Come enjoy an appetizing creation at Teddy's Restaurant & Deli. Discover a menu offering deli foods and hamburgers, priced at 11$ to 25$ and experience their casual surrounding. They are open nightly all week and are conveniently accessible by bicycle and public transit. Come visit them in a location acknowledged as lush and exciting.more...See more text
Decent tasting food tho the odd meal I find to be a bit bland. Its super busy tho probably due to its large portion sizes. Its your typical home style cooking
Been coming here for years, always good food and a good time. Food portions are huge, and it's always delicious. The turkey dinner and chicken parma are so good, and they're always a challenge to finish. For a lighter meal, one of their salads with their house dressing is a good choice.
Teddy's is an Oshawa landmark, a restaurant that all people love....and I will never understand why.
I have a friend who constantly assures me it's the best restaurant in Oshawa; so I decided I'd put my previous experiences here aside and try Teddy's with a clean slate. If you have not been, I will let you experience this through my eyes:
First, when you enter, you are greeted by yesterdays pies in a grimy case, under a sickly yellow light. Yum.
Then the hostess or waitress seats you and gives you a glass of lukewarm tap water. She then proceeds to start the customary pleasantries: 'How are you?' 'Drinks?' 'Does this look infected?' etc etc. All the while, not actually changing her facial expression from that of emphatic indifference.
As you look around this place, you notice the decor. Portraits of Hollywood classics like Stallone and Eastwood, then huge jars of preserves, then a sailboat WHERE THE HELL AM I?
Another thing you notice as you look around is that everyone is silent; like they're having the worst day of their lives. Then you order, get your food, and find out why.
To say the food is bland is an insult to so many great bland foods out there. I ordered the 'Pizza Burger' what arrived was a dried out patty on half a kaiser, with some Heinz tomato sauce, and a slice of processed white cheese. It tasted as good as it sounds.
Your waitress then returns, sometimes the same woman, sometimes not. She looks like she would rather be anywhere else in the world. She unceremoniously drops off your check and thanks you for coming out of the side of her neck as she briskly walks away.
You go up to the counter to pay, do a double take at the amount of your bill, amazed that something a two year old could make just cost you half a day's pay. The cashier is pleasant, asks you how everything was. You lie and say 'Fine.'. Then, you walk out the door, into the crisp Oshawa air, and die a little inside.
The first time we went to Teddy's about a dozen years ago was like an epiphany. We haven't had a bad meal there ever and the service, food and atmosphere are rock solid consistent. The only problem we have ever encountered is that we are always so full from the entree that we rarely have room for desert.... there is take out though, hmmm
