The American Diner Breakfast at Compton’s. It is usually much more composed than this. If I were a real blogger I would pay for a second order just to get a better picture, but as it is I’m too cheap.
I help run an Airbnb and guests frequently ask for restaurant recommendations. I live in a tourist town and we have exquisite bakeries and frou-frou brunches, but a surprising number of people want a good old fashioned American diner breakfast. I always send them to Compton’s, a hole in the wall on Broadway with a step up to the dining area that keeps the snow out in winter but trips up unwary tourists in summer.
The American diner experience at Comptons: vinyl booths, plywood paneling on the walls, ads for local businesses on the table mat.
My personal choice every time is the house special which comes with coffee, two eggs, home fries, toast and choice of protein. My customizations: sunny side up, rye toast, bacon. I ask for tabasco and A-1 sauce on the side. I eat the bacon first, then I get to work. The potatoes and eggs get mashed together with the yolk blending with the A-1. As the plate empties I use the toast to sop up the remains. Finally I spread the remaining toast with jam from the supply on the table (orange marmalade if they have it) as a kind of dessert.
This currently costs $11.75 and I can’t think of a better American diner experience. What do you order in a diner and how do you mod it?
I cleaned my plate.
