East Bay Diner

Long Island is blessed with a plethora of good diners.  Count this place among them.

Let's start with the decor.  It's ...different. Kitschy.  A throwback.  And utterly delightful.

There's a waterfall at the diner's entrance.





Glass light fixtures and digital fish tanks add to the mood.










Look up at the ceiling.  That's a fish.

And the dividers between booths, they're waves.




But you didn't come here for the decorations.  You came for the food.

There's a very extensive menu: breakfast items, sandwiches, burgers, dinners.  Reasonably priced, huge portions of food. My veal parm dinner -- tender slices of veal over linquini with plenty of mozzarella -- was enough to feed two people, and came with a cup of beef barley soup (so thick with barley it was almost like eating a porridge) and a huge salad that included red onion, red cabbage and tomatoes.  Cheesecake was creamy but not heavy and tasty but not overly sweet.

Service was friendly and efficient.  Parking lot is ample. 

We're adding this one to our "go to" places.