Papermoon Diner aka: Paper Moon Cafe,Paper Moon Diner

…was sometime back in early 2002. it was about 2am and i found them thru searching for a 24 hour diner in baltimore (i lived in manchester, md. at the time). it was fantastic. :)

i visited a lot throughout 2002 and when i moved to the UK in early 2003, i made a point to go back to the PMD while in the US visiting family in november 2005 and the atmosphere had changed a lot. (and no more free hot choc refills! boo!!)

at least, my first memories of it are the absolute best :) it’s worth visiting for the decor alone really:)

I think this place is amazing, I love going here. There’s always something to look at. The staff are always really nice, and you get served by everyone! Very unorthodox, but part of what makes it so fun. Get there early if you’re going for sunday brunch, and be prepared it’s a bit pricey too.

But when it’s bad it’s horrid. It’s a little pricey for what you get and the service isn’t great unless you know the staff (or this is what i gleaned from observation). But the food is really good. Lots of good vegetarian options and I recommend the apple pie. Mmmmm-mmmmm.

I visited the States in August and I have to admit, it’s kinda annoying that every second restaurant is a franchise, but when I went to a show in Baltimore and wanted some coffee afterwards, my friends went to this place with me. I fell in love in the first moment. It’s just crazy and I love kitsch, I wanted to run around and look at everything :D.

But I have to admit, I read some of the reviews on other homepages and a few people mentioned, they had to wait forever to get seated, it didn’t happen to us, but we were sitting on the bar and I saw at least two times people waiting for more than a minute and the place wasn’t busy at all.

Anyway… if I’ll ever come back to Baltimore, I will insist of going there again with my friends (I bet I wont find it on my own) and I recomended it already to all of my friends :-)

I found out about this place here on 43 places. Talked my husband into going today. It is such a funky cool place and the food is great! I wish I’d found this place before our friends came to visit us from Phoenix, they would have loved it too!