Star Diner — Restaurant in City of White Plains

This is an original New York Coach Diner; one of those railroad cars converted to diners. A true piece of history. It is tucked behind a tiny but otherwise unassuming storefront with its own door and tiny entrace,, and the only indicator that this is a restaurant is the movie-theater style sign that tells you it's the Star Diner. It is truly cozy inside, with a long counter and swivel stools, and small booths along the opposite side of the aisle, which leads to two original train bathrooms in the back! The only thing that looks different is the floor-to-ceiling beverage refrigerator, where it appears they had to clear a booth or two to install it there. :-(

The owners & staff are very friendly, and gave us plenty of time to pour over the typically large menu with many of the usual diner staples (breakfast all day? Why, yes!). There seems to be a regular clientele and lots of conversation in the air. My family and I don't understand Spanish, and perhaps it was some other Hispanic language (Puerto Rican?), so we couldn't eavesdrop!

I had really simple, classic corned beef hash and eggs with hash browns. Nothing fancy, and I've never seen an "everyday" kind of diner use anything but the canned variety. Still, soul-food for me! Also had an egg-cream. Basically some chocolate milk with a generous spritz of seltzer (plain soda water). They recommend their homemade rice pudding, so I had to get some and share, of course. It was really delicious, and with such a large helping that was enough for at least two, I was really stuffed when I managed to get myself unglued to my seat, bundle up, and waddle out the door.

Oh, and the prices are really reasonable, too! I felt a bit transported back in time when I realized we've gone through decades of upscaling old concepts, elevating the same basic food to "gourmet," and paying a ton more more it. Sometimes it's worth it, but other times it just feels unnecessary. This felt pretty comfortable to me

Very happy I found and decided to go in to this astounding piece of architectural and cultural culinary history hidden behind those old, beat up storefronts in downtown...

My sister and I walked here after visiting our mom at The Kensington. We almost turned around at the Cash Only sign, but couldn't resist stepping back in time and I used my emergency cash, with the prominent ATM at the doorway as a backup. I chose the cheapest thing I could find on the extensive menu, a cup of chicken noodle soup, and my sister got a milkshake to share. We sat at the counter for the fun of it, watching the cook at the grill directly in front of us was nostalgically great. My soup came in a small bowl and I remarked that the bowl portion must be huge. The soup was overflowing with noodles and vegetables and chunks of chicken while the liquid was bland - my sister said it should be really salty to be good diner food, I disagreed. The milkshake was delicious, very chocolately and thick. We had enough for about 2 glasses each, very satisfying. When I paid at the register. The soup was either 4.00 or 4.50, I didn't look at other prices carefully so I am not sure which item was which. I guess the waitress DID give me the bowl size, not what I ordered. I had enough cash to cover the bill and the prices were still reasonable, so I didn't say anything. (I do wonder whether this happens often and my sister and I were an easy target, but I did get a good cup of...

Really mediocre food. Me and my fiance came here for dinner and much to our reluctance after seeing the entrance decided to try it anyway because we saw there were customers. We ordered the Yankee pot roast with mash and corn $10 and meatloaf with mash and peas and carrots $10. The pot roast was dry, under seasoned and unmemorable. It wasn't even a real pot roast, it was 6 slices of beef in a tomato type of gravy. The mash was okay and the corn was straight out of the can. The meatloaf meal was basically what you could get from a frozen tv dinner from Stouffer's. Staff is nice but there was also some kind of language barrier or confusion, I asked for the Italian bread and got wheat toast instead...

At $24 (including tip) I expected better. We should have stuck to the diner staples like breakfast and all...