diners | River's world…..

Sometimes you just have to eat lunch at a diner and in our neck of the woods the A1 is a good choice.

Walking into the original 1946 Worcester car #790 is like stepping back in time.

In amazing shape for it’s age, the wood is polished..

And the chrome is shining.

Even the pass through hole to the kitchen is sparkling.

For a diner, the menu is wide and varied.

And my massive turkey club on homemade toast with hand cut fries did not disappoint.

Guy Fieri featured this place on his show Diners, Drive Ins and Dives and it even made it into a cartoon.

If you’re ever in Gardiner, Maine stop by. I promise you won’t leave hungry…

The husband and I have been on the road a lot lately, shuffling from nursing home to hospice and back again. This means a decided lack of cooking at Casa River and numerous meals have been eaten out. While I enjoy my favorite haunts and their prodigious cocktail mixing, sometimes you just have to suck it up and go full on diner.

We’ve hit a few good ones, a few bad ones and a few that offered up some extremely odd selections.