Restaurants keep opening, diners keep filling them, and no one can figure out how long the boom can continue, what the next food trend will be or who all these people are.
Similarly, Andrew Tarlow and Mark Firth, former bartenders at Odeon and Balthazar, opened Diner last year, just blocks from where they live in Williamsburg.
On Dec. 31, 1998, Mr. Firth opened Diner, on Broadway in Williamsburg, with a fellow Balthazar alumnus, Andrew Tarlow, igniting a second wave of restaurants in a neighborhood that had few options: Planet Thai, Teddy's, Miss Williamsburg Diner, Oznot's Dish.
A pizza master is opening a diner, and a high-end chef is doing a sports bar.
"I never went to school for film or food," Mr. Johnston said, although his wife, Amy McNutt, went to the University of Southern California and worked in the film industry for a few years before returning to Texas and opening the diner.
No ending seemed desirable or natural, so we sat down for breakfast at a miraculously open diner.
Bryan Voltaggio's Range is one step closer to opening as diners can make reservations for a "pop-in" preview at the Friendship Heights restaurant as of 5 a.m.
After the lake vanished, she closed the shop and opened the diner, to serve miners.
Later, Nicholas Canlis opened a diner in Stockton, Calif, but Peter, his son, had his eye on finer fare.
Splitting from Tony, Andy opened Luna Grill — diner food and politics — then Mimi's — bistro food and singing servers — both successful and later sold.
