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Denny's
Categories: Restaurants Fast Food Restaurants Breakfast & Brunch Fast Food, Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
3100 Douglas StVictoria, BC V8Z
(250) 382-3844
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Has TV:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
5 reviews for Denny's
5 reviews in English
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Review from Christopher P.
Victoria, BC
1/19/2010
The great thing about chain restaurants is that you always know what you're going to get. I went to my first Denny's many years ago in Niagara Falls, and fell in love with the low prices, abundant amounts of food, decent service, and coffee.
Remember that last item: we'll be coming back to it.
The Denny's restaurant under review faithfully continues to provide low priced, high quantity food, and generally has a very good service staff. It's kept reasonably clean, though I admit to having never entered their restroom to inspect it. Unfortunately the kitchen tends to be loud, and it often drowns out 'private' or 'quiet' conversations - if you're within 20ft of the kitchen, you'll probably need to talk loud enough that your surrounding diners will easily be able to overhear. Don't go to Denny's to talk about anything you wouldn't want your neighbours to know about...
Let's turn to the food. When I was there over the weekend, my brother got their new 'cheesy fries' as an appetizer. Let's just say that they'll never be ordered again: the 'cheese' combination is poor, and I got a very real feeling that we were served a 'cheese-like' food product on top of the (otherwise excellent) seasoned fries.
Turning to the entres, I ordered a buffalo chicken sandwich (with seasoned fries), and my brother the chocolate pancakes. The sandwich was good, though I was disappointed that the bun overhung the chicken on both ends and that, while there were tomatoes they weren't exactly piled onto the sandwich as I'd requested. I'd be somewhat fearful to see how few are on a 'non-piled' sandwich. The spicy fries were quite tasty, and were in abundant quantity.
My brother's pancakes were acceptable. He liked them quite a bit, but when I tasted them they had a weird flavour to them. I'm not sure *what* that flavour was, and it wasn't gross or anything, but it tasted...weird. Real maple syrup isn't served - it's more like Aunt Jemima's.
Now, I said I'd get back to the coffee. This was the worst - nay, intolerable - part of the meal. It was terrible, containing some sort of chemical undertone. I can honestly say that it was amongst the worst coffee I have ever had in my life, and I asked for two separate replacements in the hopes that it was a cup or something else. No. it was the coffee. I would heartily suggest that you NEVER order their coffee, unless you're (a) looking to alienate a date that's with you; (b) you hate yourself.
On the whole, Denny's has good 'upscale' dive-food at reasonable prices and abundant quantities. I'll be back, though I'll order the water instead of coffee. -
Review from Adam P.
Victoria, BC
4/23/2011 1 Check-in Here
Wife and I went to this Denny's one Saturday morning to see how the new renovations turned out. I was surprised that even though there was a long line we only had to wait maybe 10 minutes to get in. Here ends the postives about the experience.
Literally after we sat down the hostess asked for a beverage order and our menu order. We hadn't even had a chance to open the menu let alone decide upon something. Pushy to say the least. We asked for a few more minutes.
Eventually she came back and we made our order: I had a make your own grand slam with pancakes, toast, hasbrowns and scrambled eggs. My wife ordered the basic benny.
We then waited. And waited. And waited some more. It was about 25 minutes later that we finally flagged the waitress down and asked how much longer. She came back and said "anytime now". By the time our food came we had been waiting just over a half hour. To be fair the place was busy, but 30 minutes for some eggs & pancakes is inexcusable.
The server was also rather rude when bringing the food. No apology for the wait, no asking if I'd like my coffee topped up, not even a "enjoy your meal".
And then: the food itself was cold. My hashbrowns were actually undercooked, the pancakes ice cold, the eggs lukewarm.
When the server brought us our bill, she actually gave us the wrong bill. We had to wait a few more minutes while another server we flagged down went and got ours. While the meal was cheap (~$25) compared to most restaurants, it simply was not worth the money at all. Most other restaurants I've been to in Victoria have been maybe $5 more and had absolutely amazing food.
Horrible service, terrible food, poor value, and an all-around terrible experience. Will never go back. -
Review from Revorc P.
8/16/2009 2 photos
Experienced better Denny's in my day. Had a Chicken Ranch Melt (my favorite). The bread on my melt was very very pale looking. Wasn't a nice golden-y brown I'm used to! But whatevs, it was alright. Had a side salad on the side (hehe) and it was yum. Just a regular salad, nothing special.
One cool thing is that Canadian Denny's have a cute little maple leaf for their apostrophe! Whoo. -
Review from Betsy T.
8/16/2011
It's a Denny's....they're all two to three stars for me. Service was a bit slow at this one even though it wasn't very full. I wouldn't eat at this one again if I had other options. It was late Sunday night and not much was open in Victoria, and we didn't want to go downtown again. (Dragon Boat Festival going on, things were pretty busy there.)
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Review from robert h.
Mississauga, ON
11/4/2009
if you like LICK'S Burger, you will love here too.
unfortunely, the mash potatoes was kind of cold.
service was average.
