Vesta Dinner

Friday night Jon and I biked uptown to the truly legendary Toronto diner, The Vesta Lunch. The Vesta has been open 24 hours a day every day since it opened in 1955. It must be one of the most narrow diners in the city as it has no booths, just a lunch counter with stools running paralell to the small open kithcen. The whole place can't be more than 10 feet wide. It proved a good place for Jon and I to regroup our thoughts after each having very long days. There was little talk as he sketched the iconic interior and I focued on my food mostly. Jon got a chocolate milkshake which is quite reasonably priced at $3. He said it was very thick and quite excellent. I ordered the Cheeseburger Deluxe which supposedly came with fries and coleslaw, but I only got fries. Despite the lacking coleslaw the meal was quite excellent. The patty itself was a little on the small side compared to that of say a Friendly's or a People's Food patty but it was still an excellent burger. The fries were quite good too - the 'golden fry' style done quite well. I think it cost me 5.50 or something around there. Also the old guy at the grill was amazing. He looked like he had been waring the same shirt for the last 30 years, not that it was dirty or anything, it wasn't, but his whole style was a complete time capsule. Also the other guy runnin' the place and taking the orders reminded me of the old SNL skit where the guy kept goin' "chesseburger, chesseburger, chesseburger, chesseburger" and so on as thats pretty much all he was sayin as we were there. So in conclusion, the food is decent, the price is good but the Vesta gets full maks for atmosphere.