...and diner food.
What is Your favorite diner food? What is your favorite diner? What about things that most diner screw up, but some do beautifully? And, while we're at it, any generic diner conversation, stories, or history.
Oh...if you don't like meat, or fatty food, or fun, or grease, or breakfast, or spending money on food, or fun, then please...screw off instead of telling us how meat will kill us, or how you haven't eaten in a diner in 42 years because you're better than us.
As an example, I'll start.
I don't expect diners to have these two things on the menu, but if they do have the nerve to put them on, I expect top quality.
Eggs Benedict, and patty melts.
Both are simple in design but complex in execution. Control of heat, of timing, of seasoning, or color and smell and favor. Both require ingredients that are not part of the "every single diner needs this" list. Bad chefs will claim both and ruin both, moderate chefs will not bother, but top notch diner chefs will put them on a plate with pride. I love them when they're good, and hate them the rest of the time.
Second, we came across a surprise diner a few weeks ago and they deserve recognition. Driving out of Chicago, my wife and I were cranky and fighting, tired and sunburn and hungry. Out of hangry rage, I pulled over to the nearest coffee shop, which I saw on the corner while stopped at a red light.
As we walked up to it, we saw that it wasn't a tiny coffee shop, it was actually a tiny diner!
As we walked inside, we saw that it wasn't a tiny diner, it was a REALLY tiny diner, with only seats at the counter and 2 open seats.
Then, looking at the menu, we saw that it wasn't just a REALLY tiny diner, with only seats at the counter and 2 open seats, but a REALLY tiny diner, with only seats at the counter and 2 open seats AND a wicked little menu!
House made breakfast sausage! House made chorizo! Espresso machine! We ate like kings, and the trip was saved.
http://edgebrookcoffeeshop.com/
North suburbs, Devon and Central.