The Diner in Arun - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Went with my family as a group of 8. Restaurant staff supremely accommodating, rearranging tables so we could be seated as a family. The order to our table app made making our food choices really east. Unlimited soft drinks. My eldest ordered the chocolate milkshake which she said was supremely yummy made from scoops of ice cream with chocolate chips. I went for Sloppy Joe signature burger which was perfectly cooked and served with a side of crispy fries. Really didn't need the Apple Pie dessert buy what a wonderful way to round off the holiday at Butlins, Bognor Regis. Most definitely the best burger joint in Bognor.

Arrived and we were met by Josh. Nothing was too much trouble, from explaining to the children what was on the menu to ensuring everything was fab. And it was. My wife described her burger with blue cheese as the best she's had. It was a very relaxed atmosphere but professional at all times. Try it, or leave Butlins wishing you had. Thanks to everyone behind the scenes at the Diner, and a huge THANK YOU to Josh.

The brunch was absolutely brilliant, the drinks were good, as well as the food ans music. Robbie is an absolute Angel & an asset to The Diner team. Thank you Robbie for making our experience so good x

Great food with great staff. Speedy, fresh and great food for the price Shout out to josh nothing to much for this manager

Service really slow, my children were 🥱 bored. However, the server did apologise for the wait. Food mediocre, but the beer was good.

They just can't be bothered to help with allergies. The type of place that would rather you just left than try and accommodate you. No can-do attitude at all... Really quite unwelcoming and unpleasant. Resulted in very disappointed young lady. Will not use on our next visit to Butlins.

Amazing food, good music, nice atmosphere, interesting decor, polite staff. The food menu had some amazing choices, we wanted to try lots of things.

Run down building & decor, ripped seat cushions very dated, extremely overpriced I would not eat here

I reviewed this place last year & commented on how slow the service was. I wish I could say things had improved since then, but - regrettably - it seems the feedback didn't trickle back to management. We were lured in to stop for a quick bite on our last day before heading off by the promise that "kids eat for £1". This is not strictly true - you're presented with a 3 course set menu for kids, but the £1 only covers the main course - so you'll still end up paying for drinks & the additional bits. I thought this was misleading, which got my back up from the get-go if I'm honest... however the meal for the 4 of us came to about £50 which, by 2023's standard isn't at all bad - so I was willing to give the place a chance nonetheless. Unfortunately, in spite of the fact the place wasn't at all busy, we waited much longer than I'd expect for our food. Upon finishing our mains, nobody came to collect our plates - & after 20 minutes or so I was able to flag down our waitress & ask for our desserts. We waited another 15 or so minutes before I decided we'd waited long enough & followed up. She apologised & admitted that she'd forgotten to put the request through - no worries, that happens. But what annoyed me was that she punched some buttons on the till (presumably to send that request through to the kitchen), then stood chatting to her colleague. My wife rightly commented that "you'd think, given that we've been waiting so long because she forgot to do something, she'd escalate it & go into the kitchen to explain it would be fair to expedite it..." We still waited another 10 minutes - for 2 scoops of ice cream. All-in-all, we ended up being in the restaurant for more than 2 hours again - much like last year. What was supposed to be a quick cheap eat, ended up being a bit of a palarver (to be frank). The food was decent enough, but not good enough that I'd excuse being left sat around for so long. Bit of a shame to end our stay at Butlins that way, as we otherwise had very positive things to say! As an aside, I noted that the tables around us were all covered in dishes, so there's clearly just a staffing/efficiency issue at the venue in general. I've never seen an empty restaurant full of tables covered in empty plates in this way, not sure if or where that's normal.

I was on done around and after having gone to the till and made our order there was no mention if we were happy with our food. I had to then ask for our table to be cleared and for our puddings to be brought out despite a number of staff standing about cleaning tables that were already clean. I felt there was no after service or thought given once you were on dine around. We also experienced the same issue in the firehouse grill. On the upside food tasted nice.

The kitchen staff clearly working hard and one server . The other 4 members of staff were disengaged . We stood by the front door for ages whilst they chat at the bar looking at us but not coming over , finally came over and were told it would be 45 mins for food . We got our own menus and colouring for our daughter . We decided as it was 8pm just to go for it and wait . ( it actually was with us in like 20 mins- don’t know if they were trying to put people off?!) If no one is taking orders at tables and only one person is running food I can’t imagine you’re running a very profitable business on the staff front . If you had half the staff they’d at least have something to do and not become bone idle . I had to ask for our table to be cleared and our daughters dessert to be sent out . We tried to raise attention but got blanked by staff and ended up having to go the bar . Went to leave staff looked at us and not a thank you or goodbye At nearly £60 for the 3 of us it’s shocking service. The food was pretty good. Ruined by service .

It’s a shame you can’t give no stars. Right from the start we had the most miserable server and rudely asked what table we was sat at!!! Drinks took forever to come and our food was sat under the light for a good 10 minutes getting cold. When my burger came, the bread was stale and so so dry!! And the burger patty you can tell was a bland frozen patty the meal was just awful and it’s so over priced for the bland frozen food you get. Honestly I would avoid it and go else where. We spent £45 and we could have brought it all at the shop for at least £20!!

Great food and good service - a little slower than I’d have liked, but they were very very busy. In fact I’m in the photo “strtbest64” has posted on their review below, so we were presumably there at the same time, and it was rammed by the time I left at 18:00/30 (from a 16:30 DineAround booking). More to the point, my children are in the photo, so I’m quite relieved the staff were discerning enough that a table wasn’t given to someone so entitled they’d take photos of other peoples children without consent, and then post them publicly online.

Unable to book told to come back at 17:00 then told no tables due to dining plan by Calum come back in half an hour due to the lies before decided to wait.... You. An see by photo loads of tables....

We visited the diner on 9th May 2023 5 adults and 5 children for my granddaughters Birthday. Honestly we could not have been looked after better A young man called Josh was so charming/ helpful and looked after everyone fantastically We had a variety of meals such as Steak. Ribs. Chicken strips along with. Chocolate brownies with ice cream and to top it all of the staff are so friendly and at the end of our meal they sang happy birthday to our granddaughter. I have no hesitation in recommending the Diner 10 out of 10

Friendly staff, good food, nice atmosphere. On arrival, we were informed of a delay on food before being seated.

The food was served very quickly, the portions were a great size for starter, main and dessert. My daughters kids portion was also a good size. Desert was amazing, would definitely recommend and our server Ellie was very friendly, kind and helpful.

Awesome restaurant with good food and great atmosphere 👌 Ellie our server was attentive friendly and efficient. The current lunch time offer makes it good value.

From the second we walked in we all had a warm welcome from the staff, our girls were offered colouring and activity sheets and given a booth, we were warned as the restaurant was busy that there might be a 30 minute wait for food however we didn't wait that long! Ellie was our server and she was lovely, polite and efficient. Ellie is fantastic at her job and was really helpful and informative and so a huge thank you Ellie!!!

First day of the children's Easter Holiday. I expected it to be busy, and it was. Despite the staff being really stretched, our server Murren, was bright and fun. She engaged with my Granddaughters and apologised to us about the expected delay, which she had no control of. The meal was just right but because of it's location on a Butlins site, the captive diners are asked to pay more than outside the gates with the added competition. All in all a very pleasant experience. If Murren gets this passed on, we wish her good luck with her Uni.

Chicken bone in my burger - need I say more Venue - 2/5 - very run down, several couches had matches missing and the place needed lick of paint. Music too loud Staff - 2/5 - running round like headless chickens, not one came over to check on us for an hour, and when someone did they took our starter and asked do we want dessert!!!! DESSERT….I want the main mate!! He scurried away and came back saying don’t worry they hadn’t lost your ticket (I wish they had). Wife queued to order food for 25 minutes….got to front of queue and waiter walked off before someone pointed her to back of the next queue. Bonus point because they all looked lost, clearly needs a manager (or a new one) Food - 1/5 - greasy…very greasy!! Tots menu is 1 of what you order for portion, 1 fish finger, 1 slice of garlic bread….they need to come meet my 4 year old and see what a kid really eats!! Beef Burger was very gristly and my chicken burger, well….see the picture Needless to say we didn’t stay for dessert

Really bad manners and bad service from staff very rude, steak had to go back and burger as hard as a rock

The ribs are amazing this is best place to eat at butlins staff are friendly as well good portion sizes and fun environment

After a very positive start to the day (see previous review) the day fizzled out in a staffing mess at the Diner.. Booked a table 8 people at 20:15-30 to eat after seeing the early show at Centre Stage. You would think we were asking...

Not impressed the food was no better than a weather spoons and the service was rubbish. Ok the waiter was friendly but the rest of the diner was poor. So we got to the diner at 8 and they said they close at 9 so...

Oh my goodness what amazing milkshakes. They really are some of the best we've ever had. A must try if you haven't already.

Ventured in for a Sunday bottomless brunch, the food was ok but the ‘cooked eggs’ looked like they were about to slide off the plate, really uncooked, needless to say didn’t eat them, yuk! We were given replacements but again they also looked yuk! Now...

Had a great experience in the diner this week, we was sat promptly, and ask if we had allergies which we did. The staff was really attentive and helpful on finding out extra information for us. Martin and Emilly, provided the great experience, Martin also...

Very expensive, furniture ripped & and in poor conditon, I would not recommend this dump if you want a good food experience

What Great service and food - recommend to anyone visiting. Mia is great. Will Ben back again for sure.

Literally never write reviews but this place was so shocking I actually have to. The host guy at the front tried to tell us he didn’t want to seat us because he wanted to go home earlier, then said he couldn’t be bothered to walk...

The host who was this charming man who I believe is called josh, he showed us the gluten free menu when we asked about it and was very patient while also cracking a few jokes making us feel a bit more relaxed we tried to...

The Diner was a lovely place for us all to have lunch. They had a great menu with the added bonus of a kids menu too. The 2 for £10 cocktails were excellent value and the food was delicious. Our server, Mia, worked really hard...

We visited for dinner and Sarah was our server. Sarah was friendly and helpful and the food and drink were really good. The whole team were friendly and we felt they went out of their way to make sure our experience was good. Would definitely...

Food was lovely and the services was exceptional. Really great with the kids. Thank you Sophie for being a great waitress x

Staff were very friendly and welcoming, especially Jill. There was a singer on who was really good, created a good atmosphere.

We had dinner there as a family - brilliant service by our waiter Reece, who dealt with a fairly complex allergy order with great patience and humour! Reece was attentive and the kids thought he was "the best and coolest"! Best dining experience we had...

The food is so good we came twice on our stay, portion size is huge and we were served by Reece who was brilliant and couldn’t have done more for us. Thank you!

Good choices are brilliant. Staff is so helpful and accommodating to cater your special requests too. Mia was our host and she made sure everything was on time and as per our order.

Had a lovely time, food was great and food portions are very good size, waitress Mia was very helpful and could it do enough.

Lovely Service form our waitress Sophie and amazing food. All round great service! 😁 would definitely recommend!

Great Christmas Eve experience! Lovely surprise with the live Santa guitarist! And Sophie our waitress was fantastic! Great food too, would definitely recommend 🎄

Visited the diner with my family, toddlers and fussy adult eaters and the staff were absolutely fantastic! Understood how important it is to get him get toddlers orders in first and out first to keep them going and then also helped my fussy family members...

We ate here 2 nights ago on a Wednesday. We got a table for 8 of us and all ordered different things. My vegan burger was massive and spot on! We were served by Mia who was really friendly and helpful. Thanks to all the...

We ate here on the last night of our stay. We were served by the lovely Mia who was great and suoer patient with both my girls when they ordered. I had BBQ Crispy Chicken wings which were the tastiest I have ever had. The...

Had a lovely meal at the diner with our 5 year old. Served by Sophie who was very polite and on the ball. Very friendly staff and lovely food. Definitely will return.

Just returned home and had the chance to write our review. We had an amazing time in the diner and great experience from the service to the food. Martin was very knowledgeable on what he was talking about, looked after us and checked back on...

To be honest I don’t often leave reviews but wanted really to send one to thank Jill our server at The Diner during our recent stay! We were a large group of 11 including 6 adults and 5 kids. So a fairly noisy and distracting...

Ate at The Diner after a day trip to Butlin's with 2 tired toddlers. Very pleased that there was no queue, we were seated and served very quickly, staff were friendly and attentive, especially our server Bailey. Mains were a bit overpriced for the quality...

Had a lovely meal and visit tonight. Food was hot and did not have to wait, restaurant very busy. Best food we have tasted so far. We were looked after by martin, who made sure we was well looked after, nothing being too much of...

To begin with we were a little dubious as to how the service/meal would be as it was a very busy Saturday evening during half term. We were pleasantly surprised by not only the service ( we were served by Martin) and the quality of...

We came as a family of 7 as part of our dine around package on our Butlins holiday this week (27th October 2022) We were served and looked after incredibly well by the wonderful Lauren. Lauren was warm, friendly and brilliant at her job. The...

Avoid this place at all costs. We had a dinner and then breakfast booked while on holiday here. We arrived in time and was left standing by the door for 20 minutes while the greeter was flustered at the lack of seating available (we had...

We recently went to the diner for dinner. The atmosphere was lovely and the waiters were really helpful. Martin and Josef were so kind and nothing was too much to ask (we required special menu items) and they what they could to ensure that those...

So good, great welcome at the door, Burgers were really nice. Martin was our server and was brilliant. Highly recommend the diner and the awesome food that is prepared by the chefs.

Bit of confusion when arrived as we had booked a table for 10 but they had us down as a table if 4, quickly sorted and sat down Food was really nice especially the chicken wings but portion sizes are massive so felt there was...

Had a really good experience at the Diner, we were looked after by Martin, very knowledgable at his job. The restaurant was very busy when we dined, but that was not an issue as we had been told upon entry, there was a wait on...

A fantastic evening made all the better by Mia our waitress. The food was excellent and the service couldn’t be better. The ribs were great and as good as I’ve had for a while. Thank you Mia and the rest of the staff!

Have had the best time !! Brilliant food and excellent staff especially Lauren went above and beyond! Totally amazing, professional and just overall so lovely. Not only was she attentive, she was fun and so helpful. Would come back to just Lauren ! X

Fabs wrvice Lauren Clearly had a good time can't type xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Adults weekend fab service from Lauren what a good idea bottomless brunch thank you such fun. Food and drink was great

Lauren was the best! Happy friendly and the best server I’ve had! Great brunch and worth it. Great way to start the evening

Great atmosphere and great services the server Sarah was amazing and was always on hand to help out. The food was amazing and tasty so good great valve for money

We had a party of 11 including children for a birthday dinner. Drinks, 3 courses for all. So we expected a tasty bill to go with our tasty food. All the food arrived in relatively good time, was hot and freshly prepped. No problems there....

Went for the bottomless Brunch on our soul weekend here at bognor, amazing experience, great menu and lots of drinks consumed. Music was great, Lauren and Callum are both superstars. Martin very welcoming and accommodating at the door when we arrived. From me and my...

Absolutely worth the money, atmosphere was fantastic! Deffo recommend!! Everyone dancing and eating and drinking, what more could you want!

Sarah H gave us excellent service and couldn’t be more friendly. Food was fine, as expected from Butlins, and for a cheap bottomless brunch, we were happy with the offerings xx

Just returned from the 90s weekend. Brunch was amazing again this is our second time doing this!! It was good to see Sarah and Martin again always nice to see familiar faces, working behind the bar making the drinks. Callum was also outstanding at taking...

Supweb afults only weekend, friendlt fun envirinment. Recommend to everyone who like a lively environment. Hotel with brekkie and tea plus boyttomless brunch is what we had and it was lovely. Food was surpriaingly good quality. Five out of five 😁

Myself and my colleague went to the Diner with the people we were supporting, we have a great time, everyone really enjoyed their meal and Josh out waiter was very helpful and everyone felt he was really nice guy and served us really well, it...

We had dinner here this evening and can honestly say it would of been a bad experience without Jill. Jill was the only person who seemed to actually be working, she was running around the whole time and was constantly checking on us. There was...

During my stay I have been in the diner on a couple of occasions and I can safely say I’m never let down amazing food and the wait time wasn’t to bad either very polite waitress called mia who sure we was happy at all...

We never miss a visit to the diner when we stay at Butlins. On arrival we were encouraged to order via the app. Being a large group, we found this very long winded so we asked to be served by a human. Much easier and...

My family and I visited The Diner (6 of us) on Thurs 1st September on the last evening of our holiday at Butlin’s. The food and Cocktails were amazing and was also very prompt in reaching our table after ordering. I have to also add...

We absolutely love the Diner and this was our 4th stay at Butlins. The staff are absolutely awesome! The food is so delicious and I cannot fault the service as all were very attentive - great team!! My only negative comment is the past 3...

Wow wow wow, the choice of food was unbelievable, awesome choice of drinks, great Cobb salad, the mega monster burger was superb, the children's cheeseburger and fish goujons was just enough for the boys, excellent milkshake, staff was friendly helpful and happy. Said it was...

Our waiter Josef went out of his way to make a vegan milkshake for our Dairy intolerant daughter so she felt included! Excellent friendly service

Had a couple of visits to the Diner franchise, a nice atmosphere, decent food and bang on milkshakes. But as always the staff make the visit, on this occasion we had a really nice gent named Bailey who made our food babies a welcomed addition.

We have eaten here four times throughout our stay at Butlins Bognor Regis. We have been served three times by Bailey, twice for breakfast and once for dinner. He got all of our order perfect and did so quickly and I cannot fault him. We...

Went to the Diner at Butlin’s Bognor Regis - Good food & excellent service from Bailey - loved the Oreo Cookie Monster Milkshake!

Good food, big portions. Cutlery could be cleaner. Bailey was very helpful. We enjoyed our experience eating here and would return.

We were told 45mins wait, but decided to order anyway. I thought the menu expensive at £15.75 a burger, but, hey we're on hols. I sent my wife and grandson to the adjacent amusent arcade in the meantime. The food arrived within 25mins and I...

Martin was really good at the diner, great customer service from him. Very patient. Food was great too, no complaints x

Slight mistake with drinks being spilt over table and floor but given a discount for the inconvenience and helped massively by Mia who took over looking after our table, and also helped us sort our bill which we had to split. She was very helpful....

We had a fantastic meal out especially breakfast, we enjoyed every meal 🥘 we had with you. My boys loved their breakfast and they enjoyed it. Thank you for all your services. To those ladies who serves us and gives us extra booking for breakfast...

We had a lovely family evening meal. Good food and great service. Mia was an absolute star, she was very helpful and attentive. The live entertainment topped it all off. Lovely way to end our holiday.

Visited during a very busy time despite this our server Bailey was very attentive and chatty. The food arrived quickly and the portions are huge! Had some iffy service on the resort so far (looking at you fish n chip shop) so i appreciated the...

Love this place, I couldn’t believe that butlins took away the blue moon beer in al areas, but this place was the only place you can get it, lovely food too, book for next year and will be coming back

Over the course of the week, we have eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner at The Diner. While we are massive fans of the food which is always lovely the waiting staff could do with being a lot more proactive. For both dinner and lunch, once...

We returned to Butlin’s after 6 years & to the Diner as we had fond memories of the girl dancing around restaurant & dancing with my 6 year old. This time Dad who is 89 & doesn’t get out much but loves to talk to...

The Diner is a family favourite of ours. Whenever we come to Butlins we always look forward to eating here. The food is amazing! Portion sizes are generous, the dirty fries can easily be a main meal by themselves. The staff are lovely. Even during...

The decor & ambience seemed authentically retro & the food was great. Service c/o a nice chap named Bailey was efficient, but the time taken to prepare the food was far too long. Appreciate it's a busy eatery but we ate here as a family...

Been to the Diner 3 times in the last week We were served by a lovely young guy called Bailey he was so helpful in explaining all the menu options and recommended for me cheesy chilli chips and Holumi fries a must ) I have...

Been in twice so far during our visit & food was lovely, had the same server both days which was great as she was so good, Mia helped us with the app, ordering & nothing was too much for her. Thank you so much 😍

A very long 1 hour 15 minutes to get any food! However, the waiter Bailey was very kind and tried his best to meet our needs as a family.

We were served by BAILEY, who was fantastic. Dealt with all of our requests professionally and efficiently. Food was tasty.

We were advised when we arrived that the food would take up to 45 mins. We were in no rush and fine with this. However 45 minutes was a total lie. When food finally came, I only had a knife and asked the guy serving...

We had to eat at The Diner twice as part of the Dine Around Plan in Butlin’s 8th-14th July because we had pre-booked and there was very limited choice. Both times the service was a complete joke. I chose steak but was told I can’t...

Was not expecting such a good meal. Lets face it, the food is not the reason we visited Butlins but overall its been pretty good. The Diner however has been the standout for us. On the Dine Around plan we had an huge array of...

Visited yesterday for a meal with the family. We were welcomed at the front door by Louis, who was very professional and chatted to us on the way to our table. Lauren was our server for the evening and she looked after us very well,...

Had a great meal and time, staff helped out with the grandkids (twins being 4 months old and in a double buggy, so needed extra room) and made our 3 year old granddaughter felt really welcome, chatting to her about al the toys she had...