Charlie's Family Dining

Looking for a quick easy bite this is the place. Old school feel with recipes that haven't changed for years. The gyro was pretty good and I liked the simple hash browns.

Today had Friday Fish Cod with Mac and Swiss Steak all meals come with Soup bar. We had Gumbo, Beef Veggies, Clams Chowder n Chicken Noodle. Great waitress Pam truly our favorite, Family meals and Super Soup Bar always 4 made in house delicious. A Downriver classic pack them in everyday with many regulars. The great breakfast bar goes till 2pm on weekends and they always have the Super Soup bar with rolls and bread sticks. The service is some of the best downriver all the meals that all come with soup bar and salad with average price of $8 WoW what a real deal. I love there ribs and just had the stuffed chicken breast which I so love. Give then a try and I'm sure you'll be back. See my photos ENJOY

Came here with friends before flying out of DTW. The staff was so sweet and the all-you-can-eat soup bar was delicious. Highly recommend the lemon rice soup, it was AMAZING. Definitely worth a stop.

Great food. Waitresses and hostess's were very friendly. Chicken teriyaki was great! Was visiting Detroit area for the weekend and visited Charlie's twice. Definitely recommend.

I was there Sunday around 2 pm, and the experience there was nice with good service.When checking out, I asked if they were closing soon, since it was approaching 3 pm, they said no, there open till 9 pm. They apparently knew why I was asking, and said they are having a change in shift occurring and were cleaning up the dining area!Here is the big issue of distraction- while I am sitting at my booth table in the middle isle of the restaurant,I had to content with 100 foot of extension cord about the floor with the wet/dry vacuum they were using cleaning table seating and under table floor area across from me, and as other table along the isle.This cleaning took awhile to do, while I was still seated and and having breakfast.Here is the clincher: The output air of this wet / dry vac was on and blowing exhaust air right in my direction several feet away from where I was sitting, for about 6 minutes before she moved it on its rolling wheels to another area to clean.Let me ask for other customer feedback on this! Maybe all future customers visiting and commenting on this site is a nice way to have strong impact on this type of experience to wait until customer are not in the mix of it while seated and eating.

My friend's know I love a good diner and they suggested I try this place. For some reason after it changed from Leon's to Charlie's I never visited it? We used to go to Leon's a lot when I was younger. I was told, "It's so cheap! You can get unlimited soup, a salad, and an entree for under 10 bucks!" So I'm like Okay let's do this!My boyfriend and I went on a Thursday evening, and it was pretty busy in there. Good sign? The service, amazing. The waitress was incredibly kind and friendly and gave us the time we needed to look over the menu (Which has a lot of options!).The soup was delicious. I had the potato, my boyfriend had the chicken noodle. Both were good. For unlimited, I can see it being worth it in the winter when it's colder, but it was a 90 degree day when we went so I wasn't feeling seconds on the soup.My biggest issue was honestly the food. It was bland. Boring. Unseasoned. My salad was watered down ranch dressing and all of the white, bitter parts of iceberg lettuce. I barely touched the salad because it just wasn't good. I ordered chicken tenders, which were okay. Nothing spectacular. I was also really disappointed that my mashed potatoes automatically came with gravy, and I don't like gravy. I wish I had been given the option of 'gravy, or no gravy?' But after I tasted it, I could see why they just put it on there automatically. They were flavorless mashed potatoes, very thin. My boyfriend's french fries were soggy and unsalted. I also had a side of corn which literally tasted like they just cracked the can open.For an $8 meal, I knew I didn't have anything to complain about. The service was great and the atmosphere is friendly, but I suppose for 8 bucks what kind of food are you expecting? It just wasn't very good and I didn't feel satisfied afterwards. I don't think we'll go back, I'll just keep going to Ram's Horn down the street and pay the extra 3 dollars a plate.

If you want to eat a traditional American style meal this place is hard to beat. They have extremely good prices and I can eat or pick up a full meal for the price of marginal fast food meals at fast food places. I get hot sandwiches for my parents there and I like the fact that they don't over salt their gravy which is a plus for my mom on a low salt diet.

The servers were very kind and friendly!Great service and attentive! Enjoyed how hospitable everyone was.

too cheap to buy lemons. i go to other restaurants for fishlike he cant send soneobe to kroger to buy a $3 bag of lemonshe lost our business

i am very disappointed they stopped making macaroni and cheese. i looked forward it with my fish on fridays. it was one of their best meals.i also am mad that they are closing at 4 o'clock now. i will be looking for another restaurant to eat dinner at. it was uncomfortablely hot in there couldn't even enjoy ouir meals.