A home-style, family-friendly diner best known for its pies.

by Katie Heffernan

In Short
These roadside restaurants, now numbering in the hundreds, have been winning over the West since 1983. More polished than the average greasy spoon with homey wood accents and hanging plants, the casual surroundings are suited to families celebrating a special event or making an occasion out of a regular dinner. They'll find classic American dishes and more--breakfast omelets, shrimp-and-steak combinations and spicy chipotle mayo burgers, with the bonus of caramel-pecan-cream-cheese and country apple pies for dessert.

06/03/02

Pie!!!

by JJ

The food is great, the pie is wonderful except for the sugar-free banana cream. The bananas are always bad. Not their fault, probably the supplier.

The only thing I do NOT like is their coffee, it's just way too weak. Great tea replaces it.

Chocolate brownie then the Yankee potroast for dessert!

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Dec '06

Never mind. The place is filty, the food horrible, the atmosphere overwhelming. I go far and wide to find breakfast elsewhere.

I think the only reason this place is still open is because there are no other breakfast restaurants in the area.

• Pros: None
• Cons: weak coffee