Betty Boop’s Diner

tried breakfast here and almost puked. first of all, i’m not a very picky eater. i haven’t given many bad reviews on here. i’ll pretty much eat anything and enjoy it. BUT when you have a restaurant where the patrons have full view of your kitchen, would it be too hard to ask if you kept the kitchen neat and tidy? the dirty kitchen is what spoiled my appetite. the counters were dirty, the slicer was all janky and had food and shit all over it, i ordered the egg and chorizo scramble and it came to me lukewarm and soggy. the hashbrowns were greasy and soggy. the service sucked. my spot at the bar was sticky and there was used/​empty cream packets all around the counter. there was no salt shaker. you might ask why did i stay for the meal after seeing the horrible conditions of the kitchen/​restaurant? good question. believe me, the thought crossed my mind to ditch this place after i ordered. if i could give it zero stars, i would, but Unilocal does not give you that option. i guess i give them 1 star for the cold glass of orange juice. stay away from this place.

i was hungry, and betty boop’s was there!
«hunger makes the best sauce». after a trans-​continental flight with a delicious lunch consisting of a bag of pretzels & juice, my husband & i wandered out of the nikko hotel looking for eats. not far away, we discovered betty boop’s diner. we had an early dinner. (you know — we’d already had pretzels for lunch…)
there were other eateries around — we chose this one ’cause it was right there. we ate, we talked, we looked at the retro décor. too cute… in a ’40’s kind of way…
the onion rings were good.

Is it Un-​American to say that Betty Boop has the most irritating voice ever? And the singing, my gawd the singing…
I overheard a very profound question this past week, «HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED THAT EVERYTHING TASTES GOOD WHEN ITS BEEN FRIED?»
Profound and true.
With that grain of knowledge and truth in mind, I’d just like to ask Betty Boop’s why everything tasted like crap? I could actually taste freezer burn on my onion rings!
Thus, you have been warned that you will be bombarded with Betty Boop movie shorts (didn’t she come out during the time of silent films? Jeez, somebody mute that shite), the fried food isn’t good and there never seems to be more than three people in the diner.
Truth be told, I’ll still come her for a break from the tourists because they have restaurant milkshake for $ 2.44. Awesome.

NOTE: I will be critiquing this place solely based on appearance.
After a year without my beloved Downtown S.F. My lady and I visited the land of tourist and miscellany.
As we strolled along to find a place to eat, we came across Betty Boop’s Diner. Betty stood outside attempting to work her whorish magic in desperation for some business. I guess it worked.
So we walk into this Janitor’s closet, a couple of young high schoolers who work as busers and cashiers glare at us with looks of, «yes finally a customer.» I looked around, at this empty McDonalds look-​alike. I scent musty butt cheeks, strong musty butt cheeks. Not very intrigued. I sat for a couple seconds, and starred at different sorts of hair on the table, as well as bite size ants doing it Ant-​style.
Didn’t bother looking at the menu. By looks of the dump, I’m guessing they’d serve the Roach Cheese Burger with fries or The Betty Poop Special. I’m cool of that.
Then…
Girl– «What will you order today?»
Me & Me Lady– «uuuh I… uuh I dropped my pockets… uuhh gotta go.»
2 stars.
Don’t mean to be harsh, but Advise guys! Clean your trash-​can you call a restaurant, and maybe customers won’t run out the next time.

100% Tourist Spot.
The location, inner setting and price are the attractions.
But not so much with their menu options and services.
I dropped by after the «Bay to Breakers», and with an empty stomach, anything should come nice and tasty when it places in front of my face…
But, I am surprised with my impression with this spot…

I have only ordered the cheese burger here and it has been good each time — fresh bun, fresh lettuce and tomato — well it tasted that way!
closes early ~8pm

I’m only giving this place any stars because of the Betty Boop theme…
This was the absolute worst service I’ve ever received, no one came to take our order for at least twenty minutes when we were actually seated. I waited at least ten minutes just to be seated and as I was walking in behind the hostess a girl walking past me says «Don’t go in there! They won’t serve us!» Great…
I wanted to go because I love betty boop and how could it be that bad really? well, really the food is mediocre and the service is severely horrific… the only good thing is they sat us beside the tv that plays cartoons so at least I could sit and watch that in the meantime.
The table behind us spoke spanish and received A+ service with their waiter nearly attached to their hip whereas I had to wait for at least 15 minutes after receiving my water just to get a straw.
I will not be going back there!

So we were actually on our way to Lori’s Diner when we saw this place and we decided to try it instead. It didn’t look too busy so we figured we could get a quick meal. Think again. We were seated right away but then we proceeded to feel invisible for the next ten minutes, even though there were four of us. It’s not like the place was packed and the servers were running around busy. Plus it’s a diner — you usually know what you’re going to get before you come in!
I do give the place one star because after we placed our order, it came very quickly. The food itself is standard diner fare. The burgers come on some sort of kaiser roll, which is a little weird. The onion rings & french fries were juicy and crisp enough. Then we proceeded to spend the next ten minutes trying to catch our server’s attention while she was too busy drinking coffee and flirting with the bus boy. Eventually we managed to get a different server’s attention and she brought us our check. The place is expensive for a diner and definitely not worth your time or money!

Great milkshakes, great service. Time is of the essence during my lunch break. I almost killed someone last time I tried to get a sanwhich at Bristol Farms– 20 minutes for them to put togther a tuna on wheat. Really. But these Boop people are crazy fast. Good times.

Matt’s first attempt to come here was after 9pm and Betty Boop’s diner was closed. WTF?
The next day, Matt’s second attempt was around 7 pm. Yay, they were still open. They close extremely early at 8pm everynight!
Matt and wife landed at this bright 50’s like diner for dinner. Matt had their Famous Classic Cheeseburger. The cheeseburger comes in a Sesame Roll, the usual condiments and fries for $ 7.50. Wife ordered the Grilled Chicken Salad. The green salad is topped with a Grilled Chicken Breast and Roasted Bell Peppers for also $ 7.50. Our meal wasn’t too bad, for what you git and paying Union Square prices. We had a cup of water each and split a Vanilla Milkshake. The Milkshake was prepared in the can like the old days and the shake was very thick and creamy. The Milkshakes cost $ 2.25, which is much cheaper than Lori’s Diner ($ 3.95). But Lori’s Milkshake have more flavors than Betty Boop’s Neopolitan selection.
We also enjoy watching the Classic Cartoon which was shown in their BIG OL’ Plasma screen TV. We got a good laugh of watching cartoons when it all started. We saw an episode of Popeye, where Popeye and Bluto engage in a battle between ownership of diners and Wimpy decides which diners serves the best foods. Then at the end of the episode, the two were involved in a food fight, by throwing food at each other. Wimpy was at the counter chomping down the burgers at each diner, in which Matt did the same exact thing, except Matt could’t pay them back on Tuesday.
Betty Boop has a 5-​star BODY and is SO HOT, that when wife is not looking at Matt, he looks at Betty Boop’s sexy pose all around the cute diner.

Okay, here’s the deal. ONLY eat here if you are an avid Betty Boop fan! Otherwise, you may be disappointed with the food… I would say it’s satisfactory grease fare but there are better diners out there. So my very best friend happens to be a BB fanatic… her license plate even has the name «Boop» in it. I promised I would take her here to eat, and she went absolutely bananas over the décor. They show cute vintage BB cartoon’s and everything is very bright and cheery, but even she was not impressed with the menu. What? No chicken strips? Service was not outstanding either. Probably a fun place to take the kids.

Sunday afternoon we walked in. Atmosphere: Lysol. Uh-​oh. There’s a hotel lobby desk and an elevator on the way in … then the whole place reminded me of a Las Vegas casino concession. We were walked past a huge crowd of employees watching one of them count out the tip jar, and seated at a tiny cartoon table next to an «employees only» door they kept walking through. Ignoring us. No other customers. After a while the Lysol smell got stronger than the burger smell, and we left. No sale.
If I were alone and a pretty model in a Betty Boop costume were at the door, I still wouldn’t go back in.

Yes, i have never eaten in as many diners in my life as i have since i came to SF. Betty Boop’s Diner is in the middle of the shopping district, right next to one of the Lori’s diners. my friend said this was better than lori’s so we went in. the place itself is cute, it has betty boop things all over, and the history of betty. there’s also a tv on the wall that plays old cartoons (which i got caught up in watching the whole meal). the waiter was very very friendly, almost overly so, but i guess that was refreshing after the treatment we got at the sushi place (see a previous blog). i cant really say that the food was as great though. the menu was smallish, not really tiny but just not as much on there as i’d think a diner would have. i got the burger with curly fries and a chocolate milk shake, because that’s just so diner. The fries were good and the shake was good. The shake was really thick and for $ 2 you actually get two shakes. i could only drink one. the burger was very greasy and kinda fast foodish. i couldnt finish it and it made me feel ill after. my friend got the salmon burger which was really really thin and not too tasty. his plain fries were good though. our friend who suggested the place did like his boop boop be doo burger, but i imagine the patty was as greasy as mine. the roast beef sandwich was ok. i’d say though that you might as well just go next door to loris.

This is an old fanishion diner in the heart of the shopping district in downtwon. The place is a pretty good size and the food is really good. The shakes to die for, they are big and only 2.25. My friends and I could not even finish the shakes. The burgers are a lil bit greaser than that of Lori’s Diner. But all in all a good restraunt.

betty boop is the reason why domestic violence should be legalized