[REVIEW] 5 Alarm! Diner
Apr. 28th, 2005 12:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI was hungry and walking south Church Street when, passing by the 5 Alarm! Diner (555 Church Street), my attention was caught Wednesday evening special, pork roast with mixed vegetable and potatoes for $C8.49. Deciding that this had to be better than the Korean noodles in a bowl awaiting me home, I climbed up the stairs and entered, passing past a departing lesbian couple with child.
NOW's June 2004 review is quite right to note that 5 Alarm! Diner is a restaurant that specializes in comfort food. 5 Alarm! Diner doesn't make any pretensions to be anything but a diner. It does this well, for instance with the retro decor: the colour scheme and tables reminding me of nothing so much as Al's Diner on Happy Days with added modernist sheen in chrome-legged chairs and a certain amount of camp in the ubiquitous firefighting-related decorations.
I enjoyed myself. There's certainly worse things to be doing than to be eating a well-cooked and tasty meal with a bottle of Stella Artois on hand, sitting by the window and looking out on Church Street as the two people seated next to you talk about their relationship woes.
NOW's June 2004 review is quite right to note that 5 Alarm! Diner is a restaurant that specializes in comfort food. 5 Alarm! Diner doesn't make any pretensions to be anything but a diner. It does this well, for instance with the retro decor: the colour scheme and tables reminding me of nothing so much as Al's Diner on Happy Days with added modernist sheen in chrome-legged chairs and a certain amount of camp in the ubiquitous firefighting-related decorations.
I enjoyed myself. There's certainly worse things to be doing than to be eating a well-cooked and tasty meal with a bottle of Stella Artois on hand, sitting by the window and looking out on Church Street as the two people seated next to you talk about their relationship woes.
