Zia Diner

It's a shame this place closed. It was on Diners, Drive-ins, & Dives... and we had a nice meal here.
May 1st, 2017

Apr 27th, 2016

I had a decent burger but what made my visit pleasant was the friendly staff.
Nov 10th, 2015

I keep trying to give this place more chances to impress me because it was great about 5 years ago. Nowadays, every time I go in there, the hostess is extremely rude and arrogant. Keep in mind, I am very polite and I always give over 20% tips regardless of the service. This is not something that is just being reciprocated. When we entered the restaurant, she saw us, but continued chatting and laughing with one of the bar attendants. Not the first time. The waiters are usually very polite and attentive and helpful. When we were leaving, we waiting at the register to pay for a few minutes before a busser began to ask us if we had been helped, and the hostess interrupted him to say, "Need help, kids?" and not in a joking manner. For reference, my boyfriend and I are in our twenties and we were both personally offended to be referred to, as well as treated like children by this woman on numerous occasions. We had a gift card and attempted to pay with that. She ran it, closed out the transaction, then asked about the cash for a tip. We were not aware that a tip could not be taken from the gift card, so I offered to pay with my card, and she told me just OBVIOUSLY rudely and sarcastically, "There's nothing to apply that to, sweetheart." Then nodded up at my boyfriend and said, "what about you, you got any cash?" Eventually I just gave her a larger bill from my wallet that I was saving to get my kid diapers, had we had any time left in my lunch hour to get them. It'd be nice if that was written on either the gift certificate or posted somewhere in there. "WHETHER YOU HAVE A GIFT CERTIFICATE OR NOT, YOU WILL STILL HAVE TO SPEND YOUR OWN MONEY." Also, they expire after a year. My apologies to the giver, but I don't think I'll be returning. Although once when I dined here, we had no waiter. The bus boy brought us to our table and we already knew what we want and ordered, then someone brought us our meal after about an hour of waiting and having to flag them down, then when we got to the counter and the same hostess basically told us that we could not leave without leaving a tip. The macaroni and cheese was disgusting. I was told it would be creamy, but the cheese is more of an oily curdled soup with overcooked noodles, and the green chile has absolute 0 heat, which I was told prior to ordering - supposedly it gives the dish flavor - but they gave the meal a weird sort of rotting flavor. The portions were small, but utterly overpriced. The éclairs used to be the largest and most tasty in town. Now they are about half the size and the cream within is a consistency that suggests it has been left out all day. Which they are. Which reminds me of another time that I came with my boyfriend specifically to return an éclair that he had gotten me because I truly did think it had gone bad because of how dry and sticky it was (the supposedly "fresh" one they gave us in return was just as bad - oops.) and there were two flies buzzing around in the pastry case up front and sitting on the pastries. It was pretty gross and we asked if they had fresh ones, which is how we discovered that it's just a bad recipe. The one star I gave was for the waiter (hey, at least this time we had one, right?) That hostess has been there for a while. It blows my mind that she hasn't been fired when she's so blatantly bad at her job, and when she so often blows off customers to converse with the bar attendants. We won't be back. We dined on 01/15/2015 from about 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Apr 13th, 2016

A great place for Thanksgiving dinner if you are not one who cooks at home. We go every year and are never disappointed. On non-Thanksgiving days, their meatloaf is one of my favorite comfort foods.
Nov 2nd, 2015