Nine Hours a Day, and the Same Nine Every Day
Small corner coffee shop with a diverse American & Greek menu offering three meals a day.
The awning on Queens Boulevard carries three words in cream script — breakfast, lunch and dinner — and all three are honest. The broiler runs shell steak and lamb chops. The seafood column runs scrod, scallops and a fried combination. There are 20 entrees. What the awning does not say is that the whole card is served in daylight: the door opens at seven and the kitchen stops at four, seven days a week, with no shorter Sunday and no later Friday.
Inside there is a counter with five chrome stools and a pass-through window straight into the range, so you watch the cooks work while you eat. Outside, on the sidewalk, four tables sit under a blue canopy behind a new timber rail with planters along it. Google's record of this address says there is no outdoor seating. There is; the cafe photographed it.
The Greek Corner is the half of the kitchen the word "diner" does not cover: gyro and chicken gyro on pita from $4.95, souvlaki, spinach pie, pastitsio, and a salad the card promises is dressed in olive oil and nothing else. Greek coffee is $1.75. Baklava is $2.50. Seven further Greek dishes are filed under other headings, because a printed menu sorts by format and not by kitchen.
A soda fountain is still running at the back of the card — egg cream, lime rickey, ice cream soda, milk shakes, cherry or vanilla soda with a fifty-cent refill. A second awning on the side of the building sells Atlantic City bus tickets. Neither fact appears anywhere on the internet today, which is most of the reason this page exists.
