Daiker's Inn Review

Beautiful views, good food, good service, reasonable prices.

It's great as a bar, iffy as a restaurant. The food is very greasy and commercial. If they were to get an inspiring chef it would be a great plus. Seating is a little tight during the season changes when the deck is closed.

Love love love this place. We will be back!!! Food was GREAT too..

One of our favorite stops when in area. Great staff. Great atmosphere, beautiful view of lake.

Waited 45 minutes after being seated to even get a drink, waitress messed up the order and hardly ever stopped in to check on us.

Very good food and prices. One of the greatest bars in the Old Forge area!! I wanted to leave 5 stars but it stopped at 3 and I can not get it to change to 5

Great views but the food is to-do. Nothing homemade.

Daiker's is a popular spot between Old Forge and Eagle Bay. A good crowd is always present and live music evenings. I attended with a party of about 10. Service was good and the dinner food was excellent, worth the understandable wait. Our group had deck seating, outdoors, overlooking beautiful 4th lake. Will be a return dinner at Daiker's.

Great hot sandwiches nice crispy fries and onion rings ice cold beer friendly service with a great view.. very relaxing atmosphere

Great food and the best views from the lakeside deck.

Food was good but service slow and Beer was on the expensive side

Great food and service. Summers have a beautiful, view of the lake. Snowmobilers are here all winter. Great for families or hang out with friends at the bar!

Great food, Great views of 4th lake and very friendly staff

Great place with Super views on the water with docks!

The place was beautiful inside and out and great service and everyone was so friendly.

Expect long waits, they do not accept reservations. You have to wait till 5pm to order dinner. But the steak was good. It is mostly a bar not a restaurant.

Beautiful location, clean, service could use work, overpriced.

We go to old forge every summer daikers is a must stop for us! Amazing scenery and atmosphere!

Fun place with great atmosphere. Deck with good view of 4th Lake. Often with live music.

Great Service!! Went to Daikers on a Friday Night with 12 people and only waited 30 minutes for a table! We enjoyed a drink at the bar, and Roberta our waitress was great!! Would have been 5 stars if we didn t have to pay an extra 4% on our tab because we paid with a credit card! It s not the 1960 s there is no way a party of 12 is going to carry that much cash!! This policy needs to change!!

First off, their listed hours of operation are incorrect. They are either not open on Tuesdays (how weird), or permanently closed. We turned on Daikers circle only to have a grumpy old man scream at us that they are closed and to slow down (only doing 20 MPH on a road with no posted speed limit sign - trying to find restaurant). Will NEVER go back as I don't want to be shot by some crazy local curmudgeon, and owners can't be bothered to post actual hours, so they obviously don't care to make new business.

I used to love this place and still do like it, but some menu options have changed which is why I took away a star. My favorite thing I would always get is the south west chicken wrap. I don't like some of the ingredients such as onions and I used to be able to have them keep those out. They switched over to some pre-packaged filling and now I never get that wrap any more because I can't customize it. Also the wait is usually long here, but I guess that just means it's a popular place.

Food is always great. Service is excellent. Love it here.

The usual bar fare of fried foods, with only so-so service. The only reason to go there is in the nice weather there is a fantastic deck. Just be prepared to wait a long time.

Always a must stop on the Harley when the ol lady had I are in the forge

Absolutely TERRIBLE service. Don't have the patience to even put it into words, for a restaurant that has a location by the water in the Adirondacks.. you would think they would hire workers that didn't hate their lives.

The food was great. The view is even better from the deck!
Update: I have made this place a go to. I've been back to Old Forge twice since the original post, and it's a must that I stop by Daikers. The view, the food, the people, the place. I'm hoping to make it out when the sleds are there this winter!

Excellent food. Great view. French onion soup was great.

Service was slow, and the waitstaff seemed unorganized. The restroom was trashed. Our waitress seemed unable to multitask and handle multile tables as she passed through. It took the staff almost 5-10 minutes to clear tables off after people had left. We paid in cash to avoid the credit card surcharge.

It took 10 minutes after being seated for our order to be taken
It took 12 minutes after our order was placed to get out drinks
10 minutes after our drinks arrived, our meal and appetizer came out together. We ordered two steak subs (just cheese and steak) and motz sticks. The cheese in the steak sub was cold and really skimpy on steak. Our local pizzeria would decimate them.
20 minutes after our meal had arrived at the table, we had no check up by our waitress ( and our drinks were almost gone).
35 minutes after our food arrived, our waitress asked if we wanted our check (we were done eating for 15 minutes by this time and even had our baskets stacked and at the side of the table).

This is not the Daiker's of the past that we use to enjoy going to.

I know it's busy, but seemed understaffed and wouldn't allow me to,order food to go. Left immediately.

If I could leave no stars I would. I've been here several times and its always been great. I always buy a hoody or shrit everytime I visit because I really enjoyed the place. Tonight was a different story. I understand with Covid there's limited seating etc. I got there at 6 to eat dinner and the place was pretty dead. The hostess went to seat us at a dinner table in the game room, we asked to sit in a booth with several open and were rudely told no. Thats for bigger parties (a booth). Mind you the table we were being seated at sat 4 people also. We were treated like nobodies. The other people sitting in the game room had kids running around etc. We were there for a date night, not to hang out with other peoples children. We'll never go back. Thanks for the good times Daikers. If you're looking for good food and good service in Old Forge check out The Mill or Billy's!

Slow service. Lack of staff. Food was good once it arrived

Deck was a great place to have lunch and the wrap I had was delicious.

Love Daikers deck and all around great food and people!

One of my favorite places in the area to visit. Beautiful view, cold drinks, good food and great people.

Don't come here. I continue to make the mistake thinking times have changed and improvements have been made. I've eaten at Daikers 5 times in the last 12 months. 4/5 times the service has been beyond bad. Be prepared to wait 2 hours for dinner service- even in April and May. You will hear the same excuses like the chef is new or a server called in, every time. My final meal here was last weekend. After waiting 10 minutes to be seated (the restaurant was half empty) we waited an additional 16 minutes once we sat down to get our drinks (water). I went to the bar myself during this time. Appetizer was plated 42 minutes after that and our meals came out 33 minutes after that. Midway through our meal the server comes and reaches over us eating and grabs the shaker cheese stating we didn't need it. I had literally just used it 30 seconds ago. She continued to just take it without asking us. Do yourself a favor, go to great pines, screaming eagle or slickers.

Cool and easy going bar and restaurant the beautiful lakes of the Adirondacks..food was delicious . Can't mess up a buffalo chicken wrap. I also had buffalo flavored style perogies which were a wonderful added treat. Definitely a fixture for great live music and food.

Didn t even make it to the table. When we walked up to the host station and he was on his cellphone; seemed uninterested in greeting or seating us. We asked to sit inside, it had been raining intermittently all day and it was windy and cold. The host said no because it was raining at that time. The host and hostess then went back and forth as to where to seat us, meanwhile the wind kicked up and it was freezing (we had two little kids with us), we asked again about inside seating (which had several diners eating at tables, plus people at the bar) the host continued to say no, went back to taking with the hostess. It was at that point that we walked out.

Nice country atmosphere, ate on the deck overlooking the lake, very nice. Soup was good, chicken quesadilla ok. Service a little slow but they were the only place open in the area that night. Has a pool table, shuffleboard, darts, old school video games.

Our server was good but the kitchen staff needs to watch the orders correctly...

Good food good atmosphere, except for the arrogant people from NYC & Jersey.

Wonderful views, great place to visit while in Old Forge

Great people . You don't leave hungry and the drink selections are awesome. Beautiful view and awesome location and atmosphere.

One of our favorite places in the Old Forge area. The deck overlooks 4th lake, you can take your dog, the food is great, and the staff is super! We love it.

Everything was great, worth the wait. The only disappointment was that they were out of " Polish wings" .

Food was great but the service was slow and never came and asked how everything was and didn't ask if we needed more drinks

Had a couple of drinks there service was a bit slow place was full of snowmobilers and only one bar tender

This is a repeat visit to this restaurant, the first time we went we got bad service, but wanted to give them a second chance; today was even worse. While we understand that a restaurant in the park can get busy in peak season and that may affect service quality; this was not the case.
When we arrived at the restaurant at 3 on a Sunday; we were happy to see live music and it went South from there. We spoke with the hostess about sitting inside and were told that was not allowed today. We were then told it would be a 45 minute wait. We went in to get drinks and a very angry bar tender took our order over a dirty, sticky bar. We then sat to wait.
While waiting for our table we were treated to watching the wait staff drink beer and eat chicken wings, while empty tables on the deck went uncleared. The manager rather than opening tables, getting wait staff to clear tables or asking finished customers to move to the bar, chose to drink beer and stand at the register. While we watched the empty tables sit unused, waiters sit and drink and the bartender continue to struggle we made the choice to leave. After a struggle to get cashed out from our bar drinks, we left and went to Tony Harper's where we were sat right away by a friendly hostess and enjoyed fantastic service and food.

Love Daikers! Great food, good service and it's always a pleasure to visit on our annual camping trips up north.

The best place in the Old Forge area. Friendly staff, good food and amazing view of the water.

Burgers are great but the other food is so so, view can't be beat, music can be really loud

Recommended by a local and it is definitely the best place to eat, and the view is just as nice! Service was friendly and quick. Will be back for sure!!

Love the hometown feel. And the Bartender Hunter is the best. Came in hungry left happy

Food was less than mediocre, frozen fare. No creativity here folks, just dull fried from the freezer. Coleslaw is served room temperature too, YUCK!!!
Waitress doesn't know what perch "is"!?!?

Great views, great atmosphere and our service was very good

Amazing view from the porch, great staff that are super friendly and attentive.
The buffalo chicken sandwich was awesome and the blue cheese dressing is some of the best I've ever had!

Awesome view, great atmosphere, friendly staff and decent good!

Always a good choice, just a long wait for service on busy days.

Food is excellent. However the wait is insanely long. Staff is friendly.

WE always stop here for lunch on the way home on Sunday from the ADK's. They have great wings! Try the house sauce.

The owners no longer sell vegan or vegetarian food after waiting a 1 hour so if your a vegetarian do not go..........

Excellent food and service! Owner is a great guy and very personable! Highly recommend!

Very inviting and large. Great drink prices food is so so.

Wanna have best time in old forge, get over here!!!! It's the Place to be.

Long wait time and mediocre food although we did have a very solicitous waitress

Amazing place, friendly service and great food. The waitress were great and extremely kind. They even brought out little samples of the sauce they use for the dish my wife ordered. Just so she could make sure the sauce wasn't too spicy. Overall great experice and also a great location. They give the option to dine outside on the patio overlooking a decent sized body of water. Beautiful. Would recommend to anyone and everyone in the area.