# Your Favourite Diner Meals **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [July 19, 2023, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241 "2023-07-19T07:32:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/21 "2023-07-19T15:28:35Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Nothing beats a good diner breakfast. Absolutely. I’ve had breakfast at diners more than any other meal. In a rush I would order the twin burger meal offered at many diners, nothing all that special. One great place in Croton NY had a ton of weekend specials, the place would be packed on Friday and Saturday evening. I had a stuffed sole dish there once that was exquisite. In the heyday of Jersey diners there were many meals I tried out for their novelty. One that I really liked but never saw again was a plate loaded with chopped liver, egg salad, and some other similar dish. There was a place somewhere around Metuchen that had a bowl of pickles out on every table to much on, loved stopping in for that. Back to breakfast, there’s always something like the Country Boy breakfast they make at a local diner, eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, hash browns, and toast. It’s been years since I could finish a meal like that. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/22 "2023-07-19T15:44:24Z")
**Breakfast** : 1. Two eggs over easy with steak cooked medium rare. Home fries with ketchup. Two piece white toast. And coffee with cream and sugar. 2. Corned beef hash omelet with home fries with ketchup. Two piece white toast. And coffee with cream and sugar. **Lunch/Dinner** : 1. Chicken tenders with French fries and ketchup 2. Cheeseburger with onions and French Fries 3. Actually my first choice would be fried clam strip platter if they have it but a lot of diners do NOT have seafood. My beverage of choice with lunch/dinner would be Coca Cola(preferably from a fountain.) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/23 "2023-07-19T16:41:25Z")
Waffles at Waffle House, slathered in butter and syrup. There’s nothing like them. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/24 "2023-07-19T16:49:47Z")
BLT Eggs Benedict Tuna Melt French Dip (if the roast beef is rare) When I was a kid, we would get open-faced Roast Beef or Turkey with hot gravy sandwiches. I miss those! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/25 "2023-07-19T16:59:22Z")
Chicken-fried steak with country gravy. Biscuits & sausage gravy topped with two fried eggs. BLT ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/26 "2023-07-19T17:02:01Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Waffles at Waffle House, slathered in butter and syrup. There’s nothing like them. I just had my first Waffle House experience a couple months ago. The waffles were heavenly. mmm ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/27 "2023-07-19T17:16:00Z")
We go to a lot of diners, usually for breakfast. My favorite is eggs and corned beef hash. For dinner, it’s probably liver and onions. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/28 "2023-07-19T17:47:04Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > If I’m not doing breakfast for lunch/dinner (3 eggs, poached; well toasted sourdough toast, charred breakfast potatoes), then it is likely to be a BLT (on sourdough toast) and a bowl of chili. Diner food is very rare for me, and when it happens, it’s almost always breakfast or breakfast for lunch/dinner. My default is waffles, because while I have a waffle iron, it’s a pain even with a warm oven to do a big enough batch for dinner for self and wife and serve. Second is the ever popular self assembled breakfast sandwich: 2-3 eggs over easy, toasted good bread (rye, sourdough, good wheat in that order), and bacon. Break yolks, salt and pepper result, smear yolk on toast, add some bacon, add piece of egg on top, consume, repeat. On the occasions where I’ve had diner style food in the south or in Texas, chicken and waffles (presuming a good location of course) is also a strong contender. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/29 "2023-07-19T18:47:09Z")
Patty melt, fries and a Coke. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/30 "2023-07-19T18:51:26Z")
I like liver & onions and many restaurants do not have it on the menu. So, I order it at diners that offer it and at a Turkish restaurant that offers calf liver & onions as an appetizer (Arnavut Cigeri). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/31 "2023-07-19T18:57:15Z")
I don’t get it often but this place nearby https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sPy52jc1CSmj1BfjSMiOpRw%212m2%211d38.8486544%212d-77.1253163%213f32.4%214f9.379%215f0.75 offers a Monte Cristo sandwich that is absolutely huge. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/32 "2023-07-19T18:57:25Z")
Cheese blintzes with cherry sauce, if I can find it. I’m always so happy to find it on a diner menu I’ll have it whatever time of day it is. And if they have cherry sauce-- JACKPOT! I’ll take blueberry in a pinch. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/33 "2023-07-19T19:07:51Z")
Breakfast: Denver omelet, hash browns, sourdough toast, iced tea. Unless I’m at Waffle House, in which case it’s double hash browns, scattered all the way. I’m trying to think of the last time I **didn’t** have breakfast if I was at a diner and I’m drawing a blank. No matter the actual time of day, if I’m at a diner I’m having breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/34 "2023-07-19T19:13:38Z")
Many of you posted the right answers. If I’m at a diner, I want breakfast. Ham and cheese omelet with crispy hashbrowns, or biscuits and gravy (with eggs and crispy hashbrowns), or corned beef hash and eggs… all preferably with a slice of well-toasted sourdough slathered in butter. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/35 "2023-07-19T19:38:59Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > offers a Monte Cristo sandwich that is absolutely huge. Oh, man, there used to be a coffee shop that served a really good Monte Cristo when I worked in Rosemead. Sadly, T&J’s turned into a Chinese disco. I used to work at the Petroleum Building just south of DTLA (back in the 70s). It was 1920s building with an ornate lobby. You walked in and just inside the front door was a “cigar stand” where you could get tobacco products but was mostly for newspapers/magazines and candy/gum. A few feet further down was the bank of three _manually_ operated elevators. Pass them and you’d enter the Petroleum Coffee Shop – run by French Canadians, although Marie, the cashier inside a tiny booth right of the entrance was Mexican-American. I loved their Canadian burger (hamburger with Canadian bacon and the best sauce I’ve ever had on a burger) with their great fries, but I was addicted to the Speedy breakfast. One egg any style, hash browns, choice of toast, one of either a hamburger patty, bacon, link sausage or patty sausage. either coffee or OJ. For $1.06. It was so good I’d often order it for lunch. I usually called down my order and picked it up, and I liked going down a smidge early to watch the synchronized routine between the waitresses working the counter and the tiny dining room, and the short order cook, and listen to the music of their Franglish. Now, my usual breakfast place is o.k., but they have biscuits to die for. Sometimes I really feel like a waffle for breakfast, and although I feel a little funny about doing it, I’ll get a side of biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/36 "2023-07-19T20:13:07Z")
At Waffle House, that hashbrown order is smothered, covered, and country. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/37 "2023-07-19T20:23:34Z")
Breakfast no matter what time of day - bacon, eggs, toast, grits, coffee, ice water. If I’m at Waffle House, I might add an orange juice. If it’s after noon, I’ll have iced tea or ice water instead of coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/38 "2023-07-19T20:25:21Z")
Four Fried Chickens and a Coke. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/39 "2023-07-19T20:27:15Z")
I’ll have dry white toast. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241/40 "2023-07-19T20:39:21Z")
Is that shared > [@Gatopescado](#): > > Four Fried Chickens and a Coke. Is that shared with the “gang?” Smothered hash browns don’t appeal to me, because I like mine crispy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-diner-meals/987241.md?page=3)