Coffee Cup Family Restaurant — Restaurant in Princeton

It’s Thursday evening around 6 and I’m off with the family for some dinner. I chose The Coffee Cup because it seemed like an out of the box choice for dinner. This place was obviously a drive in decades ago. It does make you feel nostalgic for the heydays of old cars and waitresses on roller skates, a burger and chocolate malt. But no, now it is simply a shade of khaki, lacking any character.

The interior is fine just as is to be expected as were the menu choices. I ordered the Pork Chop Special. The pork chops were so thin they must have cut them with a deli slicer. They were as dry as a communion wafer, arid and bereft of any discernable flavor. Over- cooked sawdust. I never knew carrots were green and brown. A starving rabbit would have passed on these discs of death. Powdered mashed potatoes only NASA could be proud of. The cooks should be taken to the town center and placed in a pillory and ridiculed for their crimes against swine.

According to the Big Food Jerk.

On the bright side the waitress was nice and competent. The bathroom was clean and odor free. However if breakfast is their thing then stop taking money from people who are looking for dinner. I cannot and would not recommend this joint for...

The place is nice, and the food is fairly decent, although they don't season their potatoes in any way. But, the service was as bad as I have had. My wife, two year old son, and I sat down first, and ordered while waiting for my parents to arrive. The waitress took our orders, and snatched the menus away leaving us to implore her to wait to order for us to order food for our son. Then, once the food portion of the order was finished, she tried to leave again. We had to stop her to tell her that he wanted a drink. Then when the food came, she didn't bring my son any silverware. It's like a toddler wasn't a person to her. After she brought the food, she NEVER came back. I had to go to the bar to ask for the necessary silverware and extra napkins. Then my parents arrived, and the waitress NEVER came to ask for their order. They ended up giving up and going hungry. Then, at the end, they don't take debit cards, so I had to take cash out if their ATM, at a $3 fee. It was a terrible experience. I cannot imagine a scenario where I would go there again, even though it is...

The cup has the cheapest, fastest sit-down eats of any diner on the I-80 corridor, but ATTENTION PLEASE: they don't take credit cards. I've never had a dirty piece of silverware. If you get seafood or anything that isn't 'merican, I hope you got Jesus and Kaopectate, cause you're going to need 'em, not necessarily in that order.

Service can be spotty and local regulars are going to get the best of it, no doubt. But be nice, smile and say please -- you'll be fine. Remember this ain't McDonald's, your poo smells too and that gal taking your order is there to pay her rent, not to save up for the new Playstation.

They recently did a big remodel, which really changed the vibe, but I don't miss the old look! Before the remodel, you could still smell the cigarettes somebody smoked in 1955.

Between my family and I, we've eaten about everything on the menu. It's a diner, a real one, so stick with the griddle and...