“Common Eatery”, in Foxborough, MA

Eggs Benedict is the best anywhere around. Eggs poached just right. Hollandaise is yummy. Can mount those on traditional, homemade hash, crab cakes…

Home fries are freshly cut red bliss potatoes that have a light mix with onion & peppers.

Coffee is decent (not high end) and filled whenever less than 1/2.

Slight discount for cash vs. credit.

Locally owned. Plenty of regulars. Mostly wonderful servers. Except for that one older, dark haired lady that whines a lot.

Dial the dates back by about 10 years, next to a news article about the restaurant 5 years earlier than that, and you’re bang on.

There are a few around me that survived covid but they’re much more expensive now. I do miss being able to frequent them.

But mind you some items were always silly priced. Sometimes it’ll be juice at $4.99 for like 8oz, sometimes the side of bacon was $6.99 and you’d only get 3 pieces. Even 10 years ago.

If there’s an old couple that eats there every day then you know you’re about to have a good meal.

Mine installed a bunch of tvs and only play fox news constantly, so I stopped going.

Ours closed years ago. It was always the same cook and the same waitress working there for at least a decade. It made the local fast food breakfast look ridiculous. Omelet platters for 10.00. You’d be lucky to find that for 25.00 anymore, honestly. In a small town of less than 5000 spread out over such a big rural area, they just couldn’t keep up.

This is just a waffle house

These exist in the UK, too!

Don’t know about locally owned, but there definitely is a place near where I live that feels like it has a similar vibe to this. Love it. Can’t say the name because it seems to be a local place and don’t feel like doxxing myself despite the fact I’ve probably done it unintentionally before on here.

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One of the few good things about New Jersey

Closes at 2PM.

Here’s the thing; bacon, eggs, sausages, bread, and potato for hash browns costs fuck all. Get these ingredients for $50 worth, and you will enjoy a breakfast of this calibre for many mornings. The missing ingredient is motivation. That’s why you pay 80% extra to get someone else to do it and it still seems like an excellent deal.

Remember this when the menu is doing eggs benedict for $23. It better be real fucking good eggs benny because the contents on that plate cost very little.

There are still a lot of these in New York City, so long as you get out of Manhattan itself.

My modern* city has some diners but the price is over $10. One place is like $15 near me, I know of others that are more expensive. I still enjoy eating at any diner when I leave the city.

*America has questionable modernity.