Spoons Diner serves up greasy-spoon-style food that will fill any hungry void and ease any hangover. Nestled in the Super 8 Hotel on Douglas, Spoons is a fun place with a sense of humour.
The first thing you’ll notice about Spoons is that they are very reminiscent in style and feel to Floyd’s Diner. This actually makes a lot of sense, as Spoons was originally going to be a franchise of Floyd’s before the economy bottomed out in 2008 and they went their own route instead. If you’re not familiar with Floyd’s, think 1960s and ’70s diner decor, complete with tacky furniture and Elvis posters.
The staff at Spoons was quick on the draw, seating us with menus and taking drink and food orders shortly thereafter. It was around this point that I realized this was my second time at Spoons. The first was with the same friend after her boyfriend left for the military, and we went for a late breakfast to ease her woes.
The irony here is that we came here to eat again after they had broken up, a fact that neither of us clued in to until we had already ordered food. Anyway, our food came quite fast.
I ordered the clubhouse sandwich with fries, and my friend ordered the Wharf Street Witch with hash browns. The clubhouse was the standard: bacon, chicken, and cheese on bread with some veggies. Simple, but tasty. They use actual chicken breast (as opposed to cold cuts), freshly fried bacon, and good quality bread. The fries weren’t too shabby, either, although definitely greasy.
The Wharf Street Witch was essentially a breakfast bagel. Sporting the normal breakfast bagel fare, it was also slathered in a healthy amount of hollandaise sauce. The hash browns were hash browns… that’s about it. All in all, my cohort was quite impressed with her meal, which at the time seemed to have eased her woes.
Spoons Diner is definitely worth a visit. While not inherently my first choice among breakfast places, it’s easy to get to, surrounded by free parking, and is out of the downtown core, so access is easy. In addition to all of that, it’s cheap! My meal was about $13, and the bagel $11, plus drinks and taxes.
Spoons Diner doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel, but they deliver what they promise with a good sense of humour and at a reasonable price.