This morning I'm having breakfast with a friend at a local diner. Man, I love diners. There's just something about their history and the way that they resist the inevitable creep of corporate food (Denny's pseudo-diners excepted). Me and TheWife™ actually have a collection of diner mugs as well as some diner prints on the kitchen wall (check out Don Sawyer's Diner Art). In honor of this, allow me to go on a bit about a few of our favorite diners.
The A-1 Diner, Gardiner, Maine. With an extremely eclectic menu and a very interesting location (on metal stilts), we must stop at the A-1 on the way to Bar Harbor.
Moody's Diner, Waldoboro, Maine. This place has been here forever (just check out the old photos). Fun to stop at in the winter, completely mobbed in the summer. It's worth the wait.
Becky's Diner, Portland, Maine. My goodness, we were in Portland a little while ago and thought they'd closed Becky's. No, they'd renovated the place. So much so that I didn't recognize it. The customers didn't seem to care though, as the line spilled out into the parking lot on a cold and nasty morning.
Chelsea Royal Diner, Brattleboro, Vermont. This place is about a 90 minute drive from where we live and it's totally worth it. Fantastic food, great service, and a very cool environment.
Littleton Diner, Littleton, New Hampshire. In the White Mountains, up past Franconia Notch and the (now faceless) Old Man in the Mountain lies the town of Littleton. It's a great getaway for us because we can stay at a hotel that's flanked on one side by a book store and on the other by this fine establishment. If you go there for breakfast, you can have pancakes made from flour ground at a local mill.
Article comments
1 - Mary K. Williams
I'm sadly under-experienced with diners.
Someday though, I hope to have at least half the fun as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne as they cavorted across the U.S. (rather like Jack Kerouac - don'tcha think?)from Rhode Island to Colorado.
2 - Michael J. West
But does he actually find a RHYME for "bakelite"?
3 - Mark Saleski
You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum and Bakelite and glass
4 - Mat Brewster
I went to Mel`s Diner once, but all they wanted me to do was kiss some ladies grits.