Cutchogue Diner — Restaurant in Town of Southold

Been here upwards of five or six times, sometimes for breakfast and a few times for lunch - never had a bad meal or unpleasant service. Menu is typical of diners anywhere else, but the options are always cooked well and seved promptly. Their chocolate milkshakes are delish! Breakfast is great, pancakes are fantastic. The price is right - lunch for two under or around $20. The owners are always in the joint, striking up conversation about the wonderfully historic town that is Cutchogue. The atmosphere is quaint and very friendly - filled with old time photos from the neighborhood....

We asked for table for 4 and waitress told us to wait outside while she cleaned up the table. It was nice table near the window. After 5 minutes two other women came in and just grabbed our table, waitress did not tell them a word and she just put us at the back table near the restroom with explanations: Oh, sorry, they just grabbed your table. We ordered coffee and we waited 10 minutes before someone came again to take our order so I could ask for milk for my coffee. Besides that the ants were on our table. Food was good. But I would not go again. They don’t respect...

This diner taught me what a hamburger really was, and made me cry in the same visit. Probably 1961, my mother read me the menu, offering me my usual, a hamburger sandwich. To my young mind - as I had learned in the Cutchogue Diner in the first place - a hamburger was beef, and a pickle, on a bun. I sure didn't see the point in putting that in a sandwich, and I took a stance, like a four year-old can: just a hamburger, no sandwich! Yes, I cried when my plate held a naked brown patty with no bun. Yes, a bun came quickly and yes, they were wonderful about the whole thing,...