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| - If Edward Hopper lived in Toronto and decided to paint his famous painting "Nighthawks" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks) in Toronto, you'd see a few people at the counter and a cook making cheeseburgers in front of the grill at Vesta Lunch while traffic slid by in the night along Dupont.
This is as diner-y as you can get. Forget the faux quaintness of the Fran's franchise (http://www.yelp.ca/biz/frans-restaurant-toronto), this is the greasy spoon of all greasy spoons. It's a shoebox of a place that has possibly four to five tables, and a counter that runs the length of the restaurant with stools for singles to sit, eat, and not bother to hang around long. You go in, you eat, you leave, and are able to do so, 24 hours a day. The clientele will run the gamut from locals looking for a quick bite, those of a "harder" ilk, looking for a cheap lunch, and those that are hammered from a night of drinking looking for something to put in their bellies at 3:00am.
All of this does not take away from the fact that as diner food goes, this stuff is really good. Never had a bad meal here, but since they've been slinging hash since 1955, you'd assume they've got it right by now. The interior may not be for everyone or even first-date-friendly, but this place more than serves a necessary purpose. You're able to get good food quick and cheap. And not just lunch, as you may infer by the name.
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