Peterboro Diner

Peterborough Diner

10 Depot St.

Peterborough, NH

Atmosphere: Casual, friendly diner food, tight quarters, outside seating in the summer.

Kid Friendly: Sure

Food: Typical Diner food, we were there for breakfast

Cost: It was $18 with tip for breakfast for three of us, I am serious.

Our good friends Eric and Mary helped us kick off a festive holiday season this year by getting married the first weekend in December. They are both artists in every aspect of their lives. Mary is an art teacher, and Eric manages the music portion of Toadstool bookshop, but outside of that their lives are filled with artistic endeavors, and this made for a unique and amazing wedding in the town of Peterborough, NH where Eric and Mary live.

Peterborough is a quaint artistic community in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. There are great gourmet markets, and interesting antique stores, but the morning of the wedding we were early, and nothing was opened. Lou and I needed breakfast! We decided to stop in the Peterboro Diner. Peterboro on the sign, but Peterborough on the website and their mugs. Makes me think they just ran out of space on the sign?

Since Peterborough is a fairly small town, and this by all appearances seemed to be the only place open for breakfast, we made a bet that we would run into someone going to the wedding.
Once inside, Lou and I hopped up to the counter as it looked like these were the only seats left in the place and space was tight. Once we sat down, the only seat open was a stool next to Lou.

I got my regular, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, and Lou got the French toast. As we saw the food for other patrons going by we got very excited. The portions looked huge and freshly made, but it started to take a little long for our food to come out.

About 15 minutes into our wait, I turned around to see a familiar face. It was the mother of the maid of honor in the wedding and she was alone. We quickly told her to join as in the open seat next to Lou and in the end, the wait for our food worked out. After she ordered, our food ended up coming out all together, and in the mean time we had some great conversation about how excited we were for the wedding that day.

For an all American, inexpensive, big portion, good tasting, basic breakfast, the Peterborough Diner fits the bill. I heard some mixed reviews about the lunch and dinner at this place, but speaking for breakfast, if you are in Peterborough, check it out.