Tibbett Diner

Excellent. Daily breakfast combos, lunch and dinner specials can’t be beat for quality and price. 2 great home made soups every day.
Very efficient, friendly and customer oriented ownership and staff. Small off-​street lot and street parking available. Only thing missing is delivery «up the hill».

Pros:
(+) They have a parking lot
(+) Buttermilk pancakes are delicious
(+) Inexpensive
(+) Fast service
(+) Small Parking Lot
Cons:
None
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I love this diner. Still has it’s original old school feel to it with it’s cushioned booth seats, breakfast bar area and everything else which makes this diner look really cute. Parking is never an issue, which is great. You can park either on the street or on their small parking lot that holds about 8 – 10 cars. The food is inexpensive, the service is fast, the food is tasty and what makes diner food, diner food.

Came to the bronx for a taxes and Unilocaled a place to eat whole waiting… Found this little place… Its a gem… And just what a diner should be… Small cozy booths and counter tables… With great cooked food… The grilled chicken on Spanish was perfectly done with the tomatoes around the dish not in the dish… It looked really pretty that way… The home fries were also good and potato are almost to a mash with some crispy areas… Definitely a local great find… bathroom floor are a little greasy but so are all the great local places… I think.

Been here before, usually okay. Today, I ordered a short stack of chocolate chip pancakes, and was charged the same price as a full stack. I was told the reason is that for a regular stack, there is a $ 2 difference between original and chocolate chip, so they added $ 2 to the original short stack price.
1) It was more than $ 2 extra. 2) Less pancakes= less chocolate chips, so it should not be the same additional charge. 3) There is no reason I should pay $ 7.25 for TWO chocolate chip pancakes, when a full order of chocolate chip pancakes is the exact same price. Makes no sense.

This is the cutest diner I have ever eaten in… situated and hidden north of Manhattan, on the border of the Bronx this place is so picturesque… it’s small and perfectly simple yet maintained that rustic NYC Diner style ambiance… The price is also very affordable… I was looking for a place to have good quality breakfast and found this through Google map… It has a very small 7 car parking in front but tons of street anyway… I came on a Monday morning and it wasn’t busy; I could only imagine it if it where… but nonetheless. This place is very nostalgic; reminds me off old NYC neighborhood diner and the frequent patrons just made my experience all the more awesome… the staff was very attentive and courteous… The place is clean and that’s a huge plus for me… the seats are worn but still maintained well… (no I don’t mean they held it up with tape)
it’s quite affordable and a great lil hideaway from the hustle and bustle of the big city… give it a shot if you find yourself in the area and want some quality solitude time with yummy breakfast…

We gave it s few years to get over the chest hair trauma. Returned and it’s still just as good! Great breakfast, fast service, fair prices.

Hate the food. Hate the service. I’ve only tried breakfast on several occasions but never satisfied. I prefer Riverdale Diner down the road.

Best diner in the Riverdale area! Fresh, homemade soups daily, very generous portions, a good variety of specials and worth the reasonable prices. Their fish dishes are wonderful and I have never been disappointed! My only critique is the parking is awful!!!

So much better than Riverdale diner. Amazing souvlaki, chicken salad club, fish fillet, amazing breakfast burritos!!! When the fries are good, they are good! Also sometimes they have chicken pot pies on Saturday if they have leftovers from Friday.delicious.
They have some nice specials too in the middle of the week for lunch. Nice combos (like an added soup to a sandwich meal) for good prices.

Lunch time during the business week has taken my food travels to Kingsbridge in the Bronx.
With a co-​worker this diner has a small parking lot. Tibbett Diner is named after it’s location on Tibbett Avenue. A diner is no diner without booths as cushion seats. We were immediately seated at a booth when suddenly I was sliding from the cushion seat as it had no substance and was not properly manufactured nor installed correctly. We switched tables so our butts was able to anchor in place without sliding. Without clarity, I ordered a fruit salad as was dissatisfied as I should have ordered a burger. My co-​worker ordered a burger which appeared flavorful and tasty. Service is attentive. No comment on their facilities as we did not utilized.

Food is cheap, nothing fancy, but always consistent. Good portions and highly recommend if you want quick good meal!

Ate there three times. Like a fool returned. Not again, ever. Found a table and sat, only to be told this was for a party of 4 and since it was only me, I would have to move!
Did not observe a rush of people coming in at 11:00 AM!
Had to ask and wait for coffee refill, plus the food was lack luster. Breakfast is simple enough to make, eggs, potatoes, meat, toast. Somehow the eggs were hard, not over easy, the food took a minute to be served also. Tiny place. Should be a gem, but was a disappointment.

Very happy that this place is walking distance to my house!
I came here quiet on a stormy day and ordered breakfast. You can’t go wrong with breakfast. Over easy, perfectly cooked. Home fries I asked for it well done and it was crunchy, and mashed inside, YUM! Bacon was a bit overcooked to my liking but still a hefty portion for a cheap price.
Service was attentive and my coffee was constantly refilled. Will be back here again.

I came here for the first time during my lunch break for a quick bite. I had the chicken quesadilla w/​french fries and a cup of soup. The food was really good. Better than I expected. I just wished the waiter was more friendly and attentive. He disappeared after like 15 minutes and I couldn’t find him! He looked bored LOL at least I got back to work on time.

Classic neighborhood diner/​luncheonette.
Excellent food and prices for what it is.
Could be stepped up in some ways, such as putting syrup on the table instead of packets (pet peeve) but the quality of the food is excellent and the preparation always shows a care for detail, never burnt or cold etc.
Really nice people and owner as well.

This place was highly recommended by a waitress working in another diner. She said the food was delicious and that the chicken pot pie which they make once a week was to die for. When we arrived we noticed that it was a tiny diner by diner standards and we were lucky to get a parking spot in their small lot.
Ordered the chicken pot pie which came with soup – New England clam chowder. The soup was full of celery and some carrots, not creamy at all and did not taste of clams. I skipped this course after a few spoons. The chicken pot pie lacked the celery that is so essential to a good pot pie. By now my readers know that I am a master of pot pies so my recommendations are meaningful. Chef: cut the mushroom out of the pie and add celery. Also add a bit of black pepper and a smidgen more of salt. Remember that mushrooms have their best flavor sautéed or stuffed in the oven. The crust was fine. Not super flakey but fine. The star of the evening was the bluefish that my husband ordered. Looked moist and beautiful with some garlic on it. It was a whole fish with bones and all. Maybe that is why he found it so tasty. That came with a fresh salad, choice of potato and choice of vegetables. He chose zucchini. The baked potato was a baked potato. But the zucchini was disappointing as it was under salted and needed a bit more garlic — it needed something. The complementary bread basket had a chunk of bread that was fresh but no flavor. The breadsticks were stale. I ordered a linzer tart which was soft to the touch perhaps because it was freshly baked or that the New York humidity had gotten to it. I would not order one again. I noted that the clientele was mostly Medicare eligible or perhaps that is the reason for the low salt on most of the items we tried. I was sprinkling salt all over the place. All in all this was not a bad place to eat if you live close by and want some home cooking. The meals seem all to be made from scratch. The waiter was very attentive and was efficient. I can only give this diner 3 stars– bluefish, service, and freshness of the food.

The sweet potato fries were to die for! I dipped them in the blue cheese dressing that came with our salad but they were good on their own.
We also ordered beef brisket and pasta, both were decent.

I went here after a morning run with my mom and got the usual. Silver dollar pancakes with two over medium eggs and turkey sausage. I have been going to other diners just to get a sense of other pancakes.
None of these even are comparable to tibbett’s diner. The pancakes are fluffier than a pillow and fresh off of the oven. I dream of them. The eggs somehow are fluffy as well and are cooked to your request. Turkey sausage, sounds nasty. Why would you get that when you can get real sausage? Maybe because you keep kosher. Well I get it because it is so much better than any breakfast meat. It’s salty and juicy. Amazing!
We have a fat Irish waitress every time that is so sweet. She gets us our earl grey tea to start our meal. The décor is like a classic diner and it makes me feel like I’m in the 60s. They have a wonderful garden outside of the restaurant that is really pretty. The prices are very fair as well. If there where a six star option, I will choose it for this diner.
Bön appetite

Not a lot if diner choices in Riverdale section of the Bronx. Sadly, this was our closest option to our location near the Spuyten Duyvil train station.
This place knows how to write an order but they don’t know how to follow an order and get it done right. I ordered three eggs scrambled, extra ham, fried onions and peppers in a wrap. The waiter took the order without fail but there must have been some miscommunication with the waiter and the cook. I ended up with three flecks of ham that required a search party to find and what looked like two eggs instead of three. I also learned that there are no shortage of potatoes at diners because 75% of the container was filled with them next to my tiny wrap. They failed to give me those additions but they sure didn’t fail to charge me $ 9.00 for the wrap for those additions. The waiter and the cashier had to try to figure out what to charge me, leaving the cashier to give a major sigh of annoyance for having to be put through that Euclidian mathematics problem.
The ability for diners to get any additions or subtractions to orders done correctly is paramount to diner quality. It’s one of the reasons why people go to diners in the first place.
Ample parking is another reason. Whoever designed the lot to this establishment didn’t do a real good job of it. Of the few spots they have, one of the spaces had a fire hydrant blocking it. Pulling out of the spots requires careful technique because you are backing out into oncoming street traffic.
I know it sounds like I’m pitching a bitch but it’s not like this place doesn’t deserve it. I call it like I see it.

I moved to the Bronx this year, and found that this was the most consistently decent diner in the area. I went with my fiancée a few times a month, up until my last experience.
I have a serious nut allergy. This is very common, and most places are very accommodating. I had always ordered breakfast foods until this particular day, when I decided to have the roast turkey.
Roast turkey. When have you ever ordered roast turkey, and had nuts in it? Of course, I found out the hard way that this particular roast turkey did indeed have walnuts in some sort of stuffing found underneath. I ate a few bites, and immediately I knew I had eaten nuts, because I started to feel sick. I alerted my server, and simply asked for him to take back my turkey and remove it from my check.
The server went to ask his manager for permission to do that. The manager was standing maybe 10 feet away from me, behind a partial dividing wall, and I could clearly see him whispering to my server, and shaking his head, occasionally glancing over at me. The server, of course, came back to me with his manager’s «generous» offer of reducing the price of my meal to the price of a sandwich, since I had eaten some. Never mind the fact that I’m heading to the hospital upon leaving because they decided it would be a great idea to not inform their customers of NUTS in their TURKEY. I mean, it’s not like I ordered pecan pie here.
Anyway, I got the manager’s attention myself, and asked him to come over to the table (since he is already watching this transaction like a hawk from 10 feet away, we may as well cut out the middle man). I explained the situation, and the fact that my throat was swelling more by the minute, and that ALL I WANTED was for him to remove that one item from my check. I didn’t ask for a free meal; my fiancée had certainly enjoyed her whole meal, and I did have a bialy and some coffee, all of which I intended to pay for.
The manager’s response alone is the reason I will never go back to Tibbett Diner in my life:
«Fine, you don’t wanna pay, you piece of s***?? Then leave! Get out of my restaurant!»
So, I did. Permanently.
I could never support a business run by someone like that, regardless of how good the food is. Go somewhere else. Anywhere.