OT on a slow day: Where is your favorite Diner?

[Frabjous]

Have you ever found a great Diner on vacation? Or stumble upon a great Diner when you were hung over?
Or maybe there's a great place where you live. A Diner where the pancakes are thick and the Waitress says 'warm your cup?' when she tops off your coffee without you asking. If you are going to the Outer Banks this summer, the Froggy Dog is your place for a big boy Southern breakfast. Keep in mind that "grits" in Carolina is two syllables! http://www.froggydog.com/Pages/Menu.aspx?DeptID=50531 And you can get an eye-opener.
If you find yourself in Philadelphia, you want the Down Home Diner in the Reading Terminal Market.
http://www.thedownhomediner.com/ All locally sourced food.
Remember, your Diner must be local. If you recommend Denny's or Cracker Barrel or some such place you will step on a Lego at 3 am.

 

[Eurocat]

Love this place on Long Island
http://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/premier-diner-in-commack-1.853039

Does this place count in Key West?
http://www.blueheavenkw.com/

 

[Fitz51]

"There's nothing finer than being in your diner."

 

[SmellyCat]

you will step on a Lego at 3 am.

This is an appropriate punishment.

 

[phatcat]

Easy. Place in S Balt called Garden Restaurant, Korean family owned, but American diner food. They know what I want when I come in. It is a three egg omelette stuffed with fried potatoes, cheese, onions and other goodies, smothered in sausage gravy. I skip the toast, who needs all those carbs!

It is called the GI omelette, in which I'm pretty sure that GI means gastrointestinal

Honorable mention to Hamtramck Coney in Detroit area, best chili cheeseburger ever. I DON'T skip the fries.

2nd Honorable mention to this place we ducked into after the Pinstripe Bowl in the Bronx, since the uber driver pimped me and didn't show up

 

[Hungry Jack]

I stepped barefoot on a Lego today. Not enjoyable.

True rail-car style diners are harder to find in the middle American region. I can only offer a few surrogates.

Brown's Diner in Nashville near Vandy is great, though it's more bar than diner.

The Mountain Lion Cafe in Silverthorne, CO is a breakfast go-to, but does not serve dinner.

I recall establishments in Hondo, NM and Oracle AZ that served great Tex-Mex food. The former had the hottest green chili chili I could imagine, and the latter was housed in a converted car service garage that had huevos rancheros par excellence.

 

[NUCat320]

This place manages to add *two pages* of specials to its menu at holidays / special occasions. (Selection 1-20, or A-W.)

You never wait longer than 10 minutes for food. Everything includes spanikopita, soup, salad, bread. Spanikopita service starts at 4pm.

It's the only place I've ever had moussaka. It weirdly comes with the same marinara as the lasagna, but it's perfect.

http://www.mariettadiner.com/
http://www.mariettadiner.com/menu/

It's been on Food Network several times.

 

[No Chores]

Have you ever found a great Diner on vacation? Or stumble upon a great Diner when you were hung over?
Or maybe there's a great place where you live. A Diner where the pancakes are thick and the Waitress says 'warm your cup?' when she tops off your coffee without you asking. If you are going to the Outer Banks this summer, the Froggy Dog is your place for a big boy Southern breakfast. Keep in mind that "grits" in Carolina is two syllables! http://www.froggydog.com/Pages/Menu.aspx?DeptID=50531 And you can get an eye-opener.
If you find yourself in Philadelphia, you want the Down Home Diner in the Reading Terminal Market.
http://www.thedownhomediner.com/ All locally sourced food.
Remember, your Diner must be local. If you recommend Denny's or Cracker Barrel or some such place you will step on a Lego at 3 am.

There is no better breakfast than at the various Yolk locations in Chicago. I could give you a list of terrific true diners, including All American diner in D.C., and I could go on and on. But Yolk beats them all!

 

[Gladeskat]

Miss Lyndonville Diner, Lyndonville, VT.

 

[Deeringfish]

Delta Diner in Delta County Wisconsin about an hour east of Duluth, MN.

This place is in the middle of nowhere and is packed all the time. People drive hundreds of miles to eat there. The odd thing is that they serve a very sophisticated menu of gourmet foods and pay their servers a full wage so no tipping is encouraged.

Betty's Diner in Vaughn, New Mexico at the intersection of Rt 60 and Rt 54 on old Rt 66. The food is mediocre but it is a nice looking place in a ghost town among ghost towns. If you don't stop there you don't eat for hours.

The Road Island diner in Oakley, UT. Classic diner menu in a beautifully restored Rhode Island diner moved to UT.

The best diner food is in a diner in Middleboro, Mass. I can't remember the name right now but the food was great, especially breakfast.

 

[Frabjous]

Delta Diner in Delta County Wisconsin about an hour east of Duluth, MN.


The best diner food is in a diner in Middlebrow, Mass. I can't remember the name right now but the food was great, especially breakfast.

So...Massachusetts has a Middlebrow, a Marblehead and an Athol. Well, at least the diner is good.

 

[lunker35]

Garbage plate at Franks Diner in Kenosha. Mind blowing.

 

[FeralFelidae]

Owl Bar & Café in San Antonio, NM. If you ever go on a pilgrimage to Trinity Site (first atomic bomb) it's considered an iconic part of the experience for the delicious green chile cheesburgers.