Diner Culture Gifts

"Do you have anything fit for a King?"

'I sent out for everything.'

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

Come dine with me!

"Cheers! Well, this is exciting. I've never had a dinner date with a duck before." "Relax, honey. I'm just here for the bread."

Grace For Flies

"M'lady, we’ve reached peak Brooklyn."

Sloaney Pony.

"Stephen and I are today's special."

LAY ZEE FUK

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

Life is for the birds.

"I know you didn't order the snails, sir. They're complimentary with the salad."

"Behold! As I transform this family size frozen lasagna into a meal for one."

"Cheers! Well, this is exciting. I've never had a dinner date with a duck before." "Relax, honey. I'm just here for the bread."

"And I'll also take my steak raw thank you."

"I'd like the garden salad with the blue cheese dressing, and my mother would like me married by age thirty."

'I'll have the crab cake, and he'll have the crabby cake.'

Cutaway view of Ocean liner.

"You do like octopus?"

"This place is one of New York's best-kept secrets."

The wonderful world of cheese.

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

T"ruly, Susan, I envy no man."

'Your French dip, sir.'

"Even the waiters here are organic."

Diner.

'Sorry sir, we've run out of parmesan cheese.'

Party of two? No, it was quite a large party.

"The chef is going to need more than just your ‘compliments’ tonight … he’s in one of his moods."

"The fish sticks here are very good."

'You complimented the chef on his dumplings -now he wishes to return the compliments!'

'‘Because I said so' or ‘Just wait until you have kids of your own' section?'

T-Bones STEAK House...NO sissy salad bar!...Heimlich expert always on duty'