These Diners Are Worth A Detour On Your Road Trip
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Skip the fast food drive-thru on your next road trip. Instead, get off the highway to chow down on some classic greasy food at these five awesome diners.
Here’s where you should veer off on these iconic American drives.
Taking on Route 66 from Chicago to L.A.?
Lou Mitchell’s – Chicago, Illinois
Okay, so it’s not so much of a detour as the perfect way to begin your Route 66 adventure: Eggs, bacon and the works.
Not sold? Lou Mitchell’s also gives customers a donut hole when they walk through the door.
Driving along the Appalachian Trail?
Ria’s Bluebird – Atlanta, Georgia
Come for the pancakes (we still crave them regularly) or go full-southern with the chicken and waffles. Ria’s Bluebird is a breakfast standard and it’s worth the weekend line. Do as the locals do and grab a coffee across the street for the wait time in the parking lot.
Touring the Pacific Coast Highway through California?
Swingers – Los Angeles, California
This place is pure LA. You’ll find a classic fried egg sandwich, but the eggs are organic and it comes topped with avocado.
It’s open late, so if you’ve been driving all night to make it to the City of Angels, you can still get a hot plate here. And maybe even spot a celeb out for a midnight snack!
Tackling Maine’s Lobster Trail?
Palace Diner – Biddefort, Maine
You probably want a break from lobster, so get your fill of the diner classics here. The meals are served in an antique rail car built in 1927, one of two of its kind left in existence.
Hopping national parks from the Badlands to Yellowstone?
Phillips Avenue Diner – Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The super vintage diner is Instagram-worthy and has that retro jukebox feel.
Because ice cream is the answer to a long day of driving, get a milkshake. We want the “Emmanomnom!” right now. Chocolate, M&M’s and cookie dough. Yes.
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