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CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 19, 2020, 01:42:28 pm ---Was it one of those old-fashioned kind of diners like the characters on Seinfeld hang out at? (One year, I ate Thanksgiving dinner in that very diner.) Or more of a nouveau version? In my city, there are old-fashioned diners left over from their original era, but anything new would be either more foodie-friendly with creative twists on classic things (e.g., a place that specializes in hot dogs with unusual toppings) or sort of flashily retro.
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Oh, it's not an old-fashioned diner. In fact, it was just remodeled and renamed. The original diner (named Versailles) was very slow and was showing its age. I'm guessing new owners bought it and are making it a success.
It was packed the night we were there!
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 19, 2020, 01:42:28 pm ---I'll have to say, peanut butter and bacon pancakes don't automatically sound delicious. Were they?
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--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 20, 2020, 04:11:39 pm ---Everything's better with bacon. ... 8)
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They were very tasty! They were regular pancakes, with pieces of bacon and peanut butter chips mixed into them. I would order them again.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 19, 2020, 01:42:28 pm ---I've never been there, but I've been to a Top Golf, and I'll bet it's similar. Do you stand in an elevated open room with a regular golf club and ball, and try to hit the ball into one of the large holes scattered about the grounds, some trickier than others and therefore worth more points?
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I think it's different. Monster Golf is like an indoor miniature golf course, but it's darkened and decorated with 'monsters' and such as you go through the course, and a lot of glow-in-the-dark paint.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 19, 2020, 01:42:28 pm ---For what?
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I got a bunch of cut-out paper decorations for my apartment door. Granted, no one sees it but me and the other two apartments on the second floor, but it makes it cheery. I got hearts for Valentine's Day, shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day, and Easter Eggs for Easter.
This is what the door looks like now.
Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on January 20, 2020, 09:02:31 pm ---Oh, it's not an old-fashioned diner. In fact, it was just remodeled and renamed. The original diner (named Versailles) was very slow and was showing its age. I'm guessing new owners bought it and are making it a success.
It was packed the night we were there!
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So what's the difference between a diner and a restaurant?
brianr:
--- Quote from: Sason on January 21, 2020, 06:31:37 pm ---
So what's the difference between a diner and a restaurant?
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That confused me as well. I always thought a diner was like in the top photo where you sit at the counter. I have only ever found this is North America and hate it. I would avoid but often no choice especially for a single person. Very occasionally there might be a similar situation here, where you sit while waiting for your table to be prepared, but more likely it will be lounge chairs, much more civilised. The lower photo is more like a restaurant or a cafe. A cafe is less likely to be open in the evening (but there are exceptions) while a restaurant is more upmarket.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on January 21, 2020, 06:31:37 pm ---
So what's the difference between a diner and a restaurant?
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And what about an eatery? Or bistro? Or cafe?
I think grilled cheese sandwiches, bacon and eggs, but maybe also, like, roast beef or hot turkey sandwiches with mashed potatoes and gravy. That's a classic diner dish, IMO. Also, people mostly drink coffee, juice or milk. I don't think of diners as selling alcohol, typically.
Cafe seems like kind of a diner but slightly fancier, and a bistro is a slightly fancier cafe! :laugh: An eatery is what a restaurant critic calls them after running through all the other words. :laugh:
brianr:
We do not use diner nor eatery. A bistro is usually found in a hotel attached to a bar, often you order and wait for your number to display (or now a gadget to buzz on your table ) then go and collect from the servery. As I said, a cafe tends to have lighter meals and often closes by 4pm, sometimes open very early for breakfast. A restaurant is more formal but the boundaries between cafe and restaurant can be blurred. At home I rarely eat out in the evening so rarely go to a restaurant. My sister visited in early December and we went to a restaurant one night before the ballet then to a very expensive one at a winery for lunch (sort of an early Christmas lunch as I did not go back to Sydney for Christmas). We also went to a sort of in-between restaurant/cafe the night before as we were staying in the town near the wineries. Then the following week I had friends (ex-students) visit and I took them to an upmarket restaurant in my home city. I paid my very inflated Mastercard on Monday :(
However I would go to a cafe for lunch or coffee several times most weeks, often alone while shopping, sometimes with friends after movie, hiking or gallery etc visit. I started a group called Just Coffee and we meet one morning per month. The aim was to try out all the cafes in the city. In just over 3 years we have been to 35 different cafes. I thought we were running out and repeated a few in the last few months but some of the ladies have given me a list of about half a dozen mainly down in the university area where I rarely venture.
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