Fort Hamilton Diner — Restaurant in New York

I have been working my way through the menu since I found out this diner in my local area was open 24/7. So many wonderful things, with a few things to improve on, but not enough to toy with my 5 star rating. Let's get a few things out of the way at the beginning.

The diner is open ALL DAY AND NIGHT. None of the other sit down restaurants seems to have done so since the first pandemic shutdown. Top marks for that. You can pick up, eat in, or get delivery ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT. Google maps shows the place closing at 10pm. That is only for online ordering. You can call in a pick-up or delivery order any time - you just can't do the online ordering thing after 10pm. You can come and order pick-up or eat in all the time. 24/7. Just don't bother with the online ordering. Perfect.

I have had quite a few things on the menu. Here are the things I didn't particularly like, but it wasn't specifically because they were prepared badly.

The stuffing that comes with the turkey or the roast chicken is awful (to me.) It is very sweet - probably made with sweet cornbread, which isn't my thing. I order those items with something else, like mashed potatoes or rice in place of the stuffing. Easy enough, right?

The lettuce and tomato that comes with the sandwiches if they are deluxe - skip it for pick-up. The heat of the sandwich wilts the lettuce and the tomato is a bit soggy as well after being on the hot sandwich. Not bad quality - it would just be less of an issue if the lettuce and tomato was packed separately, instead of being on the sandwich. Not a big deal, but good to know.

The gravy is made with wine, I believe, because I have an allergy to ingesting wood particles that wine has, because most wine is aged in oak casks. This is my allergy, so no comment on the quality. It just would have been nice to know ahead of time, and I would have asked to leave the gravy off. It was sent in a separate cup, so it was all ok. I tasted it, the burning on my tongue told me I was allergic, and I set it aside. No harm, no foul. I just wasn't expecting wine in a sauce at a diner that wasn't marked so when I ordered it. I watch out for things like that, and that was unexpected. I am allergic to wine that have gone through aging in oak casks, with the oak being what I am allergic to - not the wine itself, nor the alcohol.

Now, for the highlights...

The roast chicken, turkey, salmon, grilled chicken, grilled chicken sandwiches, burgers, pasta (I had the angel hair,) meat sauce, marinara, meatballs, french fries, french toast, ham, bacon, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, peas and carrots, sodas in cans, snapples in the plastic bottles, and much more - all great stuff. Typical diner fare in the way it is prepared, and comes out quite fast, even though it is not premade (to my knowledge.) The meat sauce may have had a very small amount of wine in the base of the sauce, but it obviously wasn't enough to trigger an allergic reaction. It just tasted like there might have been wine in it. Then again, it also could have been a wine aged in steel casks, like certain white wines and certain sancerre wines. I wasn't allergic to it, so not a big deal.

The thing on the menu I like the most is unexpected for me. I am fond of many things on the menu, but one item stands out. The chicken soup that is made daily is really good, with lots of shredded chicken, orzo pasta, veggies, etc. So many times, soup is overlooked because it is a freebie that comes with the dinner meals. This is the best chicken soup I have had in NYC. Their soups are made daily (I am told,) so it always tastes fresh. The other soups on the menu change daily, and I haven't tried them yet. Maybe this coming week I'll try another soup.

Anyway, the food is really top notch and the diner is open 24/7 (except for online ordering only, which closes at 10pm, most probably to make sure that things are not ordered that they might be out of and cannot get until the next day.)

The location is directly over the last stop of the R train at 95th Street...

I had the Full Irish Breakfast. It was pretty good. I tried the Irish black pudding and Irish white pudding for the first time. I found out it's a blood sausage the black one and the white one doesn't have blood. I didn't know that. I thought it was going to be like the kind of pudding that we know in the USA. I liked the sausage and the bacon. I don't know why it was called Irish sausage and Irish bacon because I couldn't tell the difference from USA bacon and sausage. The home fries were decent. The toast was good. The coffee was okay. It was not the best coffee but it was drinkable. I liked the scrambled eggs just fine. I've been wanting to check this place out for a couple years so I was happy to go. The man who worked there taking...

this place is horrible and it's been horrible for a long long time the only time when I come here is when the narrows diner family goes on vacation this place is absolutely disgusting this has one waiter in the whole place and he must be the owner also I just can't figure it out whenever I ask him is the bacon fresh she goes yes the big is not fresh it's cooked the day before or the cook 12 hours before I don't know but this place is totally disgusting orange juice is always turned and it's always terrible the eggs are always overcooked and the service is just horrible so if you want to waste money and waste time with terrible service and terrible food please come...