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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Diners

The Hippest Diner 5

The front door of Diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...

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The Hippest Diner 4

Chic dilapidation may be a prerequisite...

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The Hippest Diner 3

Happy young couples, in lumberjack plaid, at Diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...

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The Hippest Diner 2

A look inside Diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...

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The Hippest Diner

I have to admit, it's not in New Jersey. It's in Brooklyn...

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Mastoris, the Mega Diner 2

As Homer Simpson might say, "Mmmmm, baaaaked goooods!"

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Mastoris, the Mega Diner

Mastoris, the famous diner in Bordentown, is known for its massive menu, but the place itself is massive...

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Fine Dinering, Anyone? Shelton at the Skylark 2

As noted the other day, chef Craig Shelton, formerly of the Ryland Inn, has landed as "guest chef" at the Skylark Diner in Edison. He has introduced an upscale but modestly priced lunch and dinner menu that supplements, rather than supplants, traditional burgers and salads and the always-available breakfast menu.

That reminds me of a Steven Wright joke, he being the deadpan, postmodern Henny Youngman, master of the one liner. (Wright plays the Wellmont in Montclair next Friday, Oct. 30). Wright says, "I passed a restaurant. It had a sign in the window, said 'Breakfast Any Time.' So I went in and ordered French Toast in the Renaissance." Maybe you have to hear him tell it. Anyway, on to Shelton's menu, which I recently sampled...

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The Case of the Illuminated Pastries

Sometimes I just like to stare at the evidence...

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George's Place

If on the inside it looks like a diner, serves like a diner, charges like a diner and satisfies like a diner, but occupies just part of a plain brick building on a street corner in Cape May, it is a diner, and a darn good one at that.

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Under The Skyway 3

Today we move indoors again, from the shelter of the black steel Pulaski Skyway to the, well, um, men's room of the Skyway Diner.

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Myth...Or Not