Iconic Diner Jim’s

There are two, maybe three or four, locations that I can say I frequent, not with any great regularity, but often enough to have enjoyed the subtle nuance between the various locations.

Over the years, I’ve noted this several times, the places tend to be 24-hour, and they tend to be traditional diner fare, in the best way possible.

9 PM on a Thursday, worn out from a business deal? Stop at Jim’s along the way home. Eggs, cooked to perfection, and flat-ironed bacon, yeah, done the right way.

Checks all the right boxes: senior platters with heart-smart, smaller portions. Big platters filled with an obscene amount of traditional American breakfast fare. Pretty sure every location I’ve been to has a counter, overlooking the kitchen window, and perched upon those counter stools? Patrons of various ilks, cops, robbers, out-laws, and in-laws.

One of the best was as near-freezing cold, winter morning, off to Austin for a long day of work. Bundled in, belly up to the counter, eggs and bacon, maybe pancakes slathered in butter, biscuit and gravy, perfectly rich meal, and then, about five or six cups of coffee.

What’s fun is that the individual store fronts vary in flavor. It is a chain, but then, located only in Austin and San Antonio, with most of it being just in San Antonio? Yes, local flavor.

24-hour? Most of them. Counter? Yes. Breakfast all day? Yes.

Coffee?

Pie?

Checks them all.

Iconic Diner Jim’s

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