"On a recent Thursday at Golden Diner, two patrons took three-hundred-and-sixty-degree spins, in perfect unison, on their swivelling stools. They looked gleeful... Yoo, who once cooked at Momofuku Ko, opened Golden Diner, which does an excellent job of upholding the archetype while meeting modern standards. Take, for example, Yoo’s grilled cheese... There’s a vegan Caesar salad, too... This is not a vegan diner... It’s a genuine catchall, in the mode of its forebears, but better... Coffee refills are free. Unlike your local Athenian, Golden Diner tops its enormous, fluffy pancakes with salted honey-maple butter instead of syrup... The diner is dead; long live the diner. (Dishes $8-$15.)" - Hannah Goldfield
newyorker.com
