Paradise Restaurant

This is a straight up greasy spoon city diner. And you get exactly what you expect at such a place; reasonable prices, excellent service, and decent food. The Greek Salad was fresh and well balanced in toppings. The chicken pita was just what you expect from a chickrn pita. The stuffed peppers were also just what you would expect. This is a no frills and no surprises kinda place. Just what you expect from a neighborhood diner.

Had lunch at the paradise today with two friends and we were all very impressed. We haven't been there in probably 20 years. The food was very good and very reasonably priced. I got a lunch special of a delicious stuff pepper home fry potatoes and a beautiful salad with full service for $9.99. I would highly recommend and I will definitely go back again. Service was great

This is one of my favorite places in Safety Harbor. It definitely has my favorite salad. The cranberry chicken salad with poppy seed dressing is amazing. But... I just had my first bad experience here. Stopped in today, it's a beautiful Saturday afternoon but it's rather empty. I was acknowledged right away which is great and I don't even have to look at the menu. I order my favorite and I'm just sitting there waiting when I notice my server going through some receipts at the counter. She throws a receipt or receipts in the waste basket but then I guess she needed them again and she reached in the waste basket to get them back out. I see my salad on the window and I'm thinking, I sure hope she washes or sanitizes her hands before she handles my plate. But she didn't. She grabs my plate, then a knife (for the chicken) and my dressing and brings it over to the table. This really bothered me. I told her what I witnessed and her very first response was "so? I didn't touch your food". And I said, "but you touched my plate, the knife which is now laying across my food, and the container of dressing". She said you're right, I'm sorry. It's extremely busy and I'm here by myself. In which I looked around, I see no other customers in sight and said, "that's no excuse for poor hygiene". I left the restaurant. I don't feel like I over reacted. If I hadn't seen it, she would have served it to me and not thought another thing about it.

Used to love this place especially during the pandemic. Seems now with the new ownership staff changes have taken place. We always liked being treated like we were part of the family but now we’re just customers. Miss the previous wait staff. Menu has stayed the same (maybe portion sizes are smaller). Still on our rotation list but not number 1 anymore 🥲went back recently and everyone was super friendly so maybe we were judging too hastily. Love you folks.