Yankee Diner

Charlton, Massachusetts

Tue to Fri 8am to 2pm Sat & Sun 7am to 2pm Cash Only, ATM Inside (508) 410-0022
The Yankee Diner on Worcester Road, a white barrel-roofed dining car with Yankee Diner and Booth Service hand-painted in green lettering, American flags along the roofline and neon OPEN signs in the windows.

Honest food for honest people.

Breakfast and lunch cooked from scratch every morning, in a genuine Worcester Lunch Car that has stood on Route 20 for the better part of a century.

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Daily Specials

Our specials board, served every day alongside the full menu.

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Banana bread french toast, cut into triangles, dusted with powdered sugar and served with sliced strawberries and banana.
Banana Bread French Toast

Everything on the specials board is made to order, same as the rest of the kitchen.

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From the Kitchen

Cooked to order on the same griddle, plated the same way it has been for years.

The Yankee Burger: a half pound patty with cheese, bacon and a fried egg on a bulkie roll, served with french fries.
Yankee Burger
A crispy chicken breast sandwich on a bulkie roll with lettuce, piled alongside a nest of homemade onion rings.
Crispy Chicken Sandwich
A waffle dusted with powdered sugar and topped with sliced strawberries, blueberries and a pat of butter.
Waffle with Berries
Grilled chicken breast sliced over romaine and spinach with tomato, red onion and shredded carrot.
Grilled Chicken Salad

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Inside the diner: a long counter with red stools running the length of the car, wooden booths on the right and the original barrel ceiling overhead.

Some diners are built to look old. Ours is the real thing.

The Yankee Diner is an original Worcester Lunch Car, one of the barrel-roofed dining cars hand-built in Worcester, Massachusetts, back when a hot breakfast and a cup of coffee were how a day got started.

It has carried a few different names and more than a few owners, and it even went quiet for a stretch. The little diner that refused to disappear is still here, still cooking everything from scratch. Pull up a stool and you are not just getting breakfast, you are sitting inside a piece of New England history.

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Plan Your Visit

Hours

Tue to Fri 8am to 2pm
Sat & Sun 7am to 2pm
Monday Closed

Paying

Cash Only

  • ATM by the door
  • Gift certificates at the register
  • Free parking out front

Call or come by

(508) 410-0022

16 Worcester Road
Charlton, MA 01507

Directions 4.5 on Yelp

The diner entrance: a small porch with an OPEN sign, hostas and potted flowers along a low stone wall, and Yankee painted in green on the white clapboard.