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The Ardmore Tea Room is a busy place on weekends, packed with hungover bleary-eyed twenty-somethings as I once used to be. Insert sigh here. But on a weekday, it’s kinda peaceful, sipping my coffee and watching the sun stream in the front window. The paper placemats outline the history of the Ardmore, which first opened [...]
Every city and especially town has an Olympia Restaurant, with its neon sign in cursive, paper placemats, fluorescent-lit pie cabinet and faded ’70s decor. A counter is inevitably on the left, booths on the right and more chairs and tables in the back. It’s not fancy but you know it will serve exactly what you’re [...]
I’m a sucker for diners. It doesn’t matter if it’s an old greasy spoon or a shiny retro throwback. If the diner serves eggs and a good cup of coffee, I’m sold. The funny thing about Calgary’s diners is they’re all new – made to look old – and they all have lineups out the [...] When you wake up a little disheveled, more tired than when you went to bed and maybe a little hungover, the only thing that will make everything better is breakfast. And bacon. The Galaxie Diner does it all right and it’s so gosh darn cute. The joint is decked out old-school, with checkered floors, tableside jukeboxes, [...] Eleven City Diner started off in my good books when an Epstein-lookalike wearing a pork pie hat greeted us at the door. A sign on each table explained how the owner grew up around Jewish delis in NYC and so wanted to recreate that here. The sleek diner has high ceilings, roomy booths and a long [...] |
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