Modern Diner runs out of a Sterling Streamliner, one of the factory-built "modernistic" diner cars made in the late 1930s and early 1940s, customized for its spot on East Avenue in Pawtucket. It was the first diner in the country accepted onto the National Register of Historic Places.
The menu sticks to diner classics alongside breakfast specials that change regularly — the kind of simple, quick-service fare the format was built on. Diners themselves trace back to Providence, where Walter Scott's horse-drawn canteen sold pies, coffee, and light food to night workers starting in 1872.
Regulars have kept coming back for the atmosphere as much as the food — an art deco room with a loyal, nostalgic following and a reputation as something of a hidden gem in Pawtucket.
The menu sticks to diner classics alongside breakfast specials that change regularly — the kind of simple, quick-service fare the format was built on. Diners themselves trace back to Providence, where Walter Scott's horse-drawn canteen sold pies, coffee, and light food to night workers starting in 1872.
Regulars have kept coming back for the atmosphere as much as the food — an art deco room with a loyal, nostalgic following and a reputation as something of a hidden gem in Pawtucket.