Leon’s Family Dining

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Cuisine

American

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Meal Periods

Dinner, Lunch

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Dining Format

Buffet

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Phone

(248) 478-7811

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Address

28904 West Seven Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48152

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Website

leonsfamilydiningmi.com

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Cuisine

American



Meal Periods

Dinner, Lunch



Dining Format

Buffet



Phone

(248) 478-7811



Address

28904 West Seven Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48152



Website

leonsfamilydiningmi.com

EXPERIENCE

At Leon’s Family Dining in Livonia, the soup bar can be a meal in its own right. The Seven Mile Road restaurant offers an all-you-can-eat soup order as well as soup-bar access with its dinner entrées. It is a modest kind of abundance: several kettles, familiar soups and the freedom to try another bowl.

The restaurant belongs to a family story that began when Wally Leon and his brothers, Sam and Moe, opened their first restaurant in Novi in 1983. Livonia carries that family-dining identity in a straightforward diner setting. Booths line the room, wooden trim and mirrors run along the walls, and the soup counter sits within the everyday work of the restaurant.

The soup selection changes through the week, giving regulars something to look forward to beside their usual meal. Chicken noodle is a recurring choice, with creamy soups, vegetable preparations and barley soups joining the rotation. The bar works for someone who wants soup alone and for a table where other people prefer to order a full dinner.

Recent diners describe a familiar neighborhood diner, with many praising the welcome and reasonable prices. Other accounts report uneven meals or service. One regular specifically returns for the soup bar and lemon rice soup. For a lunch or dinner built around a few different bowls, Leon’s keeps the idea pleasantly simple.

FOOD

Leon’s soup bar offers a rotating selection of familiar diner soups, available as a standalone all-you-can-eat meal and included with its dinner selections. The weekly lineup moves between chicken soups, creamy preparations, vegetables and heartier meat-and-grain combinations.

Chicken noodle is a recurring choice throughout the week. Chicken barley and chicken gumbo also appear in the rotation, while lemon rice adds another familiar soup-bar favorite. These give the selection several directions beyond a single chicken soup.

Cream of broccoli and cream of potato supply two creamy choices. Canadian cheese joins them in the weekly lineup, offering another richer preparation alongside the noodle and barley soups.

Vegetable soup, cabbage soup and minestrone appear on different days, with beef barley adding a meat-and-grain option. Clam chowder also joins the rotation. The soups change through the week, so these represent the bar’s range rather than a selection served all at once.

Dinner entrées remain individually ordered main courses, even when soup-bar access is included. The unlimited offering is the soup, with the day’s kettles providing the variety.

FOOD HIGHLIGHTS

♛ Chicken noodle soup — a recurring choice in the weekly selection.

♛ Cream of broccoli — one of the rotating creamy soups.

♛ Cream of potato — another familiar option in the changing lineup.

♛ Chicken barley — a chicken-and-grain alternative to the noodle soup.

♛ Beef barley — part of the weekly soup rotation.

♛ Cabbage soup — one of the vegetable-focused named choices.

♛ Minestrone — another soup in the weekly lineup.

♛ Lemon rice soup — a recent soup-bar regular’s favorite.

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