Your Guide to Authentic Regional Eats
If diners make you happy, you'll like to pull off Route 17 in New York and stop for a meal at the Miss Monticello. It is a mid-century classic with paper placemats that have advertising for local businesses (including an emu ranch and an equipment rental company located on Bon Jovi lane). The front dining area is all bright pink and aqua (the rear room is more sedate), the waitstaff is brisk and efficient, the menu is a roster of hash house standards ranging from old-fashioned Americana – meat loaf, hot hamburgers, omelets of all kinds – to such Grecian fundamentals as gyros and spinach pie. In addition to normal sandwiches, the menu lists hot pitas, wraps, and triple-deckers.
