Princess Maria Diner

The first diner I would like to bring to attention would be the Princess Maria Diner on Route 35 in Wall Township, NJ. This diner is fairly new, having been around for a little over a decade I would say. I had visited it when it originally opened, and while I found it to be satisfactory, it didn't leave a lasting impression on me. Now fast forward roughly ten years later, it is now the "default" diner of choice for my family (an honor that originally went to the Atlantis Diner, also on Route 35 in Wall).

What makes the Princess Maria good? The menu is pretty expansive, and the dinners are all-inclusive: you get soup AND salad, vegetable or pasta, and choice of desert afterwords. It's kind of refreshing to see a diner give you both the soup and salad when so many of them only give you one or the other nowadays. On a number of occasions the soup of the day is a seafood bisque which is great, and the size of the salad is quite decent, with plenty of grape tomatoes and some broccoli and cauliflower pieces in it which kind of set it apart from other diners dinner salads.

My favorite dish at the Princess Maria would be the Chicken Murphy, which is by far the best Chicken Murphy I've had anywhere. The serving is quite large, with large pieces of chicken in a red sauce, with peppers, onions, mushrooms, and large potato wedges served over pasta. My only nitpick would be that while I enjoy my Murphy dishes spicy, their spicy Murphy is not really at all that spicy. The overall quality of the dish more than makes up for it however.

As for some other things, the french fries are definitely among the better fries I've had in a diner. Some other things worth mentioning are the burgers, which are good and the Texas Roast Beef sandwich, which is an open faced hot roast beef with jalapeno peppers and melted cheese. The service is usually more than adequate and as many times that I've been there I do not recall waiting too long for my food.

If you're looking for a quick bite to eat or just looking for a leisurely meal, check out the Princess Maria Diner.

http://www.princessmariadiner.com