Pete’s Diner

Bad service. Attitude. Enough said.
Of course Unilocal wants me to write more… I don’t think there is a lot more to say.
If you treat people shitty you don’t get their money. Period.

**review is on breakfast**
Visit: Mother’s day in the AM
Pros: Wait staff was nice, our waiter was attentive, I think his name was Fernando. Food wait time was acceptable, not too long of a wait at all.
Cons: I personally thought it was very expensive for 3 people. We ended up spending almost $ 40 with tip for 3 plates. The food itself was not incredible — I had the eggs benedict. I would say it was sub par, certainly not anything to rave about. The home fries were alright, they were like sliced up potatoes which I had never seen before for home fries, but not bad. My boyfriend had an veggie omelet and pancakes that were dry, and my boyfriend’s brother had a standard 2 egg breakfast (you can’t really go wrong with that).
Definitely has a very old time feel to it, they really need to update the décor. The booth that we sat in had torn up seats, and the TV was a box TV that was high up that nobody can hear. Menu was very basic, black text on white background, no pictures at all (though I don’t really care about that since all breakfast food is pretty much the same).
Probably the most ridiculous thing that I saw was a $ 1.50 «sharing fee» for buying pancakes. I have never seen that in any breakfast place that I have gone to (I’d say I go out a lot) and THAT immediately turned me off. Are you really going to charge your customers for sharing their pancakes that THEY bought at $ 3.99 with others? I personally think that’s just absolutely insane!
For the amount of money that we ended up spending (and that $ 1.50 charge…), I would have preferred to go to IHOP or some large chain breakfast place.

This is a quaint little mom and pop restaurant. Some of their items are spectacular some of their items are just okay. I personally am not a fan of little diners but my boyfriend loves this place and everything they have in it. If I’m craving for a decent omelette with a cup of coffee I make him take me to petes.

Decent food, weird old timey atmosphere. Good prices though. Basically it’s like paying for a home cooked meal. Which is okay, if you’re into that kind of stuff.

A pleasant gem in Dunedin. It’s definitely an old school style family owner diner. You kind of feel like you are in 1979. The waitress was very friendly and efficient (maybe almost a bit too efficient… the service was very quick. Not rushed but the whole experience was VERY quick). The menu was varied and modern with traditional Greek and family menu items. I ordered a chicken, spinach and feta Quesadilla and it was fresh and very flavorful. This isn’t going to be everyones cup of tea… definitely a restaurant that caters to the elderly and the décor could use some updating. But, again, friendly service, fresh food and a varied menu means we may have found our new «go to» restaurant when I don’t feel like cooking!

By all standards, one of the worst meals ever. Menu items that weren’t available, no cream with the coffee, quick and somewhat rude waitress, and terrible food.
The Crab Benedict has no english muffins and is simply a premade, frozen crab cake with no real crab meat in it. It’s covered in broken, flavorless hollandaise.
I really have nothing to say other than if this place is truly 4 stars then Florida Unilocalers need to step their game up.

Great breakfast food reading for the 3 stars is service. It was slammed in this place when we went. First time there & didn’t know the protocol (seat ourselves, wait, etc) finally a waitress waived at us to sit down. Thankfully we got there when we did 2 parties after us left bc there was no room to sit even though there was a huge empty table. Apparently they had it reserved though they didn’t have a sign on it so we watched 2 parties sit & then be told they had to wait.

I ordered the stuffed pepper… YUM! The portions are huge, so be prepared to order a box or to leave a lot of leftovers. The salad was very fresh and delicious.

Excellent food great prices! Worth stopping by. I love the chicken plates for lunch.

Visit time/​day: weekend lunch
Atmosphere: casual, diner, family owned
Pete’s is totally my kind of family owned restaurant. The waitress, who was nearly running to serve people, knew everyone in the restaurant and ‘shouted’ orders across the restaurant to the guy cooking. She did a great job and called us ‘honey’ — cute!
I ordered a Greek Salad with Chicken breast — it was very good and a decent size portion. Came with a grilled pita, marinated chicken (num!), and homemade dressing. Also came with a scoop of potato salad which must be the ‘norm’ around here as this is the 2^nd restaurant that has done that. Note to self — order Greek Salad minus Potato Salad ;) BF ordered an omelet with corned beef and Swiss cheese and was very happy although he had originally wanted to order the Country Fried Steak breakfast (they were out of sausage gravy and he did not want brown gravy substituted).
Definitely going back and so happy this restaurant is close to my house — I want to be a regular here :)

I stopped in for lunch for the first time today. I went around 1 PM but breakfast was still available for anyone who wants to order it. The restaurant is your basic family dinner with traditional breakfast items and lunch sandwiches. I ordered a patty melt on rye with potato salad which was excellent. The sandwich was fresh and had great taste although it would have been better if it came with yellow American cheese instead of Swiss. The service was quick and friendly, our server Sherry seemed to know everyone by name (they must be regulars who go often, which is a good sign for the quality of food and service), menu was very inexpensive, most breakfast options about $ 3-​$ 6 and sandwiches $ 5-​$ 6. Ill go back again soon to try their breakfast