Westside Restaurant
“For me, it's the best diner on the UWS”
“At the Westside, like at any diner, stick to staples like breakfast and burgers and tuna melts and you will not be disappointed.”
“C.'s meal wasn't that great, but I ordered cheap to avoid the relatively high prices — you are on the upper west side by Lincoln Center — and came out aces.”
Westside Restaurant
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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NYC visitors beware. Don't go here – this place is terrible. The food was mediocre at best and overpriced, featuring service with a poor attitude.
Hot turkey sand w-gravy, baked potato, cranberry & -spinach for my friend, which she deemed good. My tuna melt on rye w-dill pickle, good. Pleasant servers, attentive (refill coffee, lemon, mustard). Great Saturday early dinner…busy!
Just barely a 3…First, the good: convenient UWS location, friendly greeting/seating by server. Just ok: eggs Benedict and the Westside Wrap…nothing I couldn't whip up at home. Not so great: home fries soggy and tasteless, coffee was industrial. Also my wife pointed out to the server that she didn't get toast with the eggs Benedict as listed in menu(see photo). Server insisted "in New York" the muffin in the Benedict IS the toast. A spirited, albeit civil, argument ensued. Must be a NYC thang, 'cause I get toast with my Benedict in Miami. Tip reflected, don't think I'll be back
I'm surprised a business like this still exists. I'm even more surprised that the place was nearly full on a weekend afternoon.
The prices – expensive for what it is. This is basically an overpriced diner with typical diner fare, and a huge menu to match. You can easily get mediocre diner food and spend $25-30 per person. The omelettes are pretty good, but I've found them to be pretty good at nearly all diners that I've been to. Seems to be a staple of diners – good omelettes.
The quality – average. There are so many other restaurants in the area gunning for your business that deliver much better quality at the same or lower prices. This is why I was surprised to find the place nearly packed. I can only imagine that they have a loyal senior citizen following who don't want to change their habits, or tourists are just looking for somewhere nearby after watching a movie at the theater next door.
If you're hungry and there are no other options around, it's not a bad choice. It's typical diner fare and it's relatively convenient.
I been to this restaurant a couple of times. Typically, I come here for breakfast or lunch. They serve the typical diner food. Nothing exciting or noteworthy. Service is there but doesn't really do much. It is a bit on the pricey side in terms of the food offering and quality.
This place is alright. that's about as excited as I can be for Westside Restaurant.
It's actually pretty nice inside and in a super convenient location. So it's got those things going for it, but that's pretty much about it.
The food is OK. I had a pizza burger, and it was pretty much a meatball sandwich, but I guess I shouldn't have expected anything mind blowing. The fries were good!
The service was not great. The first guy that took our order was nice, after that pretty much no service what-so-ever.
I would come here purely for convenience. Maybe that's the point of diners… I'm not sure.
Don't be fooled by the "old school diner" vibe. This place *appears* charming with its stool-lined counter and its homey decor. The food, however, is overpriced and nowhere near the caliber of the "real" NYC diner experience.
If you see crowds, it might be because this is one of the few options in the immediate vicinity of the various talk shows filmed in the area, as well as the Lincoln Square AMC theater. Don't get sucked in, though! Venture a little farther north for a wider array of options. OR, bite the bullet and go to one of the nicer Lincoln Center stalwarts like PJ Clarke's – which actually won't end up being that much more pricey than Westside anyway!
Love the diner feel but the food was nothing special. I ordered a panini, which came with a decent amount of chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, and whatever else I asked for – there was also a thick slather of butter on the bread too, haha. My friend ordered the California wrap, which seemed pretty standard and apparently the ingredients were fresh, so that's a plus. It was a quick and filling place to go before hitting the AMC theatre nearby. The waiters are extremely nice and courteous!