Checking In at: Daphne’s Diner, Robbinsville NJ

Not everyone ordered breakfast. Fish tacos were a lunch special. Ordinarily, we’d suggest to anyone thinking about ordering fish in a diner to think again, but Daphne’s is one of the very few diners where we’d consider throwing that rule out. It’s really more like a café than a diner, in some ways.

A breakfast special, Crunchy Monkey Hot Cakes: the batter has granola and bananas mixed in. These are the white flour version; they also come in whole wheat. The texture of the cakes was, admittedly, a little pasty, but once spread with butter and drenched with syrup (Aunt Jemima – we need to start bringing our own flask of the real thing, not just to Daphne’s but anytime we go out for breakfast), they were good enough that we polished off the entire serving. Loved those blobs of banana! The very juicy link sausage was an add-on.