Poor Pierres Restaurant

Stopped in town for my Son’s Hockey and had breakfast. Coffee was great, food was good, and service was excellent! Next time I’m in Nashua, I’ll be back.

Food isn’t terrible but it comes out quick. Cash only makes me wince but I took the bank service fee just to try this place. Food is hot, waitress is friendly coffee is very good. Will return for other meals

Affordable, friendly and always perfectly cooked eggs. A hidden jewel! Get eggs and hash! Crispy hash with creamy egg yolks, there is no substitute!

This is a dump of a restaurant. A greasy spoon that serves mediocre fare but believes it will be so busy that it refuses to allow single diners to sit at booths. They demand that you sit next to total strangers if you enter solo.
If I wanted to associate with degenerate losers, I’d go to Walmart.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Great food and fast service. Can’t get much better than that!

Fun staff, good cheap easy food. Real home flavor. The food is home styled and you’ve gotta love the local flavor and conversation. Always a nice place to relax and sit back to read a paper or enjoy a reveling conversation

My boyfriend and I were taking a day trip to MA from Hooksett, NH. We googled the top rated diners along the way, looking for more of an experience rather than breakfast. The comments listed on Unilocal here were WRONG.
First of all– I realize it’s been a few years since the comments about the prices; but they’ve gone up. A lot.
Secondly– the food was mediocre at best. I ordered 2 eggs with (canned) hash and it came with toast. That’s it. What diner doesn’t offer home fries with a two egg meal?
My boyfriend ordered a «3 egg» chili omelette (they must have been small eggs), which also just came with toast. No home fries.
The only thing really enjoyable was the $.65 coffee, which was surprisingly good.
2 eggs, hash, toast
Chili omelet
2– coffees
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$ 16.90
I almost forget to comment on the service– which is because it was non existent. We weren’t offered a warm up on coffee, asked how our food was, or if there was anything else we’d like. It seemed that if you weren’t a regular, you weren’t important.
We won’t be returning.

Was visiting a friend in Nashua, and we drove by this place at night. I mentioned how small it looks and he told me that it’s always busy for breakfast and we should try it the next morning. I really liked it. Just like an old school diner: walk in, grab a seat, eat some classic breakfast foods on the cheap. Just be sure to have some money on you, it’s cash only.

I *love* this place. If you’ve driven or walked past you might wonder why. It’s kind of a dump. There isn’t tons of seating. They don’t have an extensive menu. The food is not mind-​blowing. It is what it is.
So why do I love this place? Because it «is what it is». They don’t try to be anything but a place to stop in and get some breakfast. They have not tried at *all* to decorate or to make the place look nice. The only décor to speak of is a defunct cigarette vending machine in the corner. The seats are old. The counters are old. (but not dirty) I can’t imagine what the back room looks like. But it is completely *genuine*. They don’t try to do any of those things because they just don’t need to. You want breakfast? Here. Its breakfast. You want a contrived diner décor you can go down the street. Service is fast and friendly as can be. I go there quite regularly though I wouldn’t consider myself a regular. This is the type of place where you can tell that the old folks sitting at the counter probably have their names on the stools, for better or for worse.
Prices are as cheap as they come.
So to sum up… plain old breakfast food and 100% pure authenticity. Go get some eggs and toast and breathe it in.

No one goes to Poor Pierre’s for gourmet eating. There are no surprises here. The coffee is diner coffee ($.50 and unpretentious). The omelettes are diner omelettes. The waitress is a diner waitress with a wit to match. One goes to Poor Pierre’s because it’s honest. It is the quinessential American diner. Blessed with not having the publicity and expectations that the Red Arrow has to shoulder, Poor Pierre’s does nothing to draw attention to itself (vintage orange color scheme excepted). Pierre is poor, but he is also humble.
It’s only open till a little past noon, so it’s best for breakfast. Bring a partner, as diner coffee is best served over conversation. In my midwestern mind a diner should be open 24 hours as to cater to the 3^rd shift workers and the after bar crowd, but Nashua is a sleepy little town and I can’t blame them for locking the doors early.

I’ve been meaning to stop here for the breakfast because I’ve heard Poor Pierre’s was the place to go for cheap eats in Nashua. I love the bright orange color theme, very old school! Poor Pierre’s has been around Nashua for a very long time since 1968 (before my time, but after my boss’s time) with lots of longtime regulars here. The sign outside indicates they serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but cross out the latter since the place is open from 5AM to 1:30PM daily. BUT was told the grill shuts off at 1:00 PM on weekends and 1:15 PM on weekdays when I arrived here around 1:12PM on a sunny Saturday. I was told this info outside by the owner’s wife (Denise) who was spreading out some mulch along the parking lot. No biggie, I’ll return another time soon for Unilocaling purposes.
I stopped in on a Sunday when I knew they were open and took an open stool seat at the lunch counter. It was breakfast only, no lunch served on Sundays. The place has a funky box shape layout with lunch counters with stools on each side of the grill area and only 3 booths in the middle (parties of 2 or more only), this way they can serve you without leaving the grill area. There are no paper menus, just the overhead menu board, visible from every seat.
The menu offers typical breakfast fare (eggs, omelets, pancakes, French toast, meats, homefries, toast, etc), lunch items (burgers, franks & beans, fried clams, fried fish, fried chicken, fries, rings, chili), soda, coffee, juice, milk, iced tea. The prices are cheap here with the most items under $ 5, tax included.
My waitress was Denise who offered me coffee (small cup for only 50 cents), Steak & Eggs with toast ($ 5.75 the most expensive item here), and home fries with onions ($ 1.50). The scrambled eggs were fluffy and good. The steak was tough and chewy because it’s fried. The seasoned homefries were potatoey and decent. For refills on coffee, place your small cup on the napkin holder which lets the waitress know you want more coffee. While I was eating, the old time regulars sitting next to me were reading the paper and discussing cars and the «hot chicks» these days, a very typical local diner atmosphere. Overall, the service was attentive and timely and the food was decent and priced right.