Momma’s Diner

When you head out for a meal you expect a few things if youre gonna throw down your hard earned cash. Mama’s has good flavourful dishes for the money you part with. The staff are polite, energetic, and attentive. The atmosphere is friendly and welcoming. In my opinion, Mama’s earned every dollar on that bill and you’ll leave with a full belly. What more could you ask for?

My Torontonian friends and I chose to eat here on the way back from Ottawa; it turned out to be a respectable choice. I was initially very hesitant; coming from New Jersey, which is a state plastered with a myriad of 24-​hour full service diners, I am quite picky with respect to any establishment that claims the «diner» moniker.
This establishment offers what can be considered standard diner fare, with a wide, but not too overwhelming selection of burgers, pastas, sandwiches, and breakfast fare. The selection by no means rivals what I am used to in Jersey, but it still took a while to sift through the choices.
I finally settled on a burger with «peameal bacon,» which, as I found out later on by way of a Wikipedia lookup, we Stateside folks call Canadian bacon coated with cornmeal. (To the New Jerseyan readers out there, the taste is much like what we know as Taylor ham/​pork roll.) The meat was not properly cooked to the medium-​rare doneness I requested, but it was still juicy nevertheless; few diners achieve truly correct doneness in any case. The onion rings, thank goodness, were the type where the onions are discernible and not merely an afterthought overshadowed by batter.
Also, my friends notably had no complaints with respect to the pastas that they ordered.
Service was with a smile, and the hostesses appeared unfazed by the fact that we were the only Asian fellows in the room on a relatively crowded late Saturday afternoon.
The above being said, could one transplant this diner from Trenton, Ontario to Trenton, NJ and successfully blend in? The answer is a resounding yes, but in addition to renaming some of the terms on their menu, they would certainly need to revamp their hours of operation. :)

Came here once. Ordered breakfast which isn’t hard to make and found it pretty awful. The waitress was terrible and didn’t even bring us drinks. She hid in the back the whole time and I had to get my own damn drink. Pretty sad considering we were the only people in there.

Really great food. Kids really loved their food and adults were quite happy. They were able to accommodate our group of 7. The all day breakfast is fantastic. The service wasn’t anything spectacular but the food was excellent and the prices were really good, with kids meals under $ 5.

I was pleasantly surprised by my experience here! It was my first time in Trenton, so I wasn’t really expecting to find much in this small town. I came here for lunch on a Monday and ordered a chicken souvlaki wrap. It came with fries on the side and I think it was around $ 8-​$ 9. The wrap was a pretty big portion and filled with lots of meat and vegetables, and the fries were thick cut and delicious. The chicken was also really good! A lot of times I have issues with places that overcook their chicken or make it too dry, but the chicken here was delicious, moist, and juicy. I was actually quite impressed! The service was also friendly and pretty quick. In terms of the environment, it’s not the swankiest place, but I guess it has a cute kind of small-​town diner feel to it — while I was there the radio was tuned to a country station so that kind of added to the ambience: P

Fast service. Friendly waitress. I ordered a Greek omelette which came with home fries, rye toast and baked beans. All for 7.99. Other than the fries being slightly over done all in all it was a good meal.

Solid hangover breakfast option in Trenton. The eggs benny were a bit disappointing on account of not having very good hollandaise sauce, but homefries were great, service was quick and friendly, and prices reasonable. Not super exciting, but not a bad go either.

Great staff, cozy atmosphere, fast service. Greasy spoon, but not one to miss!