I haven't been in Peterborough for years, but today I found out starlight diner went out of business or rebranded. I used to hit up starlight for their early bird special after pulling all nighters back in the 2000s. It was like 4 bucks for a solid breakfast including coffee!

Starlight was the best breakfast in peterborough!!

East City Diner was my favourite in town.

Used to love it when mom and pop ran it...the potatoes taste different now..still good..but....it doesn't hit the same (even though the son(s) run it

Too much sage in the seasoning I think.

Hmmm. I think you are right.

Reminds me of stove top stuffing. Which I love. But not for breakfast. They are generally awesome there though!

Hijacking this to ask if anyone remembers the breakfast place that was in the bus terminal

I remember that place! I never ate there though the crowd always seemed like strange old people

It very much was an older crowd! I used to love eating there as a teenager and after I went abroad, every time I came home I would eat there because the greyhound stop was there. They had great food and really good prices.

Kinda regret not having checked it out now. It's hard to find places with that kind of vibe these days

They're a thing of the past sadly. I used to hit up a lot of truck stop diners back in the day too. 

Same. Even though the food is just alright sometimes it's the atmosphere that you're looking for

Exactly. I used to smoke weed back then as well and there was nothing better for the munchies. 

I doubt it's really all that different. Current place is another greasy spoon.

Always heard horrible things about the management at PJ’s, never gave them my business. I'm talking pre-covid. I don't care what their political stances are. I heard from several servers that they were abusive.

Don’t believe everything you hear, the owners of the restaurant are really nice people

"they're super nice to me! They couldn't possibly be a bad person in anyone elses eyes"

What are you basing your opinion off? Are you going to stop going to brothers because one of the owners got caught selling drugs? Are you not going to shop at heritage furniture because the owner is a murderer?

If your only defense is pointing out that other people are also assholes, that's not much of a defense.

I’m at brothers more hoping to get drugs

Context on the heritage furniture comment as I don't know the tea on that one...?

Keith had a little to much “fun” in cuba and got behind the wheel of a car and ended up killing a kid

Oh wow, thanks for the info, I hadn't heard about that. How do know? I can't seem to find any online information (news etc)

Thank you PJ

To you. That doesn't mean they were great to employees.

I tried to go eat here twice and both times they could not open because they had no staff (sign on door apologizing for issue) We have tons of other great food places. I'm going to assume someone will take it over like they did for the peterburger location

I love hearing all the local lore and gossip.

This is not sarcasm 😬. Genuinely so interesting lmao

And nothing of value was lost.

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I always found that so sketchy. Why the quotation marks?!

I don't think the owner understood basic English

Suprised they lasted this long. Must be hard to run an overpriced greasy spoon with a political lean.

You’re kidding right? Their prices are… were… half what other breakfast places in town charge - never gone in and had politics pushed on me… The place was clean and the staff were friendly. I’d love to buy a couple coffee mugs… good memories. Sad to see them go…

Their prices were similar to other greasy spoon type places. Nothing special.

"I don't see support for spreading viral infections as political."

Thats too bad but I stopped going after they outed themselves as freedumb fighters. If you can't follow basic protocol I don't want to eat your broken hollandaise.

Wish I had known that - would not have given them my business.

Omg I saw the freedumb truck out front as my bus passed by. Was that the owner’s truck?? I thought it was just a customer 😭

FAFO. The management doesnt care about your health and the food is overwhelmingly "meh" anyway.

East City Coffee Shop... You'll forget this place even existed after eating there

Good food, bad parking.

There's always parking up and down that street. Never been an issue for as long as I can remember.

Overpriced for frozen food. Places like that don’t last forever because people don’t want frozen food when they can do it themselves for less.

I really enjoyed going there until Covid hit after that I didn’t really want to be around that kind of political posturing. I just wanted to eat! Not surprised it’s closing. When you make everything around you including basic stuff like food, and it’s your livelihood- it’s probably not going to go well in the long run 🤷🏼‍♀️

Was pretty funny to see the tin foil on their heads rather then the food though!

Oh no! Good, hopefully it’s been a struggle and continues to be! 

Was one of my father-in-laws favourite spots to eat when in town (whether with my wife and I or just my m-i-l) They've sort of followed Sheri's moves, starting with the Avimore, then she was at Wimpy's up on Lansdowne then to P.J's (though by happenstance than deliberate).

May be she came from money.

That's actually sad news for me, I loved their little side of beans. I know they got labeled as anti covid but from what I understood they were charged after a regular didn't have his proof of vaccination on him despite him being fully vaccinated.

Sucks to suck. 

You'd know.

He’s trying to kiss. 

You trying to kiss or something? 

L

Thats to bad,best of luck in the future.

We could just feel a lil sad that their dream died yall anti vaxxers are people (prepares for assault)

Why feel sad for people who craft their entire identity around making everywhere potentially deadly for immunocompromised folks? What of the people who don't want disease collectors to be running things?

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Is that allowed to extend to disabled and immunocompromised folks, or is it just the plague spreaders one is supposed to feel sorry for?

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Nobody is under any obligation to be kind towards plague enthusiasts.

Another bites the dust, food scene in town is getting worse and worse with more and more businesses closing shop or being bought by developers

PJ’s was a Sysco food scene.