Love diners and love brunches...but I'm very disappointed at this highly rated spot.
I ordered the salmon eggs benny with salad and coffee. We didn't wait long for our food to arrive. I love bennies but I'm not terribly picky with them; however the sauce was pathetic and it barely had any creamy-flavoury taste to it. Smoked salmon and the english muffin was mediocre, and nothing exciting about the salad.
My friend ordered tea and found a long piece of hair in the tea immediately after she poured it into her cup from the pot. We told our server and he took it away with just a simple, unapologetic "sorry"..... He came back with what we thought was a new pot of tea, but the tea was so tasteless that it really seemed like he just added more hot water to the pot...
Friend also got the senators breakfast which was nothing special.
For the rest of the meal, there was no mention of the hair, never checked up on us or asked for a water/tea/coffee refill while he was standing right in front of our table at a stand. Another server saw our cups empty and asked us if we wanted more water.
The only great thing about the place is probably the coffee..the coffee was good.