Do Diners serve Beer?

[gassers]

I am asking this cause there are no diners where i live, and i was rewatching this opening scene in Reservoir Dogs where Eddie is drinking beer. Just was very weird. Or are they just at a restaurant? What's the difference b/w a restaurant and diner?

These are important questions that need to be answered folks.

 

[Turk February]

yes

 

[Monk]

Many diners do not serve alcoholic drinks, although some may serve beer and inexpensive wine, while others—particularly in New Jersey and on Long Island carry a full drink menu, including mixed drinks.

Diner - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I can't recall any diner I've ever been to in the midwest serving alcohol.

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

there are no diners where i live

Liar

 

[Jenna]

Yeah most diners I've been in haven't served alcohol, but I guess one could if they had their liquor license.

The major difference between diner/restaurant is most diners have the same things. Pancakes, cheeseburgers: stuff that isn't terribly difficult to make but still are American comfort foods.

Restaurants are generally more expensive and take themselves more seriously, usually with some sort of theme based on the chef and/or owner's background.

The thing is most diner establishments that would get a liquor license turn into Hooligans type deals, a bar that serves diner-esque food. While most fancy restaurants do serve alcohol but the focus is primarily on the food.

 

[gassers]

Liar

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I dont dine with savages who eat with their hands funster. I frequent places like below to quell my appetite.

 

[Jenna]

Another way of looking at it is like this:

Restaurants serve alcohol, but if you get shitfaced at a restaurant you come across as a trash person. You can get a good buzz going with a few drinks, but if you're stumbling to the bathroom and apologizing to strangers, you get asked to leave.

Bar/Eateries like Hooligans, you're there to get drunk. Bottoms up.

Diner is where you go at 2am when you're shitfaced and want a goddamn bowl of onion rings. As long as you're not violent and destructive, you can sit there like a drunken mess and sober up a bit before you head home. Nobody judges you because they know what kind of customers they get that time of night.

 

[gassers]

Bar/Eateries like Hooligans, you're there to get drunk. Bottoms up.

Idk Maan, the bar I go to let's me plug in my laptop, I sit at the counter, not a separate table, and "write" my always work in progress manuscripts.
I chug large amounts of beer in between though.

Is that odd? I thought that was Bars were for.

 

[guest]

In the Midwest and south, usually not. In cities/coasts, not unusual.

 

[LingerLonger]

I lived across the street from one of the largest diners in NY when I went to school. They served alcohol and had a pretty strong crowd most nights grabbing dinner with beers. They would serve most Italian food with wine as well. I honestly cannot think of a diner or restaurant near me that does not serve alcohol. Even most of our takeout restaurants here allow you to take home alcohol and a few will even deliver.

Like during the holocough lockdowns I had a restaurant deliver my father a burger and two beers.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I know there was a Dennys in Los Angeles that was one of the few that had a bar, might have been on sunset or Hollywood Blvd. Adam Carolla had talked about going there when he was in construction and the crew guys getting all loaded.

 

[guest]

the dennys by my place is 24 hours open...and serve drinks.

After 2 am you usually see strippers, hoes and pimps getting their meals after a long night

 

[Dog Eater]

the dennys by my place is 24 hours open...and serve drinks.

After 2 am you usually see strippers, hoes and pimps getting their meals after a long night

Maybe that's why after they're so bust they can't even work a strip club anymore they go wait tables at Denny's?

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Denny’s serves beer in Canada. Best I can do for you.

 

[Jims_Maroon_Pants]

I am asking this cause there are no diners where i live, and i was rewatching this opening scene in Reservoir Dogs where Eddie is drinking beer. Just was very weird. Or are they just at a restaurant? What's the difference b/w a restaurant and diner?

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These are important questions that need to be answered folks.

I'm Greek and Greeks own diners, yes some diners have a liquor license. The difference between a diner and a restaurant is a diner has a counter and you can get breakfast anytime

 

[Niki]

Mostly no unless it's pretty rural no suburban diners by me serve alcohol

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I'm Greek

My opinion of @Jims_Maroon_Pants as a man just plummeted!

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

My opinion of @Jims_Maroon_Pants as a man just plummeted!

Seems like @Jims_Maroon_Pants is a....... Stealthy Greek.

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

I'm Greek and Greeks own diners, yes some diners have a liquor license.

What's your opinion on da Ouzo?

I think it drink prutty gud.

 

[TomFromNawlins]

I’ve been in a number of New Jersey diners that served alcohol. It’s the diner capital of the world by the way.