Hope Valley Diner

It's been 5 years since my last review and I'm happy to say the service and prices have gotten a lot better. I got breakfast this time: oatmeal with extra banana on top, rye bread, and an eggPartner got: bacon egg and cheese Sammie on sourdough Our waitress (Salem I think) was super fast to get us water, bring a box, and check! Also very accommodating when I asked for weird stuff on my oatmeal! Overall the vibes have changed some but still pretty clean and smallI would definitely return!

We go here often so I'be been trying different things than my usual order lately. This fried shrimp did not disappoint! It was cooked well and batter was actually pretty light which is what I prefer. I wasn't expecting it to be so good as this isn't typical diner food, however hope valley diner is anything but typical. Service was quick, waitresses and host were great per usual!!

Several more meals at this establishment and I can continue to vouch for its quality. The ambience is very much diner with a side of regulars, who can walk in to reserved tables on a given night. The staff treat everyone well, that is, just like regulars! The style of cobbler isn't my taste (crust too thick, not enough fruit) but there are usually six or seven desserts listed on the board to choose from. As for mains, I keep returning to the chicken and dumplings or three veg dinner. Yum!

We went with some friends because spouse wanted to try it. He's a diner-style meatloaf aficionado. The meatloaf met his standards. Everything was pretty ok. The desserts were diner-style excellent.

Ugh. That 15 dollar burger just didn't hit the spot. It was dry and blah. I fed most of it to my dogs when I got home. The prices here are crazy. I won't go back.

Wow, it is really good. With me and 2 others, we had good service and excellent food. As expected, the Reuben sandwich was excellent -- nice meat and dressing and perfectly slightly crisp toasted bread.

I've been here a number of times over the years, going back to Rick's Diner days. It's been mostly good, though my last visit earlier this month wasn't up to its usual standards. (For example, service was slower than usual, though the restaurant wasn't very busy, and when I explained that my Diet Coke was flat, the server responded that all the soft drinks would be flat, then. I swapped for iced tea, which was okay, but his response made me wonder if they'd just serve flat soda for the rest of the day. Seemed like our server didn't care, or he didn't know how to fix it himself, so he didn't offer.)I usually get breakfast food there, but chose the Turkey Reuben this last time, and it was good.I'll be back.

This is a nice diner option for breakfast, lunch or dinner in Durham! A diverse menu, a full bar, breakfast served all day, and outdoor seating for nice weather days. We will be dining here again!Bre

Terrible service and rude greeting Would not go here again despite convenient location

1st time coming here, sign said wait to be seated. I waited & the person seating me was not very pleasant. My waitress had the personality of a brick. I made a joke about it being cold and wanting to jump into the hot food, she just stared at me with this blank look on her face. I'm disappointed that I ordered a 4 vegetable plate with cornbread & a bowl of vegetable soup and it cost me $22. The green beans were terrible, I kept adding pepper and could not get them to where they would taste good enough to eat. The macaroni and cheese was in a bowl that was sitting in some kind of greasy fluid at the bottom and they were burnt on the side. Everything tasted really bland except for the soup. They advertise as homemade food but that fried okra was not freshly made. They had a lot of tables that had to reserved signs on them. When I came in and sat down it took a while to get my order taken & then I had to wait 35 minutes for my food to come to my table. People that came into for the reserved seats were treated a whole lot better by waitress and got their food ahead of me. My waitress was so slow, and another waitress was working circles around her with a happy face and personality, wish she had been my waitress. About three people came in to place food to go, they got their food and left before I even got mine and I had been there 10 to 15 minutes before them. It should not take this long to make a vegetable plate. The cornbread tasted sort of like yesterday's. The coffee was not hot, and the waitress never checked on me until I finished eating my food. I have to travel to Durham a lot for the hospital but I won't stop back here again, ever.