King’s Family Restaurant

What can I say about King’s?
It’s mediocre.
Oh, you want more? OK, I can do that.
King’s is another one of those ‘Burgh fixtures, although unlike Primanti Bros. and other restaurants that the city claims as its own, King’s doesn’t receive as much love or praise. It’s utilitarian at best. There’s nothing special about it, so if you go in with no expectations, you’ll probably enjoy it to some extent.
The Steubenville Pike location is the one and only store I’ve been to, so your results may vary at other locations. Whenever I go in here, I feel like I’m walking into a poor Xerox of a Denny’s. Yes, I would rate Denny’s over King’s. Not that that’s any big deal, but when I go to King’s I feel like the waitresses there are just barely clinging on to whatever desire they may have to serve. I see other reviews here have stated that the service was slow or lacking. I haven’t had that problem. I can say that the waitresses need a little more pep in their step. But then again, maybe working at this place over the years has just beaten them into a depressed mental submission.
Wow, that was jolly, wasn’t it?
The burger here. Which one is it, the one that tries to be like Eat ‘n Park’s Superburger? I’ve had a few of those here. They’re not as good as a Superburger. There’s something sad about the sandwich. Maybe the sadness of the waitresses spills over onto the cooks and then the burgers become sad, too. I don’t know. I can say that the sides of cole slaw I have had here are a little happier. But it’s cole slaw, so does that even count?
The chicken tortilla soup is interesting in that I never thought you could get canned chicken and tortilla strips to become semi-​interesting in broth. You could definitely do better elsewhere. I get the feeling a lot of the stuff here is canned. Mmmm, canned.
I can say that the spaghetti is better than the spaghetti I’ve had late nights over at Eat ‘n Park. Over there it tasted like it was cooked too long and the sauce was a bit of a drag. At King’s it at least did its best impression of spaghetti with Ragu sauce dumped on top of it. Pretty big portion, too, considering that I got it as a side to one of my entrees. Not that I found myself wanting to eat all of it. It was too sad.
I’ve never had the Frownie brownies. I bet they’re good. Seriously, I do. How could anything like that be bad? It couldn’t be.
Man, I guess King’s is just a depressing place. There are always a lot of old dudes sitting around in the front of the place, with the families dining in the back. When I was leaving one night, I heard the cashier tell one guy he couldn’t sit there and go to sleep. Yeah, it’s that kind of place.
Hooray for sad restaurants, I suppose. Guess I should go get a Smiley cookie at Eat ‘n Park now.

Service is so SLOW. It was not crowded, the cooks are just in slow motion. Why do I come back? The food is good, but it takes so long.

I really don’t know what’s with all of these bad reviews. The food is great and hearty. The service is fantastic and friendly! They are nice to you and the food is big portions but wonderful and warm authentic food! Enjoy, and this is a wonderful place!!! Not noisy or loud at all either.

Bottomless coffee, the intention is good, but the bad thing is the staff will check on you less often… At King’s, we were served food but they forgot to give us utensils… We have to wait another 10 minutes after our breakfast was served to actually start eating…

God help me I’m reviewing King’s family restaurants. This 100 review challenge is going to be easy, and I don’t expect to do tons of eat n park and McDonald’s reviews to get the 100 reviews in, by the way, this in number 10 so far.
Now, King’s, is a direct rip off of Eat N Park, another Pittsburgh headquartered family restaurant. Rip off you ask? Yes, Eat N Park has the smiley cookie, a few years later King’s adopted Frowny the Brownie. I’m sure that will end up in court one day. Anyway, I was very surprised King’s had a pretty decent veggie burger, served on a Kaiser roll with lettuce, onion and tomato, and a pretty good honey mustard.
Not too bad when nothing else is open, or it’s 4 am. We used to come here for their signature dessert, apple pie a la mode with King’s famous cinnamon ice cream. This is you basic Senior Citizens play ground with 5.99 lunch specials and 7.99 dinner specials every day. The only thing missing is the early bird specials.

Horrible service. Eat Elsewhere!

Ian from Big Brother said he went in there one night with some buddies to order some coffee. They were asked to leave if they weren’t going to order food. Ian asked to speak to the manager. The manager tells him the same thing even when Ian said he’d gladly leave a big tip on the order. The manager said that wasn’t acceptable. When Ian tries to order an appetizer the manager informs him that it won’t do and they’d have to order entrees. They left.
True story.

We went for dinner last night and breakfast this morning. We had great service and good food. The desserts were awesome! They just need better coffee.

This was one of the very first places I went when I moved here. And this is normally the kind of place I would hate, but there’s something I find really hilarious about the whole thing. Like, it’s so corny, and I’m really (deeply) amused by the frownies.
I got the Kings Country Breakfast and it was okay, and I really like the broccoli and cheese soup. I’ve had pretty good luck with my menu selections there. I know my roommate was less than thrilled with some of the things she’s gotten.
I think of it as kind of like a Denny’s and you just go because it’s there.

Not a bad little place to eat
I ate here one morning during my trip to Pittsburgh about a month ago and it wasn’t a bad experience at all. My girlfriend had a convention she was attending, so I decided instead of spending the morning in our crummy hotel room (
), I might as well go down the hill and get something to eat. I went in, took a seat (its self seating), ordered, ate, paid, and left. It took all of about 20 minutes! Pretty quick service. The food wasn’t bad either… I had the Wake Up breakfast with the pecan french toast, eggs, beacon, and oj. It cost me $ 12.50…not bad. If your visiting the Pittsburgh area and are just looking for somewhere to eat breakfast that isn’t too fancy, then King’s would be a pretty good place to try.

Oh, the memories.
Was taken here as a child.
Still loathe despite years.

awful food and service. Yuk!

A typical King’s. If you’re from the «Burgh», then you’ve eaten at King’s. I will base this review on my last visit. Wednesday night, 11PM, 3 other tables had patrons, so it was pretty slow. I was greeted as soon as I sat down and gave my drink/​appetizer order right away. It’s a new menu since the last time I was in. I was disappointed that an order of Cheese Wedges is only 3 pieces, but they only cost $ 3.49. My entrée was Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes (Sausage Gravy over all), Applesauce and Rolls. Everything was really good. I was stuffed but wanted just another bite. Washed down with a big olé glass of milk. Total bill was $ 13 and change, not bad considering how much I got.
The one waitress kept walking around picking her teeth and hustling food without washing her hands (–1). The booth right in front of me needed bussed the whole time, flies, flying around, while 3 waitresses and the manager wandered about (–1)