5 & Diner to Close
This Sunday (June 19), will be the last day that the 5 & Diner restaurant in Temecula will be serving meals. The diner, located next do...
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This Sunday (June 19), will be the last day that the 5 & Diner restaurant in Temecula will be serving meals. The diner, located next door to the Road House Grill, along Ynez Road, is closing up.
My wife has been a frequent customer, and the waitresses there knew her. One of the cooks knew her as "Strawberry Waffle", because that's what she always ordered for breakfast.
The owners of the restaurant sold it off to someone else, who plans to do something else with it. It wasn't clear to my wife of the details, but she suspects the owners are getting a divorce. The restaurant itself actually gets a lot of business.
In the past weeks, the owners have been selling off the 50's style pictures that hang on the wall. Between now and the last day, the restaurant is only open until 3:00pm.
My wife is quite saddened. Some of the folks who work there don't know where they will be going. She'll also miss some of the regular customers there.
Of all the 50's style restaurants in the area, such as Richie's, Rocky Cola Cafe, the new Ruby's, 5 & Diner definitely stood out as the most "homely" of them all. You can walk in there, and the waitress will tell you to sit whereever you want. You can pluck a quarter into a table-side juke box and hear your favorite oldie.
The two Richie's restaurants are probably my second choice. I like the decor of the one in Red Hawk. But it still has somewhat of a "company" feel. Forget about Rocky Cola Cafe. The times I went there, the service was terrible, and the decor looked worn and weathered. As for the new Ruby's? Well, it felt extremely "corporate" to me. It just had no feeling of a small-town family restaurant.
5 & Diner is actually chain of restaurants located throughout the United States. This franchise in Temecula was the only 5 & Diner in California.
Even though I myself didn't eat at 5 & Diner much, I have to admit, it had that "down home" feel, like you were in a small town. There aren't too many restaurants you can say that about.
My wife has been a frequent customer, and the waitresses there knew her. One of the cooks knew her as "Strawberry Waffle", because that's what she always ordered for breakfast.
The owners of the restaurant sold it off to someone else, who plans to do something else with it. It wasn't clear to my wife of the details, but she suspects the owners are getting a divorce. The restaurant itself actually gets a lot of business.
In the past weeks, the owners have been selling off the 50's style pictures that hang on the wall. Between now and the last day, the restaurant is only open until 3:00pm.
My wife is quite saddened. Some of the folks who work there don't know where they will be going. She'll also miss some of the regular customers there.
Of all the 50's style restaurants in the area, such as Richie's, Rocky Cola Cafe, the new Ruby's, 5 & Diner definitely stood out as the most "homely" of them all. You can walk in there, and the waitress will tell you to sit whereever you want. You can pluck a quarter into a table-side juke box and hear your favorite oldie.
The two Richie's restaurants are probably my second choice. I like the decor of the one in Red Hawk. But it still has somewhat of a "company" feel. Forget about Rocky Cola Cafe. The times I went there, the service was terrible, and the decor looked worn and weathered. As for the new Ruby's? Well, it felt extremely "corporate" to me. It just had no feeling of a small-town family restaurant.
5 & Diner is actually chain of restaurants located throughout the United States. This franchise in Temecula was the only 5 & Diner in California.
Even though I myself didn't eat at 5 & Diner much, I have to admit, it had that "down home" feel, like you were in a small town. There aren't too many restaurants you can say that about.
