Have any of you seen the movie "Pay It Forward"? I did, but after I moved back to Boston in 2002. It was filmed in Las Vegas, and I remember flipping out when there was a scene with Helen Hunt as a change lady. At the Golden Gate. Well, Kevin Spacey's character brings her flowers and they have the awkward "I like you but can't really tell you" conversation, and then? They speak of the diner.
The diner is the reason why I went here. I would always sit at the counter. When there is a sign at the counter for smoking and non-smoking? And I am on the seat just on the "non-smoking" side, and sitting next to a guy on his apparent "smoking" side blowing smoke in my face? That's awesome. So ghetto-fied.
The food is good and cheap. Remember, if you go to Vegas, and you bitch about why that 6.99$ prime rib tasted so badly? You're a fool. A fool who needs a beating. There's a reason it's cheap. Same goes for this spot. It won't blow your mind. The place is run down and pretty "yuck". That's it. It is what it is.
Also, the best people-watching. I would see strippers from the Glitter Gulch come in on occasion. I mean, you need to go at 3 am on a Tuesday or something. You see the weirdest shit. I brought my soon to become girlfriend there when we first met and she just wanted to get out of her place. She loved it, and it's why we worked!
If you know what to expect? Then you'll enjoy it. Just don't think it's fine dining and you're set!