook on bath salts will come over out of fucking nowhere, physically slam her fist down on your table, cuss you out, and demand you get out.
She walks away. We sit there baffled for a good five minutes, wondering if we’re on an episode of Punk’d or if it was just a misunderstanding. We still want our god damned hash browns, so we sit for a few more minutes thinking it will blow over.
Every waitress cold shouldered us. They wouldn’t even LOOK at our table. Finally, I get one’s attention and very politely ask what the hell just happened.
The waitress informs us that the cook told the staff not to wait on us because we called her a bitch.
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK PART 2.
No one. NO ONE at our table even uttered the word «bitch». Had we actually believed what was happening, maybe we would have. But we were in such total shock by her initial outburst that we didn’t say much of ANYTHING.
So to recap: 3 fairly sober adults walk into a diner they’ve been going to for years, sit down, get terrorized by Captain Bath Salts, sit there for a few more minutes, then say «fuck it» and go to Steak n Shake. Where the service was shitty. But after fearing for your life at the Courtesy Diner, Steak n Shake’s the god damned Ritz.
Fuck this place. Avoid at all costs.