Diners
Lately Gene and I have been on a quest to discover all the fun and off-the-beaten path diners in our geographic area. We have found a couple of really good one and tonight we found a really bad one. I will not post the name of this eating establishment here but if you email me I will tell you the name. Let me describe the experience. There were two dining areas one that was smoking and one that was smoking. No, there is not a typo. Both were smoking but one did have a sign that said "No Smoking on Sunday." It was not Sunday. We selected a table in the smoking section. After a short viewing of the menu I selected the grilled chicken salad and was told that would take about 25 minutes because first they had to defrost the chicken, then grill it. They did have some chicken strips already fried up so would that work for me. Yes, I could accept that. Gene ordered an open faced hot beef sandwich. About one minute later the waitress returned to say to Gene that the cook had taken the beef out of the freezer and she did not like the way it smelled and could he please order something else BUT the owner had not yet arrived with the new grill so anything had to been cooked on the stove top or deep fryer. We came close to leaving but he decided to try the BLT. My salad was actually not bad and how can anyone mess up a BLT, so we ate in ease until Gene noticed that the kitchen ceiling (his chair was directly facing the open kitchen door) had a couple of ceiling tiles missing and hanging down into the kitchen was ceiling insulation!! We will not be returning to that eating establishment. We will and have returned to both the Country Kitchen in Kensett and to Bubba's in Judsonia. Both have good breakfast offerings and tasty burgers and salads.All this thinking about small town diners and the observations of the patrons of said diners make me come to the conclusion that diners are the U.S. equivalent of the British Public House (pub). I wonder if any of the U.S. diners will be offering their patrons egg nog on the Fourth of July...but that is a story for another blog.
posted by BW @ 7:59 PM
3 Comments:
If they're going to serve eggnog, maybe they'll call you for your special recipe.
We have been doing the same thing around here, but we look for good bar-b-que joints. We found one in a trailer this week and it was super! It's our new family lunch on Mondays...go and find a new bar-b-que dive and in Texas we have plenty to go around!
Wheeler and I enjoy visiting local dives wherever we travel. We have quite a few here in Oxford that are fabulous with lots of atmosphere. Most of our dives are labeled "Grocery" which makes no sense to me. Depending on what your taste buds are craving...that will determine which one to go to. Q....Handy Andy Grocery
Burger.....Phillips Grocery
Chicken on a stick.....Harris Grocery
Fancy, Five-star, High Fallutin Fare.....City Grocery
Catfish.......Taylor Grocery (This one is the best....especially if you want to see someone famous, because they all eat here!!!)
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