Serves good breakfast and lunch, voted “best gravy” in City Paper.

Enjoy comfort food in this family-owned diner. Nostalgia abounds, with an art-deco style interior unchanged since 1938, and sandwiches for less than $3. They also have homemade soups and heartstopping breakfasts complete with grits, scrapple, and cream-chip beef. 7am–2pm, Monday–Friday.

Typical Mid-Atlantic chrome-faced diner that serves Greek food, excellent desserts, and breakfasts with a higher-than-average pricetag. Open 24 Hours.

Great home-cooked food at super-cheap prices. Open 24 hours.

Awesome and authentic counter-service—only diner by the Waverly Farmers’ Market. Come for breakfast or a very early lunch, weekdays, 7 am–1:15 pm; Saturday, 8 am–1pm.

Funky atmosphere with lots of colorful toys glued to the walls and hanging from the ceiling. Owned and decorated by a MICA graduate. Sunday—Thursday, 7 am—12midnight; Friday—Saturday, 7am–2am (Take the #3 or #11 bus from Charles Street to 29th Street. Walk west to the diner.)

A typical greasy spoon diner. The place to go for pretty good food if you don’t have much to spend.

A good place for breakfast and enormous sandwiches. It’s too bad it isn’t open late.

A classic, huge, all-night diner with an extensive but somewhat expensive menu, lots of pies in the cases in front and a jukebox at every booth.

Great all-night diner with terrific banana cream pie, lots of Brenda Lee and Patsy Cline on the jukebox. Good milkshakes, too.