The word "diner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a restaurant that offers a wide variety of American-style food. For example, "Let's go to the diner and get some burgers and fries."
A neat dresser, fastidious diner and devotee of wine and champagne, Arthur bought a property near Grasse, in Provence, and visited it frequently, preferably when he could watch English football on the satellite dish with a link provided, he claimed, by "a man in a Leicester attic".
Herc fuck-ups: Half up to seven – him and Carver are too busy chatting to notice when Spiros leaves the diner, but it doesn't really matter because there's bug on the car.
Indeed, it presents the diner with a problem – where to dump a piece of a parsley stalk covered in hollandaise sauce?
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was one of the key writers on The Sopranos, whose final scene, a sharp cut to black at Holsten's diner, is still endlessly debated.
Kebabs are the latest junk food to receive the gourmet treatment: witness Lokkanta in Westbourne Grove, an upscale takeaway and diner where the design is chic and the Turkish kebabs smoky and fine.
At the Beacon Drive-in diner in Spartanburg, Paul chastised proponents of the Patriot Act for arguing the law would prevent another 9/11.
A walk down 24th Street gives a real flavour of the area; heading towards the beautifully unreconstructed vintage diner St Francis Fountain is La Torta Gorda, where their ginormous sandwiches are stuffed with all manner of good things: carne asada, grilled poblano peppers, or their cult pierna enchilada (pulled pork shank).
It's interesting that the insult that pushes him over the edge – being called a Malaka (wanker) by Double G – is the same one that George mutters quietly when Nick first brings Ziggy to the diner.
The "best screenplay" went to Neil Labute's witty blackish comedy "Nurse Betty", about a diner waitress who confuses her nasty real life with her favourite medical soap opera.
FOR the average Indian-restaurant diner, aesthetic considerations perhaps weigh less heavily than alcoholic or pecuniary ones.
A TRULY informed diner would choose a restaurant based on the quality of the menu and the chef's experience.
