Posted on 10/26/2015 9:37:03 AM PDT by C19fan
There are no Michelin stars on the door, but you will not find a better breakfast in New York City than at the Bel Aire Diner in Astoria, Queens. The coffee, a lighter roast than Starbucks' and brewed three gallons at a time, is always fresh because just about every customer gets a refill or three. The Greek Breakfast entrée is a masterpiece of the line cook's art, a combination of eggs (any style), feta cheese, soft black olives and grilled fresh tomatoes whose juice seasons the toasted pita.
The Bel Aire is run under the glare of Argyris "Archie" Dellaportas, who immigrated to Queens in 1972 at age 18 from the Greek island of Cephalonia. He baked bread at the Westway Diner in Hell's Kitchen and other joints before being hired to run a diner in Maryland, which meant long stretches away from his wife and children.
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If the hipsters don’t / won’t / can’t make it work in these urban areas, it dies.
No Coke, Pepsi...
I suspect in New York, Maryland and other liberal states, the main reason why diners are dying is taxes.
Who can afford the State sticking their hand deeper into your pockets as they nickel and dime you to death with taxes, permits, and so on?
Regulation and taxes ran them out of business.
Been replaced by Food Trucks which the young LOVE!
Still a lot of diners in Southern Connecticut and at least in Westchester Country, NY.
“feta cheese, soft black olives and grilled fresh tomatoes whose juice seasons the toasted pita. “
I’d rather nail my soft parts to a burning stump than eat that.
I grew up in NYC, I can’t even look at a picture of it now without getting physically nauseous. All these white out of state College indoctrinated hipster d-bags with their Occupy wall street, black lives matter protests. I don’t remember ANYONE like that when I was growing up, that crap just did not happen. Probably the closest was protests about the Vietnam war which usually would end with the hard hat construction workers beating the crap out of them. Now they got all these white croissant eating, latte drinking, effeminate bitch a*s self righteous backpack wearing twits with bandanas over their face trying to be “rad man”, like these idiots...........
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Obama sole our lunch money and then forced us to buy BarryCare.
I know exactly how you feel, except about three thousand miles distant.
My parents were born in Los Angeles, CA, in the mid-1920s and I was born there in 1950. We left CA in 1969, and have never looked back. Well, my father longed to return; but the California we all knew is dead and gone.
Yep, in addition to all of the fast food joints that remain open 24/7 and serve what passes for breakfast.
I owned a restaurant, bar hotel in the 70s, before MAD, when insurance rates were reasonable and profits were good. Since the 80s that business is too tough {I sold in the early 80s for a nice profit} and you couldn't give me one today.
Too many regulations and no fun and little profit left in it.
I travel a lot. The old mom and pop diners aren’t out there anymore. The only places to get breakfast are fast food joints. I think one need to make too much money to run a smaller operation today.
50th street and broadway, the star diner, excellent.
Ah, you don’t know what you’re missing. Nothing like it.
Diner means waffles, runny eggs, or a greaseburger and fries, not some Greek crap
I prefer scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and fresh berries.
Except for those who like it Greek...
We have a diner downtown, I read the city’s sesquicentennial book that had a picture of Main Street from 1950, you can see the neon sign, and it’s the same one there today. Ate breakfasts there when I lived downtown.
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