The staff was super friendly and helpful. They made helpful suggestions. The portions were HUGE. At first, I thought the price for a single pancake with bananas in it was a little excessive until I saw the pancake. It was as big as a large plate and over an inch thick. It tasted delicious. My boys devoured it and kept saying how good it was. The eggs were cooked perfectly, and the Bananas Foster French Toast was incredible. I recommend this place!

My tagline is, 'When you need Yelp, I will be there'. This was reinforced this past Saturday while I was drowning in emails and writing an SOP for work when my good friend called me and asked a favor. He said, 'Charlie, I need to find a good breakfast place in Burien', to which, I replied, 'I know just the place'. I sent him a link to Shelly's and one more location just in case and later that day, he sent me the following: Shelly's is in the middle of nowhere Burien, but that's okay because it's a hidden gem. The service by Aleisha was exceptional. Sidenote: A couple of things to know about my friend. He's been a foodie for more than 70 years and always orders off the menu with precision. Hash browns need to be well done, and there has to be an additional side of strawberry jam among other requests. He goes on to tell me, 'My meal was prepared perfectly. Just the way I like it.' While I didn't eat breakfast with him that day, the exuberance of his visit was like a never-ending pouring of syrup on a stack of hotcakes. He continued to rave about the service from Aleisha and his meal throughout the day. He later messaged me as he often does with, 'I would give it a 10'. Well, there are no 10s in Yelp, but there are 5s. While Shelly's may have that diner look and feel inside and out, it was just the right breakfast for my good friend this past Saturday.

Updating my review to 5 stars Shelly's food is delicious. I'd rather take it to go though. Called in an order for Monte Cristo breakfast with crispy hash browns. It was out of this world. with the delicious jam MMmmm..... my pickup was ready when i arrived only 11 minutes after I called it in.

We came here right before we had to get on a plane to fly home, there weren't too many people eating there so no wait. I was intrigued by the breakfast monte cristo. I wanted a big meal because I didn't want to buy airport food and that is definitely what I got - large portions! I wasn't a huge fan of the sandwich, I don't think the cheese was a good combo. I actually really wish I hadn't gotten cheese at all lol, but without the cheese I just knowwww it would've been good. I loved the jam it came with. My girlfriend had a pancake breakfast and it was humongous ! She wasn't a fan of the potatoes, I really liked the hash browns :) they were nice and crunchy!

This diner felt like I traveled back in time. It really looked like you were back in the 70s but everything was still very kept up and cared for. A lot of the people there were on the older side and I even heard another customer reminiscing about when they would come here when they were younger. The waitress that we had was super nice and eager for us to feel like we're at home. The waitress that took over wasn't so helpful and welcoming so it kind of dampered the experience. The food felt very homemade, like my grandma used to make. Also, their orange juice was freshly squeezed and super good! Highly recommend getting it with your breakfast.

Cute lil divey spot. Don't be surprised if there's a wait, they get packed fast! Love coming here regardless. Banana Foster French toast!! Just get it, trust me. Bloody Mary's are also a hit and did I mention only $5?

A hometown diner, a small business -- glad to see an outfit like this in operation, and want to support them by giving them business. I went for breakfast on a Saturday morning - I started with Earl Grey tea (good, a full pot of tea using a Stash tea-bag, for only $2). My breakfast was a Hangtown Fry, and I'd driven down from Seattle, jut to try it. It came with a choice of toast (I went for the generous biscuit), and home fries (new potatoes, cut in pieces and cooked with salt, garlic and some other flavor-enhancing ingredients. The food came out promptly - the biscuit was far too big to finish, but it was fresh and good. It came with two tiny containers (one jam, one butter), neither of which were sufficient in quantity to properly cover the biscuit, so I sliced it in half, and used them on half. I'm sure I could have asked for more, but I didn't. Hangtown fry is one of my favorite breakfast dishes of all time -- I used to get it at Chinooks in Seattle's Fisherman's terminal, long after it was no longer on the menu -- but since the pandemic, they're not doing breakfast anymore (with a few rare exceptions). In any case, they set a high standard for the dish. Shelly's hangtown fry was more of a scramble than a traditional hang town fry, but it had all the right ingredients - scrambled eggs, spinach, oysters, onion, bacon. The eggs, bacon, and onions were all good. The oysters were OK, but would have benefited from separate pan frying in very light batter before being integrated into the dish. So, not as good as Chinook's used to make, but fairly decent. The home-fried new potatoes were oddly seasoned -- while they looked great (the way I usually like them), I wasn't a fan of the seasoning (I love garlic, salt and pepper, but there was something else there that threw the flavor off a bit). The restaurant itself was in a strip mall, and had booths and tables right out of the 1950s. The staff was friendly and helpful, though much like a traditional diner, there was nothing fancy about the decor or the service (the woman who waited on my table delivered food while talking to someone on the phone, then made a comment to the cook about a joke the caller had told her. So all-in-all, Shelly's was a good little joint, but I'm not sure I'll be making the trip back anytime soon. In other words, a good breakfast place for locals, not a place I would make a special trip for again. One minor annoyance - a charge for "non cash adjustment", or in other words, a credit card fee. I understand that card processors charge for their service, but at this point, I don't carry/spend cash anymore, and don't appreciate such fees. Better to adjust the prices, than nickel and dime customers with fees.