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| - While we were in Western Pennsylvania, I wanted to be sure to try an Eat'n Park. Eat'n Park is a traditional American coffee shop chain, right out of the 1950s and 1960s. It's not retro, it's what retro themed restaurants are trying to emulate. It's the original.
Eat'n Park was a major East Coast franchisee of Bob's Big Boy until the 1970s. Bob's was a place my family would always go in California in the 1960s and I loved the Big Boy Hamburger. So a chance to experience that ambiance again was very enticing, perhaps clouding my perceptions.
The outside of this Eat'n Park location has been modernized, but inside was a Googie style coffee shop that looked just like a Bob's! The menu offers straightforward American food with no pretentions. I had to have the Original Superburger Deal. The cheeseburger was close, very close, to a Big Boy. My wife had one of the more contemporary burger offerings, a Classic Black Angus Cheeseburger. I was satisfied, though a burger from Red Robin or Cheeseburger in Paradise is a better choice. (Yes, they are better, but this was a nostalgia meal for me.) We both had Salad Bar. The Soup and Salad Bar was nice, with a variety of different vegetables and salad toppings available. We shared a slice of Key Lime Pie for dessert, and it was very good.
On a second visit, we came to try breakfast. This was very good, better than the burger. Both my wife and I ordered omelettes. I tried the Western Omelette and found it quite satisfying.
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