Grampa’s Bakery & Restaurant (Dania Beach)
***** Grampa’s Bakery & Restaurant, 17 SW. 1st Street, Dania Beach, Florida 33004 (954) 923-2163.
Grampa’s has been around something like 50+ years. It is basically a local diner with a bakeshop attached. It has the requisite counter and booth seating…and it still looks like it did when it first opened.
Grampa’s is open Monday 6:30am-3pm…Tuesday-Saturday 6:30am-9pm…Sunday 8am-4pm.
Grampa’s is a terrific place for a “diner” breakfast, lunch and dinner…not to mention the incredible baked goods that are made in house.
Absolutely nothing fancy here…these old nostalgic diner-joints are right-up there with my favorite places to eat.
Coming from NYC, Florida lacks its fair share of diners. Grandpa’s is definitely a place to check out. They start you off with delicious warm cinnamon swirl bun-sticks (for breakfast). Don’t forget to try the biscuits and gravy!
Just wanted to let you know, it is actually spelled “Grampa’s” as opposed to “Grandpa’s”. Thanks.
J: Just had a chance to read your post. I have made the correction…thanks for the info.
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I ate @ Grandpas for the first time 2-7-09 and found the place to be very good. The price is a little high, but the food and the portions more than make up for that little blemish. The only problem I had was with the waitress. The waitress was of very low class, and acted like I owed her a living. She was the typical new yorker, loud and ignorant. I still left her a tip, even though she didn’t deserve it. I will definitely go back again in the near future.
Hey jeff, we are going to be in the airport’s area in about a week. which diner is better for breakfast lester’s or grampa’s? thanks in advance
ed: Just had a chance to read your post. Both joints are real-good. Let’s call it a tie between the two.
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Mr. Jeff – We’re heading back over to the east coast from the west coast again to eat at Grampa’s eatery this Labor Day weekend. We are taking some great friends and family with us. The lamb is fantabulous and recommend it to anyone who wants a great home cooked meal. I think we might have run into that same waitress that wc ran into back in Feb of last year. We find that it’s not the quality of the place but the food and if it’s good we go back again and again.
dont eat at grampas
My grandmother had passed away the day before we came to grampa’s.
Well my family flew in from canada and we decided to go to grandpas for lunch…we sat down, a skinny older lady was our waitress. Me and my mom shared a grilled cheese and cheese cake and my… aunt and uncle ordered a salad with no blu cheese crumbes and french dressing and coffee with milk…the lady brough out the salad with blue cheese crumbs and blue cheese dressing but forgot the coffe, she didnt do anything about the salad but blame the kitchen ( understandable) …so after about 5-10 min of waiting ( they were not busy at all) for the waitress to come to our table to ask if we needed anything, i got fed up and walked over to where she was and asked for the coffe and milk…she brought it over and immediatly walked away…my aunt and uncle brought to my attention that they did not recive rolls with there meal….so i waited a few more min to see if the waitress was going to check on us..of course not….so i went up to her, she told me that they normaly chrage for bread but she wouldnt chrage…( the salad comes w bread…duh) so she brought over the bread and insisted it didnt come the the grilled cheese sandwhich, but we told her it did come with the salad, yet she insisted it did not come with the sandwhich….( what a dumbass), so we had to leave to get to the funeral home and still no waitress would pay us attention, so i went over to her yet again and asked for the cheesecake and for the bill to be split.. in a rude tone she said i cant split it, i already put it in the computer ( im a waitress, and i know u can split a cheack even if you put it into the computer) she then followed with, when you go to a resturant your suppose to ask to split the check before you order..( she just didnt want to put any effort into anything) so i asked her to divide the check and she started yelling at me saying ” i cannot split the check” so i yelled back at her not to yell at me….and walked back to the table…where she had the busser bring us the check, my family explained that my grandmother had just passed away and thats when i started crying…so the waitress then yelled to whomever to ” GET THEM OUT OF HERE” refering to me and my family. My mother spoke to the owner who didnt charge us for our $25 meal and as we were walking out of the resturant the waitress was talking shit so that EVERYONE could hear, SO i yelled at her and said, i am a waitress and you SUCK as one! I will never go back and i hope the waitress gets fired…Even if the customer is wrong, the waiter/waitress should respect a paying customer
Geez, I think I had that same waitress. Sit down breakfast/lunch OK, but bit pricey so I don’t do it much there. HOWEVER, the bakery ROCKS!! I’ve lived all over the country and the donuts have to be Top 10 in AMERICA! For the 5 years I’ve been going there the rugelach the BEST bar none! Trust me, I’m 240 lbs. To be fair, I was just there August/2011 and the rugelach was completely different; very good, but not drool-worthy. Did the old baker leave? Also, the “bakery” staff was always very friendly; the restaraunt …….
Ed & Jeff: Lester’s for meals, Grampa’s for bakery imho.