No doubt about it: New Jersey is the diner capital of the world. (via EaterNY)
, with an added dining room on the end that dates to the 90s. We were seated at a sunny booth by the window, and resolved to order pancakes, at least, at each diner we went to that day. We got the short stack, with Taylor ham – the national meat of Jersey, something like a fine-grained spam – as a side. The pancakes were a bit on the rubbery side, and the butter wasn’t butter, but they were pretty good in the way pancakes always are.
Hopping in the car we were on our way through Sopranos country, a land of flaking iron bridges, abandoned warehouses, and teetering wooden houses. But hopping on the freeway, we were soon in Summit, a bedroom community built on a series of hills with sizable brick houses on carefully manicured grounds, and a main street preserved to induce nostalgia.
Once again, this diner was the work of the Jerry O’Mahony Diner Company, operating under an earlier aesthetic than the Miss America Diner. This earlier place was far more cramped with only six tables and a lunch counter made of actual black marble. There was no printed menu, but a series of tack boards with moveable letters overhead. Nevertheless, there were some outliers on the menu that included clam chowder and biscuits and gravy, suggesting the menu had evolved over the years.
We ordered the pancakes with sausages, and the fat sage-y links were fantastic . The beef in the Philly cheesesteak was tough, and the onions and green peppers still crunchy, but the classic Taylor ham, egg, and cheese sandwich was near perfection, though a Twitter follower claimed, “not sloppy enough.” A cup of pleasantly understated Manhattan clam chowder came free with the cheesesteak.
Next stop, we ended up accidently diverted to Bayonne before correctly following the complicated route to Hasbrouck Heights, a short distance from Teterboro Airport in a blighted industrial wasteland. Our objective was Bendix Diner, built by the Master Diner Company of Pequannock, and opened in 1947. The diner is constructed of stainless steel and has been featured in
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