Beverly, NJ
June 7, 2012
By Sarah
Menu: 7 Pricing: 5
Food: 6 Coffee: 5
Service: 10 Decor: 6
Bathrooms: 7
Overall Rating: 6
The Golden Dawn is so average it's almost funny. Comfy but not remarkable, it's that standby diner off the highway that you go to when you don't have any other ideas of where to go. The decor was a wash in beige and the bathrooms were clean but unremarkable (although you could wash a baby in the sinks). The menu was, predictably, typical, with the usual diner staples and a relatively bland design (we were pretty amused by the "rooster wings." Not chicken wings. Not hen wings. Rooster wings). At first we were daunted by the pricing. It's a bit above the average, but when our food came out and we saw the portions, suddenly $5 diner cheesecake didn't seem like such a strange thing. It was also pretty good food, though the lemon meringue pie was a bit overly squishy. The coffee kind of tasted like petroleum, but there were mixed reviews. The portions were really the redeeming quality.
The outstanding feature of this place was the service. If you want the kind of diner where the wait staff has worked there for 30 years (our waitress had) and knows your name, this is the place. They had the Greek guy at the door; the chain smoking, ridiculously sweet (and yet rough and gruff) waitresses; and the Latino cooks in the back. We instantly gave our waitress a 10. Yes, the service was great, but she fit the image of the stereotypical diner waitress so well we instantly knew she was a solid 10 (her one fault being that she forgot to give us her name at the beginning at the meal, mentioned it later, and still didn't give us her name).
I'd go back. It's the old standby.
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