Penny’s Place - Newport

Nice place and delicious food! Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

Off the menu was Great!!!! Buffet was too salty Service: Dine in Meal type: Lunch Price per person: $10–20 Food: 5 Service: 3 Atmosphere: 5

Had the Buffet for breakfast and everything was hot and fresh. Staff friendly. Will be back when back in the area. Service: Dine in Meal type: Breakfast Price per person: $20–30 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 4

The saving grace of our visit was our server. She was wonderful!! We searched for a place that served breakfast all day and this came up. We walked in and saw sign on wall that said breakfast served all day. When we started to order breakfast we were told the cook said they weren't cooking breakfast anymore today. I wish I could have changed the rules anyplace I used to work. So, we started to order cheeseburger with tater tots and a catfish plate. Then told sorry the catfish is frozen and won't be thawed out for a while. OK, so then ordered mushroom Swiss burger with onion rings. When food finally came out the tots and onion rings were barely warmer than room temperature, and at least the burgers were hot. So, obviously the sides were cooked before the sandwiches. The burgers were definitely cooked through and through and extremely dry. The buns had much more moisture than the burgers. As a matter of fact the buns had so much grease on them I had to use 4 napkins just to get the grease off my hands. At the end of eating, we saw the whiteboard that listed fried pies. We started to ask about them, and the poor waitress gave us a look of anticipated sadness. She went into the kitchen and came back out and said there wasn't any fried pies because the cook didn't have any dough. This was around noon. Anyone that's been around a kitchen for any decent amount of time knows that fried pie dough could've been made earlier in the day with no problem, especially that when we walked in there was only 3 or 4 other tables and a couple of them were eating off the small lunch buffet. The waitress was AMAZING and constantly apologetic. I told her it wasn't her fault, she couldn't control what was going on in the kitchen. We did tell her, we wouldn't be returning. Any restaurant is entitled to a bad day but all these errors in one day removed any possibility of us returning.

Food from buffet was hot and fresh. Staff was friendly. Will come back when back in this area.