lucy's eastside diner

best french toast on the west coast. by far the best cinnamon french served with maple syrup. over my travels across the western coast of the west coast. i dub this restaurant best french toast by far

i'm sorry i don't usually write reviews for restaurants i'm a carry on kind of gal but in his case i opened an account just to bitch about lucy's. sorry lucy you have it coming. i've given all kinds of benefit of the doubt.
i swear to god the cooks do not know how to treat a potatoe! i've eaten at lucy's more than a few times in all different times of day (i work/live near it) and not one time ever could i rely on what i was going to get but each and every time get flat out insulted by how bad the food is.
i'm not even going to mention the service cause i've seen some very cool tattoos and hair styles there and that counts for a lot in my book. you can't expect ppl to be that cool and expect good service it's mutually exclusive.
but the potatoes! so bad. every time!
mashed, cubed, it doesn't matter you ain't getting a tasty morsel ever. you also get to pay for the privilege they're that cool.

i've been sitting here waiting to pay after not receiving half my order for half an hour. don't waste your time.

kind of brutal. went in shortly after noon. waitress decides this would be a great time to have her lunch. after 15 minutes, i ask to order. a couple walks in, orders food, eats, and leaves before we even get our food. we finally get to eat, after being there for roughly 50 minutes. my friend finds what appears to be a bite mark taken out of the bread of his sandwhich (could've been anything though). in any case, he couldn't finish his meal as he had to get back to work.

the staff looked grossly unprepared for the traffic, which should be expected at lunch time. and the food was mediocre.

oh, and the waitress left at 1pm.

horrible. the food was terrible. the soda was flat, the soup was cold and the service was lacking. it's supposed be comfort food but in truth it is truth uninspiring. please do not waste your money here.

yummy & fun. pulled pork, mac & cheese, onion rings, milk shakes, strongbow, east side dark sliders, what more do you crave 24 hours.
smart friendly staff, wonderful characters show up all through the night!

no good. food was medicore, my burger was cold. for the amount of money they are charging for food, it should be way better. i asked for syrup for pancakes, never got it, had to eat my pancakes without syrup. the check came, i didnt even look at the check right when the waiter brought it, and he already asked if i needed change. how do i know if i haven't looked at the bill?he basically was rushing me out of the place. has a cool look, but i wouldnt eat there again.

24 hour goodness. working late nights may mean grabbing dinner at 1:30am, though at this time of dawn your options are severely limited. majority of establishments still open involve fried foods under heat lamps at connivence stores , and greasy chinese meals in small and dingy hole in the walls. after googling 24 hour places in my proximity, i was sold on “lucy’s”, as it was the only one that did not involve noodles in soup. this is what you imagine when you think retro diner, it was like we walked back into the 70′s. walls painted in a faded teal or pink. black and white checkered floors tiles. table tops and bar surfaces in vinyl with ribbed metal edges. each seat was equipped with a napkin dispenser and a glass bottle of heinz ketchup, which with its peeling label had clearly seen multiple refills. there was no music, the background was the buzzing of well lit bulbs and the humming of machinery kept behind the swinging kitchen doors. the most memorable decor piece was their collect

food was hilariously bad, waiter completely incapable. happy to avoid this hipster hellhole.

...sauce just a slightly bit too salty, but hash browns delish and bennies otherwise perfect...

a bit nicer than a dive diner. lucy's is in the heart of hipsterland on main street's coffee shop sector, and it's got the retro-cred decor that's de rigeur with the the piercing/tattoo/bowling shirt crew. but i don't think lucy's is fitted out like that for ironic reasons. they just haven't changed anything since that part of vancouver was serving breakfast to hung-over dock-hands in dungarees, not college-educated theatrical types in clothes they dug out of their dead grandpa's attic.

lucy's has some modern touches on the plate, like the chorizo and hollandaise on my "three little piggies" triple-bennie. i bet guys would have sneered at that as being too fancy in whatever era lucy's was new. back in the day, old-timers might have liked the peanut butter milkshake i had,(not a bad deal for $5) but they wouldn't have been able to wrap their heads around the idea of putting wild turkey bourbon in it. unfortunately, neither could i, because i was brekking with some mates from work, and it was still before 0900. even a 24-hour joint like lucy's has to pay attention to the timing of liquor laws.

i noticed one review slagged the hash browns. i had doubts about eating them, but they were fine -- individualized cubes of white potato that tasted as though they had been deep-fat fried. not your typical hash browns, but deep-fried potatoes would get applause in old times as well as new.

this place is a gem. quick service, delicious food. the waitresses and waiters are nice and funny. they have the best mac'n'cheese in town. great for breakfast and late at night. we always ask to have our meals made as a surprise, whatever chef thinks is good - we've never been disappointed.

this place has the worst service ever! the waitress didn't even take notice when we walk in and didn't take us to a table. when we finally seated ourselves the waitress took quite some time to bring us some water. when the water arrived it was dirty mine had coffee grind in it (or so i thought) and some white stuff from then on i know i will not stay for the food plus the waitress didn't even come take our order.

visiting from uk. on holiday in vancouver. we were going to the vancouver canadian's baseball game on 31.7 and wanted somewhere quick to eat en-route. it's a diner and we wanted an authentic diner experience and we couldn't fault it. sat outside and watched the world go by as we ate. service was very friendly and food came quickly and was as we requested (we are a family of 5 and kids are a bit fussy i.e. didn't want chipotle or mayo or tomato on their burgers!) i asked for a recommendation and waitress recommended the meatloaf sammie which was great. boys loved their milkshakes and i would definitely recommend the peanut butter one as other reviewers have done, but the oreo was good too! i would recommend it, if we were in the area we would definitely go again.

don't expect this place to be a 3 star michelin restaurant but this place is 24 hours. this place does get busy sometimes so you might have to wait a while for some seating/food sometimes. great alternative to denny's when you're done partying and you're hungry.