Silver Diner (***)
12276 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852
Although there are several Silver Diners in the area, all of them are equally delicious. Well . . . the three that I have visited have been awesome. The diners are set up like those from the 50s and 60s, but without all of the Jim Crow discrimination. Ok, I know that I’ve said that a restaurant has to work hard to screw up breakfast, but Silver Diner definately has it going on. While the lines during the weekends can be really long, they move VERY fast.
The Lumberjack Breakfast
This is the meal to get when you are in hangry mode. For about $15, you get 3 silver dollar pancakes, TWO meats, eggs, and potatoes. Yes, I know that I should have stuck with the egg white omelette, but I wanted to go for broke in terms of my caloric intake for the day.
During another visit, I asked for my Chesapeake Bay Bloody Mary to be served without an Old Bay Seasoning rim. Y’all know how I feel about the latest Mid-Atlantic trend of putting Old Bay Seasoning on/in every-damn-thing. The waiter was like: So you just want a regular Bloody Mary? I thought to myself, if you are going to call something a Chesapeake Bay X, Y, or Z, then I would expect crab meat, NOT Old Bay Seasoning.