Lincoln Restaurant

After eating there for several years, I just had to give up. The food by and large is awful, prepared with complete indifference to taste or grease content. I had hoped that after the owner who had past away from pancreatic cancer, that there might a change in management and hopefully, the kitchen staff. But no such change has been made.

I prefer frequenting local businesses and would enjoy eating in a diner that serves, wholesome, if staid cuisine, but the Lincoln diner misses on all counts. Plus it needs a good cleaning and with warm, soapy water and fix the water leaks.

My hair salon is in the area and I noticed a sign outside advertising Monday night Banjo - no cover.  So we make a point to return to this place to check out the music.  The "decor" (we'll use that term lightly here), is confused and out-dated.  It is a mix of old, new, and just plain tacky.  I'd be happy to get past the decor if the food and service was good.  However, the waitress got us a beer and didn't return for a really long time to take our food order.  It wasn't very busy, and she looked over at us several times, but didn't bother to actually come take the order.  The menu itself is as confused as the decoration in this place - it ranges from pastas to Asian to burgers.  We ordered the Italian panini with fries.  First, there is nothing about this panini that is Italian.  The bread was nice, but it stops there.  It was filled with some kind of unidentifiable meat and something I'll assume were vegetables.  The fries had clearly come out of the freezer, and all it smelled strangely of beef - and not in a good way.  This experience seemed to take forever, always trying to flag down the waitress.  When we finally got our check, she disappeared with our credit card for a good 10 minutes while she delivered food to another table.  Once we signed and were exiting, the first speedy thing she did all night was snatch the receipt off the table.  If negative tip were possible, we would have done so.  And if you're wondering what the Banjo night was all about - we'll just say there were about 10 older gentlemen playing a variety of instruments with one banjo player that you could barely hear.  I hardly think this counts as a Banjo night.  And the fact that the "no cover" advertisement implies there is EVER a cover to come in this disaster of a restaurant is a joke.  One banjo not withstanding, the rest of the music was lackluster.  Needless to say, we won't be coming back here.

This place is solid as a diner. You have your standard diner menu with your standard diner food quality and pricies to choose from. You know the kinds of things I am talking about. i don't need to divulge much information now. The quality is consistent with any solid diner in the city.

I must jump ahead right now. When we were done with meals our server came around with a dessert tray. We were NOT expecting a nicely prepared dessert tray at a place like this. They got us hook, line, and sinker. We had to have a dessert!

You know how some places make an effort to go retro? This place makes no effort to go retrro because everything looks the same that it did many years ago, most likely when it first opened. It was not a turn off because everything was well kept but it was quite amusing to an extent.

It was a good, solid diner meal experience, worth of a return trip by us in the future!