• Coney Island Hot Dogs, 158 Southbridge Street, 753-4362, Open W-M. (best hot dogs, best sign)
 • Long Island Hot Dogs, 68 Stafford Street, 753-9223. (best burger)

Breakfast

For breakfast the wealth of diners opens up and it is near impossible to choose. Here are some of the most cool and comfy:

 • Parkway Diner, 148 Shrewsbury Street, 753-9968.
 • Jeans Place, 136 Cambridge Street, 753-9466.
 • Gold Star Diner
 • Wendy's Clark Brunch (also referred to as Annie's. Regulars are allowed a tab.)

Fancy

 • 111 Chop House
 • Beechwood Inn
 • Sole Proprietor
 • Tiano's
 • The Sahara
 • The Flying Rhino

Pizza

Classic central MA style:

 • Tech Pizza
 • Fantastic (also has fallafel)
 • Earnie's

Thinner crust:

 • Blue Jeans

Gourmet:

 • Corner Grill
 • Dino's
 • Wonderbar

Stoner:

 • 420 Pizza (defunct. Last 3 digits of phone number were 420).

Ethnic Restaurants

You could spend a lifetime going to the following restaurants in rotation:

Jamaican

 • One Love. Delicious Roti, Ackee, and Curry of all types imaginable. Most dishes come with an excellent side of plantains.

Vietnamese

 • Saigon. 976 Main St Most of the entrees are delicious. The #92 is a favorite. Also make sure to get the tofu mushroom rolls appetizer and an avocado milkshake.

Latino

 • Pupuseria Elsavadorena, 82 Pleasant Street. This place makes pupusas, has a great burrito, and has the best nachos in the city, if you ask them to hold the meat: homemade guacamole, homemade tortilla chips, and plenty of salad and sour cream. It also has no sign.

 • Sabanas. Sabanas is conveniently located downtown in the mindblowing midtown mall (directly opposite the Common on its north side.

Middle Eastern

 • Sahara. Classy, comfortable, and at night the bar is a good scene.
 • Emilia's, (Open for lunch only). Consider by some to have the best fallafel in Worcester.

Vegetarian / Vegan

 • Quan Yin. An all vegan fake meat restaurant by run by followers of Suma Ching Hai (the "Suma" is a contraction for "Supreme Master"). The fake cheeseburger is a secret item: not on the menu but always deliciously available.

The Vietnamese restaurant Saigon has exciting vegetarian offerings. Don't even look at the menu and order the #92 (warning: spicy).

Also see "Middle Eastern" for more delicious vegetarian meals.

Late Night

Worcester is the birthplace of the diner. The Worcester Lunch Car Company Built Diners from their factory in downtown Worcester from 1906 to 1957. Their serial numbers started at 200 and ended with 850. Many are still in existence. They are characterized by porcelain enamel exteriors with the name of the diner in the enamel. The interiors have mosaic tile floors and tile walls. So there's still lots of "third shift" places to eat, including:

 • Kenmore Diner.
 • Boulevard Diner. (best of the two)

 Miss Worcester Diner 

 • George's. One of the most interesting cheap late-night eats is a pita bakery on Grafton St. It opens each night around 2 am to start making pita, and you can buy fresh pitas that look like footballs. The pita bakery is about 5 storefronts up the hill from their daytime, public-facing deli.