This is what I found yesterday morning.
It'll be interesting to see how this fleshes out, or if I even got a picture of what I wanted... It looks like a diner style structure in front of that house-like structure... and it IS being worked on, like the article says...I love diners.
I especially love those old, heavy, beat up coffee mugs. I've always associated those mugs with diners. The coffee just tastes better when it's served in one of them.
Lou Roc Diner has those kind of mugs. The fact that their house coffee is Superior brand Columbian Supremo makes it a double-whammy of diner car delight, in my opinion.
I went around yesterday and got shots of most of the other diners in town, but not the Lou Roc. ...it's only because I was too lazy to drive all the way up to the north end of town just to take a picture of what is now no longer an actual "diner car" diner.
But Lou Roc Diner is my wife's favorite breakfast spot, and the inside still has that "diner car" layout and ambiance.
On Quinsigamond Ave, at the intersection of Lafayette, you can see two of the city's more classic diners.
The Miss Worcester is at the beginning of Quinsigamond Ave, on the corner of Southbridge Street. I haven't had a chance to eat there since the re-birth of this iconic eatery, but a weekday lunch there is definitely on my agenda.Some time in the not too distant future, I want to bring my wife to each one of the diners in town for breakfast, and find out what her discerning taste buds decide. Then I can report back here as to what we find.
I can eat just about anywhere, but Kathy's got taste buds that work.
Maybe I can get her to write the reviews...
The Corner Lunch sits just back from Quinsig ave, nestled into the junction of Lafayette and Lamartine, a short block away from the Miss Worcester. But if you stand on the opposite side of the intersection, you can see both of them.When Ralph Moberly first refurbished and re-opened the Corner Lunch several years ago, Kathy and I went there for breakfast. The food was truly great, but we found the prices a bit steep for breakfast, and the rock music playing on the excellent sound system, although right up our alley, just didn't cut it for breakfast.
I expect that this has changed in the intervening years, though.
A few short blocks away is the Kenmore Diner, at Grafton and Franklin. The original diner was lost in the warehouse fire of 1999. It's since been rebuilt, though, and offers the ambience of the traditional diner once again.Around the corner and thru Washington Square onto Shrewsbury Street are two more Worcester diner classics...
Although the Parkway no longer looks much like an original "diner car" diner, the inside is still up to par.Across the street from the Parkway is the Boulevard.
This is the one that I got Kathy to go to for breakfast in my first attempt to "do the diners" for a series in the blog.A couple of weeks ago, we went out on a Saturday morning, and came down Shrewsbury street to find a parking space right in front of the Boulevard Diner. What a stroke of luck, I thought...
It turned out that they were closed for vacation....
Then there's Ralph's Chadwick Square diner.
The last time I ate at Ralph's, it was with Peter Mancevice. That was back when Vinnie was the bartender there. I had a bowl of chili, only because I wasn't hungry enough to eat the other item on the menu, the hamburger.Peter asked Vinnie if he had a particular piece of music he could play on the cassette player, and Vinnie commenced to reach under the counter and produce a vintage Walt Disney character lunchbox full of audio cassettes.
"Wow!" I burst out, "that's a real fine old lunchbox you've got there. I'll bet it's worth a few bucks."
Vinnie told us that he collects lunchboxes, and gave us a short exposition on the subject. When he was done, I jokingly said, "...and I'll bet you subscribe to Lunchbox Collector's Quarterly, too!"
To my utter amazement, he then reached under the counter and pulled out the latest issue with that exact name on the banner.
hmmm.... diners...
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And now Vinnie owns Ralph's, along with the bar that bears his name over on Suffolk Street. Those old lunchboxes must have been a good investment.
I stopped at the Broadway Diner on Water St. on the way to UConn a couple months ago. The food was good but the main thing about the Broadway is that you can always count on conversation with strangers when you sit at the counter. This time I talked with some guy about (of all things) the Grafton police station. My daughter had to drag me away from that one.
The 101 is up and running, Too bad you cant get food served there. I went in earlier today with my father, sat down for 10 minutes while we waited for so much as a greeting. The principal was too busy talking with old friends that she ignored the fact the other server told her we were waiting. So we left, and we wont be back again.
While eating at another diner close by we were told we weren't the first customers the server has heard that from.
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