3 Stone Family Diner — Restaurant in Lincoln Park

This diner employs the criminally insane.

George’s Lincoln Park diner is an unassuming breakfast/lunch counter joint in a strip mall. It looks like the kind of place you would see in Triple D on Food Network. Upon ordering you realize it more like a place from Kitchen Nightmares.

In hindsight I should have known I was in for a mistake when I heard the tireless toil of microwave buttons in the kitchen. I rarely think of a dish that come out better in the micro. The other big red flag should have been when they told us that the french toast was presoaked, as if bread dunked in eggwash couldn’t be a made to order dish.

The real highlight of the meal was when we found no cheese in the 3 item (cheese, mushroom, green peppers) omelette. Our server assured us she entered it into the computer from across the restaurant. We asked for the cheese as the eggs were still steaming and I love inter table cooking, what we got for this request will go down in infamy for all of time.

Approximately 6 minutes later we were brought a saucer of yellow sludge. Confidently our server exclaimed “I had them melt it for you” to which we affably and uncomfortably smiled. Aha! The microwave duly at work.

If it were 1975 (my guess of its opening date based on the original decor still on display) this meal may have blown back our coiffed hairdos, but I’m certain George is rolling in his grave for the experience had within the walls of his namesake.

If this is your weekly hang, carryon, but if you’re hungry and have never been, keep...

My family always comes here for a quick bite whenever we get a chance to be together. We happened to go on Father’s Day and the owner surprised our table by taking care of the bill for us. The waitress had come to our table to let us know that owner likes to choose a family once a week as a giving back gesture and comps their bill and that our family was chosen. It was so sweet and we asked to meet him to thank him. He said he saw our daughter and said “the kids are our future” in Spanish. It was beautiful. Plus the food is always tasty and the waitress was very personable and polite and friendly throughout the dining...

Walked in this morning and was told from a bored server, “Anywhere is ok.” Sat down the server came over and got my coffee order and the explained they did not have a beverage my husband wanted. She went and got my coffee, dropped it at the table, then walked away. Hubby and I made our breakfast choices, folded up the menu, then waited….. and waited…. Yep you guessed it, waited some more. It was ten minutes before the server came back to get my husband’s drink order. I left my $2.25 for a coffee that tasted horrible and left. We grabbed a few bagel up the road. I see when George retired, the business went...