Betsy's Diner

Betsy's Diner

Address: 457 Main St, Falmouth, MA 02540

1. Initial impression of convenience, parking, and location.

• We took a couple loops around the lot to understand it. A three point turn was necessary to park in a diagonal spot on the street side.
• We didn’t see it until researching the restaurant afterwards but there appears to be plenty of parking in the rear.

2. Wait time to be greeted, seated, and atmosphere.

• The greeting and seating took place as soon as we walked in the front doors. It’s almost as though they watched us drive through the parking lot three times before parking.
• The feeling of the restaurant was a typical old diner set up, emphasis on old. The tables and chairs were all mismatched, and definitely showed their age.

3. Server introductions, impressions and attentiveness.

• Is too attentive a thing? If so, this server fits that to a ‘T’. We were provided menus and coffee when we sat, and just as we had finished taking off our coats and other winter accessories, she returned to ask if we were ready to order.
• The coffee was refilled often, almost too often. The lady had barely had two sips before it was refilled.
• We were provided the bill mere moments after being provided the food. Did they want us to leave?

4. Variety of menu options (too many/too little)

• The menu was a one pager, without much variety.

5. Menu highlights of uncommon items.

• Zip
• Nadda
• Nil
• Zero
• Did they even have pie?

6. Speed of food delivery, and first impressions of plating, initial aroma.

• The food delivery was almost too quick. Eggs certainly don’t take long, toast doesn’t take long, and likely the home fries had been made days before hand and were heated up to order. It still felt far too fast.
• Grease. That was the first impression. Glisteny greasy pile of grease.

• The gentleman ordered the western breakfast sandwich on a bagel (pronounced baygull). The waitress didn’t like the gents selection which worried him. She said it was on account of her distaste for peppers. He nervously stuck to his guns. Again, it arrived way too quickly.   Overall it wasn’t awful. The bagel was soft and dense. The sandwich wasn’t over loaded with ham, onions, and peppers. The American cheese was thick and gooey. The scrambled were constantly sliding off the cheese.  Like a dog in a bathtub they had to keep getting moved back. There were no additional sides offered and it was contemplated to add more. No more was needed. Full to the maximum. (Photo of food wasn’t captured. Too hungry. Sorry, that comes first.)

• The lady had one egg over easy with rye toast, sausage and home fries. The toast was mush, due to the copious amounts of butter that had been spread onto it. The egg was dripping with whatever it was cooked in (likely a butter flavoured oil of some sort) The sausages seem to have come from the same place that every breakfast restaurant gets their sausages from. The server had exclaimed that the home fries were the best thing there. If that is the case, I would suggest not trying anything else. These were nothing to post a status update on Facebook for. No so called ‘Food Porn’ here.

8. Value of product.

• The bill was inexpensive in comparison to some of the other locations we have been to, however, sometimes a deal is not worth the product you get for it.

9. Payment options.

• Cash and traveler’s cheques.

Overall Rating:  Meh.

Falmouth seems to be one of those places where if you live there, you never leave, and if you don’t live there, you never visit. If you do decide to take a trip down to Falmouth to visit Main Street, you can keep on going past Betsy’s diner, and you will not be missing anything.