Ted's Restaurant - Scarborough

Haven 't been to this spot since I was a teenager (years ago) I used to frequent it often with friends and always had a great experience. Wanted my good friend to experience what I once knew to be a great restaurant with great food and service so we decided to dine there a few days ago. We were extremely disappointed with our experience from beginning to end: Not sure if someone called in sick the day I went but there was only 1 staff present to serve an abundance of people who filtered in shortly after we did. We waited patiently for our server to arrive and take our order and when she finally did arrive we felt pressured to rush ordering our food but we had questions about the menu ...she gave us short answers and hurried off. There was no warmth or friendliness in the way she served us. During the 20 minutes that we waited for our food, not once did she come by to check on us to see if we would like refills or anything while we continued to wait for our food. When the food finally did arrive, we realized it was moderately warm...as though the food had been sitting around for a bit. We were so hungry at this point we ate everything. Food was okay but definitely not fresh off the press . We also noticed that said server was often on her phone when she could have been tending to the customers that were already in the restaurant also waiting long periods for their meals. It was abundantly obvious she was much more pleasant to those customers that appeared to regular patrons. Every customer should be treated with warmth, caring and friendliness unfortunately this server did not display those qualities with us. A very unpleasant, unprofessional experience all around. Very disappointed, will not go back, do not recommend. I suggest the owner look into educating their servers on how to display professional, friendly customer service you would think that is a commen sense trait in this industry but I guess not!

I love the old school diner feel that Ted's has with very cool blue seating. I tried the steak and it was amazingly cooked to perfection.

Me and my friend visited yesterday morning for breakfast, we liked the food but oh my god the waitress is full of attitude and behaving as if she is the owner of that place. She is so rude and arrogant. She is slow with her service and is so lazy with the orders. We were two people and she just gave us one menu, we asked for extra milk she was late with it aswell, she did not offer us water and we had to ask for it twice. The plates were not clean and she was constantly being rude. Some of my friends asked me not to visit as they experienced similar confrontation with the waitress. I highly recommend you to replace her and get someone who is not arrogant and respects people. Very very very very bad customer service, such a shame.

Amazing cozy little place with a nice 80s ambiance. Building’s a little old but that works in its favor. The service was absolutely great and gave just the right amount of attention and answered all our questions about the menu. The prices are extremely reasonable and the servings are generous. Amazing bang for buck. The food was also pretty nice, although the potatoes we had did taste a little stale.

Went to Ted 's for lunch ordered a toasted western on rye. I added cheese and sliced tomato it was hot, piled high and delicious! Best fries ever on the side. Ordered coleslaw too came with dill pickle slices also delicious. Coffee was hot and steady. Waitress was professional and on the ball. Great experience. Excellent value for the money. Restaurant is diner style with a '60 's feel will be back.