The only memorable thing he said was when, in a pause of gorging himself "with these French dishes" he deliberately let his eyes roam over the little tables occupied by parties of diners, and remarked that his wife did for a moment think of coming down with him, but that he was glad she didn't do so.

The crowd of diners and attendants that tumbled helter-skelter down the passages divided into two groups.

The last tardy diners are scarcely given time to finish, before the tables and the debris are shoved into the corner, and the chairs and the babies piled out of the way, and the real celebration of the evening begins.

"You forget that I'm not an ideal character, either," said Mary, in the same low and very earnest tones, which, in spite of being almost inaudible, surrounded their table with an atmosphere of concentration which was quite perceptible to the other diners, who glanced at them now and then with a queer mixture of kindness, amusement, and curiosity.

CLOSURES could be ahead for restaurant chains Giraffe and Ed's Easy Diner as the brands' owner announced a business review.

A ROADSIDE diner that's a familiar sight to thousands of travelling Teessiders is to get a new lease of life.

TULSA Black Bear Diner will open its first restaurant in Tulsa and third in Oklahoma on Monday at 9026 East 71st St., just south of the Woodland Hills Mall, in Tulsa.

Aptly called The Diner, the pop-up restaurant transformed a gritty abandoned arch under the railway tracks at the city's Central station, offering unassuming visitors classic burgers and cocktails while pushing the boundaries of immersive design by uniting sensory stimulation with an element of theater.

THE Ed's Easy Diner chain has been sold after collapsing into administration - but 26 diners will close immediately.

But we ploughed on and the Secret Diner kept eating.

Instead the 34-year-old fan of 1950s Americana takes a seat in her very own authentic US diner and enjoys a waffle made with a classic waffle iron.

This empty lot was once the site of the Spectown Diner, which took its name from -- what else?

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