Restaurants commonly referred to as "diners" have held a special place in American popular culture since the 1930s. Once sleek, futuristic icons of post-war optimism, they now capture our attention as objects of nostalgia. As the...

A diner is a prefabricated restaurant building characteristic of North America, especially on Long Island; in New York City; New Jersey; and Westchester, New York; and other areas of the Northeastern United States, although examples can be found...

LAUREN COLEMAN-LOCHNER, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-18-1996 DINER -- THE BLUE-PLATE SPECIAL IS BACK By LAUREN COLEMAN-LOCHNER, Staff Writer Date: 08-18-1996, Sunday Section: BUSINESS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe a shift from the soigne to...

JEFFREY PAGE, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-19-1998 DINERS -- DO BREAKFAST RIGHT - ANY TIME, EVERYWHERE By JEFFREY PAGE, Staff Writer Date: 08-19-1998, Wednesday Section: LIFESTYLE / FOOD Edition: All Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star...

The Moondance Diner, with its iconic revolving sign already removed, was almost unrecognisable on Tuesday afternoon. But it was still eminently there on Sixth Avenue in Soho, which no one, not even the restaurant’s owners, expected it to be at that stage of the day....

Like the pioneers of old, the city's landmark Moondance Diner is about to pull up stakes and head west to Wyoming. Not to Sundance _ that would be too poetic _ but to LaBarge, a wide place in the road with only one other restaurant...