Instead, I end up reading street signs and atlases, menus in greasy diners, or historical markers at strange, abandoned roadside attractions where I..

The restaurant was a cheap, greasy diner, across the street from a garage.

On "E.R." they live in shabby flats, eat at greasy diners and ride motorcycles or the subway.

M Map In the same block as Mama's, this old standby looks like a modernized greasy diner, but serves pan-Asian noodle dishes, many of them vegetarian.

Maybe by now Missing Mile had somewhere to eat besides that greasy diner.

Flo is a waitress of a greasy diner, and Eddie her main customer, who usually tells her and her family outlandish stories.

The chain offered straightforward American food in immaculate surroundings, which may not sound like much but represented a great leap forward from the greasy diners and fleabag Kozy Kottages that lined the nation's highways.

They found an empty booth at a small, moderately greasy diner with Formica table-tops and cracked red plastic booth seats.

The courtship occurs all over Manhattan - in greasy diners, in three-star restaurants, in midtown offices, on subways - giving Ms. Naylor a chance to accommodate several set pieces.

He runs a greasy diner called Dan's DiskWorld in downtown San Jose.