Tom's Restaurant, Broadway at 112th

Made famous by the Seinfeld scenes shot there, Tom's is a basic, all around diner serving good burgers, omelets, fries, salads, and sandwiches -- all the stuff Elaine and Jerry and George liked to eat.  And me, too.  There are two or three things I like to order in a diner:  a burger with fries, a spinach and Swiss cheese omelet with fries, a Greek salad with feta, and sometimes, a grilled cheese sandwich with swiss cheese and spinach (my omelet insides on rye).  And Belgian waffles.  (Don't go to Tom's for Belgian waffles.  They don't make them.)

This week, after sitting in my car to assure a parking place in the alternate side of the street parking world that is New York, I went into Tom's hoping for a good Swiss cheese and spinach omelet.  Some diners make the omelets too runny, some don't have enough spinach, some use spinach leaves that tend to get caught in your teeth and don't taste as good as chopped (probably frozen spinach), and some over-cook their omelets making them rubbery and almost inedible.

Tom's spinach and swiss cheese omelet was delicious!!  The spinach lent a sweet taste to the eggs, the Swiss cheese perfectly melted and stretchy, and the eggs not too well done nor too under done.  Perfection!  And the fries were crisp and tasty -- perfectly crunchy on the outside and potato soft on the inside.  Yum!

The coffee was good -- the right sense of the bean's aroma permeating the brew.  And if I looked up from my seat at the counter,  I could see Kramer with his electric do staring down from a picture on the wall.  (You can buy your very own Seinfield memorabilia at Tom's:  t-shirts, mugs, baseball caps, magnets, and postcards.)