Shyrl's Diner - 18

Date: 9/4/10

Restaurant: Shyrl's Diner  
Address: 31 Main Street  
City: West Lebanon  
Phone: 298-6918

It's been a little bit since we ate at Shyrl's. Sven and I took off for Swan's Island, ME before I was able to post our most recent breakfast. Our breakfast at Shyrl's was pretty memorable, so hopefully I will be able to do it justice here.

After a couple weeks of being able to order whatever we wanted, it was kind of funny that we both were sort of in the mood for a "standard". So  this week we were back to our old routine. It was kind of nice.

STANDARD - 2 eggs OE, potatoes, bacon, toast

Eggs *****
Perfect.         
  

Potatoes ***
Kind: Homefries. These are getting a strong 3. Some of them were actually crisp! Came with optional onions. They were cooked, but not mushy. These potatoes were alright! Thought about giving them a higher rating because of the awful potatoes we have had thus far, but I had to remind Sven that we needed to hold on to our standards. The day we find potatoes that are a 5... well, we may just have to quit after that.        


Toast *****
Kind: Wheat  
Homemade? Yes.
It was only 10¢ more for homemade toast, which just seems silly to me, but man, look at that toast! It was a beautiful thing... thick, crispy on the outside and fluffy.
      

Bacon **
Overdone. A couple bites were chewy, but the rest was dry and crunchy.
  
 
  
SERVER RECOMMENDATION
We asked our server what her favorite breakfast was and what she recommended. She told us she didn't eat breakfast and just read the specials off the "specials board" which we could read quite clearly from where we were sitting.
  

SPECIAL **** Banana Bread French Toast w/2 Bacon and 2 Sausage
Great flavor that lingered. The portion was the perfect size. The greatest part was that a pint-size container of REAL maple syrup was placed on the table at no extra charge. No dinky little cup of syrup...I think I used half of that pint!

SERVICE ***
We are giving our server a 2 for personality and a 4 for service. She got the job done, but had absolutely no spunk.  
     
      
DECOR ****  
A definite breakfast place with counter seating as well as tables. The walls were bead board painted brown with yellow and green accents. There were framed, cross stitched trite sayings, photos of older women and pictures of flowers on the walls. There were a number of vases of fake flowers around as well.
      
    
  
NOTES
Not sure if it was our arrival at such and early hour, but the place was filled with elderly folk. The place was busy the whole time we were there and I noticed a few tables of younger people on our way out. There was a broad age range of the folks working there. Some seemed to have a bit of spunk, but we didn't get to experience that first hand.

SVEN'S TAKE