OT: Best Diner for breakfast or lunch

[Kitaman]

I always have a healthy breakfast and make it my main course for the day. I usually eat at the Bridgeport Flyer in Milford who has great breakfast. Diner is good for lunch as well making a quality burger/fries.

Some diners have a 100 items on the menu which scares me in terms of freshness.

Any good recommendations?

 

[mauconnfan]

I met one of my sales guys at a "diner" right off 95 in Stamford and I can't recall the name?.......high end diner with a bar although it kept the looks of a 50's/60's diner with the decor and the food was real good although pricey for breakfast. My sales guy had Crab with his egg sandwich.......

A diner off on 372 in Cromwell right off of 91 is also real good for breakfast......another place I met a sales guy but I somehow never remember the names!

 

[61cygni]

Shady Glen. Mmmmmm...

 

[8893]

O'Rourke's in Middletown has the best food of any diner I've ever been to. Brian O'Rourke focuses on locally sourced and seasonal ingredients, so it's always fresh, too.

 

[CTMike]

These aren't really diners per se, but my absolute favorite breakfast spot is Hotcakes in E. Windsor.

For a truly absurd amount of food (only time I've needed a doggie bag for breakfast)... The Spicy Green Bean in Glastonbury is really good too.

 

[Waquoit]

These aren't really diners per se, but my absolute favorite breakfast spot is Hotcakes in E. Windsor.

I thought Hotcakes was kind of meh. Large portions of meh is still just meh. And it bothered me that was garbage on the floor that the servers just walked over and never bothered to pick-up the entire time I was there.

An underrated diner is the Cromwell Diner, exit 24 of I-91. Fast, hot and they make their own Corned Beef Hash.

 

[CTMike]

Hmmm I may have to check out Cromwell Diner for the hash then...

 

[August_West]

Orourkes for sure , but you pay for that quality.


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[CTMike]

Different strokes, I guess... I wasn't blown away by O'Rourkes.

 

[mauconnfan]

I thought Hotcakes was kind of meh. Large portions of meh is still just meh. And it bothered me that was garbage on the floor that the servers just walked over and never bothered to pick-up the entire time I was there.

An underrated diner is the Cromwell Diner, exit 24 of I-91. Fast, hot and they make their on Corned Beef Hash.

That's the one I met a sales guy at ..... very good breakfast .......

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I met one of my sales guys at a "diner" right off 95 in Stamford and I can't recall the name?.......high end diner with a bar although it kept the looks of a 50's/60's diner with the decor and the food was real good although pricey for breakfast. My sales guy had Crab with his egg sandwich.......

A diner off on 372 in Cromwell right off of 91 is also real good for breakfast......another place I met a sales guy but I somehow never remember the names!

Stamford place is City Limits. It wins and loses points for aspiring to be more than a diner, depends on your point of view.

 

[nomar]

Been to City Limits. Pretty good.

I used to go with my grandfather to a place called Century Diner on the Post Road in West Haven. 3 eggs, toast, home fries, small OJ and coffee...for $1.85. No joke. This was the 90s, too (and not the 1890s). How did they make money? Volume!

 

[boog204]

I live 2 minutes from the Cromwell Diner and it is solid but a bit boring to me. I personally prefer both the Town Line Diner in Wethersfield for breakfast and Mitchell's in Cromwell or Rocky Hill. The Cromwell one has the best pancakes I have ever had.

 

[UCweCONN]

Yvonne's in Southbury. Homemade hash.

 

[uconndoit]

Sherwood Diner in Wetspot. More of a 2am type place for me way back when - the tuna melt is by far the best I've ever had.

 

[Kitaman]

Hmmm I may have to check out Cromwell Diner for the hash then...

I agree, I'm a home fries man.

 

[mauconnfan]

Stamford place is City Limits. It wins and loses points for aspiring to be more than a diner, depends on your point of view.

Yeah that's it thanks.......and again only there once and it's easier to rate after several visits so I can see your point for sure.........

 

[firstnline]

Partial to Mitchell's in Rocky Hill. Love their spuds.

 

[TRest]

East-West Diner on New Park in WH is great, with traditional American and some Asian elements if you like.

Non-diners with solid breakfast: Mo's Midtown in Hartford and Mahaney's in Windsor.

 

[junglehusky]

Funny, growing up in Farmington there were zero diners in town. There was a place near the mall and the Farmington/WH/newington lines called Toddle House but that's been gone for years. When I win the lottery maybe I'll open a diner on Rt 6 somewhere. Now I live in Hamden and there's at least four diner / breakfast places, though none are necessarily outstanding. I like the Sandwich Board's raisin french toast, though I guess technically it might be on the North Haven side of Whitney. Brownstone has an old-school feel, if you go for that kind of thing (like Clarke's old place in New Haven) though the food is average. Town House is a former Howard Johnson's and has the biggest clientele.

 

[Icculus]

I came into this thread to post:
The Pantry in New Haven

They specialize in breakfast. I don't think you technically can classify it as a "diner".
But it has the best home fries & pancakes I've ever head....and if you believed in the 'wisdom of crowds', there's almost always a line of some sort to get in. It's like the Pepe's of breakfast.

 

[ScottBonz]

Went to the pantry last week before going to ikea. Needed to build up strength before heading in. Around Hartford, Moes midtown and Quaker Diner. For more upscale brunches tisane and the firebox are really good. Still casual and not crazy expensive just not diners.


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[August_West]

Just went to J.A.M.S.S in old saybrook for first time. Stellar.


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[Waquoit]

I live 2 minutes from the Cromwell Diner and it is solid but a bit boring to me. I personally prefer both the Town Line Diner in Wethersfield for breakfast and Mitchell's in Cromwell or Rocky Hill. The Cromwell one has the best pancakes I have ever had.

Solid but boring is fair. Mitchell's has never been on my radar screen, I'll have to keep them in mind.

 

[suzyq]

Again, not a diner, but Kitchen Little in Mystic is wonderful. We used to leave work to go to breakfast there during the week. Flo makes the best pancakes I have ever eaten and I don't really like pancakes. Just found out they have moved from route 27 to Quarry Road ( Mason's Island) and is not quite as "little" as befoere. I highly reccomend.