Best authentic diner in DC area?

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My family from abroad is visiting for the holidays. They want to go to an American diner. What is the most authentic one in the area?

Everyone knows that an authentic American diner is Greek. A diner must have the following: a glass dessert display case up front, a long menu, and some sort of poster or model of the Parthenon. Bonus if there is a Greek flag or surly septuagenarian proprietor at the cash register. Unfortunately, DC is lacking in the Greek diner department and the few that existed are slowly vanishing. I don't think any of these are great, but they are diners - Amphora (Herndon), Metro 29 (Arlington), Double T (Annapolis, Catonsville, Pasadena, and some others...).


If I could use the vomit emoji, I would. Greek diners are poseurs/posers.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry but as someone from the NJ/NY area, most of the places mentioned here are not diners similar to the ones you would find in the Philly to NYC corridor. There really are no diners in the DC area. The one exception in VA would be metro 29 but I'm not sure it is still open. If you are in MD, in the Baltimore area there are some better options, such a Towson Diner and Ellicott City Diner. Cafes that serve brunch are not diners. Silver Diner is not a diner. It is chain restaurant created in the image of a diner that serves things like Thai stir fries with some obligatory diner fare.
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Yeah, we like the Towson Diner. We went there a lot during the college search (Towson U, Goucher, etc.).
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Your relatives are probably looking for an experience to connect with movies they’ve watched. They’re not trying to get deep into rust belt working class culture. Just take them somewhere fun.

The college park diner has a lot of the aesthetics they’re probably looking for, but the food is genuinely terrible.



+1. For this, the Silver Diner is fine (recommend the Rockville one).
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My family from abroad is visiting for the holidays. They want to go to an American diner. What is the most authentic one in the area?

Everyone knows that an authentic American diner is Greek. A diner must have the following: a glass dessert display case up front, a long menu, and some sort of poster or model of the Parthenon. Bonus if there is a Greek flag or surly septuagenarian proprietor at the cash register. Unfortunately, DC is lacking in the Greek diner department and the few that existed are slowly vanishing. I don't think any of these are great, but they are diners - Amphora (Herndon), Metro 29 (Arlington), Double T (Annapolis, Catonsville, Pasadena, and some others...).


If I could use the vomit emoji, I would. Greek diners are poseurs/posers.

🤢🤮
Anonymous
Barnside Diner in Annandale
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My family from abroad is visiting for the holidays. They want to go to an American diner. What is the most authentic one in the area?

Everyone knows that an authentic American diner is Greek. A diner must have the following: a glass dessert display case up front, a long menu, and some sort of poster or model of the Parthenon. Bonus if there is a Greek flag or surly septuagenarian proprietor at the cash register. Unfortunately, DC is lacking in the Greek diner department and the few that existed are slowly vanishing. I don't think any of these are great, but they are diners - Amphora (Herndon), Metro 29 (Arlington), Double T (Annapolis, Catonsville, Pasadena, and some others...).


Yes. I grew up in an area with many Greek diner's. I miss them. My dad used to joke that all the food for all of the diners in the area came from one giant kitchen in the center of the earth because they all had basically the same mile-long menu and tasted mostly the same.


+1

Very common in NY/NJ.

I’d do Bob & Edith’s in Arlington (not Greek) or Amphora in Herndon if it’s still open.
Anonymous
^ And Metro 29 is ok.
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