Description: If you are looking for a 24-hour diner and are in the West Chester Area, this is your restaurant. We had just left QVC and we headed into Philly to meet up with guides kjlouden and Dave. We were looking for someplace not a chain. We picked an Irish pub and walked in. The smoke choked us before we even got to our seats. We turned around and walked out. Okay lets head back to the diner we had seen, at least there should be a nonsmoking section, and yes there defiantly was.
We were into a booth quickly with menus in our hand. They are well known for the quality and quantity of their salad bar, so I took a walk up to give it a look over. It was indeed quite impressive with two types of soup, salads, desserts, and some really good looking loaves of bread. Yep, I was having just the salad bar.
Al decided he would have the roast beef dinner, which he ordered with the salad bar. As his side dish he had stewed tomatoes.
The menu is in many ways very typical of diner food, with some modern additions. They offer a black forest burger with sauteed mushrooms, Swiss cheese and ham, an oriental teriyaki wrap, a hot roast turkey wrap, and a roasted vegetable quesadilla. They have loads of seafood choices both broiled and fried, but the oysters were a particular surprise.
I began with a bowl of the clam chowder, it was really quite good—thick and creamy. The salad bar had all the usuals and some surprises. I loaded on the fresh mozzarella balls and some marinated mushrooms as well as the more common lettuce, cucumber, peppers, black olives and cheese.
The loaves of bread were really good, a challah bread was my favorite. There were several different loaves, some with seeds and one with raisins.
Al’s roast beef was a large plate of slices covered with a light beef gravy. It was a little more well done than he prefers, but tender and tasty none the less. He went and tried some of the puddings; chocolate and tapioca. I had some of the fresh fruit. It was a very good salad bar and just may be what they say on the menu "Best Salad bar in Town."
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