In addition, such brevity often makes room for a few specials, giving the chef occasion to delight regular diners with a surprising gustatory turn.

He has been manning the Jackson Diner's tandoori oven ever since it evolved from a regular diner to an Indian restaurant 14 years ago.

The walls are covered in caricatures of regular diners, and there cannot be a leading senator or media superstar who does not go in there.

The regular diners began to show up at five o'clock.

Their impressions are also, no doubt, extremely different from those of regular diners at the same restaurants.

Although reviews certainly reflect critics' idiosyncratic tastes, their job is, mostly, to represent the regular diner, the general consumer.

Farmers, day laborers and porters are now the only regular diners at Xiang Guimei's noodle shop, which no longer sells noodles.

He was also a regular diner at a restaurant owned by Castucci's brother in law from his first marriage.

Formerly a regular diner at Greenwich Village restaurants, she now eats at home.

I owned at one time three or four diners, but they were regular diners - open 24 hours, with a long menu, and the quality was not there.