Loganton,PA is a sleepy little town right off an I-80 exit, and it contains a diner that servers an artery clogging guilty pleasure. The Twilight Diner seems like it could be a fancy big city retro '50's diner when you see the sign on the highway. Pulling in to the eatery presents a different picture: a standard rural Pennsylvania diner. Zero frills. Personally, it's my favorite: painted plywood walls, linoleum floor, dimly lit ceiling. It doesn't have the fancy wood paneling that the Snow Shoe diner had, and dammit, it doesn't need it. The Twilight is not a town meeting hall. It might not be an impressive place to take a date, like many other diners, it does its job: give you food.
Most of the menu reads as basic diner cuisine, save for one special: the Mountain Sandwich. A piece of Sirloin, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and two buttered, thick slices of bread. It seems unbelievably fatty, but that is what make it taste so good. The price was not that different from the regular choices on the menu (though I visited when the Mt. sandwich combo was a special), and is a real treat. The fries served with is were weak and not memorable at all. In college, had I known the Twilight Diner and its Mountain Sandwich existed less than 30 miles away, I would have made more than one out of the way trip to eat this interesting meal.
This marks the end of the road trip, I return to posting Philadelphia eateries next week with a better sports bar than Boston's: The Field House.
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The Twilight Diner is owned by the two biggest stoners in Pennsylvania. Now some may say, "Hey, thats freakin' cool." But I say it's illegal. They smoke pot in their employee bathroom while they work. They pay under the table to their employees. They spit in peoples food that they don't like. I have absolutely no idea how the health inspector ever passed them because their establishment is FILTHY. & would never recommend them to anyone.
of course this is anonymous. If you know anything about the restaurant business you would know that it would be impossible to own and operate a successful restaurant while being under the influence of drugs. Could you possibly be one of the few people that we had to let go? I'll acccept your opinion when you run a restaurant for eight years in this economy. As for your other accusations I will just say that you are disgusting. We prepare every plate as if we are going to eat it ourselves. I'm sorry if you haven't found another job, it is tough out there. We have had 5 of our 8 employees for the entire time we have owned the diner. So, may be, just may be we are doing something right. I ask that any customer please feel free to question our employees about the integrity of our food. and because i am an honest person and not some person who is trying to sabotage a business I will sign my name.
Sincerely, Connie King Owner, Twilight Diner
Bob M-my family and I ran across the Twilight Diner on route 80 on the way to Chicago a few years ago. We stopped in for a bite of lunch, and I had the Mountain Sandwich, and I was hooked! We made a point to stop there on the way back, and have done so each time we have traveled that way again. The sandwich is absolutely unbelievable. In fact I have raved about this place to anyone who was willing to listen. I was just telling a guy who rides a motorcycle here at my job that it would be a great place to make a day trip out to the area and stop in for a Mountain. I think the place is great, I felt comfortable and it looked very clean to me. Anonymous sounds like he or she has a bone to pick with these folks and that's all. PERsonally, I don't care if they did smoke pot on their breaks, if it helped them come up with the Mountain. I mean that sandwich is like a drug that I'm addicted to!
Again the idiot who left the comment on the "stoners" who run the place obviously has a personal issue with the owners. We live in Connecticut and have been stopping for years at this place and it is fantastic, great food served hot and value priced. Just sopped last week. The homemade soup is worth the wait alone..be sure to stop when you can it is right off I-80 about a quarter mile.
I remember a place that had a mountain sandwich off exit 28 that closed in the early 80's if I remember correctly. Does anyone remember the name (valley something) and the relationship between this mountain sandwich and the one of my youth?
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