Mgm Restaurant - Nanaimo

Always excellent service and great food. They also play great music at the right volume.

Service is friendly but very slow even when nobody else is there. I don’t mind the dated decor, the 50ies and 60ies music is catchy. Bland at times and not fully cooked, some of the menu items can be more tasty, feels like the cook/chef is not motivated.

Old style diner that could use a good cleaning and updating. The eggs benny was a good portion size but the potatoes could have used some proper seasoning. Looks like a locals/regular clientele hangout spot with good service.

There were approx. 24 to 30 people in our prearranged to arrive at 4.00pm for dinner. MGM also knew in advance that in most cases checks would be for two people. Tables were set up appropriately but from then on things went downhill. It took more than 5 minutes for a waitress to arrive to take a drink order this was after we had signaled that we were ready to make an order. It took a long time for drinks to be delivered then a further delay before menus were distributed. I could go on in detail but I don't have the time and you probably don't have enough space. Enough to say that it was almost 7.30pm before we got our bills settled. Almost three hours! This was not because we had long discussions over food but because we had long discussions before our orders were taken and even longer before the food arrived. Overall a dreadful dining experience. If you go as a couple then there at best average might be OK. But for an arranged group this was dreadful.

We stopped by for a late lunch. I had the house salad which was absolutely the best salad ever. We would definitely stop here again. They had wonderful old music playing, the service was amazing and the prices were reasonable.