Diners #101-105

It's been a long long long time.  No new diners have been visited.  Both chances to get up to the New Hampshire/Maine area were failures due to weather and health related issues.

So where have I been lately, diner wise.   Here is the last diner I have visited in recent times.

Johnny B's Diner in Glenmont, just south of Albany on US Rt 9W is a late model Silk City Diner that is a replacement for an older diner which burnt down.  Johnny B's will be celebrating 10 years this year.   The owner has done some consistently good stuff with the diner, and it is a must visit for a nice diner breakfast.  The interior is pristine, but does sport a lot of knick knacks.  Some diner purists are not fond of them, but for many others, they add to the flair and the image of each diner being individualized.  When in Albany, there are far too many good choices for diners to visit, and here is one of them.

The Pleasantville Colonial Diner sits in Pleasantville, home of Readers Digest.  The diner sits on a corner in the downtown square and has been the site of a diner since the early 1930s.  The first diner here was a Bixler, which was followed by an O'Mahony diner around 1950.  That O'Mahony was replaced by the current DeRaffele.  There is not much stainless steel, and really there is not much colonial architecture.  Inside is classic postmodern DeRaffele from the late 1990s.A few touches of stainless and formica to make note of the place being a diner.

Skip's Blue Moon Diner in Gardiner, Massachusetts is your typical barrel roof Worcester Diner.  It's just in good condition.  Fortunately many of them are, but just as many are not.  Skips serves breakfast and lunch, like most New England diners are relegated to by the stomachs of New Englanders.  You can't go wrong at Skips. and you can't go wrong in a Worcester diner.  Nothing fancy, just a simple diner with simple diner food.

The Kennett Square Diner is a 1920s O'Mahony Diner.  The diner sits in front of a creek on old US Rt 30 in Pennsylvania.  The diner was closed both times I have passed it so I have yet to eat at the place.  Even though it is on the old highway, it still can be quite busy as it is not too far outside of Philadelphia.

I have less to add about the Ragin Cajun Diner on the north side of Hartford, Connecticut.  I have not eaten here yet, though I have been by the area far too many times to have not eaten here.  Hopefully this upcoming winter I will make time to partake in a meal at the Ragin.  The diner is a classic Paramount diner from the 1940s, but I am not too sure how original the interior of the place is looking these days.  Though, the outside does still look nice, so you never know.


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