Brookside Diner — Restaurant in City of Watertown

Chronicles of the Wildman

I like to ride around and find diners in the North Country. I visited Brookside Diner on 6 July 2018. I walk in and immediately see the bar. There's about 15 bar stools wrapping nearly all around the diner. I'm quite partial to bar stools, so this made me happy. I ordered a sausage plate with over easy eggs and home fries. It was such a large plate that I couldn't finish it. It was quite scrumptious and I left satisfied. Let's address the missing star. If I could remove only half a star, I would have. They had supplies stacked (neatly) in a corner of the dining room; cups, sugar packets, to go boxes, and vacuums. This very well might have been necessary due to a lack of a back room and didn't take away from my experience. I had and otherwise pleasant breakfast. I would visit again.

Update: I have upgraded to 5 stars because the staff of Brookside helped me while I was recovering from a motorcycle accident. The are fun, friendly, and funny. I like hanging out with the regulars as well. Thank...

Amazing. As I have posted before I judge off of biscuits and gravy if a place has it, well folks this place has them and I want more! Most times when it comes to gravy you have to add some salt and pepper or a little hot sauce to enhance flavor. Not with this sausage gravy. Just enough spice to give it a little kick but not too much to take away the sausage flavor. The biscuits underneath were soft and fluffy. I didnt even have to order extra gravy because it came with enough on own.

The atmosphere was also enjoyable. Filled with locals laughing and joking around with each other and the waitress. She was full of smiles and very attentive. Nice little place to start the morning in. Will be...

100% confident that if a restaurant inspector walked into this place, it would get shutdown.

The water had a metallic taste. Order simple breakfasts yet they took over 40 minutes to come out. The eggs were not fresh - neither were the hash browns which had a rubber taste. The omelet order - the omelet itself has grease pouring out of it and the potatoes were barely cooked. The breakfast sandwich had a muffin that was burnt.

The table was covered in $1 store party table cloth that was extremely faded and had rips all over the place.

I needed to use the rest room but didn't want to...