We’re sure it happens to everyone: You’re at the Fox, enjoying the show, when in the middle of the third act you’re hit with a mad craving for a couple of deadeyes and a shingle with a shimmy and a shake (poached eggs and buttered toast with jelly). Or, two pages into that 10-page paper due tomorrow, you get a burning desire for heart attack on a rack (biscuits and gravy). Well, theater-goers and SLU students will soon be in luck, as Peter Spoto has announced that he’ll bow a second location of his City Diner in Midtown’s Humboldt building at Washington Avenue and Grand Boulevard. Watch for a December opening.
In the meantime, head downtown to get your fill of cackle fruit (eggs), checkerboards (waffles) and Eve with a moldy lid (apple pie with cheese). 12th Street Diner is now slinging its classic diner fare at 1137 Washington Ave. Open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., with later weekend hours, downtown’s latest eatery also offers a few dishes that go beyond the standard flop two ever easy, including salmon, tilapia and lasagna. Order up!
Photo of City Diner’s Southsider by Josh Monken
This article appears in Sep 1-30, 2009.