"Miss America diner is located in Jersey City’s West Side, right across the street from the Social Security office and across the Hackensack River from Newark. Built by the O’Mahony company of Elizabeth, the diner dates to 1940, but the current structure was installed in 1958, and has had a succession of Greek owners. It is long and nearly all metal, with an added dining room on the end that dates to the 90s. The pancakes were a bit on the rubbery side, and the butter wasn’t butter, but they were pretty good in the way pancakes always are. The happy waitress dish was tomato and bacon on slices of white bread with American cheese annealed to the top. The best thing was corned beef hash, more pureed than most, but with visible shreds of pink meat." - Robert Sietsema
