Inga’s Diner

Had a delicious corned beef omelette over the weekend. These are very nice people who know how to do breakfast and lunch like your mom would have back in the day. So nice to see a small business like this doing so well.

No frills cheap diner. Greasy, yummy standard diner foods. You will smell like a diner when you leave.

A yummy taste of Americana. This is what diners are supposed to be. Mismatched cutlery, various mugs and bowls, and food to satisfy even the heartiest appetite. I’d take a pic of my excellent breakfast but it’s all gone. If licking the plate were allowed, this is the place to do it.

You’ll need to be a tad adventurous to try this little trailer park restaurant.
The breakfast platters are priced very fairly, and the portions are large.
However, watching the (Greek?) guy make our food behind the counter, this did not look like a very clean place.
The food and coffee were ok. Not gross, but certainly not great.

I had low expectations for this place (as I do for most generic American style diners) and somehow I still feel let down. They really know how to put the «hard» in hard roll; the one they used for my bacon egg cheese sandwich (the cheese was more like yogurt) had to have been a week old. The coffee was just dirty brown water and the home fries were hard and undercooked. This is the worst coffee I have ever had. I have never had such a disgusting cup of coffee in my life. I cannot accurately describe just how bad this coffee is.

I wanted to give Inga’s another try. A few big things happened at the restaurant since my last review.
1) There was a change in ownership.
2) The new owners got a great review from the TU.
Now I am not afraid of dirty or dingy restaurants. But the review did specifically mention that the new owners planned to «Spiff up the place a bit.» Almost eight months after the review, the place still looks like it is falling apart.
The food didn’t fare much better.
I specifically ordered the omelet, because the reviewer said, it «was one of the better omelets I’ve had in a long time.» But mine wasn’t. I was served the «half-​moon egg patties here» that the TU reviewer also loathes at other breakfast joints.
You can look at my picture above, and the picture from the TU review to see what I am talking about.
It may not have been the worst Greek omelet I have had, but clearly my expectations were set way too high. And I don’t usually eat eggs, so I was having this as an extra special treat, which made it extra sad that they were disappointing.
Also while we were there, we got the one-​two punch of glass cleaner smells from a nearby table being spritzed and cigarette smoke coming from some mysterious location. Blech.
It’s not a 1* place. The waitress was very nice, and coffee refills kept on coming. But with Dewey’s diner right next door, I will unlikely ever come back to Inga’s.

Inga’s looks like a greasy spoon in an old trailer, which made me want to go there. My culinary whiz of a boyfriend initially turned his nose up at it until he went there a few weeks ago before an appointment. This morning we stopped there for breakfast again.
I like the whole trucker stop feel. Daytime talk shows were playing on the TV and the staff seemed relaxed and laid-​back. There are the traditional diner stools and cracking linoleum floors. I was sort of hoping our waitress would crack her gum and wear a nametag that said «Millie» or «Agnes.» I bet if you could still smoke indoors, she would have had a cigarette hanging from her lip. I kind of loved it.
I got the Trucker’s Special for $ 5.95 — hashbrowns, toast, three eggs and coffee. Dan got the sausage gravy with toast and eggs. Both were filling and cheap and could likely be described as «stick-​to-​your-​ribs.»
It came to $ 14 for both us before tip.
Was it gourmet? Hardly. But sometimes you just want that trucker stop feel, with subpar coffee and greasy eggs, and a parking lot filled with pickup trucks, you know?
Edit: I take back any initial snobbery. Last weekend I tried the Italian omelet from the breakfast specials. For $ 5.95, it was chock full of Italian sausage, mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and peppers. It was absolutely delicious.
Keep in mind this is a cash-​only joint.