That is the diner's own motto and it is the whole idea. Tiffany and Doug Hollis started with a hundred dollar camper on Craigslist in 2014, sold their family home to buy the building, and opened on South Main in May 2016. Scratch sausage gravy, omelettes all day, hand pattied burgers, and a chalkboard of specials by the counter.
This is a real diner. A counter you can sit at, booths, a chalkboard of specials that changes, and food that comes off a flat top ten feet away. Everything below is on their actual menu. Prices are not printed here because the diner does not publish them anywhere, and this page is not going to invent numbers. Ring (740) 967-2710 or just come in.
Two homemade biscuits under sausage gravy made from scratch. Their own menu puts it best, just like grandma used to make. If you order one thing on a first visit, most regulars would point you here.
Three fresh eggs, served with toast, and the menu says it plainly, omelettes served all day. Cheese, meat and cheese, veggie, Western, Tex Mex, jalapeno, the Country with grilled onion and fried potato and cheddar inside then buried under sausage gravy, and the Hog Heaven with bacon, sausage and ham.
Hand pattied and grilled to order, and their own menu flags it as the top seller. A Tripadvisor customer put it in capitals, WOW, and agreed with the menu. Bacon jam also turns up as an add on for the build your own breakfast sandwich, which tells you how seriously they take it.
Hotcakes by the stack, one, two or three, with blueberry, cinnamon crunch and chocolate chip turning up as specials. French toast is thick cut Texas toast in a sweet vanilla caramel batter with cinnamon and sugar.
Pick the bread, white, wheat, rye, bagel, Texas toast, English muffin or a biscuit. Pick the meat, sausage, bacon, ham or turkey. Add veg, add cheese, add an egg, add bacon jam. Comes with chips. There is also a breakfast burrito if you would rather it was all wrapped up.
Patty melt on grilled rye with Swiss and grilled onions, Reuben, club, hot roast beef with gravy, BLT, fried bologna sandwich, chicken finger basket and a chef salad. Kids get their own menu including mac and cheese made with real noodles.
Johnstown is changing fast, Intel is going up just south of town and Main Street keeps adding places. The diner has been the constant since 2016 and has been called the heartbeat of the town. Meanwhile one of the pages that ranks for the diner's own name lists it as closed seven days a week and gives out a Georgia phone number, another has the wrong zip, and the Chamber spells the street Steet. Not one of those pages belongs to Tiffany.
Tuesday through Saturday, 6:00 am. Closed Sunday and Monday. Saturday is a shorter day, the diner closes at noon. Parking is a free lot across the street, use the crosswalk.
There is a specials board near the counter and it changes regularly. One customer walked in and found soup beans and cornbread on it. It is worth reading before you order off the menu.
Table service, booths, tables and counter seats, high chairs and boosters for the little ones. Wheelchair accessible seating and a restroom, and there is WiFi. It gets busy, and that is the honest warning, the food is worth the wait.
Carryout is available, ring (740) 967-2710. There is no delivery. Cards, debit and tap to pay all work, it is not a cash only place. Tiffany also caters, and runs the event venue Gather four doors up at 12 S Main.
Tiffany Hollis had no food industry experience. She drew a picture of a food truck with Crayola markers and put it in her desk drawer. Then she bought a broken down vintage camper off Craigslist for a hundred dollars, which was all the money she had, and a friend named Kim put in five thousand for commercial equipment. She quit her job with no backup plan. The first event was June 2014 and she had never turned on the griddle until the night they opened the serving window. In 2016 somebody offered them a brick and mortar building on South Main, so they sold their family home to buy it, listed it just before Christmas in a buyer's market, and got an offer at the exact number she needed twelve days later. Friends and family did the renovation in one week with no hired help. Dashing Diner Uptown opened on the tenth of May, 2016. Catering came next, then the event venue Gather in September 2021. Four generations of women in her family work there every day. Her goal, in her words, was for customers to walk away feeling something, like when you leave grandma's house.
These are the hours four separate directories all agree on, so they are the best information available. Two things worth flagging honestly. One large restaurant platform still publishes a page for this diner showing it closed every day of the week, with a phone number that is not even in Ohio, and nobody at the diner put that there. And the printed menu says breakfast runs Monday through Friday, on a week where Monday is a closed day. If you are making a special trip, please ring (740) 967-2710 first.
The diner is at 16 South Main Street, right in uptown Johnstown, 43031. Parking is the free lot across the street, use the crosswalk. Watch out for one listing that publishes the zip as 43032, that is wrong. Carryout, catering and questions all go through (740) 967-2710.
Carryout, catering, a big table on a Saturday morning, or a question about what is on the board today. The phone is (740) 967-2710 and it gets you a person. This form works too.
Prices are not published anywhere online for this diner, so this page does not print any. What people do say is that it is good value, one reviewer had lunch for two for under twenty dollars. Ring for today's specials.
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